Kaketa Tsuki to Doughnut
Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon

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If you are something akin to Demiromantic/Demisexual, and/or Lesbian, this will probably be extremely down your ally. It's a lot of dealing with Amatonormativity, finding out their attractions, and their attachments, finding the words to communicate (Hard for Asahi), and exploring small meaningful, satisfactory forms of physical affection.

Asahi and Hinako have a few aroace traits. Don't believe me? Just give it a read.
The characters are all pretty dynamic, not entirely negative. They show more understanding and emotional intelligence than you would think. This series prides itself on telling you it's okay to be you, and about every character enables that idea in each other. Like ... being an orphan, the older sibling/gaurdian, Being alone, anxious, etc.

The art is really bright and simple (despite a lot of it is during nice). It has a nice and satisfying panels and easy to read text bubbles.

A relatively down to earth yuri manga, which balances the salty and sweet aspects in self-discovery. The story’s progression provides an enjoyable experience watching the FL as she learns to break free and find her own happiness. Giving us fluffy moments as she begins to develop feelings with the love interest; with who I think is the cutest character ever. The least I can say is that it's a nice story, and it has an equally as good message to send to us readers struggling with expectations. An important factor I won't leave out is the fact that the art style is pretty good, it ... matches well with the manga.

Kaketa Tsuki to Doughnut or Crescent Moon and Doughnuts is a yuri manga by Usui Shio, Unlike other yuri manga, which are centred around high school and teenage romance, this one is about two office employees.

This manga fills the role of a warm, pleasant series.

So Uno Hinako who is a 24 year old office worker, bound in the romantic ideal that she feeds from her environment, She is the story's protagonist and due to her illusion that young women like her should engage in romantic relationships and receive social acceptance just for being female. She immerses herself in beauty, clothes, and romance in the hopes ... of seeming "normal" to her coworkers, She's still an emotional wreck, full of self-doubt, and doesn’t know her own feelings.

On the other hand Satou Asahi, her superior at work, is the complete opposite of her, She is five years older than her and is a plain, hardworking individual who is unaffected by her surroundings.

However, after a chance encounter, Hinako begins to recognise Asahi differently and develops an urge to get to know her better after feeling that she has been misunderstood throughout their relationship. This misinterpretation was shown to be mutual as Asahi also had an incomplete impression of Hinako based on her limited reflection.

The development of the storyline makes for a pleasant experience, observing those two discover their own happiness and freedom, Asahi and Hinako are learning what it means to love and care for one another as they try to come to terms with the fact that their own definitions of "love" are very different from the ones that are imposed by society.
I loved how both of them sort out their feelings.

Both the main characters are super cute, and side characters like Asahi’s sister subaru and Fuuka san ( felt a little bad for her ) are also cute and well written.

Art was wonderful and perfectly matched the storyline.

It's really wonderfully written, and everything goes naturally and without being rushed.

Lol and there is this one thing that i noticed in these three of my favourite yuri manga series that is similar.
In Bloom into you, Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau and in this one, All the Main characters have orange hair colour and all the senpais have dark black hairs XD.

Anyways, I loved this series so much!!!

Super slow burning story of an a very cautions and not self-aware sprouting office romance.

Two office ladies like each other but cannot realize that they are more than friends. They have absolutely no idea what they feel and what to do with each other.

They start with food and stick to it.
Accidental touches and lunches together. And both of them are trying to NOT to go too far.
Sometimes weeks pass between the events in manga.

Gradually they become frequent guests in each other houses where they... eat more.
They really do not know what to do with each other so they restrict to the eating. No joke, ... this is 99% of what they do.

They question themselves "is this love" and cannot move forward.

This slow burn is so mind bogging that the author is forced to throw other, more energetic characters into the fray and they are actually way more interesting. To the point where I say "can we just lock these two weirdos in one room for a month so they can figure it out and have several chapters about only Subaru, she is the sane one".

Overall: good but can be more lively and they can have something else to talk about aside of eating. But... sometimes this is how it really works.

Compared to a story like bloom into you where a character that appears to be asexual and aromantic at first then developed those feelings during the series.
Kaketa Tsuki to Doughnut on the other hand tells the story of two asexual people that romantically fall for each other and learn to understand their feelings and more importantly accept and understand that they are asexual.

This is a pretty good romance manga with a very good story and a refreshing premise. What makes this story great and refreshing is that it could work just as well with a straight or a gay couple and does not solely focus ... on the fact that lesbian relationships are kind of taboo in japan. On the other hand what makes it stand out from the rest is that it shines a light on the different problems asexual peoples have to deal with on an everyday basis. It clearly shows the pressure that comes from the traditional norm when it comes to relationships. The manga does a great job of depicting what self hatred feels like, especially in the first volume which is pretty rare to see. It also nicely shows that asexual does not mean aromantic and does not always come hand and hand.

My breakdown: 8-8-9-8-9 for volume 1.

A nice, slow-paced yuri manga. It feels a bit more real than "Our teachers are dating" for me. The art is simple, soft and lovely. There was a colour page at the start, and the tones were soft and warm. While this manga makes you think, or reminds you of hurtful things, it's also healing in a way.

I like both of the leads, as well as Subaru. I don't care for Hina's friends. They aren't good or bad, they're just... there and not helping but trying to. I wonder if they're anything more than coworkers. They seem to pity ... Hina for being single and that rubs me the wrong way.

I think a lot of women have had to deal with the types of things our leads do, and are pitied for being single or made fun of because they are. Especially in Japan. I think it's quite realistic to not just the lesbian experience, but the single working woman one as well.

I resonated a lot with this one. I'm really interested in seeing how the story develops.

Kaketa Tsuki to Doughnut is a story about two women who are deemed "lonely" for life. They both work at the office.

I think it's really nice how it's not stereotyping lesbian relationships because a lot of these types of manga tend to do that.

Uno-san is a character that I have a small problem with. She always seems to be freaking out when around Satou-san. It honestly sort of annoys me, because nobody really acts like that. Other than this, she is a fairly good written character, along with Satou-chan.

I managed to get this book when I was shopping with my mom, it's ... actually pretty easy to hide that it's yuri because it doesn't look like it from the cover. That's an extra thing that's great about this book.

Shshshs omg man this GL manga is so friggin cute to which it pulls your heartstrings like crazy! So it’s basically about two women who work in the same office, they both have different personalities but they eventually warm up and of course, start to like each other. The art was just soft on eyes and the plot makes you wanna read more about the girls. Also funny enough, this is my first GL to have a love triangle by involving a likeable “third wheeler” involved as well as one of the girls sister. Y’all know yourselves how much of a nightmare side characters can ... be, especially the ones who try to break off the couples relationship in the most extreme ways lol. Btw I ship the sister and the “third wheeler” because they definitely have the same personality.

Now this is still marked ongoing and was only able to find 14 chapters online but it doesn’t matter because again it’s just adorable guys, check it out!

Love is a difficult feeling that many people struggle to understand. That message is exactly what Kaketa Tsuki to Doughnut is about. Two complete parallel Co-workers; Hinako Uno, and Asashi Satou, who have both always been clueless about their own feelings about love, and about themselves. We watch these two characters learn what it means to change and accept themselves whilst constant supporting each other and over time, decipher the meaning of "love" together.

It's a simple Yuri, but sometimes simple is better. This realistic Yuri experience is what I believe everyone who enjoys Yuri is looking for. It's short but features extreme amounts of character ... development and get its meaning across. Reading this manga was unbelievably refreshing. The story is bare bones and doesn't feature all of the fabricated elements that COUNTLESS Yuri works tend to use.
Two characters trying to change, heavy introspection with good developments, what more could you ask for?