Kyou wa Kanojo ga Inai kara
My Girlfriend's Not Here Today

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This manga will grab your heart and toss it around like a stuffed toy from start to finish.
It is simply AMAZING, it is really sad and kinda disturbing, but that is part of what makes it so amazing. It has a very refreshing way of telling a cheating story. There's not a clear "villlan" here, it is a story of manipulation, selfishness and love that everyone can "enjoy" (You'll enjoy it, of course, but you will also suffer with the characters).
If you're not up to feeling sad and angry while reading... I would still recommend this to you, because it is really well written, really ... well paced and has amazing art.
It is, overal, a masterpiece.
Hope it continues beign this amazing in the future

What a manga with the definition of wasted potential. Goes to show how ignorant the author is compared to where the majority of fans are. To put it easily, author realizes a big mistake in the latest chapters and decides to retcons the whole plotline, just because Author was peer pressured (Or something I don't know, either way) to back down of the whole plot.

A theme in relationships about insecurity is cheating. Or that feeling when you are unsure your beloved is cheating. It could be quite an awful feeling, and pretty difficult to bring it up. It is some of the worst actions another ... human can do because it ruins your whole trust in the relationship, and after the effect of cheating some could never be the same or have the same trust. Nobody should ever be cheated on.

Now put that idea in your head as you discover what these characters will do and how they will respond to these actions.

Pretty sure reader(you) and me after having read the thing above now understand why this is such a shitshow.

To say the most without spoiling reading this is seriously not worth the read. It is a massive flop in outcome and has the biggest disappointing character choices you will EVER see in a manga.
And to top off art is just disgusting nasty underage sx scenes. Which going back, these scenes have actually zero involvement in the story.
Again what a horrible way to go. Volume 4 must be studied and questioned years to come.

Read it idgaf, feeling sorry for all fans of yuri genre.

To be fair, there aren't many other Yuri manga like this.

I found this manga to be incredibly juicy, entertaining, and suspenseful the full way through to being caught up. It's so rare that we can get bad people who both face consequences and also don't really get redemption, and in such a self-aware love triangle, it creates an enticing story. I'd also like to give credit that the author herself makes it very clear that she wrote Fuuko and Yuni intentionally irredeemable. I found this was one of those Yuri that actually worked in getting me thinking about the characters and relationships long term. They ... also provide Nanase and Yuki to be an opposing control group of what a "normal person" is. Apart from the central plot, as it gets further in, the development of the characters' personalities become clear through individual upbringings that I really enjoyed. It explains without justifying. They feel very human still with the exaggeration of manga characters that makes them so fun to read.

It's romantic and lustful and wholly irritating. Some well-written drama that doesn't often exist in this genre. Not to mention that it balances the "existing as queer in society" and also "just because we're lesbians doesn't mean we're perfect or even good" aspects well.

The art is also beautiful--the author can draw faces and hair so consistently beautiful it's actually crazy. The reason I have mixed feelings and can see why other wouldn't want to read it is the clear high school setting mixed with the erotica. I find the characters to have significantly unrealistic bodies, kind of a surprise of the extremity, coming from a female author. Although there actually isn't multiple sex scenes nor is it the main plot, it does exist and is (obviously) central to the story. It's iffy how necessary it is to depict it, but the author seemed to find the graphic-ness necessary, as said in one of her afterwords.

I would recommend this to people who find the synopsis interesting and expectations set, because they will be met. The characters themselves are incredibly dimensional and great at responding to the plot. The plot itself? Goes through many jumps and hills that I'm unsure are surprisingly twisty or bad. Both recommended and not recommended reviews, IMO, are 100% correct at the same time lol

The theme of the manga with, "hey don't put your loved ones aside or someone else will come in and value them more" the cheating shown to be born from actions taken by multiple parties, the cheating was built up to this point, the idea of cheating was caused by negative character actions that stirred the pot of the drama.

Also shows the conflict of people in relationships with two contrasting personalities; one very needy, the other very distant, one wanting romance and not very good at taking the initiative while the other much more in charge and taking a step forward. How your personalities clashing ... can harm the relationship.

This is a great concept to do; it shows cheating in a realistic way, the insecurities and flaws of a relationship and how damaging it is to put your relationship for the ones you love on the back burner along with showing how those who enter the picture sweep the other person off their feet, being the comforting pillow that whisk them away.

The relationships are far more complex here than the original concept about insecurities which sure would've had mileage to explore, this wouldn't strike a cord as much with people.

Not only that but parts of the original concept are here with insecurities, feeling not valued, feeling as if the other person doesn't truly love you and they spend too much time on everything else.

I can’t in good faith reccomend this manga because I complitely understand it’s not for everyone. The main characters are some of the most selfish, delusional, actively detestable teenagers I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading about, who keep on making the worst decisions, leeching off each other and hurting each other for the whole duration of the comic. And it’s still not over! And sadly for me, I loved every minute of it. These teenage girls are just so interesting, it’s fascinating seeing them dig a bigger hole for themselves at every turn, I felt like a scientist watching cockroaches eating each other out ... of starvation, it’s like a morbid curiosity of seeing how things can get worse. I’m also genuinely interested in their backstories who really open up a window to their actions. The art is gorgeous, but I will say I would’ve preferred if the girls were 18. I’m aware that teens can have sex and cheat on each other, and not every depiction of sex is tintillating, but by nature of being sex, it inherently kind of is, and doing that really wouldn’t have changed the story at all. I don’t think it’s perfect but ultimately a very interesting read if you enjoy getting mad