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My Girlfriend's Not Here Today #1
My Girlfriend's Not Here Today Vol. 1
In this salacious yuri/Girls’ Love tale by the creator of Transparent Light Blue , one young woman becomes trapped in a cycle of blackmail and infidelity.
Asahina Yuni is lonely–she has a girlfriend, but it feels like they’re barely dating. Pent up, Asahina vents her secret frustrations on an anonymous social media account. One day after class, Asahina is doomscrolling on her phone when she’s swept up in conversation with the striking, outgoing Taki. Taki peppers her with personal questions until she reveals that she’s been following Asahina’s supposedly secret social media. Taki insists that she only wants to talk, and the more time they spend together, the more Asahina can feel herself opening up…until Taki shows her true colors, threatening to blackmail Asahina to get more time alone with her! What will Asahina do once she’s caught in an erotic web of secrets and lies?
Asahina Yuni is lonely–she has a girlfriend, but it feels like they’re barely dating. Pent up, Asahina vents her secret frustrations on an anonymous social media account. One day after class, Asahina is doomscrolling on her phone when she’s swept up in conversation with the striking, outgoing Taki. Taki peppers her with personal questions until she reveals that she’s been following Asahina’s supposedly secret social media. Taki insists that she only wants to talk, and the more time they spend together, the more Asahina can feel herself opening up…until Taki shows her true colors, threatening to blackmail Asahina to get more time alone with her! What will Asahina do once she’s caught in an erotic web of secrets and lies?
168 pages, Paperback
Published May 21, 2024
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January 7, 2024
Five stars but like, I’m unhappy about it
May 22, 2024
Asahina and Natsume are dating and in love, but Natsume’s very closeted and her time is taken up with volleyball to boot. A fellow classmate, Taki, stumbles upon Asahina’s social media account for venting and her idea of keeping Asahina’s secret comes with a lot more than just strings attached.
This is trash. Oh my lord, it is the biggest, most obvious yuri trash pile since Citrus and it exchanges the non-incest incest for ye olde yandere stereotype (or near enough), one who’s preying upon a girl who is making incredibly poor life choices and justifying them the whole way.
Absolutely nobody is blameless in this train wreck. The closest is poor Natsume, whose dedication to her sport trumps what she has with Asahina, but her attitude towards the two of them, while rooted in her past, is driving a massive wedge between them.
Asahina gives lip service to her love, but the sad fact is that she wouldn’t be doing what she’s doing if her needs were actually met. She doesn’t accept what she has at all - chafing endlessly at her closeted relationship and how distant Natsume is in public - and lets it all out in very believably emotionally immature fashion in her posts online. The sulking in this is on point.
The fact that she thinks nobody could ever find her account and puts her picture up there AND can’t stop using it after she’s been found out suggests that either Asahina is dumber than she appears, or she’s simply too addicted to the thrill of putting herself out there (arguably the latter since she won’t even delete the account because of her follower count).
Then there’s Taki. You can tell within five seconds that Taki knows all about Asahina’s little online secret and is using that for all it’s worth. And when she’s talking about the cordyceps fungus that takes control of caterpillars and then kills them…? Well, you can’t fault the manga for being on the nose and you know damn well that Taki is trying to do the same.
This reminds me superficially of the other yandere series I was reading, Love & Heart, which I gave up on because I couldn’t stand it. The two points in this one’s favour are that, well, it’s yuri, and it also smartly doesn’t have that series’ problem of one yandere and a bunch of decent people bouncing off them.
Again, only Natsume should be getting any slack here and even she isn’t doing so great. She constantly deflects Asahina’s affection, changes their plans for the worst because she won’t come out of the closet, and she’s far too friendly with her teammates.
Now, Asahina gets super cranky about that friendliness, but she’s also not looking at it with any actual thought. Natsume is like this because those teammates don’t mean anything. Asahina, who does, paradoxically gets sidelined at the one place where they spend the most time together.
Which is the perfect situation for Taki to just stir up all sorts of trouble while taking advantage of Asahina’s vulnerabilities and, indeed, her litany of incredibly stupid decisions. It’s pretty easy to sit back and watch the train wreck happen when your lead has several paths out of trouble and refuses them every single time.
The yuri content is largely the predatory lesbian and such, but blended with a frisson of real-world fears about how people will treat you. Make no mistake, Taki has issues upon issues and has none of said issues with getting all up in Asahina’s business.
This won’t be getting any awards for representation, but it’s a shamefully fun time if you want one of these stories with a lot of suggestive moments and bad decisions that lead to poor impulse control. If anything, I have no idea how this possibly ends well for anybody (I haven’t ruled out a murder ending yet), and that’s got my attention.
The art’s good, the people are hopeless, it’s tawdry as all get out. I do protest the ‘Explicit Content’ tag on this, as it’s incredibly minimal and even the hints of sex are very vague. Then again, that ‘knee in the boobs’ scene? It doesn’t lack for heat, often in strange ways, and Asahina and Natsume have their own moments.
If you liked classic movie trash like Cruel Intentions, this is reminiscent of that, but gay. It’s a definite step up from the mangaka’s previous work, the nasty and kind of gross Translucent Light Blue. This is nasty, not gross, and revels in it.
3 stars - guilty pleasure reading that’s pretty good at being pretty awful. If the very concept makes your skin crawl (and even if it doesn’t), trust me, this is exactly what you expect it to be. Four star trash, but outside its genre it is not for everybody.
This is trash. Oh my lord, it is the biggest, most obvious yuri trash pile since Citrus and it exchanges the non-incest incest for ye olde yandere stereotype (or near enough), one who’s preying upon a girl who is making incredibly poor life choices and justifying them the whole way.
Absolutely nobody is blameless in this train wreck. The closest is poor Natsume, whose dedication to her sport trumps what she has with Asahina, but her attitude towards the two of them, while rooted in her past, is driving a massive wedge between them.
Asahina gives lip service to her love, but the sad fact is that she wouldn’t be doing what she’s doing if her needs were actually met. She doesn’t accept what she has at all - chafing endlessly at her closeted relationship and how distant Natsume is in public - and lets it all out in very believably emotionally immature fashion in her posts online. The sulking in this is on point.
The fact that she thinks nobody could ever find her account and puts her picture up there AND can’t stop using it after she’s been found out suggests that either Asahina is dumber than she appears, or she’s simply too addicted to the thrill of putting herself out there (arguably the latter since she won’t even delete the account because of her follower count).
Then there’s Taki. You can tell within five seconds that Taki knows all about Asahina’s little online secret and is using that for all it’s worth. And when she’s talking about the cordyceps fungus that takes control of caterpillars and then kills them…? Well, you can’t fault the manga for being on the nose and you know damn well that Taki is trying to do the same.
This reminds me superficially of the other yandere series I was reading, Love & Heart, which I gave up on because I couldn’t stand it. The two points in this one’s favour are that, well, it’s yuri, and it also smartly doesn’t have that series’ problem of one yandere and a bunch of decent people bouncing off them.
Again, only Natsume should be getting any slack here and even she isn’t doing so great. She constantly deflects Asahina’s affection, changes their plans for the worst because she won’t come out of the closet, and she’s far too friendly with her teammates.
Now, Asahina gets super cranky about that friendliness, but she’s also not looking at it with any actual thought. Natsume is like this because those teammates don’t mean anything. Asahina, who does, paradoxically gets sidelined at the one place where they spend the most time together.
Which is the perfect situation for Taki to just stir up all sorts of trouble while taking advantage of Asahina’s vulnerabilities and, indeed, her litany of incredibly stupid decisions. It’s pretty easy to sit back and watch the train wreck happen when your lead has several paths out of trouble and refuses them every single time.
The yuri content is largely the predatory lesbian and such, but blended with a frisson of real-world fears about how people will treat you. Make no mistake, Taki has issues upon issues and has none of said issues with getting all up in Asahina’s business.
This won’t be getting any awards for representation, but it’s a shamefully fun time if you want one of these stories with a lot of suggestive moments and bad decisions that lead to poor impulse control. If anything, I have no idea how this possibly ends well for anybody (I haven’t ruled out a murder ending yet), and that’s got my attention.
The art’s good, the people are hopeless, it’s tawdry as all get out. I do protest the ‘Explicit Content’ tag on this, as it’s incredibly minimal and even the hints of sex are very vague. Then again, that ‘knee in the boobs’ scene? It doesn’t lack for heat, often in strange ways, and Asahina and Natsume have their own moments.
If you liked classic movie trash like Cruel Intentions, this is reminiscent of that, but gay. It’s a definite step up from the mangaka’s previous work, the nasty and kind of gross Translucent Light Blue. This is nasty, not gross, and revels in it.
3 stars - guilty pleasure reading that’s pretty good at being pretty awful. If the very concept makes your skin crawl (and even if it doesn’t), trust me, this is exactly what you expect it to be. Four star trash, but outside its genre it is not for everybody.
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October 6, 2024i don't know how to rate this...
January 13, 2025
Kind of a sad, a little trashy, Yuri story about a girl who's in love but the one she loves doesn't make time for her while another teases her to the point of maybe crossing the line.
It's already probably hard enough being out of the closet, but to have your girlfriend keep everything hidden, and not make time for you cause of a sports team, while another girl will pretty much do whatever you want seems like a easy choice. But when your young and dumb it's a lot harder to decide what to do. This is a slow burn, kind of sad at times, somewhat sexy at others, overall intriguing look at a relationship gone sour quickly.
It's already probably hard enough being out of the closet, but to have your girlfriend keep everything hidden, and not make time for you cause of a sports team, while another girl will pretty much do whatever you want seems like a easy choice. But when your young and dumb it's a lot harder to decide what to do. This is a slow burn, kind of sad at times, somewhat sexy at others, overall intriguing look at a relationship gone sour quickly.
July 20, 2025
Trashy and not great, but watch me read all of it.
The art is pretty bomb though, and honestly, it shakes up a lot of feelings I have about my own past. It's cathartic to remember the years where every innocuous romantic development felt either rapturous or apocalyptic. Very different from the other GL I'm on right now and a fun change of pace.
The art is pretty bomb though, and honestly, it shakes up a lot of feelings I have about my own past. It's cathartic to remember the years where every innocuous romantic development felt either rapturous or apocalyptic. Very different from the other GL I'm on right now and a fun change of pace.
July 30, 2025
This was so fucking messy and I'm here for it!!! 😭
September 8, 2024
This was so sweet… until it wasn’t. Asahina has a secret girlfriend and a secret vent account where she talks about her relationship. When Taki, the eccentric girl at school, tells her that she knows about her account, she literally freaks out. What starts out a little intense and creepy turns into being pushed to cheat under duress. So in some ways, I loved and hated this story. The art style is my fave, so that helped a lot!
September 8, 2024
You know, the weird thing about this manga is that the description is actually wrong. (Who's Taki?) Also the main characters have the biggest tits ever.
Here's the deal: Yuni vents her frustration about her secret romance with Nanase over a secret Twitter she has. Enter Fuuko who starts being very familiar toward Yuni and then reveals she knows about Yuni's account. Fuuko is giving Yuni all the attention Yuni craves, and she has to go along with it to protect her secrets... Right?
What I appreciated about this is the author's note acknowledging how messy this is but also no one is perfect within this love angle (maybe triangle!) I don't know why I was drawn to this, but I'm intrigued enough to continue.
Here's the deal: Yuni vents her frustration about her secret romance with Nanase over a secret Twitter she has. Enter Fuuko who starts being very familiar toward Yuni and then reveals she knows about Yuni's account. Fuuko is giving Yuni all the attention Yuni craves, and she has to go along with it to protect her secrets... Right?
What I appreciated about this is the author's note acknowledging how messy this is but also no one is perfect within this love angle (maybe triangle!) I don't know why I was drawn to this, but I'm intrigued enough to continue.
August 10, 2024
toxic yuri save me…… toxic yuri please save me…………..
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January 24, 2025this was h*rny
July 25, 2024
Beautiful art, story takes a bit to get going but I like the slow burn, at a point it's too slow though, also I wouldn't mind more spice. The topic of this is more than problematic and Fuuko is really a bitch - but then, isn't that half the fun of reading this? I'll continue with the series!
June 6, 2024
I really enjoy this but the story is very creepy
March 29, 2025
okay okay okay okay okay okay okay
August 3, 2025
#lilanettegami ??????
May 18, 2024
So unique for yuri. Also, the art is chef’s kiss.
July 12, 2023
He leído del capítulo 1 al 18 de una, supongo que son los 3 primeros volúmenes pero solo se enucentra el primero en goodreads.
Es la primera historia Yuri que leo y me está gustando mucho, a pesar de que no es a lo que estoy acostumbrado, que son relaciones más puras y con protagonistas buenos y fieles. Jamás me había tocado leer una historia de infidelidad, el drama en todas las decisiones que toma la protagonista me intrigó. Ojalá poder seguir leyendo esta historia y leer más historias LGBT de todo tipo.
Es la primera historia Yuri que leo y me está gustando mucho, a pesar de que no es a lo que estoy acostumbrado, que son relaciones más puras y con protagonistas buenos y fieles. Jamás me había tocado leer una historia de infidelidad, el drama en todas las decisiones que toma la protagonista me intrigó. Ojalá poder seguir leyendo esta historia y leer más historias LGBT de todo tipo.
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April 21, 2024
The story is kinda speed and creepy at some moment but I love it. I was scared when I see it was a love triangle but finally I understand it so well. But it’s my first manga so I don’t know if my opinion objective.
April 18, 2024
Ah bah allons y la tromperie
November 20, 2024
Très curieuse de découvrir ce titre, je me suis laissée tenter par le premier tome. J’ai apprécié ma lecture, j’ai passé un bon moment et c’est le genre d’histoire qui se dévore en un rien de temps. Je ne suis une grande consommatrice de yuri mais parfois je me laisse tenter et c’est un genre que j’apprécie en tout cas. J’aime beaucoup élargir mes lectures et partir dans des genres que je ne lis que très peu. C’est vraiment très agréable.
Dans ce premier tome, Yuni et Nanase vivent une relation secrète. Alors que Yuni comprend que sa petite amie soit accaparée par son club de volley ball, elle ne peut s’empêcher de se sentir frustrée de se retrouver seule après les cours. C’est pourquoi elle a décidé de parler de sa relation secrète sur un compte confidentiel. Elle y partage des selfies ou sa frustration avec d’autres, peu importe qui ils sont, ce sont des inconnus, après tout. Elle n’envoie que des messages innocents. Alors quand une camarade découvre son secret, elle ne peut plus se contenter de sortir avec Nanase. Elle se met à mener une double vie, à l’insu de sa copine…
L’histoire est pleine d’émotions. Yuni m’a fait beaucoup de peine en tout cas. Elle se sent vraiment délaissée par sa copine et le fait qu’en prime leur relation doit absolument rester secrète n’arrange pas les choses. Ça m’a vraiment fait mal au coeur de la voir comme ça. Faut bien admettre qu’à sa place, on se sentirait complètement pareil qu’elle. Mais son comportement n’est vraiment pas le bon. Elle finit par avoir une drôle de relation avec Fûko, une fille de son lycée qui connaît son compte secret, et donc sa relation. Son comportement je ne le cautionne absolument pas. Mais en même temps, elle a fini par trouver un peu d’attention, de réconfort.. Par contre, le personnage de Fûko m’intrigue énormément. Je ne sais pas trop quoi penser d’elle pour être honnête. J’ai la sensation qu’elle cache extrêmement bien son jeu et qu’elle a un but bien précis mais on ignore lequel. C’est bizarre mais je ne la sens pas du tout, j’ai vraiment l’impression qu’elle cache ses véritables intentions..
Ce premier tome m’a beaucoup plu. L’histoire est assez touchante quand on y pense. Même si je ne cautionne pas son comportement, j’ai apprécié le personnage de Yuni, elle m’a beaucoup touché. Je suis vraiment très curieuse de voir la suite de l’histoire, surtout vu comment ce premier tome se termine..
Dans ce premier tome, Yuni et Nanase vivent une relation secrète. Alors que Yuni comprend que sa petite amie soit accaparée par son club de volley ball, elle ne peut s’empêcher de se sentir frustrée de se retrouver seule après les cours. C’est pourquoi elle a décidé de parler de sa relation secrète sur un compte confidentiel. Elle y partage des selfies ou sa frustration avec d’autres, peu importe qui ils sont, ce sont des inconnus, après tout. Elle n’envoie que des messages innocents. Alors quand une camarade découvre son secret, elle ne peut plus se contenter de sortir avec Nanase. Elle se met à mener une double vie, à l’insu de sa copine…
L’histoire est pleine d’émotions. Yuni m’a fait beaucoup de peine en tout cas. Elle se sent vraiment délaissée par sa copine et le fait qu’en prime leur relation doit absolument rester secrète n’arrange pas les choses. Ça m’a vraiment fait mal au coeur de la voir comme ça. Faut bien admettre qu’à sa place, on se sentirait complètement pareil qu’elle. Mais son comportement n’est vraiment pas le bon. Elle finit par avoir une drôle de relation avec Fûko, une fille de son lycée qui connaît son compte secret, et donc sa relation. Son comportement je ne le cautionne absolument pas. Mais en même temps, elle a fini par trouver un peu d’attention, de réconfort.. Par contre, le personnage de Fûko m’intrigue énormément. Je ne sais pas trop quoi penser d’elle pour être honnête. J’ai la sensation qu’elle cache extrêmement bien son jeu et qu’elle a un but bien précis mais on ignore lequel. C’est bizarre mais je ne la sens pas du tout, j’ai vraiment l’impression qu’elle cache ses véritables intentions..
Ce premier tome m’a beaucoup plu. L’histoire est assez touchante quand on y pense. Même si je ne cautionne pas son comportement, j’ai apprécié le personnage de Yuni, elle m’a beaucoup touché. Je suis vraiment très curieuse de voir la suite de l’histoire, surtout vu comment ce premier tome se termine..
June 10, 2025
I am writing this having read volumes 1-6. This whole manga is trash, objectively, but in a very intentional way that is exactly what some people will want. It is an absolute drama-fest full of cheating and lying and manipulation, toxic people and relationships, and unrealistic everything. Most of the people in this manga are terrible people except for one who is an idiot, and one who (so far) seems to be a normal nice person who is caught up in the drama. So, if you want a drama full of toxic people then this is probably a good fit; if you want something realistic, romantic, or wholesome, then keep walking. Sometimes you just want to watch the dumpster fire, and there isn’t anything wrong with that! Oh, and the art is well done.
Rating manga volumes is hard; not a lot happens in each one after all as they are only a piece of the story. 4-star rating is based on the assumption that you want to read a toxic mess of a story. Withholding the last star because this is very unrealistic; I can’t follow the characters motivation other than “this is what we want to happen in the story”.
Volume 1 is filled with this sense of dread as you wonder what is going to happen. Not much actually does happen, but it sets things up nicely for what’s to come.
Rating manga volumes is hard; not a lot happens in each one after all as they are only a piece of the story. 4-star rating is based on the assumption that you want to read a toxic mess of a story. Withholding the last star because this is very unrealistic; I can’t follow the characters motivation other than “this is what we want to happen in the story”.
Volume 1 is filled with this sense of dread as you wonder what is going to happen. Not much actually does happen, but it sets things up nicely for what’s to come.
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June 12, 2025[review for the whole manga as of now (6 volumes)]
Loved the toxic yuri, but I‘m not a big fan of the random mommy kink thing at the end. Not to mention how unnecessarily oversexualised the characters are. These girls are 16, their boobs don’t need to be this big😭Eventhough the characters are unarguably bad people, especially Asahina and Fuuko, I still like how they’re written. Only Yuki‘s character still feels so flat to me.
Definitely an addictive manga and the toxicity of the relationships is something that got me really hooked. I like it 👀 can’t wait for more volumes!
Loved the toxic yuri, but I‘m not a big fan of the random mommy kink thing at the end. Not to mention how unnecessarily oversexualised the characters are. These girls are 16, their boobs don’t need to be this big😭Eventhough the characters are unarguably bad people, especially Asahina and Fuuko, I still like how they’re written. Only Yuki‘s character still feels so flat to me.
Definitely an addictive manga and the toxicity of the relationships is something that got me really hooked. I like it 👀 can’t wait for more volumes!
May 25, 2025
TODO MAL!
una relacion secreta, la relacion de ellas dos esta medio perdida, Yuni literalmente ventila sus problemas anonimanete en las redes sociales y es manipulada por Taki
que aprendemos con esto? las relaciones demandan responsabilidades, compromiso y hay personas que no saben manejar esto y apenas encuentra otra personas que le dan migajas de atencion y entran en todo este embrollo
una relacion secreta, la relacion de ellas dos esta medio perdida, Yuni literalmente ventila sus problemas anonimanete en las redes sociales y es manipulada por Taki
que aprendemos con esto? las relaciones demandan responsabilidades, compromiso y hay personas que no saben manejar esto y apenas encuentra otra personas que le dan migajas de atencion y entran en todo este embrollo
June 26, 2025
Like many here idk how to rate this ... 3 stars is generous but at the same time I couldn't stop reading ... I like reading abt messed up relationships but this is bordering on the kind of predatory that feels a bit too real, which is usually my sign to stop reading bc I personally can't handle that , yet.... I didn't stop reading. so idk , 3 stars
February 8, 2025
I'm in shock, if you think Pintor Nocturno was in the only one in the top, this shit also would be there (obviusly this not romantic......, go to therapy if you want something like this, PLEASE)
2 stars bc the art is beautiful
2 stars bc the art is beautiful
June 1, 2024
so the themes are sus, but i can't help enjoying this volume and definitely want to continue...
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September 8, 2024“There are countless stars in the sky, but there will always be just one moon.”
October 13, 2024
Waiter waiter! More toxic yuri please!
December 14, 2024
art pretty
tension great
feels weirdly guilty enjoying it
tension great
feels weirdly guilty enjoying it
December 25, 2024
I think I need another volume to decide this one, I’m not hooked from the first one but I’m not dismissing it either. So far it seems a bit…..cringe for lack of a better term. We will see
January 6, 2025
3.5/5
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