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好都合セミフレンド [Koutsugou Semi-Friend] #1
Convenient Semi-Friend, Vol. 1
“What if we became friends with benefits.…” Suuna, a gloomy high school student, leaves home to live in a dorm. But when she nervously enters her room, she finds her roommate, Ruka, feeling up another girl! She finds out Ruka needs a “friend with benefits,” so Suuna takes charge and proposes they form a “(semi) friends with benefits” contract…?
120 pages, Paperback
Published July 8, 2025
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October 18, 2025
art was really pretty but the story was practically nonexistent 😭
(the review is for Shino and Ren and I'm using this as a substitute since the former isn't on the app)
(the review is for Shino and Ren and I'm using this as a substitute since the former isn't on the app)
July 9, 2025
Room elephants should be addressed first and here’s the big one - this doesn’t deserve its ‘explicit content’ warning. The only thing that can warrants it is a sketch with a nip slip in the afterword, of all things.
Now, it’s certainly no more innocent than 90’s era Britney hits, but if you think this is scandalous you should keep a roll of Bounty handy if you ever read Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels or JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World because your head is going to full-on explode.
The incredibly shy and friendless Suuna moves to the dorms for high school and immediately stumbles upon Ruka, her roomie, getting hot and heavy with another girl. A couple misunderstandings later and Suuna is now Ruka’s ‘friend with benefits’, even if she doesn’t know what that means.
This is thus poised to become a truly tawdry piece of yuri smut where the experienced girl shows the younger one just what kind of experiences await her in the not-quite-real world. Here comes some exciting new trash for the trash pile, down with our good friend, Citrus.
Amusingly, however, this is precisely what doesn’t happen. Suuna is essentially horny Bocchi from Bocchi the Rock!!, but replace being good at guitar with being good at inadvertently pushing Ruka’s buttons.
Despite her scads of experience, Ruka quickly becomes a disaster lesbian and their situation lurches along messily, but without the power imbalance you’d have suspected from its original description. That’s a pretty welcome angle, honestly.
Yes, there’s some sexual tension, but when Ruka’s flipping out just from holding pinkies there’s no hope of them even hitting first base this volume without paramedics on standby. Suddenly, the predator becomes the prey and her other conquests feel as vapid as they are. And from there the ship sets sail.
This isn’t great, mind, but between the pivot from its description and the fact that it’s a 4-koma manga comedy (albeit not an especially hilarious one)? It gave me enough to come back again for a second go. Suuna is a lot, but Ruka is cool, and the third character who shows up towards the end to judge Ruka constantly adds enough energy and humour that this might actually go somewhere.
If you’re not devouring every yuri you come across, this probably won’t be the one you need to pick up, but I don’t think it’s a waste either. It doesn’t have a patch on Futaribeya, but it’s sweeter than it seems while still having some spice (Ruka’s moves after their study session are something else, yowza). There’s just enough here and it isn’t half the car crash it seems to be promising.
3 stars - decent start, nothing crazy exciting, but far better than I was expecting. Plus, it looks to get better as it goes and has kind of a little love story blooming amidst the thirsty stuff. Not bad at all.
Now, it’s certainly no more innocent than 90’s era Britney hits, but if you think this is scandalous you should keep a roll of Bounty handy if you ever read Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels or JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World because your head is going to full-on explode.
The incredibly shy and friendless Suuna moves to the dorms for high school and immediately stumbles upon Ruka, her roomie, getting hot and heavy with another girl. A couple misunderstandings later and Suuna is now Ruka’s ‘friend with benefits’, even if she doesn’t know what that means.
This is thus poised to become a truly tawdry piece of yuri smut where the experienced girl shows the younger one just what kind of experiences await her in the not-quite-real world. Here comes some exciting new trash for the trash pile, down with our good friend, Citrus.
Amusingly, however, this is precisely what doesn’t happen. Suuna is essentially horny Bocchi from Bocchi the Rock!!, but replace being good at guitar with being good at inadvertently pushing Ruka’s buttons.
Despite her scads of experience, Ruka quickly becomes a disaster lesbian and their situation lurches along messily, but without the power imbalance you’d have suspected from its original description. That’s a pretty welcome angle, honestly.
Yes, there’s some sexual tension, but when Ruka’s flipping out just from holding pinkies there’s no hope of them even hitting first base this volume without paramedics on standby. Suddenly, the predator becomes the prey and her other conquests feel as vapid as they are. And from there the ship sets sail.
This isn’t great, mind, but between the pivot from its description and the fact that it’s a 4-koma manga comedy (albeit not an especially hilarious one)? It gave me enough to come back again for a second go. Suuna is a lot, but Ruka is cool, and the third character who shows up towards the end to judge Ruka constantly adds enough energy and humour that this might actually go somewhere.
If you’re not devouring every yuri you come across, this probably won’t be the one you need to pick up, but I don’t think it’s a waste either. It doesn’t have a patch on Futaribeya, but it’s sweeter than it seems while still having some spice (Ruka’s moves after their study session are something else, yowza). There’s just enough here and it isn’t half the car crash it seems to be promising.
3 stars - decent start, nothing crazy exciting, but far better than I was expecting. Plus, it looks to get better as it goes and has kind of a little love story blooming amidst the thirsty stuff. Not bad at all.
July 9, 2025
Room elephants should be addressed first and here’s the big one - this doesn’t deserve its ‘explicit content’ warning. The only thing that can warrants it is a sketch with a nip slip in the afterword, of all things.
Now, it’s certainly no more innocent than 90’s era Britney hits, but if you think this is scandalous you should keep a roll of Bounty handy if you ever read Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels or JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World because your head is going to full-on explode.
The incredibly shy and friendless Suuna moves to the dorms for high school and immediately stumbles upon Ruka, her roomie, getting hot and heavy with another girl. A couple misunderstandings later and Suuna is now Ruka’s ‘friend with benefits’, even if she doesn’t know what that means.
This is thus poised to become a truly tawdry piece of yuri smut where the experienced girl shows the younger one just what kind of experiences await her in the not-quite-real world. Here comes some exciting new trash for the trash pile, down with our good friend, Citrus.
Amusingly, however, this is precisely what doesn’t happen. Suuna is essentially horny Bocchi from Bocchi the Rock!!, but replace being good at guitar with being good at inadvertently pushing Ruka’s buttons.
Despite her scads of experience, Ruka quickly becomes a disaster lesbian and their situation lurches along messily, but without the power imbalance you’d have suspected from its original description. That’s a pretty welcome angle, honestly.
Yes, there’s some sexual tension, but when Ruka’s flipping out just from holding pinkies there’s no hope of them even hitting first base this volume without paramedics on standby. Suddenly, the predator becomes the prey and her other conquests feel as vapid as they are. And from there the ship sets sail.
This isn’t great, mind, but between the pivot from its description and the fact that it’s a 4-koma manga comedy (albeit not an especially hilarious one)? It gave me enough to come back again for a second go. Suuna is a lot, but Ruka is cool, and the third character who shows up towards the end to judge Ruka constantly adds enough energy and humour that this might actually go somewhere.
If you’re not devouring every yuri you come across, this probably won’t be the one you need to pick up, but I don’t think it’s a waste either. It doesn’t have a patch on Futaribeya, but it’s sweeter than it seems while still having some spice (Ruka’s moves after their study session are something else, yowza). There’s just enough here and it isn’t half the car crash it seems to be promising.
3 stars - decent start, nothing crazy exciting, but far better than I was expecting. Plus, it looks to get better as it goes and has kind of a little love story blooming amidst the thirsty stuff. Not bad at all.
Now, it’s certainly no more innocent than 90’s era Britney hits, but if you think this is scandalous you should keep a roll of Bounty handy if you ever read Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels or JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World because your head is going to full-on explode.
The incredibly shy and friendless Suuna moves to the dorms for high school and immediately stumbles upon Ruka, her roomie, getting hot and heavy with another girl. A couple misunderstandings later and Suuna is now Ruka’s ‘friend with benefits’, even if she doesn’t know what that means.
This is thus poised to become a truly tawdry piece of yuri smut where the experienced girl shows the younger one just what kind of experiences await her in the not-quite-real world. Here comes some exciting new trash for the trash pile, down with our good friend, Citrus.
Amusingly, however, this is precisely what doesn’t happen. Suuna is essentially horny Bocchi from Bocchi the Rock!!, but replace being good at guitar with being good at inadvertently pushing Ruka’s buttons.
Despite her scads of experience, Ruka quickly becomes a disaster lesbian and their situation lurches along messily, but without the power imbalance you’d have suspected from its original description. That’s a pretty welcome angle, honestly.
Yes, there’s some sexual tension, but when Ruka’s flipping out just from holding pinkies there’s no hope of them even hitting first base this volume without paramedics on standby. Suddenly, the predator becomes the prey and her other conquests feel as vapid as they are. And from there the ship sets sail.
This isn’t great, mind, but between the pivot from its description and the fact that it’s a 4-koma manga comedy (albeit not an especially hilarious one)? It gave me enough to come back again for a second go. Suuna is a lot, but Ruka is cool, and the third character who shows up towards the end to judge Ruka constantly adds enough energy and humour that this might actually go somewhere.
If you’re not devouring every yuri you come across, this probably won’t be the one you need to pick up, but I don’t think it’s a waste either. It doesn’t have a patch on Futaribeya, but it’s sweeter than it seems while still having some spice (Ruka’s moves after their study session are something else, yowza). There’s just enough here and it isn’t half the car crash it seems to be promising.
3 stars - decent start, nothing crazy exciting, but far better than I was expecting. Plus, it looks to get better as it goes and has kind of a little love story blooming amidst the thirsty stuff. Not bad at all.
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