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シトラスプラス [Citrus +] #4
Citrus Plus Vol. 4
BIRTHDAY BLUES
Yuzu’s birthday is coming up but Mei is swamped with student council work. Yuzu agrees to celebrate on a different day, but Mei feels guilty all the same. She decides that she’ll make things right by buying Yuzu the perfect present. Will she find something that shows Yuzu how much she cares about her?
Yuzu’s birthday is coming up but Mei is swamped with student council work. Yuzu agrees to celebrate on a different day, but Mei feels guilty all the same. She decides that she’ll make things right by buying Yuzu the perfect present. Will she find something that shows Yuzu how much she cares about her?
148 pages, Paperback
Published December 13, 2022
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47 books219 followersName (in native language): サブロウタ
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After watching Sailor Moon anime, she started drawing at the age of 7.
Influences when she was young: CLAMP (Card Card Captor Sakura, X), AMANO Kozue (Aira, Aqua), WATASE Yuu (Fushigi Yugi), SUGISAKI Yukiru (1001 Knights).
Got into the yuri genre through "Pretty Cure" (especially the chapter 8).
Strength: drawing close-up facial expressions and hair arrangement.
Weakness: drawing small pictures.
Among the sources used as inspiration for her work: watching movies, reading manga, doujinshi, erotica artwork targeted for male audience (like NARUKO Hanaharu's manga).
Her drawing tools: PC, Wacom Cintiq24, program ComicStudio, pencils.
Comments
After watching Sailor Moon anime, she started drawing at the age of 7.
Influences when she was young: CLAMP (Card Card Captor Sakura, X), AMANO Kozue (Aira, Aqua), WATASE Yuu (Fushigi Yugi), SUGISAKI Yukiru (1001 Knights).
Got into the yuri genre through "Pretty Cure" (especially the chapter 8).
Strength: drawing close-up facial expressions and hair arrangement.
Weakness: drawing small pictures.
Among the sources used as inspiration for her work: watching movies, reading manga, doujinshi, erotica artwork targeted for male audience (like NARUKO Hanaharu's manga).
Her drawing tools: PC, Wacom Cintiq24, program ComicStudio, pencils.
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December 17, 2022
3.5 I still enjoyed it but it felt a little ... disappointing? I'm not really sure why. Kinda felt like nothing happened but that's not true. I kinda want to knock some sense into Mei or something. But i'm still trash for this series.
November 10, 2022
Yuzu’s birthday is coming up and that means Mei needs to figure out a gift. Since Mei has the personality of a file folder, however, she’ll get by with a little help from her friends. Who darn well better start dating before this series ends.
If this was a continuation of just Mei and Yuzu I don’t know how interested in it I’d be. Defanged from her unsavoury and predatory behaviour in the first series, Mei’s even more dull than she was then and I get to talk about it every. Single. Time.
But it’s true, there’s no reason to believe that Mei and Yuzu have anything between them except the writer thinking pseudo-incest is a great idea (feels like half the mangaka seem to agree, so what do I know?). They mention in the afterword that they like matching disparate couples with vastly different personalities, but Mei falls down at the first hurdle on that front.
With the main couple doing their thing and manifesting as much heat as a snow cone machine in the Arctic, it falls to the side cast to save my interest and make no mistake that I am 100% still in this for any slight hint that Harumin and Mizusawa are going to get together.
Those two are everything the main pair are not, including interesting. The amount you can read into their actions and even fleeting moments of body language (there’s so much to unpack in a couple panels at a batting cage but it’s mostly just stuffed in the background), if you so choose, is delicious.
I absolutely hate myself for being all in on whatever is going on there, but Mizusawa is basically an imp and the way she rattles Harumin, even when the latter’s facade doesn’t slip, is rather fun. And there are many suggestions that her teasing has started to turn in a direction even she might not be willing to admit.
So you have a pretty mundane book with a really interesting story on the side that has hijacked all of my interest and the series’ ongoing reviews. But I genuinely don’t know if I’d still be keeping this on my list without it. Both these pairings are pure yuri fantasy, but I’d way, way rather see what happens here because the characters are, well, characters.
If you actually like the Mei and Yuzu pairing, there’s plenty going on with them in the same vein it’s always been. For me, I think this series has always been kinda trashy and when yuri was more of a novelty it had a niche that has long been replaced with more interesting stuff. Literally every other pairing of one of the leads with another side character (in the narrative sense) generates more interesting discourse than the main romance.
3 stars - the focus remains exactly where it shouldn’t be and that’s the nature of Citrus+ for you. I kind of hemmed and hawed through the Mei/Yuzu bits and then perked up whenever the sparks started actually flying. And I bet that happens until the series is finished.
If this was a continuation of just Mei and Yuzu I don’t know how interested in it I’d be. Defanged from her unsavoury and predatory behaviour in the first series, Mei’s even more dull than she was then and I get to talk about it every. Single. Time.
But it’s true, there’s no reason to believe that Mei and Yuzu have anything between them except the writer thinking pseudo-incest is a great idea (feels like half the mangaka seem to agree, so what do I know?). They mention in the afterword that they like matching disparate couples with vastly different personalities, but Mei falls down at the first hurdle on that front.
With the main couple doing their thing and manifesting as much heat as a snow cone machine in the Arctic, it falls to the side cast to save my interest and make no mistake that I am 100% still in this for any slight hint that Harumin and Mizusawa are going to get together.
Those two are everything the main pair are not, including interesting. The amount you can read into their actions and even fleeting moments of body language (there’s so much to unpack in a couple panels at a batting cage but it’s mostly just stuffed in the background), if you so choose, is delicious.
I absolutely hate myself for being all in on whatever is going on there, but Mizusawa is basically an imp and the way she rattles Harumin, even when the latter’s facade doesn’t slip, is rather fun. And there are many suggestions that her teasing has started to turn in a direction even she might not be willing to admit.
So you have a pretty mundane book with a really interesting story on the side that has hijacked all of my interest and the series’ ongoing reviews. But I genuinely don’t know if I’d still be keeping this on my list without it. Both these pairings are pure yuri fantasy, but I’d way, way rather see what happens here because the characters are, well, characters.
If you actually like the Mei and Yuzu pairing, there’s plenty going on with them in the same vein it’s always been. For me, I think this series has always been kinda trashy and when yuri was more of a novelty it had a niche that has long been replaced with more interesting stuff. Literally every other pairing of one of the leads with another side character (in the narrative sense) generates more interesting discourse than the main romance.
3 stars - the focus remains exactly where it shouldn’t be and that’s the nature of Citrus+ for you. I kind of hemmed and hawed through the Mei/Yuzu bits and then perked up whenever the sparks started actually flying. And I bet that happens until the series is finished.
January 31, 2023
This was a really slow volume. It does have some good slice of life moments but none of the characters progress very much. I really enjoy this cast of characters and it pains me that I have to wait until November most likely to see what happens next. Mei and Yuzu are still great and seeing Mei grow and broaden her "worldview" was the best part of this volume .
October 17, 2023
4.5??
very cute :)
very cute :)
September 24, 2025
no.no.no.no.no.no i cant catch a break with this thing. let me get this straight. In mei's mind, when she tells yuzu that her birthday celebration is being pushed back, Yuzu isnt suppossed to be upset about it. Then Mei never even originally though to get her FIANCE a birthday present. THEN, when Harumin invites Yuzu to hang out with her on her birthday so she's not alone, she HAS TO ASK MEI FOR PERMISSION???? AND THEN MEI GETS UPSET??? dont. PISS. ME OFF. literally Harumin and Matsuri saving the day once again. also Matsuri's has the best styleee. and did i make this up or did Matsuri get a little upset about the Yuzu-Haru fantasy??? Also having the house alone for one day and Yuzu just wants to live our her housewife fantasy with Mei and mei wont even give her that??? shes just actually the worst partner and person ever.
December 2, 2023
Aunque el enfoque principal haya sido el cumpleaños de Yuzu y hayamos tenido varios puntos de vista al respecto; me hubiera gustado ver más romance entre Yuzu y Mei.
Me gustaría decir más sobre éste tomo, pero realmente no hay mucho que decir. Fue corto, o al menos así lo sentí yo, así que tampoco me molesté en recordar algo fuera de lo común.
Me gustaría decir más sobre éste tomo, pero realmente no hay mucho que decir. Fue corto, o al menos así lo sentí yo, así que tampoco me molesté en recordar algo fuera de lo común.
November 3, 2025
4.5 out of 5 stars: I love seeing Yuzu and Mei grow and mature. I feel like Mei is learning more from Yuzu and the others how to express herself. I see Yuzu also wanting to better herself to be worthy of Mei.
It was sweet and I cannot wait to read the next, but it is on the back burner until I read more of my library manga but I will catch up on my owned.
It was sweet and I cannot wait to read the next, but it is on the back burner until I read more of my library manga but I will catch up on my owned.
December 13, 2022
This series will forever be my guilty pleasure.
Always entertaining. Literally the only book series I read the minute it's delivered lol. (cos it's a quick read tbf lol.)
Always entertaining. Literally the only book series I read the minute it's delivered lol. (cos it's a quick read tbf lol.)
February 7, 2023
A więc dosłownie przeszłam od "nienawidzę tej mangi" do "kocham ją i potrzebuje więcej". Wow.
February 13, 2023
Lovers worrying about presents and the future...
November 27, 2023
The volume is super slow, but I'm so in love with the characters, that I keep coming back for more <3
March 16, 2024
Cuarto tomo de Citrus+, por lo cual podría considerarse como el tomo 14 de la serie en total.
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