Highlights
- Yuri, or GL, is a genre that focuses on women falling in love with each other. It has gained popularity in media and can be enjoyed by any audience.
- Manhwas and Manhuas are popular vehicles for Yuri content, offering full-color stories and a left-to-right reading format.
- The listed titles, such as “Ring My Bell” and “Her Tale Of Shim Chong,” explore various themes like LGBTQ+ relationships, class differences, and reconnecting with past loves.
Yuri, or GL (Girl’s Love), is a genre that depicts women falling in love with each other. While it may be known for depicting sexual themes and imagery, its popularity in the media has increased with PG titles like Bloom Into You getting adapted to anime. Yuri is a genre that focuses on LGBTQ+ communities, but it can be enjoyed by any audience.
Manhwas (Korean manga) and Manhuas (Chinese manga) are popular vessels for Yuri content. They provide full-color stories unlike their Japanese counterpart and are read left to right instead of right to left.
1 Ring My Bell
Anime-Planet Score: 4.3
When Mai Sohn scores her first contract for a major webcomic production company, she thinks life couldn’t get any better. Unfortunately, on the same day, her long-time girlfriend and muse dumps her. This is when she meets Chungyeon Lee, a member of an anti-LGBTQ Church and also Mai’s neighbor.
Despite their differences, Mai and Chungyeon seem to get along well after meeting a few times through chance encounters. Things start to heat up as Chungyeon realizes she’s capable of having romantic feelings for another woman.
2 Her Tale Of Shim Chong
Anime-Planet Score: 4.4
- Creator: Seri & Biwan
- Type: Manhwa
One night after a tough day, Shim Chong, a poor girl with a dead mother and a blind father, wishes for Buddha to take her life. While she’s in the water she hears the voice of another girl making the same wish, only for Shim Chong to find her nearly drowned. When Shim Chong saves her she is invited to the girl’s wedding and is gifted a bracelet that matches the wife-to-be’s.
This period piece romance looks at class differences and the shared wishes between two young women from different worlds.
3 Mojito
Anime-Planet Score: 4
- Creator: Kuaikan Comics & NoftB
- Type: Manhua
Xiao Zhong is a popular supermodel, and on the night of a big show, she was outed by paparazzi as a lesbian. Mushen Lin is a successful lawyer at a big law firm. Together they must overcome the difficulty of being outed after they were photographed kissing on the street.
This showbiz manhua starts with a couple already dating and follows them as they experience different obstacles to making it work. It is available to read on Tapas.
4 SQ: Begin W/ Your Name
Anime-Planet Score: 4.4
Sung Jin may have met the girl of her dreams, only she didn’t make a very good first impression. It was so bad that Qui Tong had been avoiding the bus station where the two had their first encounter. Later, when Sung Jin sees Qui Tong carrying a lot of groceries, she chases after her to see if she needs help carrying them, only to frighten Qui Tong more. Will this finally be Sung Jin’s chance to get to know Qui Tong?
SQ. Begin W/ Your Name is a popular manhua with one of the best Anime-Planet scores. It takes place during middle school as Sung Jin and Qui Tong get to know each other while being surrounded by friends.
5 Soulmate
Anime-Planet Score: 4.4
- Creator: Kuaikan Comics & Rae
- Type: Manhua
Yu Qi and Yuanzi are dating and in love in the present day. However, Yuanzi was diagnosed with a terminal illness that is going to cut their time together short. When Yu Qi wakes up in her high school body, she must figure out a way to meet Yuanzi earlier than college, so they can have more time together.
This emotional manhua is light-hearted and full of beautiful moments that will make fans’ hearts flutter.
6 Lily
Anime-Planet Score: 4.3
- Creator: Pikapi
- Type: Manhua
Yilin’s first encounter with Ou Xiang is nothing short of unfortunate. First, she bumps into her, then she talks behind her back and gets caught by Ou Xiang. But something about Ou Xiang is sticking in Yilin’s mind. Not to mention, Yilin’s friend is crazy about Ou Xiang. Will Yilin find a way to talk to Ou Xiang normally now that they’re at the same school?
Lily is a high school-based manhua that centers around Yilin and Ou Xiang slowly getting to know each other. Will they be able to get past their first impressions of each other and build their relationship to something more?
7 A Joyful Life
Anime-Planet Score: 4.2
- Creator: Gum
- Type: Manhwa
Joy Ahn is a typical office worker who is feeling unsatisfied with life. She keeps a bag packed under her desk and travels as soon as she has time off. Aerie Park is an out lesbian who left town when her family found her kissing a girl in public. At an elementary school reunion, the two find each other outside and decide to go for a drink to reconnect.
A Joyful Life is a manhwa about adult life, reconnecting with past loves, and creating meaningful connections that transcend time.
8 My Dear Enemy
Anime-Planet Score: 4.1
- Creator: Xian Jun
- Type: Manhua
One drunken night two rivals find themselves in a predicament. When director Shen gets too drunk after learning that she placed second in the employee ranking, her coworkers don’t know what to do with her. Luckily her long-time rival and first crush, director Jiang, takes her home. Upon arrival, director Shen kisses director Jiang, and neither of them hates it. What is to come from this new interaction?
My Dear Enemy is a popular romantic comedy manhua about office romance, first loves, and opposites attracting.
9 The Glass
Anime-Planet Score: 4
Lara is hunting for a job after finishing her internship six months ago. Unfortunately, companies are more concerned with her engagement with her fiancé than they are with her skills. On her way to an interview one day she decides to take off her ring, and suddenly a car comes zooming down the street towards her. Luckily, she is alright, but out of the car comes pop superstar Suni from the girl group, The Glass.
As it turns out, the two used to be best friends, and Lara’s life quickly changes as she enters back into Suni’s after all these years.
