Yubisaki Milk Tea

[Thelastguardian]

ゆびさきミルクティ
Yubisaki Milk Tea



Anyone following this series? I am just wondering who here is reading this so-called "the ultimate evil" crossdressing series (Yes I am a hugh fan of this

The mangaka packed every well known and not so well known...stuff/taboo imaginable into this series -

Spoiler for crimes commited:

childhood friend, school romance, with crossdressing, yuri, fake yuri, almost home run with loli girls, almost home run with female classmates, indecent relationship with one's biological sister, seducing 30+ year old man, sudecing one's best friend (male) aka (semi-fake) boys love (with kisses and everything), seducing a collor-bone fetish artist classmate (male), seducing said classmate's childhood friend (female), and finally, fell insanely in love with her(him)self.

In other word, the main character is an absolute animal. If the thing moves on its own, it's his target .

I was actually surprise to see this series got licenced in the US - I thought the story is too out there...

[NightWish]

Ah, yes... I've followed Yubisaki Milk Tea for a little while. I think it's a nice story People can call it "the ultimate evil" but I don't really have a problem with any of the themes presented. Most of the time I find it pretty easy to read past what might shock some. I think of it as quite sweet in some respects.

Having said that... in the last year I have been following quite a few manga that have what you might call "alternative" life-styles portrayed. Frankly Yuki's life is less "out-there" than some, despite the "crimes"

[Veritas]

I'm not put off by the bizarre relationships, but is that the only thing that passes for a story in this? Just the main characters weird near-sexual conquests?

[iamandragon]

The weird relationships is a way the author shows the pain of love.

A very beautiful manga indeed. Though...

TOO MUCH ECCHI SCENE!

[gameoffreak8]

The story is very nice. Indeed, the relationships is weird to me. I really don't mind about Yuki crossdresses.

[Juhachi]

*Raises hand*

I picked it up a while back and have read the first 2 volumes; waiting for #3 to be released. Some of the things presented kind of shocked me, like the incest uncle with Sumika, but other than that, nothing I can think of, though I haven't read it in months so I may be forgetting some things.

[kemal_1915]

I have read this one for a long time and i love this manga
This manga is talking about growth, love and relationship but in an extreme way
it follows the main character yoshinori's step of growing up, how he thinks about how to define a man, use crossdressing think about how to define a woman, and use the people around to learn about what should he do in the relationships, etc.
He (and most of the characters in the story) tries to do this even it may little beyond the norm of society. So, it makes this story become somehow "evil".

[NightWish]

Originally Posted by Juhachi

...waiting for #3 to be released.

I think it has been out for a little while (Publish date says November, though the TP site says December...). Well, it is out now at least, I know because I'm sitting here looking at it I was planning to read it over the holiday, ready for when volume 4 is released, but I've just discovered that won't be until April T_T~

[zgmf-x19a]

I read a few chapters and I found it quite good

[LionsMane]

This actually on my list of manga I want to read. I'm glad to hear such positive things about it because I wasn't sure if it'd be all that good when I first heard about it.

[kemal_1915]

Originally Posted by LionsMane

This actually on my list of manga I want to read. I'm glad to hear such positive things about it because I wasn't sure if it'd be all that good when I first heard about it.

Yes, your worries are understandable
in chinese ACG society(HK, Taiwan, Mainland), this manga is very famous but famous for ecchi scene only. Not much people pay attention to the underlying meaning of this manga.

Two major themes of this manga are relation and crossdressing. Refer to relation, I wrote something about in my previous post.

Spoiler for crossdressing:

In early age of yoshinori, he already have the tendency (I'll become a bride that more beautiful than you!) and the photo thing is the trigger.
While he is using her female identity to interact with other, this identity become more solidified.
He unintentionally creates a woman that is perfect in his mind and inevitability fall in love with her. This move bring out trouble to many people includes himself.
It's because when he is a man, he thinks men are dirty creature. When he is a woman, she is the perfect existence. Here is the tragedy come, he knows he can never become a woman (certain operation?no, it is fake, not perfect). This realize just make more confusion.
How should the mangaka to resolve this? we'll see it later, maybe

[Finalpro]

The story is pretty neat and interesting with its cross dressing and relationships, thus the reason why I had to buy volume 3 of the series. Sadly now I hafta wait for volume 4.

[Seiryuu]

I got started on this a little while ago myself. It's really too bad there's such a big gap between the releases. I really want to know how some of the relationships turn out, like whether Hidari will ever be able to pursue a normal love with Nori, or whether Nori will somehow find a way to get his dark side under control, or at least placate it. It's sort of sad in a way, watching the interaction between these two. Whenever one of them is together enough to try to seriously move forward, the other is in such a high-strung state that the first winds up jumping back instead.

[LCeh]

Ahh... I read this manga a few months back, and I think I will have to revisit it again some time soon, and after I do that, I will post more comments, since right now my memory is kinda fuzzy.

Originally Posted by NightWish

Having said that... in the last year I have been following quite a few manga that have what you might call "alternative" life-styles portrayed. Frankly Yuki's life is less "out-there" than some, despite the "crimes"

Interesting. I really want to know which series you are referring to. I would say KissXSis is quite similar in terms of "evilness", but it doesn't have as much taboo.

Oh, and I am not sure what happened to this series, but there hasn't been a new release for quite some time now. I hope it doesn't just die in the middle like Hunter X Hunter did.

[Verist]

I rather enjoy it myself. Just waiting for book 5 to come out. Has anyone heard anything about this being made into series?

[Potatochobit]

I was about to give this a try but Idk, now. sounds like it might end up trashy in the end like paradise kiss. that angers me, *puff* *puff*

[faust123]

Absolutely LOVE this manga. The mangaka does a fantastic job of exploring a number of different emotions. Though some of these emotions portrayed in the dialogue and the characters may seem a bit over the top in the realm of reality, I think in order to really appreciate this manga you need to take a step back. To really portray the rawness of these emotions the mangaka takes it bit further than one normally would, but there is never a time where it doesn't seem perfectly in place in the realm of the manga itself.

I am really really pulling for Minamo and if I understand the mangaka's message I think it is likely to happen. The way I look at it is...

Spoiler for Some spoilers:

Yoshinori cross dresses to help subvert his animalistic urges towards the people that are special to him, but in particular Hidari. He knows these feelings for Hidari are "wrong" and cross dressing is a means of running away from them. I don't think he really wants to have these types of feelings for Hidari because she is just like a daughter to him (their relationship in my eyes is incapable of romantic love).

I would argue, however, that these feelings are normal (not for Hidari, just the lust in general) and this is what the mangaka is trying to convey. Around Minamo, Yoshinori is able to express these emotions without any REAL repercussions (ie guilt). I think in the end to set things "right" the mangaka will pair minamo and Yoshinori ( please :b )

[serenade_beta]

Really love this manga as well. I always end up wanting the next volume after finishing a volume of this manga.
The only problem is that the JP volumes have stopped coming out (but it's not done), and that means that when the English versions catch up, no new volumes will come out for a while...

Kind of funny that in the JP version of volume 6 there was a censored word, but in the English version, they translated it without any censoring...

[nadare]

So.... Can anybody spoil me who he ends up with ?

[serenade_beta]

Originally Posted by nadare

So.... Can anybody spoil me who he ends up with ?

It hasn't ended yet, so it is not known yet.