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recently i've been researching nobuko yoshiya and class S (if anyone wants some resources to learn more about it, i'll share them!) and what a perfect manga to read at the same time: dear flowers that bloom in days of yore! (haikei, arishi hi ni saku hanatachi e)

this manga takes from and directly references nobuko yoshiya and her hanamonogatari anthology, the defining work of the S genre. but there's a sort of eerie undertone to it compared to other modern S-inspired yuri: the wintertime snow makes the atmosphere colder, the main character is written with a bit more angst than we usually see from these protagonists, and we later see a much darker side to the story that really intrigued me and makes me excited for new chapters to be translated!!

i'm not going to give spoilers because i want whoever reads it to go into it as blind as possible, BUT, for anyone who needs it, i'll leave a trigger warning below:
(in chapter 10 onwards: a character inflicts cuts on another's back using a box cutter)