The Best Yuri Manhwa To Read

Summary

• The yuri genre includes diverse themes and can be enjoyed by any audience, even with PG titles.
• Yuri content can be found in manhwa and manhua, offering colorful and engaging stories in full color.
• Fresh yuri manhwa provide readers with delightful romcoms or tense dramas, suitable for all seasons.

Yuri, or GL (Girl’s Love), is a genre that does what it says on the tin by depicting women falling in love with each other. While it may be known for its sexual themes and imagery, its popularity in the media has increased with more PG titles like Bloom Into You receiving anime adaptations. The genre focuses on the L in LGBTQ+ communities, but it can be enjoyed by any audience.

There are plenty of yuri manga out there, but yuri content can also be found in manhwa (Korean comics) and manhua (Chinese comics), which are on the rise thanks to websites like Webtoon, Tapas, and Tappytoon, among others. Unlike their Japanese counterparts, they’re often in full color and can be read left to right instead of right to left. Nonetheless, they can still tell great yuri stories.

Updated June 26, 2025 by David Heath: Pride Month is almost over, but there’s still time to get started on a fresh yuri manhwa to get into the seasonal mood. Not that there’s anything stopping readers from checking out stories about girls loving other girls at any time of the year. But it feels right to update this list with some more choice strips about women falling for each other, be they charming romcoms or tense dramas.

But they also have to be safe for work. There may be some entries out there that are as moving as they are steamy, but they’re too hot to handle. So, the list has been double-checked and pruned of anything that goes into R-rated territory. But the ones that remain, along with the new strips, can still get the heart racing and blood pumping with their tender romances, passionate drama, and heartfelt stories.

32

Tendering Resignation

Quitting a Job is Easier Than Quitting People

• Creators: Woo Yunhee & Daman.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.51/5 Stars.
• 62 Chapters.
• Fan Translations only. Formerly available in English on Manta.

Sometimes, all it takes for a dream job to become a nightmare is one little change, as Tendering Resignation shows. In the past, Geumhee was perfectly fine working for her best friend, Kang Taeri, at her company. There may even be more to their relationship than just a professional bond, too. But it all gets tested when a new girl, Yu Bora, comes along.

She stops at nothing to get Geumhee’s attention, pressing her will on her while Taeri’s company runs into trouble with their rivals, the Nosong Group. Eventually, Taeri disappears from the scene, and Geumhee is caught up in a police investigation. Will she fall for Bora’s schemes or stay true to Taeri? The only way to find out is to either track down the manhwa or look up its K-drama adaptation on Vigloo.

31

Love Wins

When Girls Rush into a Vegas-Style Marriage

• Creator: Mockdolee.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.63/5 Stars.
• 53 Chapters.
• Fan Translations only.

At the time of this writing, same-sex marriage isn’t legal in South Korea, though public opinion has been in favor of legalizing it for years, particularly among women. So, when it does get signed into law, it might spark the same excitement seen in Love Wins. Da-yeon is into women herself, but has never had any luck in love. She seemed resigned to living alone until she attended a mixer and partied a little too hard.

Hours later, she wakes up with a marriage certificate in her hand, officially marrying her to a woman called “Eun-Bi,” whom she doesn’t remember. Now she has to track down Eun-Bi, discover what led them to get legally married, and find out how to possibly get Korea’s first same-sex divorce. That is, if she or her mystery woman doesn’t end up changing their minds along the way.

30

Bittersweet Con Panna

Clingy Girlfriend Gets Threatened By an Old Rival

• Creators: Hobaen & Son Gaepi.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.65/5 Stars.
• 118 Chapters.
• Available in English via Manta.

Even the most devoted couples can end up feeling threatened by others, or so Bittersweet Con Panna shows. Songah is smitten with her girlfriend Yoosung, who she thinks is the cutest girl in the world (even though Yoosung prefers to go for a more sophisticated vibe). Nonetheless, she’s head over heels for her to the point of being clingy, pushing her buttons in all sorts of ways.

Then Jinsung Cha comes back into their lives. She was an old school friend of Yoosung’s, but never got along with Songah as the two often vied for her attention. Songah would give her attitude, while Jinsung would bully her back. Old habits die hard, as the two get back to sniping at each other as Yoosung helps her out with a film shoot. Can the two find some way to get along? Or will their bickering drive Yoosung one way or another?

29

Eonni! #I’llTagYou

Learning More About Oneself Via Social Media

• Creator: Geon-U.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.73/5 Stars.
• 6 Chapters.
• Fan Translations only.

Sometimes it’s titled Eonni! #I’llTagYou, other times it’s Unnie! #I’ll Tag You. By one name or another, this manhwa offers something a little more lighthearted than tenser stories like Would You? Could You? It’s a romcom that sees two women find love through social media. Kang Chae-rin is addicted to the stuff and tries her best to earn as many followers as possible. But she only has a mere 5,000+ follower count.

Her social media lifeline comes in the form of Seo Yeon-woo, a student returning from abroad who’s since become a famous influencer. Chae-rin tries to buddy up with her in the hopes of getting some of her fame and ends up getting more than she bargained for. One bad night of drinking may have ended up helping her find the love of her life, and a few hundred more followers to boot.

28

If You Can’t Kill Me, Love Me

An Assassin Falls in Love With Their Target

• Creator: JIN.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.74/5 Stars.
• 46 Chapters.
• Available in English via Tapas.

For readers after a romance with some conflict, they’ll find plenty at the heart of If You Can’t Kill Me, Love Me. It takes place in a country wracked with strife, where Second Queen Nayla led a rebellion that managed to kill off the King and the First Queen, Viatan. Only their daughter, Princess Chell, is left, though she’s been reduced to a shell of her former self. Wandering around her home like a ghost, she’s become known as the ‘Princess of Death.’

Her only source of solace is in her blunt but clumsy personal maid, Penny. Unbeknownst to her, Penny is actually an assassin sent by Nayla to retrieve the king’s ring and kill Chell. By doing this, she thinks she’ll be freed from servitude to Chell or Nayla. But as she spends more time with the princess, she finds herself more drawn to her. Likewise, her company has been helping Chell slowly recover. Now she’s torn between finding her freedom, fulfilling her mission, and her growing feelings for her target. It’s a dilemma she won’t find an easy answer to.

27

June Sea

Finding Love in the Ocean’s Depths

• Creator: Shin Yuri.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.75/5 Stars.
• 44 Chapters.
• Fan Translations only.

June Sea takes things in a different direction from most other manhwa, as it’s a passionate, historical tale, as it takes place in Busan in 1936. During this time, Korea was occupied by Japan and wouldn’t be liberated for another nine years. Even then, it would take the country (or half of it, at least) much longer to find peace. That’s too long for the story’s lead, Yeon Jeong, to find a place where she fits in.

Unable to connect to her peers, she feels listless until she comes across a mermaid. She says she’s come to pick Yeon up as promised and take her to a place “where eternal happiness lies”. With no other plans, Yeon is tempted to follow her into the ocean and find a place where she’ll truly belong. But can she trust the mermaid’s words? As lovely as she is, there’s always a catch to deals that sound too good to be true.

26

Misterioso

Making Sweet Music Together

• Creators: Song Il-Gan & Lee Je.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.75/5 Stars.
• 54 Chapters.
• Fan Translations only.

Hobbies can bring people together, even when the other person isn’t into it as much. Misterioso follows Gina and Kyung-Mi, two girls who come of age over their interest in music. Gina is the daughter of a rich family, and doesn’t care about playing the violin, yet was forced into it by her mother. While Kyung-Mi is a piano-playing prodigy whose talents were limited by her parents’ limited income, as her father only earns so much from driving Gina’s family around.

Yet this led the two girls to meet and grow closer as the years went by. Kyung-Mi made music feel more worthwhile to Gina, and Gina gave Kyung-Mi the impetus to get back into it. But just as their feelings grow for each other, they’re beset with obstacles from all angles. From people and events threatening to tear them apart, to suitors that complicate the situation. While it keeps things cool under the collar, its dramatic turns take readers on an emotional rollercoaster where the story could end either on a dizzying high or a shocking low.

25

Would You? Could You?

An Unrequited Love Rears Its Head Years Later

• Creators: Manjogyeong & P.P.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.76/5 Stars.
• 40 Chapters.
• Available in English via Pocket Comics.

Political intrigue and the threat of assassination aren’t the only ways to complicate relationships. In Would You? Could You?, all three leads have lingering feelings, unrequited love, and are dwelling on the past. Juna and Yunseo used to be friends in college. Then, Juna found a guy, fell in love, and eventually married him. Yunseo attended the ceremony, but didn’t take the bouquet, and moved on with her life.

By chance, Juna ended up back in her life, still wondering why Yunseo didn’t accept her bouquet. She couldn’t tell her the truth then, and it’s even more difficult to tell her now, as Juna now has a child with her husband, and Yunseo has another girl vying for her affections in Saeha. If she told Juna it was because she fell in love with her, and was still in love with her all these years later, it could turn everything upside-down. But she can’t keep it bottled up forever either, or things could get much worse.

24

The Iron Inside

Love Prevails, Even in the Harshest Circumstances

• Creator: Bisha.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.79/5 Stars.
• 40 Chapters.
• Available in English via Manta.

Based on the web novel of the same name, The Iron Inside is a sci-fi yuri that sees the world turn into a sandy wasteland, where whatever’s left of humanity survives in heavily guarded bunkers. Baekgi learns this the hard way, as she was cryogenically frozen before the apocalypse, and woke up in a bunker run largely by other women. To make herself useful, Baekgi joins Spear & Shield, a military unit dedicated to the bunker’s defense.

It’s their job to make sure nothing gets into the bunker, be it deadly diseases or horrible monsters, or that anyone else goes out without probable cause. Life within the bunker isn’t easy at the best of times, as being isolated underground takes its toll. But Baekgi finds it’s still possible to fall in love in the most trying times, as she finds herself drawn towards her senior officer, Ibaek.

23

Love Countdown

Mending a Broken Heart With an Interesting Proposal

• Creator: Lange.
• Anime-Planet Score: 3.80/5 Stars
• 6 Chapters.
• Fan translations only.

Compared to the other multi-chapter epics on this list, Love Countdown (not to be confused with the BL manhwa Countdown to Love) keeps things short and sweet with a simple story of a newfound love arising from personal tragedy. It just happened to be girls’ love! Yoo Minhee has her love life turned upside down when she catches her boyfriend cheating on her. On storming back home, she ends up bumping into her old childhood friend, Park Heemin.

To help soothe Minhee’s heart, Heemin makes an interesting proposal: date her for a month. In that time, she’ll do her best to charm Minhee and make her forget about her ex. If she fails, she fails. But if she succeeds, Minhee will find a new kind of love, and though she’s unaware of it, Heemin will achieve her dream. Though brief, it’s a nice story of friends becoming lovers in a steady, realistic way.