Backflap Summary

Yuzu Aihara is a girl who loves fashion and is always worried about her appearance. She likes to go out with her friends, but has never kissed or dated anyone before. But her life turns upside down when her mother remarries and Yuzu is transferred to a very strict all-girls school, where she can’t wear makeup and earrings or even bring a cellphone. Deciding to rebel, she dresses how she likes on her first day, and because of that, she is called out in front of the entire school by the student council president: Mei Aihara, a girl who is the complete opposite of Yuzu.

To make her situation worse, when Yuzu gets home, she finds out that she has a new sister, and it turns out to be none other than Mei herself. Annoyed with the circumstances, the student council president kisses her, in an effort to prove a point. However, everything changes when Yuzu seems to like it and can’t stop thinking about it.

Volume 1 Review

How does it feel to fall for someone who treats you like trash? Who, when push comes to shove, you will let them do both? When in between cutting remarks, they give you what you didn’t realize you wanted.

If this series has anything, it has the audacity. Citrus is a drama. None of the story threads give you a break. Whether it is family life, school, friends, or a budding (but terrifying) romantic relationship, something is going wrong and the stakes are high. So many Yuri stories play with long, drawn out tension. Not Citrus. No, this is a “toxic throw me around and make me regret my actions” kind of manga. There is no doubt that this story isn’t about a healthy relationship. But, they make it damn compelling.

Full Series Review

TBD

Series Information

Writer/Artist/Character Design: Saburouta
Publisher: Ichijinsha, Seven Seas Entertainment
Release Year: 2012-2018
Volumes: 10
Setting: High school; At home
Ick Factor: Plays a little too much on the step-sister eroticism trope