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• 11 Dec, 2025 *

I’m working on a version of my old Yuri google doc that I can post here as a page, so I’ve had to revisit some series. The Skirt Sings at the Landing was a pretty mid series to me when I started it. Thought it was going to be a flat 7/10, as in, grade C, you know, not inspiring but doesn’t include things that necessarily annoy me (unlike some other more ambitious & complex series that I knock down to a 7/10 for this reason).

It’s finished now so I caught up to the scans. I remember being a bit controversial here in that I actually liked the whole thing going on with her childhood friend. It’s appealing personally to me when characters do something bad but are self-aware about it and hate themselves for it. (As long as they don’t go and continue to do the thing like 3 more times.)

By the end, I actually felt an emotion or two. So I’m bumping it to a 7.5/10. It definitely cannot breach 8/10 since the art is pretty lackluster and some of the conversations are way too simple and easy. This was supposed to be about dancing, but I didn’t really feel much from the art in the dancing pages. The paneling was also pretty boring.

This series’ saving grace is that it actually says, "Hey, why do we let roles other people gave us define us?" and actually does something with it. Take for instance, Kageki Shoujo!!, which is a legitimate 8/10 and really makes you feel the acting (even though I don’t actually like Takarazuka IRL) but falls into completely just buying into the roles and valuing one role more than the other innately. (And that series isn’t even a Yuri, even though it should be imo.) The Skirt Sings at the Landing might be way worse execution-wise, but for once, someone is saying, "Break height stereotypes and let the tall girl follow and the short girl lead," and then saying one more time, "Now break that too, and let them switch off sometimes." This is something that you would think would be elementary, yet people love their stereotypes, and fandom in Yaoi will argue about who top/bottom roles are based foremost on height and secondarily on other vibes or whatever. Not to mention how annoying straight people are about height as well.

I don’t care! Height anarchy!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I liked the love interest’s whole complex about being called "cute," but I can’t say that was solved in a way that felt interesting to me. But I’ll give this series props (+0.5 to its base score) for role-breaking. Need me so much more of that.

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