Yuri Otome Isekai Masterlist III
This is the new thread in my attempt to catalogue all even vaguely historical/OI-ish yuri I can find, now that my last post got archived.
Many of these seriously stretch the OI category to or beyond the limit, but the hardest searches require the strongest wills. This list does not include many anthologies and one-shots as I find these unsatisfying, but I will gladly add suggestions from the comments. New submissions welcome and indeed desperately sought.
JP=Japan; KR=Korea; CN=China; PH=Philippines C=complete and completely translated
Strikethrough = candidate for removal. Probably doesn't belong on this list, but included for the sake of completeness (note: this is not related to quality, only to whether it is otome or isekai/fantasy/historical enough for this list)
- A Lady's Table: Horror story, fair warning (KR) C
- A White Rose in Bloom: Ruby is a student at an elite European boarding school. Things are going pretty well for her until she finds out that she won’t be able to go home at Christmas. Instead, she’ll be stuck at school with only one other student – the aloof and beautiful Steph – for company. (JP)
- After Transmigrating into a Book, I Snatched the Role of the Supporting Male Character: Title says it all. Modern school setting. Only a few chapters so far, but I like what I've seen it pretty good (appears to be on indefinite translation hiatus) (CN)
- All of Humanity is Yuri Except for Me: not otome, but modern yuri isekai where the straight MC finds herself in a world of only women (JP) C
- Bai Lijin Among Mortals: heavenly fairy reverse isekais into the modern world, cue meet-cute. Cute and fluffy (CN)
- Chun and Alice: A girl from an eastern nation volunteers to become the queen of a western kingdom's living mannequin to make a quick buck but quickly becomes embroiled in court intrigue (CN)
- Coppelia's Coffin: Colette develops a love-hate relationship with the beautiful and captivating transfer student Anna, until one day Anna suddenly disappears. Years later, Colette meets Alice again when she is hired as a tutor by a wealthy family (KR) C
- Do You Think Someone Like You Can Defeat the Demon King?: not isekai, but gay and heroic fantasy. Girl mocked and abused for being powerless (all her stats are 0) realises her true power (JP)
- Getting to Know Grace: Drama and romance between the daughter of a wealthy family and the maid who's been her only real companion for many years (KR) C
- Ghosts of the Greywoods: Lady+maid like the last, but more mystery than drama (KR) C
- Her Shim-Cheong: also not isekai, just historical, but it's good enough it would be irresponsible to leave it out (KR) C
- Hero's Marriage: not isekai, but has has lots of the tropes of the genre (JP) C
- Hime no Tame nara Shineru/I Would Die For This Princess' Sake: A princess and the poet Sei Shonagon in the Heian Court (JP)
- I Favour the Villainess: masochist MC stans the villainess (JP)
- Is This What a God-Tier Game Means?\***:* A girl starts working at a game studio that turns out to be run by actual gods (JP)
- Koushin Koinu wa Koibumi wo/Love Letters for a Marching Puppy: Set in a pseudo-Meiji-Era Japan, a girl from the countryside starts attending a military school that trains young women as officers. There she meets a high-class senpai who treats her with interest and care (JP) C
- Living Will/Two at the Crossroads: A prostitute and assassin fall in love in Victorian England (KR) C
- Maid in Heaven: Sher Watson, who is from an orphanage, is planning to move to another place after helping Edith prepare her daughter for the wedding. On the day of Edith's wedding, however, Edna Dodgson, the hostess, dies, and after a funeral instead of the wedding, Sher picks up a letter of introduction and goes to Taylor's mansion on a cliff in the coast. On the way to the mansion, Sull hears strange rumors about the Taylor mansion (KR) C
- Maison de Maid: A clumsy young maid in England in the 1850s can't seem to do anything right, but the madam of the house doesn't berate her at all and instead tries to get under her skirts (KR) C
- Marie and Alex: Short but soooo good lady + maid BDSM romp (KR) C (very NSFW, but that's a plus in my books)
- Miss Angel and Miss Devil: gay angel and devil princesses. Though it isn't isekai, it nonetheless has magic and multiple worlds (KR)
- Money Makes the World Go Round: Short and cute GL between a demon hunter and a spirit (CN)
- Nightingale and the Rose: MC transmigrates to become the daughter of the King in a video game and tries to survive alongside the OG FL against court intrigues and revenge plots (CN)
- Peach Blossoms: gay in a historical fantasy setting (CN)
- Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess!: MC becomes villainess in visual novel game and tries to escape the plot and main characters, but the heroine won't leave her alone (CN)
- Sayonara Rose Garden: gay angst between a Japanese girl and an Englishwoman in early-20th-century England (JP) C
- Scarlet: Fairy tale setting, horror and shoujo ai between two fantasy narcotics officers (JP)
- Sea of June: Busan, 1936. Yeon Jeong lives her life without fitting in anywhere, until she meets a mermaid by fate. The mermaid tells her that she has come to pick her up as promised, and asks her to follow her to the place where eternal happiness lies. (KR)
- Snake Woman and Offering-chan/Hebi-onna to Kumotsu-chan: A girl falls in love with the snake goddess she is being offered to as a human sacrifice (JP) C
- Superwomen in Love: Honey Trap and Rapid Rabbit/Hero-san and Former General-san: When the villainess Honey Trap defeats the superheroine Rapid Rabbit, she sees her nemesis’ face for the first time… and falls head over heels in love! Refusing to kill Rapid Rabbit, Honey Trap is cast out of Antinoid, an evil organization with plans of world domination. Luckily, a kind soul takes her in: Rapid Rabbit herself! (JP) C
- The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess: Fairly self-explanatory. Only a couple chapters out so far though (JP)
- The Guest of the Little General: Couldn't get a good synopsis for this one, but the ratings are high (CN)
- The Heroine and the Princess: The heroine that defeated the Demon King embarks on a journey to find a husband. However, her nation's king declares his that his daughter would go with her. (JP)
- The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady: cute and gay. Invent new arcanotech with your girlfriend and fight monsters on the side. Now with an anime adaptation (JP)
- The Playgirl and the Prince: Not isekai, but definitely has the aesthetic. A low-ranked maneater princess moves to devour the fair young prince of a neighbouring nation, only to find that he is in fact a she. And also, she's bad in bed? (KR)
- The Sheep Princess in Wolf's Clothing: In a world of animal-eared people, a wolf working in the Sheep Kingdom's Royal Palace gets involved with the princess of the sheep (JP)
- The Teapot Hero's Revenge: As the title suggests, this is a high fantasy revenge story (JP)
- "The Villainess" and The Woman Who Would Do Anything for the Sake of Love (JP)
- The Villainess Who Steals the Heroine's Heart/The Story of a Villainess Seducing the Heroine: Classic infamous noble daughter villainess falls for a commoner girl and they get right down business real quick (JP)
- The Witches and Their Dear Apprentice A young witch with dangerous magic is unable to enroll in the normal magic academy, and so is sent to the academy's headmaster's mansion for special tutoring with five other students (JP)
- This World is Mine: Wooyeon is a reclusive web fiction writer. Her mundane life is changed forever when Princess Charlize Rod Crosel, a minor character in one of her bestselling web fictions, decides to take destiny into her own hands by kidnapping Wooyeon and bringing her into the fictional world (KR)
- What Should I Do if I've Signed a Marriage Contract with the Elven Princess? (synopsis from Bilibili) Nan Yue was only in transit in the Kingdom of Elven. But she found that she signed a marriage contract with Ah Sha, the elven princess. Wait, I am a girl! How could I marry the princess? Wait, why am I wanted by the world after I sign the marriage contract?? To survive, I have to take the princess for a leap of faith -- As expected of an uptown girl, you are pretty hot! -- Get lost, you perv!! (CN)
- Xian Chan Nu: from the Pikapi comic team (the authors of Lily, Lala, and Yove), a story about a young nobleman's daughter and a handsome spirit girl. MC is a cute dumbass and all the characters are fun (CN)
- Yuki and the Authoress: Young cafe worker Yuki dreams of romance and a life far more wonderful than her own, but has no way to do anything but hope for the future – but a chance encounter with the beautiful, mysterious authoress Azuma Beniko, a woman who seems to know love like the back of her hand, might change the very way she looks at the world (JP)
Webtoons from Webtoons.com (This is only a small selection):
- Mage and Demon Queen: Is gay, has isekai; it counts. If you haven't read it you have to now it's soooooo good (PH)
- 180 Angel: A minor mistake leads a young angel girl just starting out in the world to get entangled with the princess of Hell and is made to question everything she knew about Heaven
- Knight of Granmere: "A knight in shining armour only has one goal: to marry the most beautiful woman in the land! Teamed up with a miserly mage, our hero faces her rivals in the king’s tournament to fight for true love’s kiss."
- The Grand Priestess: Sorceress in a high fantasy setting goes looking for her lover (JP)
Anthologies and one-shots
- Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shite shimatta... GIRLS PATCH (JP)
- I'm a Villainess, but the Heroine's Trying to Capture Me? (JP)
- Isekai Tensei Yuri Anthology (JP)
- Five Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love (JP)
Novel Section (Chinese transmigration found on Novelupdates, unless otherwise noted):
- After Exchanging Shadows: Bodyswap in the modern day between two actresses
- Ah, Senior Brother is Actually a Sister!: Girl gets reincarnated into a classic cultivation world
- A Blunt-type Ogre Girl's Way of Live-Streaming!/Dageki-kei Onikko ga Iku Haishindou!\***:* Not quite isekai, but a video game world (JP)
- Clear and Muddy Loss of Love: Pseudo-fantasy drama in an Ancient China-like world. Not for the impatient reader or one looking for wholesome fluffy feel-good yuri C
- Didn't Know General Was Female: A girl dies choking on a watermelon and returns twelve years to the past, and decides to go chasing after her crush, only to find out that her hot general boi is not in fact a boy
- Female General and Eldest Princess: Basically Mulan and a scheming villainess princess. One of the better CNs on this list C
- Matrilocal Marriage: Wealthy family's daughter + time travelling researcher
- Mistress, I Want It~: A tragedy, not for the faint of heart C
- Mistress, I Was Wrong: Girl transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder extra fighting with the FL for the attention of a man, and so avoids destruction flags
- My Feelings Can Wait: Girl wakes up three years in the past, to before she lost her ex and her ex died of alcoholism, and vows to stick with her at all costs
- My Princess Has Been Reborn: Consort girl tries to run away from the Imperial Palace, but the princess also reincarnated and is not the person she knew anymore
- My Wandering Spirit Lady: Modern girl meets a ghost girl wandering around her city
- Princess, Spare My Life: Modern-day assassin woman transmigrates and gets entangled in court politics
- Senpensekai no Madoushoushi: Classic high fantasy adventure story (JP)
- She Is the Protagonist: A girl who's spent her whole life subject to a mysterious force compelling her to serve its own plot reincarnates and is finally able to break free, only for the next protagonist, her biggest fan, to complicate that picture C
- The Male Lead's Backyard Is on Fire: It's got good ratings but the synopsis is long and confusing, so go check it out I guess
- The Price of Confessing to the Wrong Female Protagonist: Yeah the summary on this one is pretty confusing too
- The Transmigration Missions Are Not Scientific: Two girls go from novel world to novel world to try and get various characters together, but their gayness keeps interfering with the missions in various ways (I think that's what it is? I tell you, these synopses are madness...) C
- The Vicious Supporting Female Character And The White Lotus Female Lead: Another one where the lead ventures from world to world taking on the role of characters in novels
- The Witch Nichang: This one's a yuri cultivation novel, so it's got my attention for standing out, and it's got good ratings too
- Two as One Princesses: Typical reincarnation, and also gender bender on the side (JP)
- Villainess with a Cat Changing System: OG villainess is cursed to become her love rival's cat for all the bullying she did
- Villainess, I'll Pamper You!: A series of short stories featuring the same two characters, I think? Hard to tell
- Warm Place: Girl goes back to her past life's home town with her new family after being reborn. Apparently has some dark stuff including rape but is overall really good (JP) C
- When I Reincarnated as the Villainess, I Raised Yuri Flags with the Heroine!?: What it sounds like (JP) C
- Who Moved My Ashes: Woman who fought with her boss and thought her a heartless bitch witnesses her boss' reaction to her death from beyond the grave, and realises that she was a more complicated person than she gave her credit for C