If any of you reading this take a glance at my posts from time to time or even follow me on here youll know that Ive recently came back to my yuri arc stronger than ever before. The manga I want to review today was actually the first manga I layed my grippy yurineeding hands on after coming back to the genre. Lets dive in... Description Lonely Girl ni Sakaraenai or more commonly known in English speaking countries as Cant Defy the Lonely Girl is as you might have guessed already a yuri manga. This manga follows the steps of Ayaka Sakurai a model student with exam anxiety and a soft spot for baby chick characters of all sorts and Sora Honda a loner girl with a soft spot for well... Ayaka. The two of them meet after Ayaka is tasked by one of her teacher to convince Sora to come back to school since she had been skipping classes for a while now. After getting to her house Sora accepts surprisingly fast but thats only because she wants to make a deal: Sora wants to be able to make one request to Ayaka each and every day. The artstyle is very much like that of a shoujo manga: cute and somewhat cold at times and is especially good in how the characters are drawn. It also makes great use of chibis to ease up the story with smileinducing panels. Both the characters of Ayaka and Sora are well established with Ayaka being serious and clumsy and Sora being needy and straightforward. The most wellthoughtout characters of this manga though are the sidecharacters which are interesting yet somewhat flawed making them feel real. There are 32 chapters each one of them around 20 to 30 pages long making for a fairly long read despite the short amount of chapters. The author Kashikaze also put out lots of extra chapters mostly omakes which bring the total chapter count to 52. Thoughts I want to start by saying that the chibi panels in this manga are divine. It might just be me having a soft spot for chibis but they are some of my favourite panels ever no doubt about it and are definitely one of the main reasons Im making this review. When it comes to the characters and as Ive mentioned before I fell in love with most of the sidecharacters. I mean dont get me wrong here both the maincharacters are great but theres just something about the other that makes them special. The storyarcs if youll let me user the term never felt drawnout or too short but were actually really well spaced out both in themselves and between one another making for a seamless transition between each one. If I had to give this manga a fair rating I would give it no less than 8 out of 10 as I feel like thats well deserved.