Always the sign of a good scanlation group when it bothers to explain things like this on their credits page:
Tayutau Futari (translated here as A Couple Drifting in the Wind) is a girls’ love/yuri series with a simple premise: hot woman is hotter if she smokes. That’s certainly what first year college photography student Fujino Kaori thinks when she first meets Momochi. Kaori’s berating her lack of friends and exciting youthful college life when she falls asleep on a bench in the college grounds. When she wakes up it’s because Momochi, or Momo, a tattooed second year art student just back from a year traveling around Japan sits down next to her. It’s not hard to see why Kaori immediately fancies her and wants to take her picture.
Handsome, butch and with an unconventional attitude — girls are not supposed to smoke in Japan — Momo looks to be everything Kaori might wish she was as well. By the third chapter they’ve decided to be room mates, by the fifth Mom is comfortable enough around Kaori to walk around naked in their apartment, to the latter’s deligh^wdiscomfort. And in each chapter Puebro (a pseudonym referencing the Pueblo cigarette brand) hides a homage to a famous painting. Sometimes, like the one from chapter one above are easy to recognise as references, some, like the Vermeer one in chapter two, are more hidden. Kudos to Sappho Scans for always recognising and explaining them.
By chapter six things get a bit more complicated as the girl above, Setsuna, aspirant Youtube streamer, joins the cast. Like Kaori she’s infatuated (to the point of stalking) with Momo, but once she learns of her relationship with Kaori she ships them immediately. The second volume of Tayutau Futari opens with ehr introducing herself to Momo and Kaori and it seems some hijinks are imminent, but sadly Sappho Scans stopped their scanlation with chapter eight. Their reason? Seven Seas will release the series in English. That will be in December, so reserve your copies now.
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