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You Baochan Shan Ji
You Baochan Shan Ji (游褒禅山记) is a 1054 travel essay by Song statesman Wang Anshi, turning an unfinished cave visit into a meditation on resolve.
You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends!
You Can't Be in a Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends! (幼馴染とはラブコメにならない) is Shinya Misu's Kodansha Magazine Pocket rom-com manga since March 2022, adapted into a 2026 Tezuka Productions anime streamed by Crunchyroll; distinct from the KADOKAWA series Osamake.
You Can't Go Home Again
You Can't Go Home Again is a 1940 novel by the American writer Thomas Wolfe, assembled from his manuscripts by editor Edward C. Aswell after Wolfe's death in 1938.
You Like It Darker
You Like It Darker is Stephen King's 2024 Scribner collection of twelve short stories, titled after Leonard Cohen's "You Want It Darker"; it includes "Rattlesnakes", a Cujo sequel, and "The Answer Man", begun 45 years earlier.
You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! (娘じゃなくて私が好きなの?!)
You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! (娘じゃなくて私が好きなの!?) is a completed 7-volume Dengeki Bunko age-gap romance light novel by Kota Nozomi and Giuniu, in which university student Takumi confesses to Ayako, the single mother who raised his childhood friend, with a manga adaptation by Tesshin Azuma.
You've Reached Sam
You've Reached Sam is Dustin Thao's 2021 debut YA novel (Wednesday Books), a contemporary romance with magical realism in which grieving teen Julie Clarke reaches her dead boyfriend Sam Obayashi by phone for a second chance at goodbye.
Yougui Ji
Yougui Ji, also known as Baiyue Ting Ji, is a full-length nanxi play of the late Yuan and early Ming, generally attributed to the Hangzhou dramatist Shi Hui.
Youji
Youji (遊記, "travel record") is a Chinese literary genre of prose narratives recounting a journey and what the traveler saw and felt, usually on real journeys within China.
Young adult literature
Young adult literature (YA), also called teen fiction, is literature published for readers aged roughly 12–18, distinct from children's literature by mature themes and complexity; institutionalized by NYPL librarians from 1929 and YALSA (1957), landmarked by The Outsiders (1967), now a multi-billion-dollar publishing category read widely by adults.
Young Avengers
Young Avengers: Marvel Comics teen superhero team created in 2005 by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, featuring Wiccan, Hulkling, Patriot, and Kate Bishop; relaunched by Gillen and McKelvie in 2013.
Young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown: allegorical short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published anonymously 1835 in the New-England Magazine, reissued 1846 in Mosses from an Old Manse; a Salem Puritan meets the Devil in the forest and loses trust in everyone, wife Faith included.
Young Justice
Young Justice: DC Comics teen superhero team founded by Superboy, Impulse, and Robin (1998-2003, Peter David), plus the separate 2010-2022 animated series by Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti and the 2019 Bendis Wonder Comics revival.
Your Lie in April
Your Lie in April (四月は君の嘘, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) is Naoshi Arakawa's classical-music romance manga about pianist Kousei Arima and violinist Kaori Miyazono, serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine 2011-2015, 11 volumes, 37th Kodansha Manga Award winner, adapted into a 2014-2015 noitaminA anime and a 2016 live-action film.
Your Paradise
Your Paradise (당신들의 천국) is a three-part 1976 novel by the South Korean writer Yi Cheong-jun, set on Sorok Island and read as an allegory of 1970s Korea's developmental dictatorship.
Youxian Ku
Youxian Ku (遊仙窟, The Grotto of the Wandering Immortals) is an early Tang chuanqi tale by Zhang Zhuo, recounting a narrator's night with two women in a grotto of immortals.
Youxue Qionglin
Youxue Qionglin (幼学琼林), originally Youxue Xuzhi, is a Chinese children's primer compiled by Cheng Dengji in the late Ming dynasty, organizing idioms and allusions into 33 topical chapters.
Yowaki MAX Reijō nanoni, Ratsuwan Konyakusha-sama no Kake ni Notte Shimatta
Yowaki MAX Reijō nanoni, Ratsuwan Konyakusha-sama no Kake ni Notte Shimatta (弱気MAX令嬢なのに、辣腕婚約者様の賭けに乗ってしまった), a Japanese isekai romance light novel by Oda Hiro, serialized on Shōsetsuka ni Narō from 2020, published by KADOKAWA's B's-LOG bunko, adapted to manga and a 2026 TV anime.
Yowayowa Sensei
Yowayowa Sensei (よわよわ先生, Weak Weak Teacher) is a Kamio Fukuchi school romcom manga in Weekly Shonen Magazine since November 2022 about weak teacher Hiyori Hiwamura and student Akihito Abikura; a 12-episode anime aired April to June 2026.
Yoyodyne
Yoyodyne is a fictional aerospace and defense corporation created by Thomas Pynchon, introduced in V. and featured in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), where its Galactronics Division plant in San Narciso, California serves as a parody of the Cold War military-industrial complex.
Ysengrimus
Ysengrimus is a Latin beast epic of more than 6,500 lines written at Ghent around 1148 to 1152, the earliest complete medieval beast epic and the debut of Reynard the Fox.
Yu Jia Ao: Dream of the Sea
Yu Jia Ao: Dream of the Sea is a Song-dynasty ci lyric by Li Qingzhao, describing a dream voyage by sea to the Lord of Heaven.
Yu Jia Ao: Frontier Song
Yu Jia Ao: Frontier Song (渔家傲·秋思) is a ci poem on frontier life by Fan Zhongyan, written between 1040 and 1043 while defending China's northwest against the Xia.
Yu Lin Ling: Cold Cicadas
Yu Lin Ling: Cold Cicadas (雨霖铃·寒蝉, also "Autumn Parting") is a Song ci lyric on parting by Liu Yong, known for the line "willow bank, dawn breeze, waning moon."
Yu Shan Juyuan Juejiao Shu
Yu Shan Juyuan Juejiao Shu (与山巨源绝交书), "Letter Breaking Off Relations with Shan Juyuan," is a famous prose letter by Wei-dynasty writer Ji Kang refusing his friend Shan Tao's recommendation.
Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王)
Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王) is Kazuki Takahashi's 1996-2004 Weekly Shonen Jump manga about Yugi Mutou and a pharaoh's spirit, whose fictional card game became Konami's record-selling Yu-Gi-Oh OCG and a global anime franchise.
YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World (この世の果てで恋を唄う少女YU-NO)
YU-NO (この世の果てで恋を唄う少女YU-NO) is a 1996 science-fiction visual novel by ELF Corporation, planned and written by Hiroyuki Kanno and widely treated as a landmark of the genre.
Yuan Dao
Yuan Dao (原道, "Inquiring into the Way") is an essay by Tang dynasty thinker Han Yu, written around 795, that defines the Confucian Way and attacks Buddhism and Daoism.
Yuan Ge Xing
Yuan Ge Xing (怨歌行), the "Round Fan Poem" or "Yuan Shi", is a Han dynasty yuefu poem attributed to Ban Jieyu, likening an autumn-discarded fan to an abandoned woman.
Yuan Phai
Yuan Phai, also known as Lilit Yuan Phai, is a Thai historical epic poem praising King Borommatrailokanat of Ayutthaya for his victory over Lan Na around 1475.
Yuan Qu Xuan
Yuan Qu Xuan (元曲选), also known as Yuanren Baizhong Qu, is an anthology of 100 Yuan zaju plays compiled by the late Ming editor Zang Maoxun and printed in 1615–1616.