Kadokawa’s Yuri Drill anthology is an interesting exercise in exploration of common Yuri tropes, as depicted by 39 Yuri manga artists. And also an exercise in the persistence of these same tropes, as expressed in the subtitle “including the supreme scenes of girls.” When it feels a little mind-boggling that publishers so often turn to really banal tropes of Yuri like “School life Yuri” “Childhood friend Yuri” “Sempai x Kouhai Yuri,” this book will remind you that it’s gonna take a heckuva literary crowbar to pop off this stone and release some different, weird and gods helps us, original Yuri, from the cave.

In the meantime, we have these commonplace scenarios explored, analyzed, even parodied at times, by 39 different Yuri artists, many names of which will be familiar to readers of Okazu.

If you’ve ever wondered Amano Shuninta would make of a workplace sempai x kouhai  trope or Mikanshi’s look at “Fantasy Yuri” or Kodama Naoko’s image of a workplace romance, you can flip through this book and do just that. 

Ratings:

Overall – 7

This is not a must-have for Yuri fans, but it’s an interesting game idea. “Improv Yuri drawings – keyword phrase is “not already done to death! Go!”