Quite a lot goes on in Comic Yuri Hime, September 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年9月号). Beginning with a double chapter of “Kimi ga Hoeru tame no Uta o” a new series by Kashykaze (the transliteration of whose name is different than the one I have been using and is on I Can’t Say No To The Lonely Girl, […]

After the behemoth of an issue last month, you might be concerned about the slimmer volume for Comic Yuri Hime, August 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年8月号)…don’t be. It jumps right in to a new chapter (and a “new chapter”) of Takisham Eku’s “Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau,” as Miki’s sempai from wind ensemble struggles with how to appropriately convey […]

Comic Yuri Hime, July 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年7月号) is 800+ pages of Yuri. I am still boggling at the size of this thing. If they used paper the same thickness as they used to, this volumewould be absolutely massive. Even with the laser-thin paper used now, it’s a pretty hefty tome. And, for once, this volume is […]

Teenager angst is such a staple of fantasy literature that we don’t really question is any more. We all know that been an adolescent is fraught, (complicated, unnerving and frustrating) as well as full of unknown excitement and opportunity. So of course it’s a fertile area for queer and queer-adjacent works to suggest alternatives to […]

We’re the beginning of of Q2, and Comic Yuri Hime May 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年5月号) has settled in for a lovely variety of Yuri manga – from the openly queer, to fantasy, to toxic relationships and a fair amount of goofy stuff in between. This issue begins with a new story, featuring a well-worn trope that…I don’t […]