Probably-a-vampire Yuri manga number 3
Was not just a waste of a tree
It was dumber than hell
And it knew it quite well
So I’ll read Volume 2…maybe.

Makioka Shizue is starving. 

She’s living alone, in penurious circumstances, has no money for food, no way to cook it. As Shizue drags her hungry ass in to school at Yomaiyocho Girls’ School, she sees two girls in what appears to be a compromising situation. As she hurries along, she realizes that 1) that girl with the dark hair was her classmate Endou Yasuko and 2) she wasn’t kissing the other girl…she was sucking her blood! Horror fills Shizue, so when Endo Yasuko catches up with her, she quite naturally asks if Yasuko is a vampire. 

No, Endou Yasuko replies, I’m a serial killer. (The kanji for which indicates an “abnormal eater.”) Oh okay then.

Welcome to Endou Yasuko ha Yomaiyochou ni Kakureteru (遠藤靖子は夜迷町に隠れてる). This gets my award for best title of the year. I’d probably go with “Endou Yasuko Disappears into the City of the Night” if  I had to translate it. 

Yasuko has a problem – finding food can be difficult. It keeps running away. Shizue has a problem, she also wants food. Yasuko proposes a plan – Shizue be food for her and can live in her spacious apartment, she’ll cook for her. It’s win-win…as long as Shizue doesn’t mind being Yasuko’s meal plan. She doesn’t mind. 

Another schoolmate hates Endou Yasuko. So much so that she rents an American Vampire hunter to track her down. Only Ashley Nelson turns out to like Japanese food and manzai comedy more than vampire hunting, so she sticks around and slacks on the job.

So, despite an unsolved mystery of three missing students and a blood sucking demon in class, we turn our attention to the school festival! We’re doing a haunted house….duhhhhhh……

I have really come to love Shounen Gahosha titles. They are trash, but they are unrepentant, fun, trash. FLOWERCHILD is having a lot of fun with this story and we might as well get the popcorn out and have a good time reading. The art is about what I’d expect for a Young King title, with busty characters drawn just not right, and a dollop of random undressing, but otherwise competent.

This not a Yuri title, but it is a vampire-at-a-girls’ school title, so some service. Shizue and Yasuko are beginning to truly care for one another by the end of this volume.

Most importantly for us here in the west, Seven Seas has licensed this title for English release as Hungry For You: Endo Yasuko Stalks the Night, which will be hitting shelves in May 2018! 

Ratings:

Art – 7
Story – An utterly absurd 8
Characters – 9
Service – 5 Vampire-at-a-girls’ school
Yuri – 2, maybe, but you can make it work if you want.

Overall – Entertaining, trashy 8

I declare that henceforth, all vampire Yuri will be reviewed by limerick on Okazu. ^_^ This one was a joint effort by my wife and I.