Happy 1st Anniversary Galette (ガレット)! With Volume 5, this magazine has hit an important benchmark – one full year of publication. To celebrate their birthday, the folks of Galette are participating in a special multi-creator signing event at the Shosen Book Tower. And, the week after, the magazine is participating in the Yuriten Yuri Fair with a booth. It’s all very exciting.
Also to celebrate, this fifth issue of Galette has added a long-awaited addition to the roster, Morishima Akiko-sensei with a continuation of her hit series Hanjuku Joshi!
The print volume of this issue includes a Petit Galette insert with Anniversary wishes, and short manga entries.
This was also a damn good volume of Yuri manga.
Takemiya Jin-sensei has a new series.”Anata ha Watashi no Unmei no Hito” with a near-future in which people are expected to find lovers (of either sex) based on whether they are Betas (average) or Alphas (exceptional). But there are also Omegas, one of which our protagonist find herself labeled as. As she hunts around the school for the fabled Alpha she finds, falls for and is roundly dismissed by the Student Council VP. I couldn’t but help remember Zaou Taishi and Eiki Eiki’s manga Renai Idenshi XX (恋愛遺伝子). But I’m gonna trust Takemiya-sensei to handle this better than they did.
The blow away story was Momono Moto and Izumi Kitta’s “Liberty” in which DRAMA happens and for once it piqued my interest. ^_^
I quite liked Nakano Miyahana’s “Junai Entropy” about a girl who is inseparable from twins, but always knows which one is the one she loves.
Lots of color photography, and color art pages, and a color lead page for Takemiya-sensei’s new series. They’ve added some non-black-and white manga pages. AND (yes, i’m gushing a bit here,) there is a credit for the cover design. The art by Pen has been excellent, but now I can thank Blankie at chipco design for the exceptional design work, at last. Excellent work, Blankie-san.
Every issue of this magazine is stronger than the last. I have a wish list of two other creators to be added at least as guests and a short list of “things I’d like to see.” #1 on this list is: Sports Yuri.
Ratings:
Overall – 9
Come on, Galette folks! Gimme a sports Yuri manga series! Please. ^_^
