Recently, we took a look at the new Yuri anthology,Yuri + Kanojo (百合＋カノジョ). It was fun, with some unique design and story elements. Well, the folks at Be Comics must have hit on a successful formula, because on the tail of that anthology, they put out Yuri + Kanojo Suki ni Nattemoii? (百合+カノジョ 好きになってもいい?).

Like the first anthology, the stories are told from a first-person point of view in which “we” are the protagonist. Each story is short, and is more often a set-up, rather than a fully formed narrative. 

The stories here begin with high school, then move backwards to middle school, on to college, working adult society, finishing with a largish section for “After Forty” stories. Needless to say, I was delighted to see stories imagining individuals and couples who were no longer young. Even better, the final story ended exactly the way I would have liked to have seen the entire collection come to an end. I’ll leave you to guess what that might be. ^_^

Because most of these stories are 6 pages, there’s little room to do much more than setup a scene, but still some of the scenes were fun. A later story set in a bar was so dependent upon MIST magazine-like character design for the bartender, I can only imagine that that person has never actually been to a bar, just read about them in Ladies Comics. ^_^

“We” see a bit more of ourselves than in the first anthology and quite often “our” perspective is so far off reality “we” must be hovering boom microphone-like over ourselves or “we” have unnaturally long necks. On the other hand, all of the art is much better than anything I can do, so I’m won’t complain too much. ^_^

Ratings:

Overall – 9 with the additional point for being so heavily weighted towards stories about grown-ups.

Another fun Yuri anthology in this series. I’d be glad to read more.