The third Yuri + Kanojo Yuri Anthology Yuri + Kanojo Heroine-doushi no Happy End (百合+カノジョ-ヒロイン同士のハッピーエンド-) isn’t about heroines so much as about happy endings.

The first of the series, Yuri +Kanojo, established the first-person aspect of the stories. In  this book, we were the protagonist, as if the stories were all dating sims. In the second anthology, Yuri+ Kanojo Suki ni Nattemoii? (百合+カノジョ 好きになってもいい?), we were introduced to stories of characters that extended past school life into adulthood. 

In Yuri + Kanojo Heroine-doushi no Happy End, we are treated to stories that move through time. The girl we meet and fall in love with in school is still with us in college and the two of us will be together as young adults. The woman we met in college will be the face we wake up to in the morning as we build our careers.  And the woman we met in the office, is there for us when we turn 40. 

Most of these stories are told in three parts  – our earliest days together, a few years later as our relationship is more settled and finally as we are an established couple. The stories once again begin in high school, move backwards to middle school, then progress into adulthood. 

There is no lesbian identity here, but in one of the stories about adult lives, an engagement ring makes an appearance. This volume also includes two stories about “foreign” protagonists, American Diana Lauren and the last story follows Italian Laura Leone. You can tell, because they each say random things in their native tongue. ^_^

Ratings: 

Overall  – 9 I really like the passage of time and the characters growing older.

Of the Yuri+ Kanojo collections, it will come as no surprise that I like this one the best, as it looks into adult life. It’s a fun Yuri anthology that requires no commitment or engagement and passes by in short vignettes. in which the girl always gets the girl.