Neji’s Prisontown e Youkouso!, Volume 1 (監獄街へようこそ!),  is a Yuri youkai Alice-in-Wonderland-style story about a human, Akari, who finds herself on a late-night youkai train and falls into Prisontown, an otherworld underworld inhabited by demi-humans of many kinds, including her newly assigned “wife” Mary, the frankengirl.

Akari is cheerful about her new circumstances, and would like to be more friendly with Mary, but Mary is reticent, even standoffish. Where Akari is clumsy and fails at her assigned tasks (feeding the basilisk, I understand, but delivering stuff to the hunchback in the bell tower should not be that hard,)  Mary is competent, hard-working and cooks and cleans for the two of them. 

The Cheshire Cat (who naturally calls Akari “Alice”) lets her in on Mary’s secret past, but instead of driving the two apart, it may be the thing that brings them together. At the end of Volume 1, it appears that Akari and Mary have broken past the barriers between them and are now truly “wives.”

This story will be a natural fit for Seven Seas, who has already licensed Neji’s other Yuri demi-human romance as Beauty and the Beast Girl. Ten bucks says that the title of this one will be “Alice in Prisontown.” ^_^

Ratings:

Art – Fun if you like youkai-humans
Story – Slightly handwave-y, but srlsy, who cares
Characters – Akari’s sweet but clumsy, Mary’s competent and aloof. Guess which character I like.
Yuri – 7
Service – Some. A number of the demihumans are seductive-ish,if that’s your boom. Girls with horn, animal ears, tails and body parts, that sort of thing.

Overall – Fun, not my fetish, but as half-humans go, I like youkai over animals, so let’s call it a 7

The story is continuing in Comic Yuri Hime, so it might have to develop a plot, We’ll see.

If Seven Seas is still mining the monster girl vein, they should resurrect Tokimeki Mononoke Gakuen, Volume 1 and Volume 2 from Yuri Hime, for some serious youkai-human Yuri interaction. That series was amazing. And horrifying.