In the middle of a number of very excellent working life Yuri, I found myself facing down a manga anthology that was vastly out of my wheelhouse. Vanilla Nonhuman x Nonhuman Yuri Anthology ( バニラ人外×人外百合アンソロジー) was…not bad. It had a niceish mix of non-human as in animal girls and non-human as in supernatural.

The stories about supernatural non-humans appealed to me far more than the animal-eared girl stories, but even so, Mintarou (whose bouldering Yuri manga began in the recent issue of Comic Yuri Hime,) has a cute little story about the animals at a zoo who take on human form at night and the romance between a wombat and a Tasmanian Devil.

Likewise the love story by Nanamiya Tsugumi between a raven and a goose, I think, was kind of bittersweet.

My favorite story by Takeshima Shin (creator of Mansoufutou no Gikami Meikyuu), was also kind of creepy. A shinagami helps heal the emotional wounds of a girl who has lost her lover.

Unsurprisingly a number of the stories had very infantile art and, like the cover, paired characters I couldn’t get behind as a couple, but overall, I was able to read and enjoyed a number of the stories in this collection. So if nonhumans are your thing, this seems like a decent enough attempt at a Yuri collection of same!

Ratings:

Overall – 7

Lots of moe, a little creepy sometimes at the same time.