It’s funny how fashion works in things you wouldn’t imagine. You might read a magazine and note that it has a story about, say, a runaway. Then you notice that a new runaway story just started elsewhere. The next thing you know, it’s runaways all over the place. True, some of that is confirmation bias, but sometimes, something just rides the zeitgeist. Last autumn there were a handful of AI Yuri stories that all kind of hit at once. One of them just happens to have been Uno Zinnia’s “Katachi ga Onajinara” in Galette, No. 11 (ガレット). I’m kind of a sucker for android/AI Yuri. ^_^

Amano Shuninta’s “Toma-kun” has ended and, while I’m not sad for the same reasons the characters are, I’m still sad it’s over. ALSO, put a pin in this, because “fashion.”

I find Hamano Ringo’s work to be very…relaxing. There’s so little stress here, “Sora-iro Melancholic” was perfect wind-down reading.

“Esthetician Amagai ha Akiremenai” by Isoya Yuki, a new name to me, had an old MIST magazine feel, but I had to love it when the final pose was the most inappropriate pieta ever. ^_^ I think I loved it.

Hakamada Mera’s “Sekai Owaru Sono Maeni” is…good. And possibly unpredictable, based on future chapters… I’m looking forward to reading this story of an adult couple. Honestly, it’s my sincere opinion that Galette has been really good for Hakamada-sensei. I feel like she’s finally hit her stride here.

A new character has made quite the impression in Kitta Izumi and Momono Moto’s “Liberty.” I can feel it going way darker and wondering where it’s going to go. I’m still all in for the ride, though.

Morinaga Milk’s “Watashi no Kawaii Nekochan” is also getting a little serious, but not in a bad way! Yuna and Rena and, of course, their cat, have moved into a bigger place and their lives together have really begun.

Aoto Hibiki’s “Girl Meets Bunny Girl” feels like the PG cut of a R-rated movie. ^_^ Fun, but is that really what it was supposed to be?

As always, there are other stories that I didn’t call out that were perfectly entertaining.

Ratings:

Overall – 9 I get a lot of entertainment out of each volume. ^_^

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Volume 12 is already out (and I’m reading it now~~~)