Comic Zin is the bomb. I’ve probably mentioned it before, but it’s a teeny little cave crammed full of treasures. Across the street and down a block or so from Toranoana in Akihabara, there’s a big sign that reads “ZIN” You go up narrow steep stairs (my wife calls the “harrowing,”) to one room, so chock-full of randomness that you instant think, “I am doing doujinshi storage all wrong: and “Ooohhh…train tables in manga form!” Well, you you may think that, if you can get past the first three sets of shelves on which are a surprisingly decent collection of Yuri doujinshi that you totally need.  Or, you can use a buying service and visit their website. But that’s not nearly as much fun.

Which is where I finally found a doujinshi put out by LiLium Plan, a Twitter account I’d been following for ages. LiLium Yuri Anthology, Vol. 1 (リリウム 百合アンソロジー) is described on it’s Amazon page as “8 stories of cute, beautiful, precious love to happy sexual relationships, between young couples and adult women in society. Packed full of moe situations.”

Most of the names here are new to me, with one exception. Takashima Hiromi, creator of the Kase-san series, has a short story in this collection about two girls who meet on the train. Quite possibly the story I liked the most – and brace yourselves, because I have never said this before – was about a maid and her mistress, a girl who uses a wheelchair, by Edoya Petit, “La Fleur Artificielle.” It turned really dark and creepy at the end and I’m not sure why, but I think I liked it anyway? It’s hard to tell if I liked it, or just couldn’t look away. ^_^ 

The art is decent throughout and while the collection does nothing new, it’s also doesn’t suck while handling anything old. And now I have new names to watch for. Volume 2 will be released at Comitia (tomorrow in Japan,) so if doujinshi anthologies are your boom and you’re at Big Site, go to U06ab and grab a copy!

Ratings:

Overall – 8

This is it, I think…the last thing I picked up as part of the 100 Years of Yuri Tour that I am going to review. Unless it isn’t. ^_^ Onward into a new century!