Comic Yuri Hime June 2020 (コミック百合姫2020年5月号) has a couple of notable comics. Some of what I was hoping for has not come to pass and some of what I was avoiding, is still avoidable.
Let’s start with the not-great. I had really, from the bottom of my heart, hoped “semelparous” would settle down and be less about bouncing tits and more a story. Well, Ogino-sensei has decided to go with torture porn; characters dying and being mutilated, emotionally and physically scarified. Oh well. I had heard good things about this creator and genuinely wanted to see them excel. I’m not going to give series this any more time.
Also disappointing has been “Pochi Climb” by Mintarou. It’s not bad at all. It’s cute and sweet and not even remotely anything like a sports manga, even though we learn a lot about bouldering. I’m not dissing it, it’s just 90% moe girls doing things cutely and 10% sweat. For my moe quotient, I’m content to read Takeshima Eku’s “Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Uta,” in which Yori and Himari go on a date. ^_^
Terano-sensei and Hayama-sensei are still adorable in “Hayama-sensei to Terano-sensei ha Tsukiatteriru by Ohi Pikachi (coming to us from Seven Seas in September as Our Teachers Are Dating!
A second climax is definitely on the way in Miman’s “Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto desu!,” as Kanako finally says everything she needs to to Mitsuki about Hime.
I love Usui Shio’s “Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts” and if this and Inui Ayu’s “Kyo mo Hitotsu Yane no Shita” which this month, details how she and her partner met, continued forever, I would be well okay with it. ^_^ And no surprise I enjoyed “Konya ha Vanilla to Choco Mint” by Shino Hirofumi which was yet another adults living together as a couple story.
Ratings:
Overall – 8
July 2020 is already out in Japan and available on Global Bookwalker digitally or in print on Amazon JP. I have got to get cracking on it, since the August issue is imminent! I’m still reading these digitally (and paddling quickly to keep up) but I do love that I can subscribe to the magazine, or just get the next issue on Bookwalker.
Bouldering? Does this have anything to do with the sports ecchi manga about bouldering, which recently received an adaptation according to the announcement on ANN?
Bouldering is indoor climbing.
Well, a month ago there was an announcement of an anime adaptation of manga that is also dedicated to this sport. I don’t remember mentioning Yuri Hime there, but even if it’s just a coincidence, it still seems interesting.
You could have just looked and answered your own question. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-04-24/iwa-kakeru-climbing-girls-manga-and-sequel-get-tv-anime/.158939 This appears to be the link and no, this has nothing to do with Pocha Climb.
There’s been several manga started about the sport in the last few years and I’m pretty sure it’s because it was scheduled to make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020. Another of them, Kotera-san Climbs, is getting a live action movie.
That’s great news, thanks! It does seem very likely that the Olympics are a driving factor.
I’ll hope that one day I get the kind of blood, guts, glory and Yuri manga I would like to read. Hayate x Blade was pretty close to perfect, it just needed actual Yuri. ^_^