Kareuda Ameco’s Isekai ni Saku ha Yuri no Hana ~Konnyaku Hakisareta node Honmei no Akuyaku Oeijou to Onna Futari de Tanoshiku Kurashimasu!~ (異世界に咲くは百合の花～婚約破棄されたので本命の悪役令嬢と女ふたりで楽しく暮らします！～) is the first Yuri webnovel I am reviewing as a web novel.

This is a multiple breakthrough on Okazu….this is the first overwhelmingly absurdly overlong Light Novel title for this blog. ^_^ It literally takes up two lines on the editor. It also marks the first time I’ve read the web novel not in final published for before buying the book.  GL Bunko has released it in digital for Japanese Kindle and J-Novel Club has licensed it for release in English as A Lily Blooms In Another World, (with a preview up now on the J-Novel Club website) but I have had this sucker bookmarked for *months* on Syosetuka ni Narou!, the webnovel website quite a lot of recently licensed work has come from.

Miyako Florence is affianced to the powerful Klaus Reinhardt, but she has no interest in him. Having been born into this world from our own, she is familiar with the players of this new world and Miyako knows exactly what she wants…who she wants…and she wants the villainess Fuuka Hamilton, of the Hamilton family. Taking Fuuka’s hand, Miyako runs away with Fuuka, until a pandemic brings them in direct conflict with both their families.

This was a story written, as I like to joke, to be weeb-nip, as if Kaeruda-sensei wrote it with a big ole’ grin on her face. It’s charmingly silly. And, buried under all its goofiness is something breathtaking and magnificent.

In Sexiled, Kaeruda-sensei created a world where women were systemically undervalued. Isekai ni Saku ha Yuri no Hana exists in that same world, but among the noble classes where daughters are used as marriageable chattel and nothing else. Fuuka is repeatedly called a villainess, but her only true crime appears to have been being born to a villainous family. Fuuka is herself an intelligent, accomplished, talented high-born beauty, whose family treats her horribly.

Fuuka and Miyako met and have their lives changed by another lesbian couple, but other than the fact that they are commoners, I will tell you absolutely nothing about them, so you get to enjoy the reveal.

The webnovel has no illustrations, but the published edition does. I am not at all fond of the cover art, so I expect to not at all enjoy the art when I read it, but I don’t mind. It will be a fast and endearing read in every other way.  This series is also set up nicely to be illustrated or animated in a way that Sexiled was not, complete with magical sea beast who takes the form of a cat. ^_^

In the way that Sexiled creates a female revenge scenario in which the man is merely made to be seen as foolish as he actually is, and the women’s skills and power appreciated for what they actually are…in Isekai ni Saku ha Yuri no Hana the woman is finally seen and appreciated for what she can and does do. In a lot of ways, I found this story, as gobsmackingly silly as it is, to be more touching and personal.

Ratings:

Art – N/A for the webnovel
Story – A delicious confection of a story
Characters – Competent adult women being appreciated and loved for their selves, yes please!
Service – Competent adult women being appreciated and loved for their selves, yes, please!
Yuri – 9

Overall – 9

This was a delightful story.

I really wish, however, that GL Bunko illustrated beautiful accomplished adult noble women not like 8 year olds. It is very tiresome, especially given the entire context of the story hinging on the intrinsic value of women.