Galette, No. 15 ( ガレット) continues the excellent work that we’ve seen all along, with names that are engraved now into a kind of Yuri Hall of Fame: Morishima Akiko, Morinaga Milk, Hakamada Meru, Inui Ayu, Morita Miyuki, Kitta Izumi and Momono Moto…

…and Akiyama Haru.

I know I sat up straight as can be when I saw that name on the masthead. It’s long enough ago now that maybe the Yuri-reading audience doesn’t remember Akiyama Haru’s adult-life series, Octave, but I sure do. A decade ago, before the current rise of Shakajin Yuri, Octave was a lovely, complicated story about complicated adult women in a complicated relationship, both professional and personal. It’s pretty exciting to see the name back and in Galette magazine, no less. It’s a good day for Yuri.

This volume is once again available in print, JP Kindle, digital on Bookwalker or digital, in Japanese on US Kindle. It has the usual lovely interior illustrations, and pen’s stylish cover art. The only thing missing from this issue is completely understandable, but somehow missed the more for that. This issue has no photography, a stark reminder that there is a pandemic out there.

Ratings:

Overall – 8

Overall, a good volume, and I’m glad to see that the hiccup that made Volume 14 a collector’s item is history. Manga artists are surprisingly resilient.

Next issue, we welcome back Amano Shuninta! You’ll excuse me, if I hope to see Takemiya Jin again soon, as well.