Comic Yuri Hime August 2021 (コミック百合姫2021年8月号) was a veritable box of delights for me. ^_^

We start off with a new series, “Spica wo Tsukamaete” by Orihi Chihiro. The art is a tad on the servicey side, but with only “gal x disciplinary council head” to work with, it seems that service suits just fine. We’ll see where it goes, if it goes anywhere. In my head, it’s competing with 2009 one-shot Butterfly 69 for this storyline’s territory, so it has some ground to make up. ^_^

This is followed by a powerful chapter of “Onna Tomodachi to Kekkonshitemita,” as Kurumi rushes to the hospital to see if Ruriko is all right. Why powerful? Because at the hospital reception desk, Kurumi is asked if she is family and without hesitation she says “I’m her wife!” I wonder how people felt reading that? I know how I felt in that *exact* situation, how thankful I was that everyone in the hospital treated me like the spouse I was. And so they do here. She was doing this sort of as a lark, but Kurumi has traveled a long way in recent chapters and, at this point, she and Ruriko are family. Gosh I love Usui Shio’s art and storytelling.

In Kakaze’s “Lonely Girl ni Sakaraenai,” Sora and Ayaka settle into their new life together and find their friends are not only totally accepting, at least one is opening up about her own past relationship with a girl, who looks like me be transfering in. orz.

I’m positively on my seat edge for whatever we may get from Miman, in “Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto desu!” as Sumika has decided to show open affection for and outside-work interest in Kanako. This could break either one or both of them, but as Hime and Yanno are a cracked egg right now, we might as well go for full on scrambled.

I will keep saying this until someone other than me agrees – “Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru” by Uttan Yuu is classic, gorgeous and emotionally wrecking. It’s like a Yuri Glass Mask without shoujo eyes. I love this series.

“Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou desu.” has hit full-on Academy Knight combat and I am HERE for this. But what a tease! We don’t get Clare and Rei yet. I pick up the next volume tomorrow. My heart is ready.

I probably won’t find this fascinating, as I rarely do the short manga of VNs, but “Kochira, Haha Naruu, Hoshi Yori” is a moe survival story that, as a manga, appears to be about catching, killing and eating things, which is kind of okay and kinda fucked up, ^_^

Last, I am excite! The first chapter of Inui Ayu’s extended manga about her life with her girlfriend, “Kyou mo Hitotsu Yane no Shita! is here! Today we learn that their life is not without disagreement. I’m so excited to get more of this!

Ratings:

Overall – 9

As usual, there were stories I didn’t like, or didn’t read or just felt “meh” about, but there was so much to like that this issue gets high marks from me. I stopped reading the idol prose story, it was not holding my attention but I am still scanning the cover story, which is. ^_^