What a wonderful issue Comic Yuri Hime September 2021 (コミック百合姫2021年9月号) was!

In no particular order, Claire and Rae finally have their one-on-on battle for the Academy Knights. Woo-hoo! It’s as exciting as one might imagine. Of course we know the outcome, but that doesn’t stop it from being super fun to watch. Also highly amusing is Relaire, the little water slime picking on Thane. I think I’m really coming around to Relaire. ^_^

Also wonderful and heartfelt is Usui Shio’s “Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts” (which, yes, I spell differently than the English title, because I feel like it.) I will not tell you what happens. Be patient and you’ll get to read it next winter in Doughnuts Under the Crescent Moon, Volume 3, I think.)

Also, also wonderful was Inui Ayu’s expanded chapter of “Kyou mo Hitstu Yaneura no Shita.” Usui-sense’s “Onna Tomodachi to Kekkon Shtiemita” took a surprising turn as sempai brought her parents in to explain the situation…but I’m not sure Ruriko is okay with  how she explained it.

The cover story took an interesting turn this month as Showa-period influenza meets modern-day Tamiflu. I wonder what will happen in our time-skip romance.

Takeshima Eku’s “Sasayakuyouni Ko wo Utau” finally drops Shiho’s story and it’s about what you would expect.  ^_^;

Icing on the cake this time, was a slightly more realistic than usual delivery woman x waitress romance by Ohsawa Yayoi. By “slightly more realistic than usual,” I meant than the server gave flirting a try, but when the delivery woman kept being a beat or seven too slow, she finally lost it and just said what she was thinking. If you know me, you know I appreciate that in a story. ^_^

Ratings:

Overall – 8

There’s some new, some ongoing, some sweet and some other in this volume, but overall, an excellent read and again, I’m really pretty pleased with the percentages of what I like, to what I don’t. It’s good for just about anyone.

The October issue is out now in Japan, hopefully it’ll get to me soon. ^_^