Comic Yuri Hime October 2021 (コミック百合姫2021年10月号) brings us to the arc of I’m in Love With the Villainess that I was looking forward to most , but first…the crisis of Hanna Ren’s cover story. And what a crisis it is! History has been changed. What will happen?
In “I’m in Love With the Villainess”- we are on the cusp of the school festival and the Academy Knights’ gender switch cafe and I’m really looking forward to seeing how everyone is drawn. In the meantime, Relaire gets to play the part of a scary monster. ^_^ His lisstle smiley face is ridiculously cute.
“Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu!” finally digs into Sumika’s story and starts lobbing fastballs at her. Again, I look forward to where that leads us!
A kind of conflict has settled into “Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau” that Himari can’t cute her way out of.
“Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru” also finds our leads in a bit of crisis as they face their first competition, but they pull it together and perform, which was the point. I’m still rooting for them.
Kabocha’s got a short story, which was really nice to see.
Comic Yuri Hime is now back over 650 pages a few months in a row and looking healthier than ever, with returning series that have some longevity, new and proven creators, a bunch of series I like, some I don’t and serialized novels (I just really wish the type was larger. It is so exhausting to try and read them.)
Speaking of prose, the magazine has announced the 4th short story contest in conjunction with Pixiv and Hayakawa Publishing, so that’s pretty awesome, even if I haven’t had a free moment to read the winners of the last two years. You can still find them all on Pixiv if you want to read them. They are – of course – in Japanese. The 2rd and 3rd contest winners are all full-text, if you want to give them a try. They are also collected into a print volume that can be purchased through Booth.pm for the 2nd and 3rd collections.
Ratings:
Overall – 8
The November issue of Comic Yuri Hime is currently available on Japanese shelves. I can’t wait! For one thing, I want to know what happens when history changes on the cover story.
