Happy new cover art ! Cheriko’s bold colors lead us into a new year. A young woman has lip color applied by a pink-haired woman. Will we see them again or is this a snapshot? We’ll have to wait and see!
The magazine opens with news of a Comic Yuri Hime 20th anniversary cafe at Cure Maid Cafe in Tokyo, which runs through January 12, 2026.
The first story is a tale of the bizarre, “Hina-chan ga Ikiterunara” about a childhood friend who disappeared years ago, but has returned…at the same age she was when she disappeared.
Touma’s “Kimi no Sei Nandakara, Sekinin Totte yo ne” is a story about a woman who contracts with a female escort and is finding herself falling for the other woman. This is absolutely the plot de l’année, as we’re going to see that come back again soon in other publications.
“Hareta Hi no Dress Code” by Ageru is not going where I expected, wanted or feared it might go and that is all very good. ^_^ A girl who wears pants at school because of scars she wishes to hide and girl who just can’t quite bring herself to wear pants because – well, of a lot of things, really – become friends and begin to change each others lives.
The girls are being asked what they want to do in their futures and Hime can’t just admit that “marrying rich” is her plan, in “Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu!” by Miman.
After enduring introducing Himari to her parents, Yori and Aki are likewise discussing the future. Shiho enters with the terrifying news that one of Lorelei’s videos from the festival is going viral, in Takeshima Eku’s “Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau.”
In “Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou.” by inori. and Aonoshimo, Rae and Claire are not at all in alignment about the future, as the revolution grow ever nearer.
Sal Jiang offers up a messily terrific one-shot about a girl who sees, meets and falls in love with an Edo-period prositute in “Tamao no Koi”.
Ten finally tells Lulu the whole story about how she became persona non grata in “Chouuchyuu Yori Ai wo Komete,” by Ashidaka Woz and of course Lulu is affirming and kind. And then all hell breaks loose.
There are many more hundreds of pages of great columns, and comic essays, other series I like and some I do not. At 668 pages, this is an amazing amount of Yuri to begin this new year!
Ratings:
Overall – 9
Here’s to a very Yuri 2026 for Comic Yuri Hime! The February issue is already out and on my “currently reading” pile. ^_^
