I love when the end of the year in Comic Yuri Hime is strong. There is one manga we’re saying goodbye to in Comic Yuri Hime, November 2025 (コミック百合姫2025年11月号), but we’ll get there in a moment.

To begin with hechima’s cover is homey and warm. We’ve had 11 months with these two young women, they are beginning to feel like friends. I’m hoping the December issue shows them a bit older, but I always hope for older adult representation. ^_^

As mentioned on YNN, Futari Escape is getting a live-action series. I’m very interested to see how they’ll do that, as it was heavy on the goofy, travel and goofy, weird fun and low on the Yuri scales.

The opening series is a new one…and I do not yet know how I feel about it. “Hareta Hi no Dress Code” features a girl who wishes she was brave enough to wear the slacks that her school dress code allows, but she also loves dressing in cute skirt and a girl who does dress in the slack because of scars on her legs, but wishes she didn’t have to. I hope very much that this develops into a story of freedom from gender presentation rules.

“Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu!” closes the Kanako x Sumika arc, but in a very humanly imperfect way. I do not know what the characters might face, but I hope Nene gets to meet someone nice now. ^_^

Lulu and Ten are accidentally dragged into the relationship issues faced by another student in Ashiaka Waz’s “Chouuchyuu Yori Ai wo Komete,” and it both puts strain on and opens a new door in their own relationship.

merryhachi returns to Comic Yuri Hime for the first time in years with a very cute one-shot, “Touko Swing-By.” Honestly, it was really sweet.

Somtime and suoh’s  “Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!” comes to an end. It’s a good end, a very solid end, but I don’t want it to end! Oh well. It was nice. I just wish we could have more! Waaah~~~

And props to the comic essay “Film ni Saku Yurinohana o Atsumete Kimi ni Okuritai” for not just talking about the Utena movie, but presenting an interesting fan discussion that the movie is Yuri, but the TV series is not. I agree that Utena and Anthy are not, in the TV series, a couple, but surely we cannot discount Juri and Shiori? Anyway. Good column. 

Once again, there were many stories I read and enjoyed and other I did not, or did not read. It’s an incredibly solid magazine now and I look forward to new series starting.

Ratings: 

Overall – 8

The December issue will be out on October 18. There is no cover image available for it yet, but you can pre-order it on Amazon JP now.

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Comic Yuri Hime, October 2025 (コミック百合姫2025年10月号) begins with a lovely seasonal cover by hechima.

Yuama’s new manga jumps right in to a complicated school situation between two girls that are seen by the students around them as the school princess and prince.

Claire and Rae are on the very cusp of Rae’s plans to save her beloved villainess…but Claire isn’t following the rulebook, in “Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou.” by inori, and Aonoshimo.

Takeshima Eku’s “Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau” is still wrapping up Miki’s story with her sempai. Ayaka spends this chapter expressing her fondness for her new girlfriend. ^_^ It looks like a new couple will be the focus and it’s about time…..

“Chouuchyuu Yori Ai wo Komete,” by Ashidaka Woz continues to be affirming and sweet as Ten opens up to this alien who traveled across the universe just to talk with her.

“Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto desu!” makes a comeback and two very important things happen. Mai *finally steps up to be an adult, a day late and a dollar short, but she bans Youko from ever bothering her  staff again and she calls what happened to Kanako what it is – sexual assault. The second thing that happens is Youko, not only not seeing the error of her ways, but digging in to make her actions perfectly justifiable, thus claiming the title of narcissist that we’ve been quite sure she is all along. A few pages of how Youko’s past left her with pain over a relationship just confirms the fact that she needs therapy.

Utatane Yuu’s “Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru” comes to a satisfying and sweet conclusion. It was never really in doubt, but the journey was a good one and I’m glad we shared it. ^_^

I absolutely loved this chapter of Koharu to Minato, as our girls and their puppy have friends over to their new place who are also a couple. This is a huge life step for queer couples, having someone to wholly confide in for the first time.

Kashikaze adds one more to the home team, as Yuu and Haru recruit a young artist whose family is not on board with that as a career in “Kimi ga Hoeru Tame no Uta o.”

Violet has to fully confront her trauma about the Black Knight, and Dahlia comes clean about her feelings about her “little sister” when she turns down Clarice’s request for aid in “Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!” This series is coming to an end and while I get why, I’m going to miss it.

SheepD’s “Kanaria ha Kiraboshi no Yume o Miru” is heading towards a throwdown, as our protagonists  face the invetiable conflict between the life their desire and the choices they are given.

I do always say this, but there are more stories I read and enjoyed and some I read and did not, and some I did not read in this nearly 600 page manga magazine with something for nearly everyone. I’m reading and enjoying about 3/4 of the magazine, which is an unusually high percentage for me and any magazine. So rock on Comic Yuri Hime, here is to  a great 20th year!

Ratings: 

Overall – 9

November 2025 is on JP shelves and begins with what I hope will be an interesting story that addresses a girl wearing slacks in school.