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Comic Yuri Hime, June 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年6月号)

June 5th, 2026

On a green background, inside a red frame, a scene in yellow. A young woman with pink hair leans through a picture frame, holding a magic wand, while an older woman kneels before her taking a picture. Props of frames and teddy bears are strewn around, cables are visible in the background of this photo shoot.Chiriko’s cover this month is a jaunty yellow inside a red frame, on a green background. Once again a younger-looking girl is joined by an older one, this time, they play with picture frames, teddy bears and photography in a photo shoot.

The opening pages discuss Prism Garden and a few pop-ups happening, including the Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau x Sanrio collab. The Comic Yuri Hime 20th Anniversary art exhibit, happening right now in Osaka at the Nanba Marui.

Finally, “Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau” has turned towards Hajime and her extremely conflicted feeling towards Momoka. I trust Takeshima-sensei to bring this arc to a positive conclusion, but its going to be a rough road that will definitely affect Lorelei’s future as pros.

Ikuta Hana’s “Hone ni onegai wo Hoshi ni Noroi wo” is so moody and tense. I’m still on the fence whether I like it or not, but I am definitely still reading.

“Muryoku Seijo to Munou Oujo ~ Maryoku Zero de Shoukansareta Seijo no Isekai Kyuukokuki” by Tamasaki Tama has taking a break from the wedding drama to go visit a in/famous elf teacher to see if they can get help with /waves hands/ everything.

Big shock! In “Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu!” We are once again paying attention to Mitsuki. This week, her father comes to Liebe and Hime flails at the instruction to just treat him like another customer. Other than being very very tall, he doesn’t seem to have any other defining characteristics. I did appreciate that this wasn’t a “gotcha” episode. Mitsuki has told her parents what she’s doing and they approve. I love that.

Now that Haru has been challenged by Yuu’s famous older sister, LUPINUS works hard to come up with an original piece for the contest in “Kimi ga Hoeru Tame no Uta o”.

Rae fights her way in to see an imprisoned Claire and is soundly rejected. In original content for the comic, Lily, now almost completely integrated with Alter, attack Rae and Manaria and fights them to a standstill. Lily’s rage and hurt at being rejected by Rae comes to the surface.

Itoh Hachi’s “Yokouso, Kochi no Sekhai,” is a (to me,) shockingly good short by Itoh Hachi, who has returned to the magazine for the 20th anniversary. A burnt out animator meets and encourages a young girl with dreams of working in animation. They manage to inspire each other, and meet again when the now young woman begins her new life as an animator with her inspiration. 

And as always, there were other stories I read and enjoyed, or read and did not, and others I did not read. ^_^

Columns and features round out this volume. There are a number of horror manga running right now, all are so different. I’m still holding out for more action and one day, maybe, sports. ^_^;

Ratings:

Overall – 8

The July issue is out and I’m reading it already; one brief moment of being ahead of the curve!





Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou, Volume 12 (私の推しは悪役令嬢。)

May 21st, 2026

Cover of Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou, Volume 12 / 私の推しは悪役令嬢。Story by inori., art by Aonoshimo. Surrounded by white lilies, a young woman with long blonde curls, in a red fatasy-style school blazer and dark blue skirt with voluminous white petticoats, turns towards us as if to curtsey, her blue eyes and smile very gentle.The end draws inexorably nearer, in Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou, Volume 12 (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) Salas holds the Revolutionary Government in his hands, while the Provisional Government lead by Dole and the nobles seem intent upon driving the commoners to rebellion….

…which was the plan, Rae finally admits to Claire. Claire finally learns that everything Rae and her father have done is to save her, and all she has to do is stand with the Revolution. But Claire is a noble through and through. And she’s always been the “Villianess,” willful and obstinate. Claire turns herself in to the Rebel forces, know that she is going to die. 

Rae becomes despondent. Everything she has done, all the allies she has made, has failed to save her love. But those allies are stronger than Rae knows, and when Misha gets into her face and say, “hey you’re not the only one who gets to interfere with friends’ love lives.” And then a wild card shows up and suddenly, we have hope once again. 

 Watching Salas manipulate everyone (and gloat about it) is enraging, but as horrifying as it is, we must acknowledge that Dole was, in his own way, just as manipulative. It’s easy yo see him as a good guy masquerading as a bad guy, but…he also was, genuinely a bad guy, too. 

This is a powerful and deeply emotional volume, then sets up all the pieces for Rae and Claire to face one another from opposite sides of a philosophical gap for the final time.

Ratings: 

Art – 9 Aonoshimo’s art is wonderful.
Story – 10 This is still one of the best climaxes in Villainess media
Characters – 10 Claire practically grows wings here
Service – 1 A kiss. A sad, bittersweet kiss.
Yuri – 10

Overall – 10

Based on the timing, I expect this to go about 14 volumes, unless there is a coda…which I hope there is. Let’s not forget to write Comic Yuri Hime and ask for more!





Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, Volumes 7 and 8

May 15th, 2026

The cover for Volume 7 of Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games. It shows Aya, a teenager with long brown hair and a fringe, looking at the viewer with a small smile. by Luce, Okazu Staff Writter

I’m Luce , and I must apologise for the delay on the review for these volumes, 9 is nearly upon us! Onward!

The young ladies are back to prove that they do indeed play fighting games, and violent ones at that! Not only that, but they want to make their pugilistic simulations into a club activity?

In Volume 7, the tournament wraps up and the girls head back. After a few days rest from gaming to allow/force Mio to recover from her random nosebleed, they start their midnight training again. Aya is acting weirdly, but that’s the least of their concerns when they get caught by a disgusted member of the disciplinary committee! Can they fight their way out of this one – with words?

Volume 8, and the fighting is no longer contained to a screen. It’s Mio, fighting for her right to disobey her mother’s wishes and continue to play video games, versus her mother, fighting to get the idea into her daughters thick skull that video games are no good! The gloves are off, child services are probably gonna get called, who will win this showdown?

The cover for Volume 8 of Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games. It shows Mio, a teenage girl with pink hair and fringe, in a fighting pose. Honestly, this series is so much all of the time, and it’s great. We know Aya had a vicious jealousy that maybe she wasn’t Mio’s biggest rival after seeing her fight Arisa on stage in Volume 6. The way she tries to deal with that is kinda hilarious… and the way it ends is magnificent. Mio basically getting kidnapped by her mum for playing video games, and duking it out for the right? Crazy.

We discover that Arisa, the bratty kid that Mio fought, is the sister of the president of the student council. While she doesn’t play games herself, she likes seeing her sister happy like she was when fighting Mio, so she’s on board with them being allowed to play. Pulling a few strings, she manages to reduce their sentence to suspension for a few days, but… ‘Mama Mio’ as she’s referred to by the other characters is not having her daughter become a video game playing wastrel. Even if she has to fight her about it, literally.

The panelling, art and dialogue is always fun in this series. The assembly with the student body is no less dynamic than the actual fight scenes, and often the characters don’t react how you might expect. It is, if you’ll excuse the phrase, ‘batshit’. Aya, Tya-senpai and Inui all commentate on the Mio Vs Mama Mio match like they would a fighting game, but even commenting on things that are different from their normal fighting game, like the fact that it’s in 3D rather than 2D. It’s just glorious. Full of zany and deranged characters, I’m always looking forward to what they get up to next.

Volume 8 sets up a conflict for the next episode – the problem with an advisor for a club, and needing more members! Volume 9 is coming out shortly, and it won’t be long until the anime is airing too.

Art: 9
Story: 7
Characters: a wild 9
Yuri: 6 – more breathtaking declarations of rivalry and competition, but it sure could go there
Service: 2 – they had a panel that could have been a pantry shot and wasn’t, so that’s pretty good
Overall: 8

It’s stupid in many ways, but it’s also glorious.





Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko!, Volume 2

May 11th, 2026

A blonde woman in pink, whispers into the ear of a woman in a grey suits and white button down shirt, who is visibly cringing with embarrassment, under the words Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko (echoed)In Volume 1, we were thrown into a torrent of emotion as beloved and competent office sempai Hiroko, has a passionate, if awkward, junior, Ayaka, who is doing everything she can to catch Hiroko’s eye. 

When Ayaka finally just tells Hiroko how she feels…Hiroko rejects her. As Ayaka grieves, her best friend Risa asks if Ayaka couldn’t find a way to going out with her. But, no, Ayaka is not able to give Risa what she wants. Everyone is unhappy. 

And then something important happens. The ladies at the lesbian bar unpack Hiroko’s baggage.. They explain to Risa and Ayaka just how much different things were 15 years ago and how being out carries a lot of weight for an older generation of lesbians. This is a crucially important bit of storytelling. Hiroko has her own personal heartbreak and the consequences that she’s been carrying, but also a lifetime of society forcibly rejecting queer people. Not like the conservative extinction burst attacks we’re seeing now, but the full confidence of a majority of society being queerphobic. Hiroko’s beloved sempai, a woman she admired and loved, took the fall for her and she cannot let that go lightly.

I love that this has to be explained…how genuinely wonderful for younger queer folks who rightfully see transphobia and homophobia as the problem, rather than themselves. But it does have to be explained, because while that kind of queerphobia still does exist-  people are still regularly thrown out of homes, lose jobs, access to family, children, housing, – it is nowhere as common as it once was. So for folks who have not experienced it, here is an example.

And, having learned the whole truth, Ayaka, Risa, and Hiroko are ready to move on. No, wait, Risa and Hiroko are, but Ayaka has other ideas. She’s still convinced that Hiroko just need convincing. In Ayaka fashion, that means she’ll choose the wackiest way to go about it.

Ratings:

Art – 8
Story – 8
Characters – 10
Service – 6 When Ayaka stops dressing for attention, it’s actually pretty funny
Yuri – 7
Lesbian – 9

Overall – 8

This volume manages to be funny and poignant with Sal Jiang’s fabulous reaction expression art. A good read, a fun read, and a read that I hope in 15 years will make almost no sense at all to the next generation of queer youth, who will be befuddled by anyone who doesn’t just automatically acknowledge their right to exist.





The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess, Volume 3

May 8th, 2026

On a background of fiery flowers, a woman in a blue uniform/dress with long pink hair is back to back with a woman in a blue dress, long pale hair and a tiara of dark crystals, weilding flame.In Volume 1 and Volume 2, we met former Office Lady Natori Midori, a woman whose genuine desire to be useful lead her to be fired by her employer. Reborn into the world of a otome game, Natori – called Natalie by the characters – find herself working as the familiar and assistant to the villainess, Lapis.

Natalie is in a bind. She likes the game protagonist, Diana, and wants to protect her from having to kill Lapis. She really likes Lapis, more than just wanting to save her. But the more she tries to protect them from their fates in the game, the more the game world pushes them all to the same end.

What’s a reincarnate to do? In The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess, Volume 3, she gives up pretending. Having met the Prince’s confidant, Rubeus, who seems to be manipulating them all for his own (and, unwittingly, the Prince’s) sake, Natalie only sees one way to stop the worst possible things from occurring. She tells Lapis the truth. Then she tells Diana what she can. By trusting in people by whom she wishes to be trusted, Natalie believes she can protect everyone. She and Lapis share another confidence as well. They now know they their feelings are more than just assistant/employer, but there is much more to be said about that.

Rubeus is sending the country down a path towards commoner uprising and noble rebellion. will Natalie be able to stop it? Lapis and hopefully, Diana, are on her side. The relationship between these two is strained as well, so where all of this is headed, we can’t be sure. The story is actually getting a little fraught, but I’m hoping this game gets a well-deserved happily ever after.

Nekotarou’s art is great. While the magic is fairly standard, it’s fun to see Diana use people’s own spells against them.
And in the bonus story, one of Natori’s former coworkers learns that Natori was a decent person and she was the jerk all along. I wonder if that is going to play into the story at all.

Ratings:

Art – 9
Story – 8
Characters – 8
Service – We’re up to intimate embraces
Yuri – 4…we’re getting there!

Overall – 8