Let's talk about heterosexuality: A Bride's Story

I don't want to do a full review right now, because only one volume out of three has been released thus far, but I will tell you this: buy this comic right god damned now. I can guarantee it's the best romance you'll read this year. Seriously.

Let's talk about yuri: COME EMBRACE ME, SENPAI!

Remember, always read from right to left.

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but in the end, good taste prevailed. By
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If there's one thing that's really important to a compelling superhero origin story, it's having a good coming of age metaphor. Spider-Man is the most obvious (and also the most grossest). Sailor Moon was about the awesomeness of pre-arranged marriage learning to balance working and love. The X-Men are all about illustrating how homosexuality is exactly the same as shooting kinetic energy out of your eyes. And so forth.

A Lifeform in Puberty — Vega has a pretty similar setup, but a little less pretense about its own metaphor.

This post doesn't contain any sex

Remember, always read from right to left.
From 20-Year-Old Girl x 30-Year-Old Maiden, by Akiko Morishima.

Sorry, no review this week! I promise I'll have something good in a few days, though.

Let's talk about yuri: Gokujou Drops

A pretty stock dramatic device in basically any form of fiction is the use of recurring motifs at regular intervals, as a means of punctuating the story. If you ever read F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" in school, you'd recognize that as drinking. If you're a modern Doctor Who fan, it's running aimlessly about while dramatic music plays. In a Sal Buscema comic, it's someone getting punched so hard they fly towards the reader.

Remember, always read from right to left. This post'll be kind of NSFW.

In Gokujou Drops, it's girl-on-girl groping. Do I have your attention now?

Let's talk about yuri: Iono the Fanatics

Remember, always read from right to left.

I was actually going to start off this feature with something far more mundane before I got to the really embarassing stuff, but honestly, pretty much nothing I can write about can top Rob pleading for a Cardiac miniseries, so we might as well just jump into the crazy right away. Iono the Fanatics is a comic about the queen of a small country who comes to visit Japan in order to pick up black-haired girls for her giant harem.

Yeah, we're keepin' it classy.