It’s come-clean time. We’re down to the dregs of the pile of my November impulse purchases. That means we’re scraping the bottom of the Yuri barrel. I’m probably not at the bottom yet, but this one is way down there.
- Sayuri-san no Imouto ha Tenshi, Volume 1 (小百合さんの妹は天使) Yuri. I’m not denying that. And I acknowledge that what I like (sensible stories with great characters that work well together) is not what other people like. But. And I say this with my gentle voice, with all due respect, this book makes no fucking sense.
Sayuri and her little sister were separated when her parents divorced (because in the world of manga, kids are like endtables or armchairs. You get one and I get one.) Saiyuri, now an adult working at a flower shop, and living a normal, if bland life, misses her little sister, but apparently has no access to phones or computers. Or paper and pencil and stamps. Or transportation. So she has not seen her in 13 years,
So one day when she sees her sister again, she’s amazed! But her sister has a halo. And wings.
Now, I’m just asking for a friend, here, but, if you saw a member of your immediately family with halo and wings, would you not immediately want to know how they died? And when? And then I would wonder why some other member of your immediate family neglected to mention this? Of course Sayuri does none of these things.
So the book then goes forward with a generic incestuous relationship between Sayuri and her dead little sister.
Ratings:
I did not pay full price for this book. I bought it at Book-Off for 260￥.There are three more volumes of the series, if this sounds like your preferred tincture of Lily.
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