Writer
and Artist: Miyabi Fujieda
Publisher:
Independent
What's
it about?
This
is a Yuri title. Yuri means girls love and is the name given to manga
about female couples. Yuri can be explicitly about sex, or can be more
about the relationship side of things. Some of it can be a coming out
narrative, some of it can just be two women getting it on. The male
equivalent is called Yaoi.
Iono
is the princess of an unspecified small nation. She travels to Japan
to find black haired women willing to become her sobames – companions (she’s
very specific about the black hair). ‘Sama’ is an honorific given to
someone of a higher status than you and ‘fanatics’ refers to the sobames Iono
has engaged in her service, all of whom, naturally, call their boss Iono-Sama.
The
book opens with Iono on the streets of Japan
hitting on random women requesting that they be her sobame. Her method of
picking up women is to stand in the middle of the street and yell ‘who wants to
apply to be my sobame?’. She's not wonderfully successful at this.
Eventually she finds a woman named Eto Hachibe. Iono falls for Eto and
when she invites her into her household she won't take no for an answer.
The rest of the book follows Eto's new life in the royal household as she tries
to find a job for herself whilst managing Iono's insatiable desire for more
sobames.
It's
a comedy, it's a romance and it's all about women!
