Jan 19, 2025
As the title says, Yuri Moyou is a yuri manga featuring 4 sisters. With that in mind, I had been hoping for something like Oomuro-ke, where we get a mix of sisterly shenanigans and each of their yuri romances. This is not that. Neither is it, like one also might imagine, an incest series, as Hachiko's more recent manga Ryoukataomoi na Futago Shimai is. Rather, the sister part of the premise is completely irrelevant here: there's literally only like four pages in the whole series in which the sisters interact at all. Really this is just four separate yuri series that alternate chapters with each
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other, but otherwise have virtually no connection to each other.
Unfortunately, all four of these series happen to be extremely generic. One is a teacher-student romance; one is a coworker romance; one is a childhood friend romance; one is a school 'prince'-archetype romance. There's no twists on any of the premises, or any other defining features, to keep them interesting. The middle two have some amount of relationship progression, but the other two are effectively static-state scenarios, and none of the four have any kind of climax or proper ending - instead the series simply stops at an arbitrary point. None of them have any recurring characters besides for the main couple. None have any drama. Even the comedy is rather mild. In short, all that is on offer here is cute yuri fluff, with nothing beyond that and nothing even to make it stand out from the various other series of that kind.
This is also a very short manga (hence why I ended up reading it through to the end, despite not enjoying it much). Two volumes may not sound like shockingly little by the standards of the yuri genre, and indeed there's plenty of manga out there that manage to do quite a bit in only two volumes. These are two rather short volumes though, with only about 120 pages each. Not only that, but each chapter is only 6 pages long, of which two are essentially blank (4 pages of body; a page with a single small bonus panel; a page with the series logo), so a third of each volume is just wasted space. Then take into account how this is four different series in one, and you end up with only about 40 pages for each girl. That's comparable to only like two chapters in a standard manga, but it's even worse than that since the way they're divided up into 4-page snippets and interlaced between the stories of the other three sisters means that there isn't any chance to get a proper narrative flow going.
Yuri Moyou isn't terrible, but it is boring and generic. Save yourself the time and find a more interesting yuri manga to read: there's plenty out there.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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