Lilies Blooming in 100 Days

100 Days of Yuri #1

by Muromaki

This full-color art book features one hundred different yuri scenarios, all from the artist Muromaki’s #100 Days of Yuri Challenge!  Packed full of high-school, adult, and age-gap couples in cute, funny, and spicy scenarios alike, there’s plenty for readers to enjoy! 

Genres: Manga, Romance, Short Stories, Yuri, Contemporary, Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2023

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Your 100 day yuri calendar and only… uh… 50% problematic stories? I mean, this thing just loves its teacher-student relationships, let me tell you. There’s at least one kabadon in here that I have never seen before. It also has roughly 100% more incest than I tend to want, but you do you.

The idea is clever enough, each day is a separate story of yuri. Sometimes it is girls’ love, sometimes a little more adult, sometimes a mix of the two. The art is fun and the little paragraphs give it a bit of flair.

I also liked that some of the characters return later on in the book. Typically it was the ones where I thought they could have done more with the set-up, so that was appreciated.

I was glad that the trendy girl and studious girl showed up the most; that’s a tried and true set-up if there ever was one (and since I just described Failed Princesses, it’s entirely possible I have a favourite subgenre to my subgenre).

The one about the two girls who kiss in front of class comes back for probably the funniest joke, unexpectedly. Other days cover some bondage play, the legally-required aquarium date, and various stages of longing.

There’s little more to say about it, honestly. I didn’t mind it at all, but it’s nothing too exciting either. It falls short of even an anthology level of depth, but that’s not really the point. It’s here to show a rapid fire cross section of genre ideas and it does that pretty well.

And if any given day is a little much, well, there’s another day just ahead. It was a showcase of creativity with some decent art and, even if I didn’t love everything, it was cool to see something new in this space. Plus, some of it is really solid, it’s just mixed in with some things that are less so.

3 stars - I mean, it achieves its goals, but it’s certainly more of a confection or curiosity than a full-blown yuri experience and should probably be treated as such.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

I took my time with this one. It's a collection of mostly one page yuri shorts with very pretty art and a myriad of themes and tropes. Of course some are better than others, but as they are just glimpses into these characters lives, I was surprised by how much certain ones resonated with me. While I'd love longer stories for each, I felt satisfied with these even with their brevity.

[Em · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like a lot of anthologies are for me, this was kind of all over the place! I'm very mixed.

This short manga has everything: problematic age gaps, best friends to lovers, cousins, knight x princess, teacher x student, being one of the only (printed) yuri I've ever encountered to be trans-inclusive.

If all the highs were as a high as the trans woman chapter or if the cousin thing wasn't one of the few ongoing stories this manga kept coming back to, I think my feelings would be more definitive. So I'm giving it a middle of the road score.

If you read broadly in GL and BL these tropes are nothing new but if you tend to avoid certain problematic or uncomfortable ones this probably isn't for you. But I'll take anything that gets us more diverse yuri options in the desert that is the English manga market

[Luna Bruno · Rating 3 out of 5]

Undoubtedly, there are scenarios for everyone's tastes.
These are stories told in just one page that sometimes get their little sequel (or sequels) further into the reading. Some scenarios were sweetly cute, others were beautifully spicy, and some left me feeling emotional (they truly stuck in my heart).
That said, it’s fair to say that there are ALL kinds of scenarios, among which I found some uncomfortable: questionable age-gap, teacher and student relationships (never a fan of this trope), and an ambiguous distant-relative(?) bond (it was just one storyline, but still a big NO for me).
Nevertheless, I would still recommend this Yuri. It would be a waste to miss out on the artwork and the other good scenarios. What I’m saying is you can always move past the scenarios you don’t like.

To sum it up: some scenarios were to die for, others I would’ve rather just forget.

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautifully illustrated set of 100 girls love scenes from the light and innocent to a little more risque but are all lovely to look at with the light color palette, cute outfits, and swoony settings.

Each day has a little day indicator and a vignette to deliciously delight over. For fans of manga, they'll love it, for the yuri fans, they'll super love it. The way art should look!

[Ida · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was cute but felt a bit rushed, like I was reading through a table of contents.

Thank you to Muromaki, Edelweiss and World English for providing me with this copy in exchange for an honest review!

[Shannon Luchies · Rating 4 out of 5]

That was cute. They did mini comics based on 100 prompts...