Yuri Espoir

Age: 📚 13+ | 4 Volumes (Complete) | Paperback & eBook (Box Set Available) | Creator: Mai Naoi

 

Yuri Espoir is a poignant, beautifully crafted Girls Love anthology from creator Mai Naoi about love, longing, and leaving something meaningful behind. Published under TOKYOPOP's LoveLove imprint, this 13+ series explores the quiet rebellion of a young woman facing an unwanted future.

 

Kokoro knows her fate. After high school ends, she'll be forced into an arranged marriage—a union of convenience designed by her father, not her heart. Her future isn't hers to choose. Her dreams aren't hers to keep. Everything she wants will be sacrificed on the altar of family obligation.

 

So she decides to create a legacy.

 

In her final year of freedom, Kokoro indulges her love of women by observing and sketching the lesbian romances unfolding around her. Each chapter captures a different story—different desires, different struggles, different expressions of love between women. Her sketchbook becomes a testament to the lives she witnesses and the feelings she understands intimately but may never be allowed to act upon.

 

Yuri Espoir is both an anthology of interconnected love stories and a meditation on the cost of conformity. Mai Naoi crafts tales that range from sweet to bittersweet, hopeful to heartbreaking—all filtered through Kokoro's observant eye and aching heart.

 

Yuri Espoir is a love letter to love itself—proof that even when we can't live our truths, we can still honor them.

 

Perfect for readers who love: Girls Love/yuri, anthology formats, artistic/creative protagonists, bittersweet romance, coming-of-age stories, narratives about societal pressure and self-expression.

9 products
Yuri Espoir, Volume 1
Yuri Espoir, Volume 1
Paperback
$12.99
Yuri Espoir, Volume 4
Yuri Espoir, Volume 4
Paperback
$12.99
Yuri Espoir, Volume 3
Yuri Espoir, Volume 3
Paperback
$12.99
Yuri Espoir, Volume 2
Yuri Espoir, Volume 2
Paperback
$12.99
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
$51.96 $46.76
Yuri Espoir, Volume 4
Yuri Espoir, Volume 4
eBook
$7.99
Yuri Espoir, Volume 3
Yuri Espoir, Volume 3
eBook
$7.99
Yuri Espoir, Volume 2
Yuri Espoir, Volume 2
eBook
$7.99
Yuri Espoir, Volume 1
Yuri Espoir, Volume 1
eBook
$7.99

Yuri Espoir, Volume 1

$12.99
After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.
Yuri Espoir, Volume 1

Yuri Espoir, Volume 4

$12.99
After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.
Yuri Espoir, Volume 4

Yuri Espoir, Volume 3

$12.99
After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.
Yuri Espoir, Volume 3

Yuri Espoir, Volume 2

$12.99
After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.
Yuri Espoir, Volume 2

Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4

$51.96 $46.76

After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.

Volume 1, Pages: 212
Volume 2, Pages: 212
Volume 3, Pages: 192
Volume 4, Pages: 176

Mai Naoi is a manga artist who lives in Hokkaido, Japan. She entered the Touryuumon 7 contest for aspiring manga artists held by Comic Ryu magazine in May 2017, and won first place with Curry wo Taberu Femme Fatale. Yuridenaru Espoir is her first published manga series.

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Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4
Set of 4 Books: Yuri Espoir, Vol 1-4

Yuri Espoir, Volume 4

$7.99
After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.
Yuri Espoir, Volume 4

Yuri Espoir, Volume 3

$7.99
After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.
Yuri Espoir, Volume 3

Yuri Espoir, Volume 2

$7.99
After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.
Yuri Espoir, Volume 2

Yuri Espoir, Volume 1

$7.99
After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles, and the unpredictable whims of love.
Yuri Espoir, Volume 1