Kamiina Botan has rizz when she’s tipsy.
Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana is about what happens when the titular Kamiina Botan (twenty) gets her first drink in her. Not only does she take to it as a duck to water, she’s a flirty drunk. A first year student doing an engineering degree, she;s on a sight seeing trip with a few girls from her residental hall, but when they stop for lunch Ibuki, their RA has disappeared on them. Botan goes in search for her and it turns out Ibuki slipped away to get herself a drink: a truly humongeous whiskey highball.
Even watered down that’s an absurd amount of booze for just 500 yen. I tend to estimate amounts by assuming one euro equals a hundred yen, making this excellent value for money when the average boring pilsner here is not that much cheaper, but of course these days 500 yen is more like three euro, which makes it even better. Later in the episode we learn that Ibuki has a display cabinet filled with booze in their hall’s common room, which makes a little bit more sense if all alcohol is this inexpensive in Japan… Anyway, it turns out Ibuki is a bit shy about her drinking as it makes her hiccup and she has had bad experiences when others saw that. When she finds out Botan doesn’t mind, she thinks drinking with others might not be so bad…
Which may be good news for Gujo-senpai here, the other person Botan drinks and flirts with in this episode, as she has been looking for a way to drink with Ibuki. When Botan confronts her with this, she turns from confident, cool senpai, in a blushing, awkward mess. Yes, Kamiina Botan has rizz when she’s tipsy.
I had no idea what to expect from this series but the word “yuri” in the title had me hopeful and fortunately I got what I wanted. This is a slice of moe series about college girls drinking with and being flirted at by Kamiina Botan and I’m all for it. The animation is gorgeous and matches the laid back feeling of the show, as Kvin explains over at Bluesky. The only real quibble I have is that the subtitles transposes the characters’ names from Japanese order (surname, given name) to western order.
this actually gave me a bit of nostalgia for my own college days, hanging out with friends and room mates in our student flat. and not only do we see people drinking, Gujo-senpai smokes too! Refreshing to have such a properly adult series for once among all the endless series set in high school.
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