Yubooh, la magie des songes

Yubooh, la magie des songes is a comic by Paulina Palacios, a Chilean author. Published in Chile as Mientras Yubooh duerme (Editorial Planeta Chilena), it reaches France at Glénat on 21 October 2026, in a translation from Spanish by Marylou Lesongeur. This first volume is entirely in colour, and opens a series.

The heroine, Salvia ("sage", in Spanish), lives in Villegrise. She is convinced her school conceals a real school of magic: it's the only one in town to hold a Halloween parade, everyone wears witch hats, and a few too many details finish convincing her. All that's left is to get in, which is far from obvious.

The volume is organised into six chapters (Salvia's School, The Fish Code, Keep Away, then Saturn Academy in two parts, and An Ordinary Day at an Ordinary School). Along the way we meet wizards who needn't hide their powers, an academy where "the shadows visit every night", and those Yubooh that some pupils summon like familiars.

The book's real success lies in its world and its visual inventions. The Yubooh, those dream-fish with big watery eyes like pocket mirrors, are a memorable design, at once cute and vaguely unsettling. The art direction embraces a distinctive Latin American touch, far from the usual codes of the manga shelf, and it's refreshing.

Salvia herself is an endearing and genuinely funny heroine: her obsession with magic and her clumsy prayers "to the all-powerful universe" give the story a welcome comic energy. The little group forming around her promises a lovely cast.

The limit is the pacing. This volume 1 is above all a set-up volume: it lays out a setting, characters and a mystery more than it tells a tight plot. The premise (a secret school of magic) is nothing new, and anyone after action or high stakes will have to wait. It's a mood piece above all, to be taken for what it is.