Yuri Manga
ANN has the report that a banner at a sumo tournament has announced the 13th Volume of Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら,), which will be out at the end of this month in Japan. Check out the article for images and a discussion of sumo banners. ^_^
Seven Seas has another pile of licensing announcements, one of which I was absolutely gobsmacked by. According to ANN, they’ve licensed Cutey Honey-a-Go Go!, my favorite iteration of the Cutey Honey franchise. I reviewed it in 2007 and said, “Bar none, this is my *favorite* version of Honey.”
The OASG has an article on 20 manga you should keep an eye out for this year. A number of Yuri titles are on it, but there’s *so* much Yuri coming out this year, they barely scratched the surface. Bookmark the Yuricon Store because we’ll make sure it’s all there!
Teku Mahiru has a new Yuri manga series beginning in Comic Heaven, Kimi to 6 jikan no Koi wo shita (君と6時間の恋をした」).
Yuri Anime
Crunchyroll News has the report that the new Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection movie is confirmed for July 2017.
The cast for NTR: Netsuzou Trap has been announced, according to ANN.
Via YNN correspondent Jst, ANN has the news that Nozomi has announced the Revolutionary Girl Utena anime set on Blu-Ray.
Live Action
Silent Mobius, the sci-fi paranormal adventure series by Asamiya Kia is getting a live-Action stage play adaptation. Initial staff and cast members have been named, but roles are not yet assigned, according to ANN.
Crunchyroll reports that the live-action Saki adaptation has taken an ad out in a sports paper, with cast in costume.
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Yuri Webcomic
Hanna-Pirita Lehkonen has created a lovely little Rapunzel-inspired comic.
Nakamura Kiyo (aka Ching) is lunching a new, tongue-in-cheek action webcomic on Note.mu, Miboujin Sentai Ranger (未亡人戦隊 喪レンジャー)
Other News
Teen Vogue weighs in on Sailor Moon with 15 Times Sailor Moon was the Feminist Icon We All Needed. The article contains some inaccuracies, but I give them kudos for the effort.
And, on the other side of the aisle, via Matt Thorn on Twitter, an article on whether gay men read BL in Japanese, has been translated to English. This spawned a conversation between myself, Matt and Jason Thompson in which we vehemently, virulently, mostly agree with each other. ^_^
And also of interest in BL, Kamome Hamada is launching a BL comic based on a real person’s real life story. So, more LGBTQ than BL. ANN has the report.
Via YNN Correspondent Elizabeth F, the next season of the Young Justice cartoon might be acknowledging it’s LGBTQ characters, according to James Whitbrook on i09.
Crunchyroll has a report about a class at the University of South Carolina on Reading and Writing About Magical Girls.
Amazon.com (US) is launching a paid anime streaming service. One more entry in a crowded field. Whether another paid service can succeed where so a number of free services (Crunchyroll, Daisuki, Viewster) and paid services (Neon Alley, Anime Network) already exist remains to be seen. I assume they expect Amazon users to go to them first.
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I wonder about Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection movie. ViVid was simple, which was nice, but I just finished Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Strike! and it seemed a little strange. The plot definitely had yuri feeling, but the violence reminded me of MMA and at times also the horrible fetish some of these males have with violence between female characters. I wonder if anyone else saw this in the series.
Well, I quite like the MMA aspect myself, but always, the crotch-staring bothers me, I guess it’s easy enough to be put off by one or the other aspect.
ARGH I wish more of Nakamura’s work would be translated into English. It looks like she has some really fun stuff.