Yuri Light Novels
Some very exciting news out of Japan this week! A new company, GL Bunko, is publishing Yuri novels in Japanese *and* English for simultaneous Kindle release. You can order their first book GIRL’S KINGDOM 1 & 2 on US Kindle. This gives you the English translation and the Japanese original. The translation is not sophisticated, but it’s certainly understandable.
Yuri Events
Yurithon is around the corner and this year they are bring in special guests Lauren Landa and Erica Mendez, the English voice actressed for Sailor Uranus + Neptune in both the new Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal dubs. Get yourself to Montreal, Quebec, Canada on August 3-5 for a weekend of Yuri programming!
The Girls Love Fest Yuri doujinshi event is on once again for September 9th, back at the PIO building in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
Save the Date! May 17 &1 18, 2019, Queers & Comics is returning to New York City, and it’s going to be amazing~~!
Yuri Manga
ANN reports that Namori has put Yuru Yuri on indefinite hiatus as of the September 2018 issue of Comic Yuri Hime. They also are reporting thatAmano Sakuya’s Konohana Kitan is being moved from Monthly Comic Birz, which has been shuttered, to an online venue, Densha Birz. In the meantime, Amano-sensei posted images on Twitter of the Tokyopop German-language release of Konohana Kitan, which appears to be titled Fox Spirit Tales.
We have a new pile of stuff on the yuricon Store!
In Hiru Shitagari, Mata (昼下がりに、また), she’s been married for three years, the lady who lives downstairs is a famous designer. And they are interested in one another.
Chidori and Nanoha are closer than friends in Hana ni Arashi, Volume 1 (はなにあらし ).
The Yuri + Kanojo Anthology series takes at the life of the heroines who protect their princesses in Yuri + Kanojo Heroine-doushi no Happy End (百合+カノジョ-ヒロイン同士のハッピーエン).
Kuzushiro’s Heian gag comedy Kimi no Tamaenara Shineru, Volume 8 ( 姫のためなら死ねる) is on sale now.
I’ve reported that Nakamura Asumiko is trying her hand at Yuri in Rakuen Le Paradis magazine, and now Unita Yumi is doing so as well. Volume 27 has a new “girl’s love” story by slice-of-life master Unita-sensei, according to Comic Natalie.
Equaly as exciting, Hayashiya Shizuru has a new manga in Ultra Jump! Tanerabo manga do it! (『たねラボ manga do it』) starts in the August issue.
In Lilymaria to Wakaiseyo (リリィマリアと和解せよ) a goddess of Yuri recruits a BL manga artist to provide her with the Yuri stories she craves.
Yuri Anime
Comic Natalie reports that the upcoming anime for Yagate Kimi ni Naru (Bloom Into You) has released a new visual!
Viz has announced theater releases for the Sailor Moon Super and Sailor Moon Super S movies on staggered days for dub and sub! Check out the page on Fathom Events to see where they will be screening near you. And while maybe you too remember the trailer for the Saban live-action Sailor Moon pitch, do you remember this pitch for an “American Sailor Moon” from Bandai America?
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I’m embarrassed that Yuru Yuri went on a break simultaneously with the announcement of the last chapter of Citrus. I hope that this is not caused by any problems with the magazine.
They are unrelated, most likely.
Well, Namori is currently involed in two (probably) yuri-ish CGDCT projects, so it’s possible that the reason for the break was her employment.
That was what I thought, but Citrus might just have come to the end of it’s run. That might be wishful thinking on my part.