Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 11, 2018

August 11th, 2018

Yuri Anime

Senior YNN Correspondent Verso S took some time to catch us up on the Asagao to Kase-san OVA news this week. We were both convinced that the end of July would see the end of the run, but new theaters were added this week! Verso writes in with: “Inside Japan, starting this Saturday, August 10, the short film will be screened for two weeks in three theatres of a cinema chain, Korona Cinema World. This chain did not originally pick up the OVA upon first release. Screenings in all other cinemas on the original list have ended. The three Korona cinemas are located in Handa city (Aichi Prefecture), Ogaki (Gifu Prefecture) and Fukui city (Fukui).” I’m fascinated by the longevity of this theater run.

Komatsu-san on Crunchyroll reports that Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san, a Yuri-ish anime (painfully translated, probably for copyright reasons, as Ms. Vampire Who Lives in my Neighborhood) based on a  manga which is running in Cune, has a Promotional Video available for you to view.

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LGBTQ Manga

Also from YNN Correspondent Verso S, is news that the HMV in Shibuya is going all out for the release of Shimanami Tasogare (しまなみ誰そ彼), Volume 4. Check out the pictures on their Twitter account and read their newsletter! Also…look at that cover, will you? ^_^

 

Yuri Manga

Risou to Koi ~Otona Yuri Omnibus (理想と恋 ~大人百合オムニバス~) is an online comic on Comic Walker. You can read a chapter for free (in Japanese).

From Yuri Hime @Pixiv, we have Tsuki to Koi ha Ochireba Kakeru (月と恋は満ちれば欠ける。) by Tokumutsumu. You can read the first 4 chapters of that on Pixiv (in Japanese.)

Catcher in the Rhyme, Volume 2 (キャッチャー・イン・ザ・ライム) hit shelves at the end of June and I can’t wait to read it (even though the rap is often beyond my ability to read. ^_^;)

Matuzaki Natsumi is another jousei manga artist with a Yuri story set in school, this one from Feel Comics. Lullaby for Girl (ララバイ・フォー・ガール ) goes on sale next month. 

 

Live-Action News

YNN Correspondent Stacy L tell us “Jacques Demy’s very rarely seen (outside of Japan) 1979 live-action adaptation of Rose of VersaillesLady Oscar, was released on blu-ray this year.” Read a review of it on Mondo-Digital

 

Other News

Unrelated at all whatsoever to Yuri, the Satoshi Kon film Perfect Blue will be receiving a theater release in the US. I bring this up because we’re seeing more and more theaters picking up anime movies now and there seem to be two routes: 1) Major chains in small towns and 2) Art theaters. I believe the second one would work well for a Kase-san release, so I’m just going to hope like heck that Pony Canyon will consider bringing the OVA to the US for limited theatrical run, although realistically, these do better for older movies with established audiences – Evangelion, Sailor Moon, etc.

I do also recommend Perfect Blue, with some trigger warnings for rape and violence. There is no rape in the movie, but there is still a rape warning. It’s an amazing movie, fwiw. Check out the Fathom Events page for other anime movie nights at a theater near you. 

From Twitter, Morishima Akiko-sensei’s Comiket booth info includes a LINE stamp. How fun! Check out the QR code on this Yomuco tweet.

Harvey Awards nominees are out and the field is pretty diverse with some great queer-friendly content up for awards.

Queers & Comics 2019 is calling for panelists! Submit your application by September 30, 2018.

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2 Responses

  1. Stacy L says:

    About Perfect Blue: Glad to hear more anime movies are turning up in cinemas. One of the oddest conversations I’ve had was standing in line at a Melbourne cinema to see Satoshi Kon’s Paprika and having an argument with someone next to me, a university professor it turned out, about whether or not Perfect Blue was misogynistic. I was arguing that it wasn’t, and was startled at her reading of the film as *nothing more* than rape-titillation. I found it to be the exact opposite. No two people ever really see the same film, I guess.

    • I agree with you, fwiw. It was a hard watch, but the very opposite of used for titillation. I found the movie as a whole to be an intense psychological horror drama with some of the best mindfuck scenes I’ve ever seen. That specific scene is horrific precisely because it’s not a rape scene. I watched it sitting on boxes in an anime store in Harvard Square with a handful of other anime fans, who had no idea what to make of it. It made an impression.

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