Top news this week is the relaunch of Yuricon.com! We originally started just around 20 years ago as an online mailing list for fans of a genre that didn’t have a name. We fought for recognition for our genre and spent many hours talking about Yuri anime and manga. Now Yuricon members are taking it on the road running Yuri lectures, writing articles and promoting Yuri all over the world. Drop by and see the new, streamlined Yuricon site!

Yuri Manga

Azumakawa Miso’s Pixiv Yuri comics have been collected into a single volume of 40 shorts, covering the good, the bad, the bitter and the sweet of Yuri couples in Totsuzen Yuri (突然の百合).

The newest of the Eclair collection, Eclair rouge Anata no Hibiku Yuri Anthology (エクレア rouge あなたに響く百合アンソロジー) hits Japanese shelves at the end of this month.

Via YNN Correspondent Alextasha , Volume 4 of Pulse by Ratana Satis is available for Pre-order!

YNN Correspondent Mariko S wants you to know about a “series called Lily Marble by Kisugae that I like – it’s about a gym called “Fitness Club Lily” and the Yuri hijinks the various staff members get up to.” You can read it on the publisher’s site (in Japanese) for free.

Yuri Anime

Via YNN Correspondent robin from cyberia, the Asagao to Kase-san Flower Edition Blu-Ray with desktop calendar (あさがおと加瀬さん。」Blu-ray Flower Edition(初回限定生産)(オリジナル卓上カレンダー付き) is up for pre-order available from Amazon JP! It’s slated for a November release. There is also a DVD version available, but…for possibly the first time ever, I actually recommend the BD.  The Blu-Ray set includes extra disks with audio dramas and cast talks. I have not yet confirmed whether it has English subtitles. 

Yuri Events

Via YNN Correspondent Serena, the Yuri/GL Phillipines group will have an exhibitor’s table at Cosplay Mania in Manila on September 29-30. Drop by to meet a great group of Yuri fans!

From Yuiko on Twitter, the office-romance focused Yuri doujinshi event 20OL is happening once again on September 16 in Nagoya, Japan.

Other News

YNN Correspondent Serena also noted that webcomic site Lezhin has apologized to creators after an earlier scandal regarding blacklists and unfair payments which affected the GL section of the site very heavily.

Queer-friendly, female-focused magazine Sparkler Monthly is running their 6th annual Kickstarter campaign. 

One of my favorite comics series for kids, Hilda, is getting a cartoon on Netflix. Check out the trailer on Cartoon Brew and this guide to the graphic novels.

I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but it seems to me that if you don’t want your online group to be understood as a campaign of harassment and intolerance, then maybe you ought not to name it after a previous campaign of harassment and intolerance. JA Micheline discusses Comcsgate in, what is in my opinion, the definitive article on this particular incarnation of angry men angry at women, people of color and LGBTQ folks existing, in Comicsgate is the latest front in the ongoing culture wars for The Guardian.

No podcast this week, I seem to have run myself ragged. ^_^ But do feel free to send me questions you’d like me to address on the next YNN Podcast!

Become a YNN Correspondent by reporting any Yuri-related news to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com with your name and an email I can reply to! Our YNN podcast is now available, in which I take a look at some key news items this week..

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