Yuri Manga
Exciting news for Yuri fans this week! Seven Seas has licensed two new Yuri titles. First up, EVE x EVE by Nagashiro Rouge, as part of their manga for mature audiences line – as I pointed out on our Yuricon Facebook group, I haven’t read the original Japanese volume of this yet, so I am cautiously optimistic.
Also announced this week was a manga I reviewed last week – Kodama Naoko’s Oya ga Urusainode Kouhai (♀) to Gizoukekkonshitemite (親がうるさいので後輩(♀)と偽装結婚してみた。) as I MARRIED MY BEST FRIEND TO SHUT MY PARENTS UP. I suggested “I Fake-Married My (Female) Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up” might have been a bit more accurate, but maybe less funny? ^_^
Kodansha is releasing the Sailor Moon Perfect Edition, and Deb Aoki and editor Lauren Scanlan talk about it on the ANNcast this week!
Ultra Jump editors on Twitter announced Ultra Jump‘s very first Yuri anthology! Yuritora Jump (ユリトラジャンプ) will be available in Japan in mid-October. This will include the recent story by Hayashiya Shizuru, “Tanerabo manga do it!” I’m not bouncing out of my skin, you are. (This is not to be confused with the Kindle story Yuri-couple vs Bengal Tiger (百合ップルvsベンガルトラ) that exists in the real world. Why?!? Someone with 300yen and a JP Kindle account needs to get it and tell us what it is. ^_^ The description is hilarious – a ship full of Parisian girls sinks and a tiger is eating the girls. OMGWTFLOLBBQ.)
The first volume of Hisakawa Haru’s Yurikon (ゆりこん) serial about female couples who get married, has hit JP shelves.
Yuri Anime
A second, longer promotional video for the upcoming Yagate Kimi ni Naru (Bloom Into You) anime has been released on Youtube.
Still not Yuri, but still of interest, Aria the Origination has been added to the Crunchyroll catalog, according to ANN. ^_^
LGBTQ Comics News
For folks in the New York area, the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ is running an exhibition of art from Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For comic. Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel will run through December 30, and Bechdel will be there to do a talk on October 10. I love the Zimmerli and recommend it highly.
Other News
Cartoon Network is running a Storyboard Training Academy. Applications are open. Definitely read the FAQs, because it is a form of paid internship at CN, but you’d be responsible for your travel and room.
A group of Maine pastors with no sense of irony attempted to get a copy of My Lesbian Experince With Loneliness pulled from a Banned Books display, ANN’s Lynzee Loveridge reports.
Over on Crunchyroll, Nicole Meijas reports that Akiyo Nagano, Atsuko Ishizuka, and Akira Himekawa Discuss Being a Woman in the Anime and Manga Industry.
Nippon.com has a tidy little article about the spread of LGBTQ acceptance in Japan beginning with Shibuya’s offering same-sex partnership certificates.
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Eh, every time I read the news about the older woman’s yuri manga, it’s sad to me that such works almost never get anime, even in the framework of yuri-ish works.
Then you’re missing the point that I keep making – they would make terrible anime, because anime relies on extreme behaviors, situations and emotions. Normal adult conversation is fine for TV drama, but would make an extremely boring anime. There is a reason anime appeals to a relatively emotionally immature audience. Adult conversation lacks drama.
Your words make sense, and the school premise is universal for any romance, but sometimes it seems to me that the premise of “schoolgirl falls in love with schoolgirl”, or more exactly how modern anime works with it, becomes somewhat cliched. However, its possible that Yagate Kimi ni Naru will change this impression.