This week I’m going to pound out all the links of “stuff that may interest you, but isn’t for me,” so I can clear these out of the folder. Buckle in for a rough ride through inappropriate-Yuri land (or get out of the car before we start! ^_^)
Yuri Manga
Kusanagi-sensei ha Tamesareteiru (草薙先生は試されている。) follows a student hitting on a teacher and the teacher’s downfall. Its a comedy. Haha! Read the chapters in Japanese for free online or pick up Volume 1 on Amazon JP.
Also available on Amazon is Shouryuu Sakka to Yuki (女流作家とユキ) which is a romance about a female author. You can check out the first chapter online in Japanese for free. I like Taisho period pieces, but the “authoress” of the title and the maid thing put me off. YMMV.
Comic Natalie reports that Yasetai-san to Shitsuren-san (痩せたいさんと失恋ちゃん) seems to be setting us up for disappointment from the title on down, but the description of it being about a woman looking for love and a woman who knows a lot about dieting seems like despair in manga form.^_^ This series started in the October 19th issue of Ultra Jump and the first chapter is included in….
…the cover does not look promising, but I’m keeping my mind open for Yuritora Jump ~Ultra Jump Yuri Anthology~ (ユリトラジャンプ～ウルトラジャンプ百合アンソロジー～). Ultra Jump is Shounen Jump‘s “big brother” magazine and has a lot more nudity and sex (and concomitant sexual dysfunction and service.) This collection is available to Japanese Kindle owners and globally on Bookwalker Global. I started reading it last night, but will withhold judgement until I finish. It includes a contribution by Hayate x Blade‘s Hayashiya Shizuru. The Bookwalker link is up on the Yuricon Store.
Also on the Yuricon Store are the two Avalon Anthologies, Avalon Koufuku wo Tsumugu Anthology (Avalon 幸福を紡ぐ百合アンソロジー) and Avalon ~bitter~ Anthology (Avalon 幸福を紡ぐ百合アンソロジー).
Yuri Anime
Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita! anime is moe lolicon Yuri series that runs in Comic Yuri Hime about which I know nothing because I do not read it (as you might expect). ANN reports key visuals and cast for it’s winter premiere. Comic Natalie has a short comment (in Japanese) from voice actress Ueda Reina, who will be playing Hoshino Miyako in the anime.
Other News
The cover of Xena, Volume 1: Pennance looks so damn good I just had to add it here just to make me feel less ick. ^_^
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Holy crap, just read the description of Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita! on ANN and it sounds tremendously gross. I don’t mean to attack anyone who likes it, but I am curious as to how anyone can justify a story about an adult falling in love with a child in any other literary genre other than tragedy (I do a lot with trauma-informed care in schools and so this is especially triggering for me). And really, even if it were presented as a tragedy, how many more of those stories do we need in the world either? Survivor’s tales maybe, but this…?
Well, Yuritora’s just 500 yen, which is not bad, even if Hayashiya’s is pretty much the only good work (theoretical).
Having given a quick browse of the chapters, wonder if Manga Do It is supposed to be just a oneshot or a new series.