Yuri Events
The Kase-san and Morning Glories OVA will be screening at AnimeNYC on Saturday, November 17 – Panel Room 2 – 7:30 PM! I will be attending AnimeNYC for at least some part of the day on Friday and Saturday, so keep a look out and say hi if you see me! No special ticket is required for the screening, just general admission to AnimeNYC.
I will be presenting two panels at Derpycon in Morristown, NJ on Friday November 9 at the Hyatt Regency.
The Secret History of Yaoi and Yuri: 2:30pm-3:30pm, Panel 2
LGBTQ in Anime,Comics, Manga, Cartoons: Friday 5pm-6pm, Panel 1
Prizes for good questions, and a lot of fun!
BOOK☆WALKER GLOBAL is running a digital manga Yuri Fest event, in which you can receive free reward coins for buying Yuri manga from their selected list of eligible Yuri titles. The event runs through November 14th, so make sure you get over there and get your free “I love Yuri” Bookshelf wallpaper. (Which, yes, I got first thing on November 1st!)
Speaking of online events, this year Okazu is having a special online holiday party for Okazu patrons. Subscribe to Okazu by the US Thanksgiving and receive an invite! We’ll have some secret project previews and announcements, so if you don’t want to miss it, join us as an Okazu patron at any level!
LGBTQ Manga
Seven Seas posted a lovely tweet this week, marking the initial pre-orders for the 2019 release of Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Volume 1 and Volume 2. Tune in tomorrow for the YNN podcast for discussion about why this is so important.
No matter who you are, there’s a beautiful place where you belong.
The beloved 4-volume LGBT+ manga OUR DREAMS AT DUSK: SHIMANAMI TASOGARE by Yuhki Kamatani begins in May. Pre-order Vol. 1 in the RETAILERS section at the link. #mangapreorders #7seasbookshttps://t.co/YyZxFkB0iu pic.twitter.com/gck6JxCp6Z
— Seven Seas (@gomanga) November 2, 2018
Seven Seas also sent out a press release that I want to mention, because it does something too few manga companies think to do – it ties their releases of Bloom Into You, Volume 1-5 into the currently running anime. There’s a reason why companies fail to do this so often – licensing of anime and manga are handled by different companies who often pay no attention to one another. It’s good to see the Seven Seas folks not making that mistake.
Kickstarter Watch
Luscious Spirit Studios are working on a new Yuri Visual Novel, Mystics of Sapphia. They offer an expanded playable demo and, I gotta say, the video was pretty appealing. ^_^
Via YNN Correspondent Ashley P, ROADQUEEN: ETERNAL ROADTRIP TO LOVE, an F/F lesbian graphic novel about love, revenge, and getting your bike back is something to check out!
Other News
The New SHE-RA and the Princesses of Power cartoon is premiering on Netflix on November 13!
DaVinci magazine has *another* Bloom Into You interview, this time with Sayaka’s voice actress, Kayano Ai, about the “feeling of love.”
Loryn Stone over at PopLurker takes a look at Yuri manga offerings Konohana Kitan and Futaribeya from Tokyopop and has some thoughts.
Shoot the Breeze Comics has a roundup of the The Top 10 Ongoing Comics Queer Women Should Be Reading, that might interest you. Summit from Lion Forge is something that has been on my to-read list for a while. ^_^
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Many thanks for the links to DaVinci’s interview. I am glad to see not only such interest in good yuri anime, but also the fact that Japanese women’s magazines aren’t going to ignore qeer women.