Queer Cartoons

Couple of important trailers dropped at San Diego Comic Con this week!

First up the Steven Universe Movie will be premiering on Cartoon Network on September 2, 2019. Catch the trailer on the Cartoon Network Twitter feed.

And the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Season Three trailer can be seen on io9.

From Comic Natalie, we have the promotional video for upcoming Yuri comedy Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ).

25Years Later has done a retrospective on Sailor Moon: A Shōjo Super Power that was a very interesting read.

Yuri Manga

Udon Entertainment will be releasing the first volume of their five-volume The Rose of Versailles manga in December 2019. I posted about my role in this classic manga’s publication yesterday, if you’re interested in some excellent advice from my mother and a discussion of the gritty world of excel spreadsheets in manga publishing, take a look. ^_^

We have a pile of new manga up on the Yuricon Store!

Takemiya Jin’s delightful romance about a young woman and the older woman she likes to bake for, Itoshi Koishi, Volume 2 (いとしこいし) which just hit shelves this week.

Yoru to Umi, Volume 1 (夜と海) by  Goumoto. I haven’t read this at all, but it appears on all the Japanese Yuri lists. It looks like it starts with a mystery and develops into a romance.

FLOWERCHILD’s uncomfortable series for Comic Yuri Hime, Warikitta Kankei Desukara. Volume 1 (割り切った関係ですから。)

Avalon ~bloom~ Yuri Anthology is the next in this series of Yuri from the lesser known publisher [girls x garden comics].

Mermaid Line Complete Edition (マーメイドライン 完全版) is a reprint of an older Yuri Hime comics collection that includes what I remember as a very lovely transgender lesbian story. I reviewed the original collection in 2008.

tMnR’s popular girl falls for her sister-in-law manga Tatoeto Dokonu Itoda Toshitemo (たとえとどかぬ糸だとしても ) is coming to us in English from Kodansha in September as If I Could Reach You, Volume 1.

Via Yuri Navi, here is an odd-couple adult life romance, Nukumori Blanket (ぬくもりブランケット). You can read this short (in Japanese) on Sukima.

Yuri Visual Novel

Via Yuri Mother, Visual Novel Heart of the Woods by Studio Élan announced today via Twitter that they would be updating their Yuri visual Novel with full English voice acting. “The voice acting will be included in a free update for the PC, Mac, and Linux versions of the game and will be included on release for the game’s Nintendo Switch port, set to release in Early 2020.”

Studio Élan announced on their Twitter feed that they are specifically looking for a transgender voice actress for the lead role of Tara – and other roles – for this voiced version.  Don’t self-censor, if you think you’d like to do this…do this!

Other News

According to the Comics Beat article on why Ruby Rose is unable to attend, by the time you read this the Batwoman TV pilot episode will have already been screened at San Diego Comic Con. Keep an eye out for it! (Fun reading my Twitter feed on it – 900 posts saying how awesome it is, one woman declaring her nerd cred and how she’ll “give it a chance” and one lone dude saying “everyone says it sucks.” Poor little angry dude.

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