Playing catch-up would be easier if there wasn’t so much Yuri news every week! ^_^ But finally, we are all caught up.

Yuri Manga in English

Out soon in English and an absolute must-read, is Love Bullet, Volume 2!, by inee.

Hitting bookshelves earlier this week was Yuri Espoir, Volume 5.

And Seven Seas has released Yuri Yuri Panic: A Case of Extreme Cuteness Has Occurred!, Volume 1. This looks like a wacky school rom-com.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, we have two Yen Press announcements this week: Summer Love Begins with a Lie -squall-, the manga based on the SukeraSparo VN, and Muromaki’s next collection of Yuri scenes and shorts, Lilies in Love for 101 Days.

I wrote a review of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, Volumes 1-9 for ANN! I see what people say when they say “Yuri,” but I see girls bonding over shared experiences in an intense and intimate way. ^_^

YNN Correspondent Jeyl has news that Sunstone creator Stjepan Šejić has a new illustrated novel. He and Rocketship Entertainment have created an animatronic segment called Letters to the Vampire Queen: The Pitch.

Yuri Manga in Japanese

ANN’s Anita Tai has the news that Goodbye, Lara will be getting a manga! By Citrus creator Saborouta! I don’t know how I feel about that!

Via Comic Natalie, Otsukare Gohan ~ Chiyo to Ikuko no Konbini Kakeawase Ryōri Jou~ (お憑かれごはん ～千代といくこのコンビニかけあわせ料理帖～) is about a tired office worker and the ghost of a waitress she lives with, who possesses her and cooks for her. Read the first chapter in Japanese for free on Comic Walker!

Also via Comic Natalie Mangatime Kirara Max is seralizing Rusabi’s AMOR – Koi Suru Cupid Amor (AMOR-恋するキューピッドアモル-). Reo is bitter about her lost love, and living with a tsundere Cupid is not helping.

Galette No. 39  (ガレットNo.39) is available on the Galette WORKS Booth.Pm shop, in digital format so no shipping needed. 

Via YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, sono.N‘s one-shot, Watashi no Kanojo ha Bodybuilder (私の彼女はボディビルダー) is getting a full series – read the one-shot in Japanese today on Comic Walker!

ANN’s Anita Tai wants you to know that the Lycoris Recoil manga will be ending shortly.

GL Manhwa

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Mukgaru on X announced that their GL comic Drowning In Your Ocean has begun serialization in English on Tappyoon. You can read the first chapter for free now! 

Anime News

We have a number of final episode reviews worth reading this week onANN.

Sylvia Jones takes a solid look at Goodbye, Lara and Kennedy weighs in with her review of the final episode of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games.

Not Yuri, but Bless anime follows two women who are rejected as models, who team up to “define themselves in an inspirational fashion manga that asks cutting questions about what it really means to be beautiful—and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seems to respect talent over hard work.” Joanna Cayanan has the details on ANN. I am looking forward to another story of women forming intimate friendships through shared experiences.

Also not Yuri, but definitely intimate friendship, a second season of Though I Am An Inept Villainess anime has been announced.  ANN’s Anita Tai has the details.

Yuri Light Novel

Coming this winter from Tokyopop is UGLY GIRLS,  which follows a transfer student from Japan to Taiwain, with “atmospheric horror and eerie mystery around every corner set across Taiwan and Japan.“

Another Yuri anthology, Yuri Short Story Collection wiz 2 (百合小説コレクション wiz 2) is out with 8 short stories. I mention the first volume of wiz, in my review Three Yuri Short Story Collections from 2025 here on Okazu.

Yuri Visual Novels

Maarika announced on Bluesky that the Introduction to her VN That Bitch Stabbed Me is on her Patreon. Read and dl for free.

Yuri Kissaten is pleased to announce that Toxic Yuri has launched on Steam! You can download the demo for free and meet an overworked office lady who discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins!

Yuri Merch and Pop-ups

There is a Watanare Pop-Up Shop from October 23- November 8 at Volks Akihabara Hobby Heaven 2, 6th Floor in Akihabara, Tokyo.

Yuri Live-Action 

Buzz Tyler, a film director in Japan wants you all to know about Virgin Kiss, a YouTube series of live-action GL / Yuri short films from Japan. They look fairly male-gaze between the segment titles and images to me, but YMMV.

Yuri Research

New friend Emilia HoarFrost would like you to know about her article Animating Queer Phenomenology: Henshin in Yuri Kuma Arashi and Madoka Magica.

Other News

Totally something different. Via Comic Natalie, Hana no Asuka-gumi creator Takaguchi Satosumi has begun a new series, this time centered on members of a K-POP boys group, in Bokura ha Mada Sora no Yume o Minai (ぼくらはまだ空の夢を見ない). Click the link for sample pages in Japanese. This series is published by Futabasha.

Itstheheyman on IG has a really amusing schtick, where he makes up manga, anime and LN titles that are incredibly silly and plausibleish, but this video in which he discovers a real-life 18+ Yuri title made me laugh.

I wrote a review for The World’s Strongest Witch LN, Volumes 1-2, for ANN. It was a thing I read. Maybe the anime will be more fun? 

More entertaining for me was Tomb Raider King, Volumes 1-14, which I read before the anime came out.

All over the JP socials last night, Pixiv Fanbox has suspended a load of creators, for a variety of reasons, mostly for “existing.” Queer creators were hit hard, because RW idiots attack through payment processors and banks, over and over.

Cobalt Magazine (Home of Maria-sama ga Miteru) posted on X that “Over 2,000 Cobalt Bunko books from the personal collection of the late science fiction researcher, Kei Hoshi, have been donated to Shirayuri Women’s University. ”  There has been renewed interest in Shoujo and Jousei culture at that university.

Via YNN Sr. Correspondent Eleanor Walker, this reddit  post by alconnow that Pink Candy Kiss creator Ami Uozume “drew the poster illustration for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Breast Cancer Society…”

…and with this, I am caught up! Thank you for your patience while I was ill. ^_^

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This week includes a melange of Yuri, Baihe and GL, so just assume “GL, Baihe and Yuri” are in front of all the categories this week. ^_^

I’m also trying to clear out my X bookmarks, so…sorry, lots of links from there. Next week I’ll trawl all my IG bookmarks. But yay, my backlog is much smaller now! ^_^;

Manga News

Yuri Yuri Panic: A Case of Extreme Cuteness Has Occurred!, Volume 1 from Seven Seas is hitting bookshelves this week.

Yen Press has debuted the cover for Contract Sisters, Volume 1, about two strangers who make a contract to be each other’s “sister.” 

I know this is not recent, but it’s been resurfaced, so hey, Crossed Hearts‘ Yuri, GL and BL are available on Bookwalker Global! 

ANN’s Rebecca Silverman wants you to know about 8 Yuri Manga You’re Missing Out On.

Meiji wants you to know that their new manga “Datte Koi ha Tsukiyo ni Tomorukara” (だって恋は月夜に灯るから) will be serialized in Comic Yuri Hime starting in the October issue.

Very exciting, Candle A announced on Twitter that Morishima Akiko’s Hitorimi Desu, Volume 1 and Volume 2 are getting print releases from Kadokawa. If you haven’t been following this series about older lesbians, drop everything and go take a look at the English chapters on Amazon of The Single Life: 60-year-old lesbian who is single and living alone.

Webcomics

Via ESJ_Art‘s X account, they have a GL comic on postype called Wangnyeonim-eun ♥♥Hagosip-eo!! (왕녀님은 ♥♥하고싶어!! ), which translates to The Princess wants to ♥♥!!. Drop by their page to read chapters 1-11 in Korean. Very nice art.

Vampire x Maid Yuri webcomic Lora is complete with 4 chapters on Tappytoon. 

Light Novel News

While at AnimeNYC, Crossed Hearts announced the license for Ink Soaked Ashen Paper, a fantasy Korea LN, in which a victorious Queen demands a spouse as the price of peace. Unfortunately the kingdom only has a princess to send.

Yen Press has Buying a Classmate Once a Week, Vol. 1 : Our Time Together and the Five-Thousand-Yen Excuse coming out in October. Javafefe on X has the trailer for an upcoming anime. 

Vis Sr. YNN Correspondent Frank Hecker who says that if confirmed, this is major news: “Per QiyansPillar on X, the North American rights to the novels Clear and Muddy Loss of Love (usually abbreviated JWQS) and Female General and Eldest Princess (FGEP) have reverted to the author.” This means that someone else can now license them, since North American  rights were previously held by Monogatari…a company that promised a lot, but never delivered on any of their Baihe titles.

Crossed Hearts is also doing a Kickstarter for Enemies With Benefits, a Thai GL novel about “Two women who can’t stand each other. One unforgettable night. One arrangement that was never supposed to mean anything more.“

Visual Novels

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Ashley, The Intro for Maarika’s VN, That Bitch Stabbed Me has launched! Download it from her Patreon at the link. She describes is as “…imagine if Vlad the Impaler was a lesbian vampire who was having a bad day and taking that out on two humans bc they mentioned her ex. “

Studio Élan’s newest VN, My VTuber Rival is Actually Cute?!, has already meat its initial goal on Kickstarter, with 28 days to go.

Live-Action News

Via YNN Correspondent, Baihe series Legend of Yunze, The Vampires, has been put on the Internet Archive with fan subtitles.

Via douchilove on X, Taiwnese novel Her Lips, Her Kiss (She and Hers) is being adapted into a live-action series. Sworn rivals in business, who fall in love.

LAURA DEAN KEEPS BREAKING UP WITH ME is getting a live-action movie! I reviewed this comic in 2019 here on Okazu. It was very good. ^_^

Yuri Events

Via the folks at Anchor Cafe, Aterlier Lilium is holding a retrospective 大沢やよいのおしごと展〜The Work of Ohsawa Yayoi, from October 23 – November 4! This looks so great. I love Ohsawa Yayoi’s manga. Even ore exciting, voice actress Aya Suzaki (voice of 2DK, G Pen Mezamashi Tokei‘s Kaede in a live reading event and Ohzawa-sensei will be doing a talk event  on October 31!

Other News

Shuieisha Plus is running a survey in 6 languages about what you want to see on their service.  You should let them know. ^_^

Your support for Yuri journalism and research has never been more important than right now. Patreon and Ko-Fi are where we currently accept subscriptions and tips.  Our goal is to raise our guest writers’ wages to above industry standard, which are too low!

Subscriptions and donations go straight to paying for Guest Reviews, folks helping with videos, site maintenance, managing the Yuricon Store and directly supporting other Yuri creators. Just $5/month makes a huge impact! Become part of the Okazu family!

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