Galette No. 39 (ガレットNo.39)

October 26th, 2026

Two women laying in opposite directions, sleep face to face on a background of teal and orange. Galette No. 39 (ガレットNo.39) comes with a clear file, this time by Nakato Nui, celebrating the final chapter of “Otome no Shinden,” which I want to talk about for a sec,

This manga very much started dead in the middle of what might have become a “creepy doll” as Miko begins the story with a doll as her only friend. When she meet Rikako, she begins to spend time more in human company. I have been on edge to see how Mimi, her doll, reacts, but here, Mimi is encouraging. The two girls find an abandoned doll and decide to rehabilitate it to be the star of their handicraft project…and Mimi makes a new doll friend. The end comes as humans and dolls move happily on into a new chapter.I’m greatly relieved that this end was so gentle.

Inui Ayu’s “Koi ni Shitakunai” comes to a crisis point as Mom realizes that her feelings for Ren are not just pretending to date.

I still absolutely give two thumbs up to Hakamada Mera’s reverse isekai “Akuyaku Reijo Tenseishitara Yuri Sakka ni Nattemashita”. Two arch-enemies are reborn as manga artists. Our protagonist, Kurosaka Yori dreams of her death at Shiratori Mashiro’s hands every night, but also…really wants to kiss her. Almost worse, Shiratori in this world seems to blissfully unaware of their history (yeah, I don’t buy that) and is just really nice.

Morinaga Milk appears to be starting a new series. Classroom follows two girls who were close, then ended up at different school and are now in the same school. Things are awkward between them.

“Kichi” by Rion follows a young woman struggling to take care of her lover.

There are other series and one-shots, a short story, the editors’ columns and the 140-character storries and illustrations almost 200 pages of creator-owned, crowdfunded Yuri manga!

Ratings:

Over9ll – 9

Right now it is available to overseas purchaers on Galette Web’s Booth.pm site. Melonbooks is Japan only after a recent security issue. When  Bookwalker and Amazon JP update, I’ll add them to the Yuricon Store, as well. 

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 24, 2026

October 24th, 2026

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The second volume of Hanakage Alt’s romance between a Korean pop idol and her # fan moves over to a Korea arc in Unnie ‘tte Yondemo Ii Desuka?, Volume 2 (オンニって呼んでもいいですか?)

Via the series’ official X account, Tsukiritai Onna to Tabetai Onna, Volume 7 (作りたい女と食べたい女) will be released in Japan mid-December. She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat, Volumes 1-5 are available in English. I have reviewed them all here on Okazu.

Not Yuri, but definitely queer interest, CandleA announced “Shinai Warera ha Zetsumetsu Shinai“ (シない我らは絶滅しない), by Shinmaki Issa, about “woman confronting life as an asexual, and a gal.” Read it now in Japanese on Comic Walker.

Our friends at PEOW2 have announced the license for Alien 9! In the early days of Yuricon’s first ML, that series had a lot of fans.

 

Yuri Anime

The official teaser for the upcoming “Violence Yuri” series anime, MURCIELAGO , is on Youtube, with subtitles from NBC/Universal. 

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- is coming to US theaters January 16-19th, 2027 in both dub and sub. Click the link to get an email when tickets are available.

 

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Yuri Visual Novel

Yukimisoft has launched a demo for their PC-98-inspired Yuri VN, if you stay. Demos are available on itch.io and Steam. “Winter 1999. Kicked out of your house after being outed by your closest friend, you plan to leave your hometown. Your girlfriend, Mika, wants to see you one more time. Decide whether or not you’ll stay together. “

Via Babs on Bluesky, The Sea is Our Stage demo is on Steam. “..a noblewoman uncovers her father’s evil plot and, along with her lowborn friends, takes to the seas to flee from high society. Her plan to right her family’s wrongs and return home are disrupted by the untimely arrival of an enigmatic and flirtatious pirate.” 

The Witch’s Bakery is an adorable VN, with a Yuri route, out on Steam, Playstaion 5, Xbox, and  Switch. H/T to yunaluvgames on IG for this.

 

Yuri Light Novel

Unsung Epics of the Heros’ Journey, Volume 2 is up on Bookwalker Global! I found Volume 1 to be a really decent read when I reviewed it here on Okazu. I’m looking forward to reading V2. 

Not really Yuri (although there is a overblown desire for intimacy as a repeat gag), but if you’re a bloodthirsty person like me, I really do recommend the Nia Liston: Merciless Maiden light novels. I’m reviewing them for ANN. They’ve been fantastic.

 

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Other News

Via Comic Natalie, Sukeban Deka, the oldest of the three popular delinquent/girl gang series of the 70s (and 80s and 90s and 000s…etc), is celebrating a 50th anniversary with an exhibition in Osaka! Omoi has licensed this manga for English release as a digital publication. I love how over the top it is and yes, there is some Yuri, especially at the beginning.

Yumebk in Brooklyn, NYC, is hosting a lesbian-themed Halloween market named… Lavender Scare. 100/100 points for naming!

 

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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 4

October 23rd, 2026

On a neon green background, a woman with messy black hair leans over a girl wearing wired earphones. They look deeply into each other's eyes.When my copy of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 4, arrived my wife whisked it out of my hands and read it before I did. In all our years together as I have read Yuri manga, this is the only series she’s really fired up about. 

This volume brings us to the moment at which Aya and Mitsuki have to navigate their feelings, the Prom,  Joe’s relationship with Kanna and a well-meaning younger student who put a lot on the line to make space for Mitsuki’s career…all colliding at once.

Resolutions come, thick and fast. Some are wonderful, some are fraught. Like real life, opportunities come and go. There is a phrase you may have heard of – “when one door closes, a window opens.” The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All reminds us that life isn’t always that neat. Sometimes windows and doors open and close in chaotic rhythm. 

Eventually graduation forces change…for everyone in the story. There is a time skip that bring us from tentative high school romance, to college life. Mitsuki and Aya have a whole new set of hurdles small and large, to deal with. For Aya, balancing life and school and keeping herself focused on the goal. For Mitsuki, finding a place to be herself and the shock when she realizes that she’s compromised on something essential. 

Paneling has become a little less intentionally disordered. I don’t know if that is meant to be symbolic or not, but it’s impossible to read otherwise. As we age, life becomes – out of necessity – more constrained. When a panel breaks free of its border, it feels like an act of rebellion. And we are reminded that a place where you belong may actually be a physical space…and it may simply be a community you share. 

Ratings: 

Art – 9
Story – 9
Characters – 9
Service – Not really (unless you count punked out college Mitsuki…)
Yuri – 9

Overall – 9

Volume 4 is hitting shelves this coming week.  My very sincere thanks to Yen Press for an advanced review copy with the Kinokuniya exclusive cover of Mitsuki and Aya at prom!  

Another fabulous volume of this emotionally involving contemporary F/F romance. Volume 5 is is hitting JP shelves the same week as the premier of the anime this January and will be streamed on Crunchyroll. OMG, we’re getting an anime and it is going to…rock. (Yes, I said it. I’m officially a old dork.)

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Not So Shoujo Love Story, Volume 4

October 19th, 2026

In front of opposing black and white and color panels of fireworks, a girl with short reddish hair, leans into a startled girl with blonde hair.We have hit that moment in Curryuku’s story where the characters are going to have to figure some shit out. In Not So Shoujo Love Story, Volume 4, shit is beginning to be figured out.

Hana has long been saying that she likes Rei, but she’s smart enough to know that “like” and even love or desire are not enough to make a relationship happen, much less work. Rei’s a dumbass, but even she surely has to notice that she’s thinking about Hana all the time.

Even our resident alien, Hansum notices something is going down, although his understanding of it is imperfect.

The main part of the story is the tenuous, unevenly balanced relationship between Hana and Rei. Here all our existential cringe is balled up into one more horrific passage of time in high school, but real life is starting to peek in through the cracks, and other relationship begin to become more fleshed out. Rei thinks about her father as a person for the first time, and with that, the reality of life weighs on her. Hana’s father, likewise starts to see his daughter as a whole person for the first time. She isn’t who he assumed she’d be, but he’s working on understanding who she is. 

Of all the relationships in the story, Volume 4 let’s us see the unlikely friendship between Susan and Rei leave the realm of  snark and trash talk and actually become something that gives both of them strength. Of all the things I like about this volume, this friendship developing was my favorite.

And, lastly, there is a moment of reckoning for Hana and Rei. As creator Curryuku puts it at the end of this volume, “This not so shoujo love story has begun.”

I very much enjoy this series, even (maybe because of?) with so many extremely goofy gags. But once again…let’s look at that brilliant cover! OMG. The Black and white-manga-style contrasted with the all-color webtoon style panels, still functioning as a paper background. Every one of the covers thus far has been worth the price of the book for me.  Viz Media Originals have, thus far, been excellent.

Ratings: 

Art – 8
Story – 8
Characters – 8
Service – Nope
Yuri – 8

Overall – 8

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 17, 2026

October 17th, 2026

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Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Kodansha has licensed Muryoku Seijo to Munou Oujo ~ Maryoku Zero de Shoukansareta Seijo no Isekai Kyuukokuki  by Tamasaki Tama as Powerless Without You. I enjoy this manga in Comic Yuri Hime and think you might too.

New license Kodansha, as well. We’re getting Belladonna’s Lover, a collection with by Ruu1mm, that includes some lovely moody Yuri stories, says Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus. I reviewed this collection last year here on Okazu.

 

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Yuri Visual Novels

Yuri Eureka want you to know that their Yuri VN Exhibition of the Heart has an official release date of October 27. They describe this as a “cute and lewd” Yuri visual novel.

Christine Love has announced a console release for her hit lesbian VN Get In The Car, Loser!, which she notes is available on Steam, Itch.io and on the Nintendo Switch.

Studio Élan’s Highway Blossoms: Gold Rush release is also on Switch and Playstation.

I’m not a game industry analyst, but IMHO, VNs are very much both the cause and effect in Sony’s choice to end physical media: People are more used to DLing games, so why have disks? DLed content is easier to control (i.e, change/remove).  No disk drive means devices are smaller and cheaper, etc, etc… And VNs are why Sony is eating XBox for lunch. 

 

Yuri Light Novels

inori.’s new LN, Poison for the Moon, Medicine for the Night – Volume 1: An Assassin Who Longs for Death and a Vampire Marked for Death will be hitting shelves in December. Pre-order it now! 

inori’s Homunculus Tears: Alchemy For The Broken-Hearted is getting a manga adaptation, drawn by Ayster. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details over at ANN. I review the light novel here on Okazu last year.

 

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Yuri Event

Exciting news for Polish Yuri fans! Polski Komiks Lesbijski is crowdfunding to get their exhibition to more cities. The book is in print and you can get it by donating to their effort or speaking to a local event coordinator. Thanks to YNN Correspondent Lou for the news.

Yuri Mart is running an event in Paris! Central Cos café, 120 Boulevard Auriol, 75013 Paris, 24 & 25 octobre 2026. Check out their IG for more details.

 

Other News

IG user dragkingdazangman brings us this video about Korean GL OG Min Anny, a woman who created GL underneath the censors’ watchful eyes. Min Anny is still alive and you can follow her on IG as well at annymin.

Super excited for Rai Kanada whose article Arming the Heart with Steel: How Sakura Wars Explores Structural Queer Survival is up on Anime Herald!

 

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