Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 14, 2026

November 14th, 2026

In black block letters, YNN Yuri Network News. On the left, in black silhouette, a woman with a broad brim hat and dress stands, a woman in a tight outfit sits against the Y. Art by Mari Kurisato for Okazu Yuri Manga

Kodansha is running a BL/GL sale on Bookwalker! Many of the Volumes 1s are a mere 99 coins, and further volumes are up to 50% off!

ANN’s Joanna Cayanan has the news that Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. anime shorts will be getting a manga adaptation!

For fans of human/nonhuman Yuri, Drakainae Orbium (ドラカイナエ・オルビウム) is a Yuri science fiction/fantasy nine-story anthology centering dragons…and Yuri. This is available on Booth.pm.

Butch-gumi ~ Yoroshiku Isekai Warera Matake Shin’yuu Akki Messatsu Futsu Chi Yoshihiro-gumi ~ (ブッチ組 ～夜露死苦異世界我等真武親友悪鬼滅殺仏血義礼組～) from Hayashiya Shizuru, her reverse isekai delinquents in another world manga has been released as a digital volume on  JP Kindle, but VPN seems to work on Bookwalker JP for the installments. Obviously, I desire a physical volume for this. ^_^

Via Comic Natalie, Atashi-tachi ‘tte tsukiatteru yo ne! ?, Volume 1 (あたし達って付き合ってるよね!?) follows a clingy girl trying to prove she isn’t needy by pursuing her friend, whose sense of personal space is non-existent.

 

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Yuri Live-Action Drama

Yuri is My Job! by Miman, is being adapted into a short drama series, streaming on TATEDOR in Japan, starting in Spring 2027, says Comic Natalie. Thanks to Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus for the tip. According to Miman on X, Volume 15 of the manga series goes on sale this week in Japan!

 

Yuri Visual Novels

Via Automaton on X, Manatsu no Citrus (真夏のシトラス), an “overworked corporate slave” Yuri romance story  which has been overhauled after feedback from the demo and will be getting a January release. Details on their site.

Via Yuri Navi, Haru no Otoha wa Marude Kimi ni Nitete (春の音はまるで君に似てて) will be released on Steam and Switch! This is “a yuri kinetic novel set in a modern Japanese girls’ school, depicting the love and growth of two girls throughout the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.”

From RPLAY Games, The Day It Rained Blood demo is up on Steam. This is “an adult dark-romance visual novel where you choose between a girl cursed to die each day and a childhood friend blessed by fate. Enter the tragedy beneath the blood rain to save her—or turn from the curse and protect your peaceful life.”

OrangeSounds would like to share the news of  their Yuri VN The Angel’s Devil Tail – One More Question 2, “A horror-meets-cute puzzle game with a twist-filled Yuri romance story.” You can find this on Steam as well.

Ebi-hime has submitted Pledged to a Princess, a “cute yuri visual novel about an ordinary Welsh girl who discovers that her internet friend and fellow himejoshi is actually the princess of a small European country!” to Steam. Wishlist it today! Although Steam has marked it “mature,”  Ebi-hime says it is SFW with no 18+ scenes.

 

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Yuri Anime

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Ashley, atelier’s No Love 0/2 is out now on YouTube! Burkely Hermann reviewed the first episode here on Okazu last spring. I thought it was pretty good.

 

Baihe Novel

九夏, aka Irene_309, is a Baihe author whose most recent novel is about an idol who shocks the world when she retires, by announcing the world is ending. She retires to a small village, where she lives under an alias, until another woman barges in to her life, looking for freedom. They embark on a journey to save the world, maybe? Shàngwèi zòu xiǎng de shìjiè mòrì xùqǔ(尚未奏響的世界末日序曲) is available on Kadokawa TW. I want to read this one.

 

Yuri Light Novels

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Fleet-Footed Dungeon Delver: Tune in for Magical Girls and Motion Blur!, Vol. 1 is definitely Yuri. He’s reviewed it at his blog A Case Suitable for Treatment.

Sean also just reviewed The Executioner and Her Way of Life: Curtain Call, the final volume of the series.

I’m working on Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey, Volume 2 now that I have finished the book I was slow-reading, because it was so delightful. Review coming tomorrow for that, and Unsung when I am done.

Yuri ni Narenakya Shine (百合にならなきゃ死ぬ) seems silly. ^_^ “The culprit who stole and disposed of the yakuza’s cocaine was a third-year middle school girl named Kurisaki Yuaself … .The girl, whose life is now in the hands of the yakuza, is tasked with entering high school and putting herself in a real-life romance show to seduce two beautiful girls!?” Sure, why not? ^_^

 

Other News

Yuzaki Sakaomi, author of She Loves To Cook, She Loves To Eat, will be a guest at the 32nd Manga Barcelona event!

This week’s reading is by ANN’s Coop Bicknell, as they look at the precarity inherent in the infrastructure of manga localization. I know not everyone thinks about who does the work that you read, but those people (among which I include myself) are struggling. Read Manga’s Backbone is Breaking.

 

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Two A.M. at the Dining Table, Volume 1

November 13th, 2026

On a teal background, a girl with pink pony tails looks anxious, while around her floats pink food, a knife and a cute ghost in a green dress who watches her.Horror is so interesting. Monster horror can make us think about how society “others,” or they can stand in for real world destructive forces. Gore and body horror makes us think about mortality, suffering, pain and fear. And ghost stories may make us delve into the lingering ties, unfinished tasks, resentments, and loves that have not been released when a life is over.

As we begin Two A.M. at the Dining Table, Volume 1, Maria’s mother is dead, but every morning, when Maria comes out of her bedroom, there her mother stands, in the kitchen making food. The food is crowding the table, there’s no more room, but Maria cannot eat any of it.  She’s trying to hold everything together. No one really knows her mother died, so she’s just hiding from her mother’s ghost and doing her best to be home as little as possible. 

One day, while eating something from the convenience store in the park, Maria meets a cute girl, Tamami, who looks very hungry. She shares her food with Tamami. From that point on, everywhere she goes, Tamami seems to follow her. Maria, who has been on edge for weeks ignoring the increasing problem of her not-dead-enough mother, snaps. 

Eventually Tamami and she have a confrontation during which Maria learns Tamami is a literal hungry ghost. Maria brings her home, and Tamami is able to eat all of the food her mother is making! But still, Maria has no chance to really process her loss, because…now she sees ghosts. And they all seem to want something from her.

With Tamami, Maria will work to resolve the lingering issues in this paranormal ghost story, that plumbs the unresolved urges that keep the dead in our world. By turns Two A.M. at the Dining Table, Volume 1 is terrifying, incredibly sad, and more than once very cute. Maria and Tamami do begin to care about one another very much, but who has time to deal with that either, as there are angry ghosts at the door? 

I tend to equally like and dislike stories like this, where paranormal investigators resolve the unresolved emotions, solve banal mysteries of lives that have been cut short and force us to reckon with human suffering- often caused by people who should be protectors and loved ones. I found this series to be an interesting, if forlorn, approach to the story.

Here, we are given protagonists who are clearly going to become more than merely partners, which adds another dimension of grief to their story. When Maria learns how Tamami died, will she be able to let her new friend go? Maria still hasn’t had much time to exist on her own, to feel the loneliness of loss and we begin this partnership with the unspoken understanding that it cannot last.  

Ratings: 

Art – 7
Story – 8 We know where this is going, but we want to see how it gets there
Characters – 8 Significant discomfort leads to intimacy
Service – Not really
Yuri – 4 Maria is only just  beginning to come to see her feelings when someone else points them out.

Overall – 8

I’ll be interested to see how it all develops – Volume 2 is slated for a February release.

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Otherside Picnic, Volume 14

November 9th, 2026

Two women wearing purple-flower-pattered yukata and green jackets at an onsen hold hands.Otherside Picnic, Volume 14 of the manga presents several turning points in the story. One seems inevitable, while the other is, at this point, deeply awkward. 

Presented with an opportunity to spend a night together at an onsen, Sorawo and Toriko chicken out and asks Kozakura to accompany them. Despite the several deeply creepy experiences they encounter (or maybe because of them?,) Toriko  admits something everyone by Sorawo can see – she likes her partner. That way.

Sorawo is nowhere near being able to address that yet. Baggage from her past is coming up again and again, and while she can rely on Toriko, she doesn’t yet rely on herself. That’s going to take a while. We get a bit more of her backstory, and are introduced to the Red Person, a being that immediately makes it seem that Sorawo has always been targeted by the Otherside, even if she only noticed it now.

We get to see a glimpse of Kozakura engaging with her fans on her stream, and she seems so much nicer that one has to wonder how it all went wrong for her.

This is an incredibly strong issue of the manga. Their encounter at the onsen rates as one of the top three moments of pure horror for me. 

And, at last, 13 volumes in to the story, it has become a romance. There’s so much more time and space for that to develop. I’m looking forward to seeing the continung adaptation.

Ratings: 

Story – 9
Art – 8 It doesn’t *quite* give the thrill of imagining the onsen scenarions, but is very good. And finally we see the ATP!
Characters – 10
Yuri – 6 Bathing at an onsen
Service – 6 Bathing at an onsen

Overall – 9

I definitely recommend the manga adaptation of this series. The art really communicates the funny, the creepy and the emotional…..stuff. It’s a great read.

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 7, 2026

November 7th, 2026

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Yen Press announced a new license at MCM London, My Childhood Friend Meows Under the Skirt, about two former best friends, a cat curse and love?

YNN Correspondent Roxie wants you to know that the pre-order for Mage & Demon Queen, Volume 1 in print is up on Amazon! Color-LES says she’ll post more about it when the cover image is revealed.

Exciting news for fans of Morishima Akiko (me, it’s me!). Her stories about older single lesbians living their lives, Hitorimi Desu (ひとりみです) , Volume 1 and Volume 2 had their print debut this week and are on the Yuricon Store!

MangaOh on X says that due to popular demand they are reprinting the Koi Yori Aoku standees for Volumes 2-5.

Hanakage Alt’s Unnie ‘tte Yondemo Ii Desuka?, Volume 2 ( オンニって呼んでもいいですか?) hit shelves this week!

Via Yuri Navi, we have Kore Sousou, “an alluring girl-meets-girl story depicting the encounter between a college student and a mysterious lady,” which has begun serialization online on Comic Days.

 

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Yuri Visual Novels

Yuri Kissaten wants you to know about Gay It Loud, “Dating in the dreamy shopping mall of 1995! Hang out at the food court, have sloppy makeouts in the dressing room, loiter in the arcade, and collect nostalgic toys.” Wishlist it now on Steam or check it out on Itch.io when it hits in January!

落幕之前 Before the Fall on Steam by offers a life path choice, “1990s, Hong Kong. Rookie playwright Shawn Keung finally stages her debut, but this windfall has a price: an estranged friend, a childhood idol, an enigmatic musician, and a broken family. Who is your muse? Who is your ruin? When the curtain falls, will you be the only one left on stage?” @baiyhe on X, wants to promote this so it gets localized.

Possessed By Fate is a Yuri ghost romance VN by sapphicore.

 

GL Thai Live-Action News

Khom Klang, won Miradas de Asia Award at the GIFIC (Guadix, Spain). This is the first time a Thai production has won a festival  award in Spain. “A skeptical Bangkok cop hunts a bulletproof human trafficking kingpin. She travels to Phop Phra, Tak, seeking a master to forge enchanted bullets. Upon arrival, she discovers that the master she sought is her fated soulmate, who has been waiting for her to reunite with her true love all her life.” I’m going to have to watch this, obviously.

 

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Yuri Light Novel

inori’s I’m In Love With the Villainess spin off, I’m in Love with the Villainess: Come On and Notice Me Already, Volume 1 is up for pre–orders. This story follows Rae and Claire’s daughters, the twins May and Aleah, a love triangle and a demon invasion!

Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey, Volume 2 is on shelves now. I quite enjoyed Volume 1, and am reading 2 now. ^_^

 

Other News

Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus points us to Goodbye, Lara as an intertextual queer retelling by Alex Henderson on Anime Feminist for this week’s reading. ^_^

 

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Comic Yuri Hime, November 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年11月号)

November 5th, 2026

Illuminated by light from behind them, shadows of two girls appear in the doorway of an abandoned room.Comic Yuri Hime, November 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年11月号) offers a tantalizing cover. Instead of a colorful room with props and costumes, the shadows of two women stand backlit in a door, looking in to or leaving a darkened room behind them. The moment I saw Chiiriko’s cover, I had a good idea what the story had been all along. I’ve cheated because I have the next issue here, and yes, I guessed the ribbon story. ^_^ 

This volumes starts with “Datte Koi wa Tsukiyo ni Tomoru kara” by meiji, a new series that begins as a young woman wanders a private school dorm at night, only to be discovered by an older student who seems interested in her curious nature.

In Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyau Reijou.” by inori. and Aonoshimo, an old friend arrives in time to cast doubt on Salas’ accusations, while Rae faces off against Lily, whose two personalities both resent her.

If you have ever been in or read about the largest train stations in Japan, you know that thinking of them as a labyrinth isn’t far off. In Yajima Kozumi’s  “Yuri no Ma ni Hasamaru Umeda Dungeon” two women can’t seem to find each other in the Umeda train station (largely because one has no sense of direction, but won’t stop moving.) I found this story to be quite cute, if a little stress-inducing.

“Kimi ga Hoeru Tame no Uta o” brings Yuu and Haru to the moment where they must bring all their energy to the contest. Haru learns a terrifying truth about one of the judges.

Two important conversations happen in “Chou Shin Uchuu Yori Ai wo Komete” by Ashidaka Wo. Ten learns why she was hurt by someone she trusted and runs to talk to Lulu about their relationship.

Ikuta Hana’s “Hone ni negai o,Hoshi ni noroi o” takes a darker turn, as Aoi learns about the “star” mark on her chest and what it might mean.

Shibori Kasuko’s “Genjitsu sekai demo shiawase ni shite kudasai ne?” comes to an end, as the love interests are all sent back to their game world….

And there are, as always many other stories I read, and stories I don’t. ^_^ We have a passel of horror, and toxic Yuri, some science fiction and fantasy and school-life drama. Still no sports. I won’t shut up about that until I get some. ^_^

One more volume left in the year. The December issue is hitting shelves in Japan this month and is awaiting me at the bookstore. I can’t wait.

Ratings: 

Overall – 9

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