Event News
Girls Love Fest 13 is coming up in mere hours in the Tokyo Metropolitan area once again! The participating circle list is getting pretty damn big.
I can’t remember if I mentioned this yet. Hat tip to YNN Correspondent EJ Daniels, and with a full report by Komatsu-san on Crunchyroll News, a Maria-sama ga Miteru “Graduation” Event will commence on March 29 in Tokyo.
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A Queer, Southern, Woman of Color anthology is looking for contributors. Queer Young Cowboys publication is looking for an editor. These and many other Queer lit opportunities are listed on the Lambda Literary site. No excuses – get out there and create!
Comic Natalie has reported additional info on Manpuku Yuri (満腹百合), the manga about food and playing house, starring a happy lesbian couple. There is now a short promotional video. It’s very squee. ^_^
Kathryn Hemmann at Contemporary Japanese Literature takes a look at Yoshiya Nobuko’s Yellow Rose and finds it good. In case you want a perspective other (and more academically minded) than mine. She also finds Frederick’s point about lesbian identity to be key – and brings up a point that I had not considered and which is extremely significant. It’s a good review, go read it!
Comic Natalie gleefully reports that Volume 4 of “Violence Yuri” manga Murcielago (ムルシエラゴ) comes with an “Evil Breasts” poster. Click this link for SFW image if you have a relaxed workplace and aren’t afraid of getting a reputation as (or as more of ) a weirdo. The words say “These breasts are evil breasts.”
If you can read Japanese, you might want to toddle over to this look at magical girl series: Children of Sailor Moon: The Evolution of Japanese “Magical Girl Anime (セーラームーンの子どもたち—日本発「魔法少女」アニメの進化).
OMG, I have to share this!!!! ROD‘s Yomiko Readman makes a visit to the Himawari Bookshop from the series Himawari-san Volume 5, via Comic Zin. This illustration would be worth going out of my way for. ^_^
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Oh man, another GLFes going on right now??? It’s probably just as well I didn’t know about it beforehand; I would have been seriously tempted to go, but I don’t really have the time or the money to go to Tokyo right now… But Junk Lab is there… (ToT)
Yeah, and Circle UKOZ. T_T
They hold it twice a year, like Comitia.
I am crying bitter tears on the inside… GLFes would have been so much more fun than what I actually had to do with my weekend. (T.T)
I just ordered Manpuku Yuri (and a lot of other manga, hah). Hopefully it will be as cute as the PV makes it look. (^_^)
That will surely make it all better. When I can’t get to an event I just pretend that it sucked. :-D
My copy of Himawari-san v5 arrived today. Hideyuki Kurata is quoted on the obi: “Himawari-san, it wouldn’t be inconvenient were our Yomiko to drop by for a visit, would it?”
I think perhaps it is a drama CD (though I don’t see a voice credit for Yomiko Readman listed).
Or perhaps I just didn’t get the limited edition volume with the Yomiko illustration.
No matter, I would have bought the volume, anyway.
I believe the illustration was only available when it was purchased at Comic Zin. That sort of exclusive is very common in JP bookstores. You get an illustration insert when you buy it at this bookstore or that one. Since Comic Zin posted this on their twitter, I’d presume it was an exclusive for them.