Yuri Manga

Anoko to Me ga Autabi Watashi ha Shakaiin Yuri Anthology (あの娘と目が合うたび私は 社会人百合アンソロジー), anthology of office Yuri romances is hitting shelves at the end of April!

Mansoufutou ni Gikami Meikyuu (万葬不踏の欺神迷宮)  is a dark fantasy about sisters in a labyrinth of death and deceit.

Seven Seas has put the  Strawberry Panic! Light Novels on Kindle! Grab a copy and read one of the greatest Yuri parodies every written. ^_^ Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3. It’s text-to-speech enabled, which I think is a terrific feature and also want to hear my tablet try to read. The language is overwrought and filled with random Japanese terms. 

Seven Seas also very excited about the upcoming release of Riyoko Ikeda’s Claudine! which they have settled on describing as a “LGBTQ classic.” I think that’s completely reasonable.

ANN reports that the next new volume of Rose of Versailles will be the last.

Volume 1 of Nameless Asterism, also available from Seven Seas, includes a love complication between two of three girl friends.  I’ll be reviewing that soon and I swear to heavens I’ve read it before but cannot for the life of me remember when or where. ^_^;  

One more Seven Seas nugget, Cutie Honey a GoGo is available. For a wonderfully butchy Na-chan and my favorite manga version of Kiseragi Cutie, I recommend it to you. 

Yuri Anime

From the Asagao to Kase-san Official account, news that there will be a monitor playing interviews with the voice actresses and creator of the Kase-san anime at Yuriten. Woot! (And while we’re talking Yuriten, check out  Zoey B.’s comment about the Osaka event, with a fuller review to come!)

The Tachibanakan To Lie Angle anime account on Twitter is sharing a promotional video clip of their upcoming anime. If breasts bouncing in a unrealistic fashion and people falling on top of each other in a unrealistic fashio appeal to you, you’ll like it. I’m giving it a pass, so contact me if you feel up to writing a review!  Comic Natalie reports that the anime will be holding a special event.  ANN reports that’ll it be a 12-episode season, which will be simulcast on Crunchyroll.

ANN has the news that Sentai filmworks has licensed the new Cutie Honey Universe anime.

One more from ANN, horror Yuri anime Happy Sugar Life main visuals have been made public.

We’ve got some amazing stuff coming up, guest reviews and event reports. All patrons of Okazu will be able to get a sneek peek to another new piece written for the Big Book O’Yuri, so if you can throw a dollar or two a month to help keep Okazu running, you’ll get a unique piece of writing to enjoy!

Yuri Visual Novels

YNN Correspondent JD shares the news of Lovestruck a VN company creating new visual novel phone app content that have strong and positive queer love stories.  Check out this Jstationx article on the series: Lovestruck: How This Romance Visual Novel Platform Appeals to Lesbian and Bisexual Women.

LGBTQ Live-Action

From the ‘Meanwhile, in America’ file: 

Jill Gutowitz writes that ‘Blockers’ is the Lesbian Teen Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For. 

This news makes me feel hope and despair, FX orders pilot based on post-apocalyptic comic series Y: The Last Man.

Other News

Look like, I may end going to the Yayoi museum for the Schoolgirls and Sailor-fuku exhibit, which will include some Sailor Moon art, according to ANN. (This museum does all sorts of wonderful culture and comics related events. You may recall Bruce was able to visit it for a Yamagishi Ryoko exhibit some years ago.)

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