Yuri Events
Yuriten Yuri art exhibition wrapped up successful weeks in Osaka, Fukuoka, Tokyo and an exhibit at Comitia, and now, is opening up this week in Sapporo, Hokkaido! How exciting for them!
Next event on my schedule is AnimeNEXT, June 8-10 in Atlantic City, NJ. They’ll be showing the Kase-san anime movie teaser for me, and they have an exciting new announcement – pre-registered attendees can see a screening of the Sailor Moon Musical: Le Mouvement Final at the Showboat casino. If you are attending ANEXT and haven’t had a chance to watch it, definitely take this opportunity, it was the best SeraMyu I’ve seen. ^_^
If you are in or near Montreal, Canada in August, do not miss Yurithon! And say hi to Meggie for me.
Yuri Anime
The theatrical release of Asagao to Kase-san is in only a few weeks and the news is coming thick and fast. A special early-preview event is being held in Japan, and Youtube and LINE will stream a live cast talk event on May 24. ANN has the scoop on the new visual from the movie.
ANN reports that Comic Ryu magazine is going online. The final issue announced an anime for Hirao Auri’s gag idol Yuri manga Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ) of which I have reviewed Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3. Volume 4 is on sale this month. (Hi, everyone who has wandered over here from searching that title!) I can see why it got an anime – it’s a gag comedy with pop idols and Yuri. All the flavors of the month. ANN also has details on the announcement.
YNN Correspondent Eric P notes that Media Blasters is listing a Strawberry Panic! Blu-Ray Box set with RightStuf for a June release. I cannot imagine that the animation for this series will hold up to blu-ray, but YMMV.
Live Action News
Okay, this isn’t Yuri, but I am going to cross my fingers very hard, because Noelle Stevenson, one of the creators of Lumberjanes just announced she’ll be showrunner on She-Ra and the Princesses of Power for Netflix. A girl can dream, can’t she?
Variety reports that Jennifer Aniston will be playing the first female President of the USA and Tig Novaro will be playing her wife, in a Netflix series called First Ladies.
Yuri Manga
Galette Magazine, Issue 6 is on sale now. You can get it in print from Japan or on US Kindle. In addition, Galetteweb has announced an anthology of their own called Meets, which will be on sale on JP Kindle in August. I’ll keep an eye out for it on US Kindle for you. Galette Online has a number of online short stories and manga (in Japanese) for you to take a look at, as well.
Via Kawamoto-san, here’s another Cycomics online title, Shoujo Junrei (少女巡礼) about a manga artist and the girl who enters her world and changes everything.
Yuri Visual Novels
There is both Good and Bad news this week. Beginning with the bad… Valve is purging quite a number of games from the Steam system, many of them Visual Novels from Japanese license holders. Mangagamer announced that excellent Yuri VN (even I liked it) Kindred Spirits on the Roof is one of the causalities, despite the MG folks working with Steam to fill all their requirements. The game is still available for download, however.
On the Good side, Studio Elan has released their first Yuri Visual Novel, Heart of the Woods…on Steam. Heart looks beautiful. “A fantasy yuri visual novel filled with magic, fairies, and a ghost girl. When Maddie and her best friend, Tara, journey to a remote forest village to investigate rumors of the supernatural, they find a whole lot more than they bargained for.”
Other News
My Brother’s Husband, Volume 2 in English is up for pre-order. It’s got a September release date.
Luscious Spirit Studios, maker of Yuri VNs, announced a kickstarter for their first Lesbian short story anthology!
Vox has a fantastic article on the body of Janelle Monae’s discography as a Afrofuturist sci-fi work. Great reading.
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Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!
Just felt it’s worth pointing out that the situation with Steam and Mangagamer (among other publishers) has been evolving fairly rapidly. Mangagamer has apparently received notification to disregard the previous announcement of removal and that Kindred Spirits “is being re-reviewed and specific feedback will be provided”
https://twitter.com/mangagamer/status/997984334480052226?s=21
Link to Mangagamer’s twitter account.
There are apparently other reports that this sudden purge of previously approved content is due to some group spamming violation reports. This information comes from internet comment threads so take with an appropriate sized grain of salt.
Interesting, thanks for the update!
As far as I remember Comic Ryu, there we could find both silly ecchi comedies for every taste, and more realistic works about sexuality like.
Well, I understand that Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu will not be the second Bokura no Hentai, but I hope that it will be far from the Centaur’s life, which from the yuri-ish social comedy gradually became more and more weird and forced.
Well, I understand that Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu will not be the second Bokura no Hentai, but I hope that it will be far from the Centaur’s life, which from the yuri-ish social comedy gradually became more and more weird and forced.
It will be quite interesting to look at Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu, as far as I understand, the yuri potential there is quite large. Thanks for the news!
Just a minor correction about Heart of the Woods — the game doesn’t release until December, but a demo is now available on Steam.
Oh, I’m sorry. It seems that there was some kind of glitch because of manga’s title I mentioned. You can delete the last two of my comments, if you want.