Hello everyone! This is Louis here for the second week of YNN.
Yuri Anime
Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight is an anime out this season and the it has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in the U.S. and while I don’t detect any powerful Yuri vibes from it the story is about childhood friends reuniting at a takarazuka-esque school where everything seemed normal in the first episode before it ended in a dramatic magical duel between two characters spectated by a talking Giraffe so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Flip Flappers is out in the UK released by MVM, if Eric P‘s review made it seem like something you would like why not try checking it out?
Yuri Manga
Sweet Blue Flowers Volume 4 Is now out to buy in English. Sweet Blue Flowers was one of the first yuri manga I tried to work my way though with a dictionary and I loved it and after not one but two false starts I can finally read it all in English and so should all of you. While it starts off as a ‘proper young rich girls’ story Sweet Blue Flowers does eventually give our characters society both in the trappings of education and beyond it. This comic holds a very special place in my hart and if you are fifteen to nineteen and reading this I cannot recommend this title more.
And that is the end of my brief time writing an approximation of an YNN for you all while Erica is away. I hope you found it as interesting as the usual programming which will resume next week. Thank you so much Erica for a wonderful and fun opportunity and thank you to all of you for reading.
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Well, I have a similar opinion about Shōjo Kageki Revue Starlight, but these Utena vibes and Ikuhara’s apprentice as a director, give the chance to hope for something more in the future. However, on forums this anime has already declared yuri-ish only on the basis of these facts.
Exactly. It doesn’t necessarily mark it as Yuri to me especially in the year of Kase-san.
Thank you Louis for a very fine job of standing in for me on Okazu for the YNN reports! I know I appreciated it, and hope everyone else did, as well. ^_^
You are most welcome Erica. I had a great time.
I hope you’ll be able to do it again when I take another 4 vacations in a year. ^_^
Speaking of Flip Flappers, which I just binged and enjoyed, has anyone noticed the parallels with Madoka?
I liked Papika best, she has that naive but feral vibe that Ed from Coyboy Bebop and Mikoto in the Mai universe. And she had interesting gender fluidity.
I’d like to see more, but I cant imagine where the story would go, except for maybe rehabilitating Grandma and Salt the elder, and giving Auntie and Iro better closure.