Yuri Manga
YuriNavi markes the second Toile Web Anthology (WEB百合アンソロジー トワールvol.2). You can read the short stories online in Japanese for free!
Atashi no Sempai (アタシのセンパイ) by Shaoya Teruko looks like a lovely Yuri school drama. Check out sample pages on Comic Natalie.
Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu! Volume 4 (私の百合はお仕事です! 4)and Shoujo2 (少女² 完全版), both by Miman, hit shelves in November.
According to manga artist Fly’s Twitter account, they are beginning a new Yuri manga in Ichijinsha’s Comic Rex magazine. Kyou, Koshiba Aoi ni Aetara. (今日、小柴葵に会えたら。) will begin in this month’s issue of the magazine, so something to look forward to! Yuri Navi has the magazine cover for you to use as ID.
LINE Webtoons has posted an animated trailer for Color-LES‘s Mage & Demon Queen comic. The trailer is kind of fun, if a little jerky, since it’s basically comic panels that have been animated. Take a look and then go read the comic!
Other News
You may recall the Love is Love comic, collaboration between IDW Publishing and DC Comics, which was created in 2016 to raise money for families of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shootings. Well, sales of the anthology have continued and so, this year the anthology donated $51,000 to The Trevor Project, a crisis intervention group for LGBTQ youth. The New York Times has an article on this that’s worth reading.
Crunchyroll News has the news that the pandering Yuri ecchi-comedy I Like Oppai Best in the World! (that I have never once mentioned because uggghhhhh) is getting a Drama CD. If breast-groping is something that falls under your definition of Yuri, enjoy! We won’t be reviewing it here. ^_^
If you’re looking for something different with which to celebrate the end of the year in Tokyo, take a look at the gaku-GAY-kai 2018 being held in Shinjuku. Festivities include a recitation of an original Yuri story by my friend, Yuri manga artist Mizuki Monica. ^_^ I’m so very excited and happy for her for so many reasons.
Hiiragi Hiyori put up an entry on their Youtube series (in Japanese) on the differences between “Yuri” and “Lesbian.” I don’t agree with his definitions, but it was interesting. His definition of “Lesbian” equials “sex.” Which is, for a lot of reasons as far from mine (i.e., stories with lesbian identity”) as possible, but it’s not surprising that he’s not intersted in/noticing/or caring about lesbian identity, for obvious reasons. It does clearly outline the problem we have with defining Yuri, when lesbians who create/read/watch Yuri are looking for one thing and other chunks of the audience are looking for others. Heterogeniety ahoy!
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Equating lez (in context that’s not simply an abbreviation of “lesbian” so I won’t translate it as though it were) with sex is not Hiiragi Hiyori’s definition. That’s talked about as an example of something a yuri beginner or non-yuri fan might say/believe and he makes clear he thinks it’s wrong. He seems to favor the Morishima Akiko statement about what the difference is, although the video’s not about answering the issue anyway, but rather why it leads to flamewars.
Thanks for the clarification.
Well, if you go to sites like Tumbler or twitter, then you will “find out” that almost any positive interaction between girls is yuri and, accordingly, lesbian. It feels like in the imagination of these people, girls are not able to make any bonds without being romantically interested in each other.
Therefore, I was very surprised to know that many Japanese use this term without any romantic or sexual color. However, as I understand it, even in this case, they still hope for a chance of developing some romantic interest between girls and still perceive any male character as a dangerous threat to such development.
The ongoing “Mage & Demon Queen” webcomic is such fun and seeing it animated was neat (even if that clip spoiled one of the best gags in the series so far).
Speaking of news I imported the “Kase-san and Morning Glories” Blu-ray the other day and it’s just as good as advertised with quality English subtitles in HD and as an ‘All Region’ release it should run on any BD player.
Excellent news! Thanks.