Happy New Year to all of you in the Yuri Network! There’s a ton of news to get to today, so away we go…!
Yuri Manga
All of Nakamura Kiyo’s (aka Nakamura Ching’s) manga is available digitally on Bookwalker.jp! That makes all her work available to those of us both inside and outside Japan, including GUNJO, and her self-published work. This is great news, as Nakamura-sensei’s work is both openly gay and utterly unique.
Kumosuzume’s Shiori wo Sagasu Page-tachi (しおりを探すページたち) concludes in Volume 2.
Another Office Yuri story from Pixiv, Still Sick, Volume 1, tells the story of a closeted otaku and her coworker.
From Yuri Navi, we learn that After Hours creator Nishio Yuhta’s newest manga, Mizuno to Sayama, (水野と茶山) started in Comic Beam magazine. Read a sample (in Japanese) on Bookwalker.
From YNN Correspondent Verso S. “A German translation of [Shimanami Tasogare] will be added to the growing list of Western publications for this series…. Wer bist du zur blauen Stunde?, will be joining しまなみ誰そ彼; Oltre le Onde – Shimanami Tasogare; Sombras sobre Shimanami and Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare starting in July.” Check out the link to see the Carlsen edition. Great news for LGBTQ manga.
Yuri Anime
Via Chris Beveridge at Fandom Post, TC Entertainment is planning a 20th anniversary Blu-Ray edition of Go Nagai’s Devilman Lady. I cannot wait. This series is not nearly as well-known, even in Yuri circles, as it ought to be. It is so good and so very gay.
Yuri Visual Novel
Found through Twitter, Apple Cider’s free to download DoraKone, seems adorable. Here’s the description from the website: “Follow along with the adventures of Dulce as she finds new friends, new fun, and maybe even romance in the world of Dragon Connection, a hot new augmented reality mobile game.
A, short, sweet free all-ages GxG visual novel featuring cute girls, friendship, and romance!”
Other News
Recommended reading; Game Studies Special Issue: Queerness and Video Games
Recommended with reservations is Ryan Khosravi’s ‘Sailor Moon’ And The Queer History Of Anime Transformations. This article is a decent overview of anime transformation history, but a rather personal reading of the femininity and queerness of same. Unsurprisingly, my queer reading of anime transformations is rather different. ^_^
Submissions for The 2019 Prism Awards and the Prism Comic Queer Press Grant are open! Get your art and nominations in!
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I had recently just revisited ‘Devil Lady’ a short while ago. It is not a ‘happy’ series by any means, but it’s pleasantly refreshing that it’s not nearly as bleak/pessimistic as ‘Devilman Crybaby’. I certainly hope this means a future American rerelease, for it’s a classic in its own right.
It is more personally bleak than cosmically bleak, I agree. It’s definitely on my re-watch list for 2019.
I wonder if they are going to do some kind of remake of the original anime, or closer to the manga reboot. Because DL as a later work of Nagai has stronger gore and yuri content.
Everything Nakamura Kiyo’s made? I’m certainly getting everything I’m missing, thank you for the news.
Yep!