Yoshiya Nobuko’s Yaneura no Nishojo was published in 1919-1920 which, by my reckoning, makes 2019-2020 the 100th anniversary of Yuri! 

To celebrate I am going to get some of the Yuri essays I’m working on done and at the end of the month, I’ll be unveiling a really special anniversary celebration! Keep your eyes on this space.  This is going to be amazing.

But let’s start with Happy 100th Anniversary, Yuri!

Yuri Manga

We’re going to start our week with two new licenses! From Seven Seas, Tsurezure Biyori has been licensed as Our Wonderful Days.

Via YNN Correspondent Sean G., we learn that  Mayu, Matou has been licensed by Yen Press as Cocoon, Entwined. I haven’t read this yet, but I think it’s the next thing on the to-read pile, so stay tuned!

We’ve got Nari x Yuki Living, Volume 2 (なり×ゆきリビング ) on the Yuricon Store. Volume 1 was a goofy set up about coworkers cohabitating. Now there’s a Volume 2! Why?! We’ll have to read it to find out!

To celebrate the release of Tamufuru’s Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana (付き合ってあげてもいいかな) the creator has been interviewed at Comic Natalie and over at Shogagakukan Comic;’s Creator Lounge! (Both interviews in Japanese….but stick a translation plugin on your browser and you can at least understand the basics.)

Available in part on Comic Walker, Risou to Koi ~ Otona Yuri Omnibus~ (理想と恋 ～大人百合オムニバス～) is another Yuri featuring adults collection! No, I am not yet sick of these, but I look forward to the day, ten years from now, when I am. ^_^

Yuri Anime

Via YNN Correspondent Mudakun, in the anime Himote House, Episode 7, the residents play “The Yuri Game” with predictable hijinks.

Other News

It might seem anachronistic or even a relief to today’s generation that gay bars and gay magazines aren’t the only way for queer folks to interact, but there was a certain intimacy about them. My generation was the last for whom that was the only real way to meet other folks. I can’t tell you how many newsletters and magazines I got when I was younger, just to see what other lesbians were doing. On ANN, out gay artist Gengoroh Tagame mourns the loss of the last of the gay print magazines in Japan and with it, an era.

Via Jacquelin Berndt, the papers for the conference, Manga, Comics and Japan (Stockholm University, September 2018) are available online for your reading and research.

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