Yuri Manga

Kodansha has announced the license for tMnR’s If I Could Reach You, with a planned release in autumn.

Naoko Kodama’s I Married my Friend to Shut My Parents Up is slated for a release next month in English from Seven Seas. This one-shot nothing like NTR, so if that put you off, you need not worry. That said, if NTR turned you on, this next book is nothing like it, so be warned. Read my review of the JP volume to decide for yourself.

Vanilla Nonhuman x Nonhuman Yuri Anthology ( バニラ人外×人外百合アンソロジー) and Cinnamon Nonhuman x Human Yuri Anthology (シナモン Cinnamon 人外×人間百合アンソロジー), from Kadokawa  and SHIBUYA Gal Yuri Anthology (SHIBUYA ギャル百合アンソロジー) from Ichijinsha are now on the Yuricon Store and available on JP shelves this month. 

Also from Ichijinsha are two more anthologies hitting shelves at the end of the month: Macaron Idol Yuri Anthology (マカロン　アイドル百合アンソロジー) and Yuri-quer Alcohol Yuri Anthology (ユリキュール　アルコール百合アンソロジー) both of which are making me long for the days when Yuri anthologies were named after flowers. ^_^;

On the one hand I am thrilled beyond belief that there is so much Yuri coming out in Japan, on the other hand, I am vexed at the pumping out of themed anthologies designed to appeal to fetishes. But yay for artists getting paid to do work! I think some of these will, by necessity, be digital purchases for me. I don’t have the room anymore for getting every Yuri book ever, and I’m running out of time to read and review everything that comes out. I need more patrons so I can quit my day job and do this full time. ^_^ Become an Okazu patron, get sneak previews to new research, access to patron-only events and content and help us support queer creators and Yuri media. Five dollars a month can change the world.

YNN Correspondent Sean G tells us that Dengeki Bunko has announced an Adachi to Shimamura (安達としまむら) manga…and in looking around I see that it was already a 3-volume manga from Gangan Comics, but this appears to be a new serialization that will run in Dengeki Daioh magazine. Also, for those of you following the series, Volume 8 of the novels will be released later this spring.

And finally! a book I’ve been looking out for for months, Lily Lily Rose Volume 2 from Konno Kita. I enjoyed Volume 1 and have been hoping to see the continuation.

Yuri Event

YNN Corespondent endlessrain contacted us on Twitter to tell us that there is a Yuri and Yaoi event in Seville, Spain on March 23 & 24! Here is the website for more details. How exciting!

The Yuriten event has opened today in Ebisu, Tokyo! It will be in this location until the 24th and will open in Osaka on March 30.

The folks who publish Yuri manga magazine Galette is holding a Galette Yuri Matsuri on May 6 in Tokyo Culture Culture in Shibuya. Several of the magazine artists will be there, live drawing is planned and a Q&A with the artists.

I sincerely hope that you’ll join us for the 100th Anniversary of Yuri Tour in Tokyo in September! 

Yuri Anime

RightStuf is doing an inventory clearance on the Revolutionary Girl Utena 20th Anniversary Box Set. It’s $90 off, which made it affordable enough for me, finally. ^_^ The set comes with the complete series, movie, book with interviews, production drawings, character designs, art, etc., and a box with both the Duellist’s ring and the Black Rose ring. Limited while supplies last and all that. 

The Live Action stage play of Yagate Kimi ni Naru / Bloom Into You has announced cast and will be performed in May in Shibuya, Tokyo at the Zenrosai Hall / Space zero according to this Comic Natalie report.

Yuri Games

A bunch of folks have written in to tell us about Shiritsu Verbara Gakuen ~Versailles no Bara Re*imagination~ a Nintendo Switch game based on the Rose of Versailles series. Check out Crystalynn Hodgin’s report on ANN for details and Promotional video! 

New Yuri game Hatsukoi Shift has opened up a Twitter account….we’ll be waiting to see what the account announces.

Previously announced game with some Yuri, Shinrui no Minasam e, is now slated for release on Ps4 and Switch.

Other News

ANN has the video in which Brie Larson cites Sailor Moon as one of her childhood role models. ^_^

YNN Correspondent Super has written in to let you know that Universal Studios Japan is running a new Sailor Moon 4-D experience and this time, the Outer Guardians will join the battle! Check out the ANN report for details.

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