Yuri Events
It is my very great pleasure to announce that I will be presenting 100 Years of Yuri at Toronto Comic Arts Festival at 10AM on Saturday, May 11, 2019 in the Toronto Public Library Learning Centre. This will be followed by a Creator spotlight with Kase-san series creator Takashima Hiromi at 12 noon (location TBD)! This is very exciting and I hope to see you all there. Admission to TCAF is free and open to the public.
Kara Dennison has the scoop on the Kunihiko Ikuhara Exhibition -The Survival Strategy of Desire and Revolution That Connects Us at Crunchyroll News which opens April 27 in Tokyo.
If you’re going to be in or near New York City on May 18 and 19, definitely make time for Queers & Comics at NYU! It’s all LBTQQ comics for two sold days. I’ll be moderating a panel on Queer Manga on Saturday. It will be really educational and fun! Admission is only $20 for both days. There will be a shop full of queer comics, with proceeds split between Prism Comics, the event and creators.
Yuri Manga
Tokuwotsumu’s Tsuki to Koi wa Michireba Kakeru (月と恋は満ちれば欠ける) follows two childhood friends who meet again as adults.
Salad Bowl, Volume 1 ( サラダボウル) by Kiyan is a rollicking fantasy about four women who live and travel together in a trailer, serialized in Comic Yuri Hime.
Seven Seas announced the license for Yuino Chiri’s Yuri not-a-vampire series Scarlet, this week.
Yuri Light Novel
Super exciting news. There will be a second Yagate Kimi ni Naru: Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite (やがて君になる 佐伯沙弥香について 2) light novel. Again authored by Iruma Hitoma and illustrated by series creator Nakatani Nio-sensei.
Takashima Hiromi-sensei has illustrated the online light novel on Yomuco, by Nanbu Kumako LOVELY！～ Aishi Mamecchi (LOVELY！～愛しのまめっち)。It’s pretty a straightforward Yuri school romance, and good for reading practice. ^_^
Also on Yomuco is a Yuri romance between a cop and a criminal, Sheets no Shita ni Jun Futatsu (シーツの下に銃ふたつ) written by Hoshii Nanao and illustrated by Kitao Taki!
Yuri Visual Novel
I recommend taking a look at Yurimother’s review of Lingua Fleur: Lily for a non-romance LGBTQ VN!
Yuri Live Action
Fuji TV’s on Demand service is premiering Yuridano Kandano (百合だのかんだの) in late May. The story follows Ebara Yuri, who is forced out of her house by a stalker. When she finds a new place to live, she is recognized as a former idol, “Yuri-chan.” The story is meant to focus on forms of communication and affection between women. Check out a few pictures on Yuri Navi. Interestingly, Fuji was the network which showed Transit Girls a few years ago.
Other News
If you’ve been wondering what Morinaga Milk-sensei has been up to, Comic Natalie has your answer. She’s been working on a Comic Essay about fostering cats that a friend had to give up because of allergies, Neko Borabu no Milk-san (ねこボラ部のみるくさん).
Get 3 James Tiptree, Jr. Award (for female science fiction authors) novels on Kindle for only $9.99. Liz Hand’s Waking the Moon, Eleanor Arnason’s A Woman of the Iron People, and Nancy Springer’s Larque on the Wing.
Natasha H. takes an in-depth look at her exploration of asexuality with Bloom Into You at Crunchyroll.
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Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!
“about fostering cats that a friend had to give up because of allergies”
The essay manga is about the volunteer activities helping cats that Morinaga does, which result in her fostering many of them. One of them, rescued from Fukushima after the disaster, was taken in by Yotsuhara Furiko, Morinaga’s friend and fellow Galette contributor, despite Yotsuhara having cat allergies.
Thank you for the clarification. ^_^
I think also SCHOOL ZONE is getting a new serial or something in Mag Garden coming up too.
https://comic.mag-garden.co.jp/topics/topi/news-0420-schoolzone/
Thanks Ash!
School Zone’s serialization normally runs on MAGxiv. The announcement is that ahead of volume 2 going on sale, the chapters will also go out as a re-run on MagComi, another web manga platform of publisher Mag Garden.
There’ll also be a character popularity poll. With the winner, er, being made into a dakimakura.
Personally, I never understood talk of asexuality in Yagatte Kimi ni Naru, since I always saw “real romance is not as melodramatic as in the media” as one of the main messages of this work. However, the difference of opinions and points of view only underlines how interesting and deep this masterpiece is.
“Kara Dennison has the scoop on the Kunihiko Ikuhara Exhibition -The Survival Strategy of Desire and Revolution That Connects Us at Crunchyroll News which opens April 27 in Tokyo.”
Thanks for more news about Ikuhara-sensei! I have not yet begun to watch Sarazanmai, but I am very interested in the messages from his new work.
Unless I overlooked something it looks like Yuridano Kandano might really only be available through FOD this time around. Quite liked that Fuji and affiliates broadcast Transit Girl on regular terrestrial TV channels back then.
In related news and on the topic of overlooking something … while searching for this topic I just noticed I missed a joint appearance of Itō Sairi and Matsuoka Mayu … ボクらの時代