Yuri Manga
Via Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G, we have some news out of New York Comic Con. Viz Media has announced the license of Tamifly’sTsukiatte Agetemo Iikana? (links to reviews of Volumes 1 & 2) as How Do We Relationship? for Summer 2020. The title translation is not in any way literal, but it really suits the tone of the story. ^_^
Via ANN, Blue Drop creator Yoshitomi Akihito is launching a new Yuri manga this month. Kyou Kara Mirai will be on HEROS Flat website on October 18th.
ANN has the full layout of the post-manga series projects for Bloom Into You. I just read the final chapter/epilogue in Dengeki Daioh, and have some thoughts about that. Will write them down in a future review. ^_^
Now that the damn has broken with Yuri Kuma Arashi being licensed by Tokyopop as Yuri Bear Storm, it looks like we are getting more work by Morishima Akiko-sensei. We can look forward to Conditions of Paradise, the English-language release of Rakuen no Joken in February 2020 from Seven Seas! This is excellent news.
Yuri Anime
ANN has the promotional video by Yuri anime Fragtime leads Misuzu and Haruka, prompting people to order their tickets for this theatrical release through online ordering app Kinepass.
LGBTQ Comics News
Also out of NYCC, Heidi Macdonald on the Comics Beat reports that LGBTQ comic Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (link to review) won in the Best Children’s or Young Adult Book Category. Check out all of the Harvey Awards winners, because if you want to see the changes for the better that are going on in comics right now….here it is in list form.
Amanda Steele on The Comics Beat is taking a look at some key LGBTQ artists in NYCC’s Artist Alley for your reading pleasure!
Yuri Visual Novel News
Studio Élan is holding a Kickstarter to do a fully-voiced version of the Heart of the Woods, their stunning first Yuri VN release.
Yuri Events
This Sunday, October 6, at New York Comic-Con, I will be on the Comixology Panel Manga Ikimashou! – LET’S GO MANGA! in which I and a number of illustrious panelists do the one thing I always swear I will not do – recommend manga to you! ^_^ You can catch us 2:30 – 3:30 PM in Room 1A02.
I’ll be doing two lectures at Michigan State University, October 15-16. Both these lectures are free and open to the public.
October 15, 5PM, B122 Wells Hall, MSU Campus
I will be talking about about Rose of Versailles and Sailor Moon to a class on translation. They each pose a significant set of challenges to translators and adapters. This is free and open to the public (check with the school for registration.)
Wednesday, October 16, 5PM, Rom 301 International Center, MSU Campus
We’ll be talking about 100 Years of Yuri!
Oct. 25, I’ll be at Diversity Con, Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, NY.
And rounding out my 2019, I’ll be presenting 100 Years of Yuri and verbally sparring with translator Zack Davisson at AnimeNYC, November 15-17, at Javits in New York City.
Other News
Add this to your morning reading – Brigid Alverson interviews George Takei on his new comic memoir, They Called Us Enemy, about his life in an internment camp during World War Two. Read it, if only as a reminder that the last time we put people in concentration camps was within a lifespan and here we are, as a nation, doing it again.
Speaking of NYCC, I took a look at this year’s AnimeFest and laid out some of the anime and manga-related events and panels you can expect this weekend at The Comics Beat.
To round out this week on a positive note, we can report a couple of steps forward in Japan. Akita held its first-ever Rainbow Pride festival this past month. Love the parade poster. ^_^ And even more importantly the Kanagawa city of Zushi has added same-sex partnerships.
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