Yuri Manga
Via YNN Senior Correspondent Verso S, Haruyama Aki’s LGBTQ manga Octave (オクターヴ) has been licensed in French by Taifu Comics, and in Spanish by Planeta Comic. It does not yet have an English release, but I think it’s not unreasonable to suggest it to some of the companies who are already licensing Yuri here, to see if that can change. In the meantime, you can read all 6 volumes of the original Japanese manga on Bookwalker Global.
Via Yurimother, we learn that the Princess Principal series will be adapted into a web manga.
Yuri Anime
We’ve added the Bloom Into You Premium Blu-Ray Box set to the Yuricon Store.
Yuri Anime Fragtime is being premiered at AnimeNYC and both voice actress Miku Ito and Producer Yuusuke Terada will be there!
Yuri Events
I’m a Guest at FIT Diversity Comic Con on October 25, at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Update: I am on a panel – “SuperQueeroes: Representation in Comics,” 10:30 AM at John E. Greeves Great Hall (Conference Center) at Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, on the corner of 28th Street & 7th Avenue!
I will be presenting my 100 Years of Yuri Panel at 3PM in Room 1E17 and will be joining translator Zack Davisson for !? vs !s: The Great Debate at 6PM in the same room for Anime NYC on Friday, November 15 at Javits Convention Center. These are my final appearances for 2019, unless you get me invited to an event near you! ^_^
Yuri Light Novels
This morning, I woke up to a “sempai noticed me!” moment when I found that Kaeruda Ameko-sensei had retweeted my review of her book Sexiled. Far more importantly, she has a new Yuri light novel coming out in 2020 from GL Bunko – who were responsible for Girls Kingdom, which I reviewed last year – called (deep breath) Issekai ni Saku ha Yuri no hana ~ Kon’yaku hakisaretanode Honmei no Akuyaku Reijō to Onna Futari de Tanoshiku Kurashimasu!~ (異世界に咲くは百合の花～婚約破棄されたので本命の悪役令嬢と女ふたりで楽しく暮らします！～) Let’s see if I can translate this on the fly: A Lily Flower Blooms in Another World~ Since the Engagement was Broken, I Live Happily Together with The Villianess! ~ (Thanks, CW for the clarification.) Ask me how much I want to read this book. Be prepared for a long answer. ^_^
Other News
Via Loryn Stone on Twitter, Tokyo Toys has launched a new line of Tezuka canon dolls, including a lovely Sapphire figurine that is now up for pre-order.
Via the Lilyka Blog, I learned that while I was in Japan I missed this one-day Taisho Yuri concept cafe, Partier! How vexing, even though we did a ton of stuff, this would have been damned cool. Click the link and check out what we missed.
Bitch Media has this seasonal article for your reading entertainment: Vampires, Psychics, and Ghosts: A Look at Queer Women in Horror
Cartoon Network twitter shared this lovely animation of DC heroines transforming in Sailor Moon style. It’s cute and grin-making.
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“The Villian’s Favorite Daughter”
悪役令嬢 is usually translated as “villainess”. It was a minor trope in otome games of an antagonist who is a privileged young woman who ultimately gets her just desserts for her cruelty toward the protagonist. But subverting that became a major trope in web novels, especially a popular subgenre of isekai where the protagonist would find herself become the villainess of an otome game world, and then have to avoid the bad things the game’s plot has in store for her.
Thanks for the clarification.
By the way, next season we will see an adaptation of one of these LNs. This is a shoujo with a female protagonist, which becomes the object of affection for guys and girls, which I told you about.