Yuri Manga
Spring boarding off yesterday’s review of Kiss & White Lily Volume 10, we have news via Yuri Navi and CW about Canno-sensei’s next series, a story about 3 girls in a “triangle love story.” According to her Twitter announcement, details will be announced when the series premier approaches. Since I actually liked the three-person relationship best in Kiss and White Lily, I’m hopeful about this new series!
We’ve got some new items on the Yuricon Store!
Ohsawa Yayoi’s Hello, Melancholic, Volume 1 (ハロー、メランコリック!) is turning out to be delightful. I’m all for redemption stories when the person has been hurt and just needs to love life. (Trombones are like the bass clarinet of the brass section. Everyone needs them, but no one gives them any attention. Trombones deserve love, too!)
Mudakun reminded me to remind you of Sore ha, Haru no Arashi no You ni, Volume 1 (それは、春の嵐のように), an opposites-attract story about an “ordinary” Office Lady and a writer who wants to be “free.” ^_^
Yoru to Umi, Volume 2 ( 夜と海) continues a school love story.
I was quoted in the Rose of Versailles, Volume 1 page on Udon Entertainment’s website, how fun. ^_^
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Yuri Anime
Via Yuri Navi, to celebrate the upcoming Fragtime anime, the staff is appearing at a free screening of Asagao to Kase-san on November 4th at The Tokyo International Forum, Hall A.
Welp, it looks like I’m going to have to watch Queen’s Blade Unlimited OVA, too, as the promotional video makes it clear that along with the usual tits and crotch fetishizing there will be Yuri. Sasuga Nanzaki-sensei. Sigh.
Yuri Live Action
ANN ‘s Crystalyn Hodgkin’s has the details on the upcoming Cutey Honey Live-Action Stage Play coming in February.
Yuri Novels
Sexiled creator Kaeruda Ameco announced on her twitter feed that she’s going to be participating a Yuri novel anthology for winter Comiket. Her story will be about a prostitute who does not want to be held by a man but also will do whatever she needs to survive.
LGBTQ News
YNN Correspondent Eric P notes that a My Brother’s Husband Omnibus is available for pre-order at RightStuf. Get all 704 pages of this heart-warming manga in one volume.
I picked up a copy of the Dead Beats anthology at FIT Diversity ComicCon and am loving this oddball collection of super-short horror comics, with a fair amout of queerness and a lot of blood – perfect reading for the Halloween season. ^_^ (Added bonus, for every copy sold a *.*gater loses his shit.)
Caly’s Breath of Flowers, Volume 2, will be seeing a release from Tokyopop in English this month.
I strongly recommend you read Dee’s delightful Nonconforming in the ‘90s: How Pokemon’s gender variance caught the hearts of generation on AnimeFeminist. It has made me desperately want to write about Haruka and Michiru in excruciating detail. Again.^_^
I found an LGBT Japanese series on Youtube called Day by Day. It’s low-budget, but definitely LGBTQ, not Yuri.
Other News
Via YNN Correspondent Jeyl, the Hazbin Hotel Pilot is available to watch on Youtube. Jeyl notes “This pilot follows the exploits of Charlie, the Demon Princess of Hell who is on a quest to rehabilitate other demons with a hotel. The Yuri comes from her relationship with Vaggie, her supportive and often overprotective girlfriend.”
Phaidon is putting out a new book Great Women Artists, featuring 400 women artists. This is definitely going on my shelves.
The Yuri Times web page has launched! This group translates Japanese language Yuri tweets, news and other fun things of note.
In case you have nothing to do this post-Halloween weekend, here is a live-tweet of a Sailor Moon musical that took place in Transylvania and had vampires. ^_^
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“Welp, it looks like I’m going to have to watch Queen’s Blade Unlimited OVA, too, as the promotional video makes it clear that along with the usual tits and crotch fetishizing there will be Yuri. Sasuga Nanzaki-sensei. Sigh.”
You are not mistaken. For some (though perhaps well-known) reasons, the incestuous younger sister of the original heroine became the new MC. In the last season, she became lover of her other sister, but apparently the authors decided that this limits her interaction with other girls.