We’ve got a big pile of news to start off the year!
Yuri Anime
Via YuriNavi, the promotional video for Adachi to Shimamura is up on Youtube, astronaut and all.
Crunchyroll has Yuri anime Asteroid in Love. It looks to be a cute little club + childhood promise Yuri story.
Funimation has stared streaming If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die for subscribers.
A number of YNN correspondents wrote in to note ANN’s Crystalyn Hodgkins has the details on Mamoru Oshii’s new vampire girl-meets-girl comedy anime, Vladlove.
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Yuri Manga
We have a couple of new items on the Yuricon Store!
Kanojo no Idea, Volume 1 (彼女のイデア) about a high school student and a classmate who is an actress.
The second volume of Chayama to Mizuno (水野と茶山) by After Hours creator Nishio Yuhta, completes the set of this Romeo and Juliet style story.
Via Melon on Twitter, Tanizaki Junichiro’s Manji, a “forbidden love” story, between two women, one of them married, has been turned into a manga by Motomachi Natsuo. Check out the digital edition on Global Bookwalker.
Yuri Events
2020 is already shaping up to be a lot of fun. My first speaking event of the year is with the Japanese Translators of NYC at Baruch College on January 21 at 6:45: “Beyond Politeness: Challenges in Translation” is free, but you must reserve a spot by January 17th.
February will see the first of two Girls Love Fest events in Japan. Once again in the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Center Asakusa, GLFes 29 will be held on Sunday, February 2, 2020.
I’ll be participating in Mechademia 2020, “Ecologies,” May 30-June 2 in Kyoto, Japan. I’m kind of freaking out. ^_^
Bloom Into You News
Via Nakatani Nio’s Twitter account, the Bloom Into You Artbook, Yagate Kimi ni Naru Astrolabe (やがて君になる画集 アストロラーベ ) is slated for a February release in Japan.
Via Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G, Dengeki Bunko lists the third Bloom Into You Regading Saeki Sayaka light novel is slated for a late March release in Japan. The first book is available in English, and the second book will be out for June 2020, and(!) Volume 3 has a scheduled September release for the English edition.
How can that be? Well, Japanese companies are less interested in pre-orders than American companies. Their industry is very much “just-in-time” inventory oriented, a process helped along by excellent countrywide logistics. Even now that online buying is more common, quite often, pre-order links don’t appear on Japanese online retail sites until days before a book will be released in stores. Because American manga releases run a a comic-release model, pre-orders are critical to ordering and stock, so pre-order links appear as soon as the items they are “solicited” for entry, months ahead of time. ^_^ This is why US companies beg you to pre-order books from bookstores. Those are the only numbers that count.
Check out this fantastic Bloom Into You, Touko and Nanami Figurine. It says it’s 1/8 scale but I went on a tear about that scale on Twitter and determined that it’s actually more properly 1/9 scale. ^_^
Other News
The Fragtime OVA production committee is putting together a book of production materials in order to raise money for the staff members who worked on the anime, but have not been paid for their work in the aftermath of Studio Tear’s bankruptcy filing. Kim Morrissy has the story over on ANN.
Yuni, creator of Nikurashii Hodo, Aishiteru, (which has been licensed by Yen Press as I Love You So Much, I Hate You,) shares this collection of adult women in love, with us on Pixiv.
LGBTQ News
Via Autostraddle we can all get excited for a new season of Gentleman Jack and via Pink News, we have a brilliant article about the women working to decode the 20 volumes of Anne Lister’s diaries.
From their twitter feed, we have a lovely little comic from mieri hiranashi that she translated into English for her audience, The Moment I Realized I Wasn’t Straight.
Rica Takashima let us know that her artwork will be on display at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Dec 2-March 17 as part of the LGBT and Social Diversity Exhibit.
Niki Smith’s new queer kidlit book The Deep & Dark Blue is available in print, paperback and digital!
Ross Johnson over at Barnes & Noble takes a look at 11 Works of Trans-Positive Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Honestly, all yuri in Asteroid in Love is limited to its yuri-looking premise and gay jokes from one of the characters about it. But what surprises me the most is that such shows steadily attract much more attention from the yuri community than much more clear yuri shows, which sometimes was airing even in the same season. “If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die” did not receive even one tenth of that attention.
Apparently people are more attracted to the yuri intrigue than the shows that initially give it.
This was a news post, which is meant to encourage people to try new things and be aware of all the many kinds of things they might, potentially find enjoyable. Most of the Yuri in the Mangatime Kirara magazines are heavy on moe and intimate friendship and thin on romance. This is perfectly typical of the kind.
You are right, so I want to clarify that I did not try to blame you for something. Your mention was completely neutral. I just wonder why the level of attention on the Internet is different from the potential level of yuri in the show.
Personally, I expected the greatest potential from 22/7, but the show had not yet started its ships.
I don’t think you blamed me. I write the news report to tell people (whose opinions vary widely) about a variety of media they might, potentially enjoy.
You may wish to start a blog of your own, so you can share your opinions of media.