Yuri Anime

 Via Senior YNN Correspondent Eric P., Sentai is reissuing Maria Watches Over Us as a complete collection on Blu-Ray. So all four seasons and the shorts in one collection. This has a March 2020 release date, so if you missed this modern remake of classic ‘S’ tropes, definitely take a look now! Also via Eric, there is a sale on the Aria The Animation Season 1 Blu-Ray set over at RightStuf.

HIDIVE is excited to announce that they premiered Kase-san and Morning Glories this week on the HIDIVE streaming service. The press release includes a strong list of territories and subtitle language choices with, you may note, a lack of Asian countries. Hrm.

While we’re talking Kase-san, listen to me talk about Kase-san and Morning Glories with the gentlemen at Oldtaku no Radio! We had a lovely chat about this wonderful series.

Via Twitter, Ishikawa Sachi-san comments on an interview with Toei Animation Producer Takashi Washio by the Huffington Post, as he discusses PreCure and his desire to “protect safe spaces for minorities.” This was very heartening.

Via ANN’s Lynzee Loveridge, Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu‘s (streaming on Funimation) featured pop idol group, ChamJam has a custom-made AMV, complete with creepy male gaze. ^_^; Lynzee doesn’t say that last bit, btw..I did.

Rafael Antonio Pineda has the news at ANN about the Starlight Revue compilation film which is scheduled for a late spring theatrical release in Japan.

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Yuri Manga

Seven Seas announces the preorder for Ajiichi’s Failed Princesses, which has been given a Summer 2020 release date!

The final volume of Takemiya Jin’s Itoshi Koishi,(いとしこいし) hit shelves this week in Japan.

Mimoto’s Koisuru Meiga (恋する名画) pairs Yuri and fine art. ^_^

Kodama Naoko’s newest, Uminekosou days Volume 2 (海猫荘 days) hit Japanese bookshelves shelves this month, as did Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau, Volume 2 (ささやくように恋を唄う) by Takashima Eku.

Nettaigyo ha Yuki ni Kogareru, Volume 6 (熱帯魚は雪に焦がれる) by Hagino Makoto hit shelves last month in Japan. Volume 2 of A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow will be arriving on our shores in English in February!

We have to wait for March, but Tokyopop is delivering Akashi’s Still Sick, Volume 2 in English.

Volume 3 of the Sailor Moon Eternal Edition is up on the Yuricon Store. I’m woefully behind on these. I’ll be caught up shortly. ^_^

Via Twitter, jena is posting a new Yuri comic on tapas, Where The Flowers Lead.

Our old Yuricon friend Kat has her Yuri comic Inside OUT – A Queer Tale on Webtoons. This is a redrawn and remastered version of the comic that she launched in the late oughts. ^_^

The first chapter of Okafuji Mai’s nostalgic Forget Me Not (フォーゲット・ミー・ノット) is up on Shodensha’s Manga Jam (in Japanese) to read for free.

Yuri Light Novel News

This took a few moments to dig up: GL Novels, the folks that put out GIRL’S KINGDOM 1&2, have put out a bunch of their titles on US Kindle in Japanese. This one, Kunoichi Bette-gumi Satsuki Igarashi, Volume 1 (くノ一別手組ー五十嵐五月ー) is available as kunoitibettegumi. I was all excited to see that it was a kunoichi (female ninja) story….but it’s also a vampire story, so, YMMV. ^_^ This e-book includes Volume 1 and 2 of the Japanese series, which seems to be at Volume 4 now.

Yuri Visual Novel News

Studio Élan has posted a video teaser for a new Yuri VN, Voice at the Edge of the Universe. Everything they do is so beautiful, I really wished I liked VNs….

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