Yuri Manga
Couple of new items on the Yuricon Store!

MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 15 (ムルシエラゴ) came out this past autumn in Japan. Volume 16 hit shelves in Japan this week, it’ll be added shortly.

Hero-san to Moto Onna Kanbu-san, Volume 2 (ヒーローさんと元女幹部さん) has some fun with tokusatsu series and their real-world parodies. ^_^ I reviewed Volume 1 over the summer last year.

Cocoon, Entwined, Volume 2 by Yuriko Hara will be available in English from Yen Press in the middle of March. Pre-order is up, I reviewed Volume 2 of Mayu, Matou last October.

Kimi no tame ni Sekai ha Aru (きみのために世界はある) is a collection of shorts by Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts creator Usio Shio. I really like their art.

Via Yuri Navi, a new Yuri omnibus, Yurizukushi no Kyoshitsu (ゆりづくしの教室で) is advertised in the April issue of Comic Yuri Hime.

Yuri Webcomics

Great news via Yuri Mother – Webcomic platform Tapas has added Yuri and LGBTQ+ category tags. Now, if we could just get Amazon to add Yuri…. write them and ask politely. It can’t hurt.

Licensed by Kadokawa from Chinese online platform weibo, Tanjiu’s school life romantic comedy about super-awkward Sun Jin, who falls for a beautiful girl Aki Hitomi, SQ 1 Kimi no Namae kara Hajimaru (SQ 1 君の名前から始まる) is now up on the Store.

Ari North’s beautiful webtoon Always Human, is coming to print! I hope they find a way to preserve the scan (which is often a real problem, when taking comics meant to be read vertically to horizontal print format. In any case, the art was gorgeous and the story excellent. I reviewed this back in 2017 and I’ll be sure to get a copy for myself.

Majoccoid’s Ikemen Girl to Hakoiri Musume (イケメン女(ガール)と箱入り娘) is a Pixiv comic that I can absolutely imagine Kadokawa picking up for print release. A woman falls for an attractive, masculine woman in her college class. As they date, the two of them end up taking stock of what they think “being a woman” ought to look like.

ANN’s Jennifer Sherman reports that Futabasha is launching Web Action Comics, and will include some of your fave creators, Kabi Nagata, Tagame Gengoroh and Coolkyoushinja.

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Yuri Events

Our Lily Festival, a Yuri festival in Seoul Korea is planned for February 22. They have a list of the participating circles up on the website and you can follow them on Twitter. Both are in Korean.

The very same day, February 22 in Japan, Girls Love Fest 28 will be held in Tokyo!

I’ll be making a few appearances later this spring, and have a couple of podcasts I’ll be part of this month, all TBA. If you’d like me to speak on your podcast, or at your event, school or organization, please contact me to set something up!

Creator News

Anime New Network’s Kim Morrissy has an interview with Ameko Kaeruda, creator of Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Sexy Sorceress!.

Blue Drop creator Yoshitomi Akihito has posted dozens of Youtube videos of himself working on his newest Yuri series Kyou kara Shourai (今日から未来). You can check the series out (in Japanese) on Heros-web. (If you are only familiar with the Blue Drop anime, be warned that his work tends to be lolicon. I am not a fan, generally. At least this series is about friends, not sisters.)

Trina Robbins tell her story of ground-breaking comics making in this YT interview.

Yuri Games and VN News

While I was looking for something else, I came across this website that posts the release schedule of “Yuri Games.” Their interpretation of Yuri and mine differ, but as I don’t play games, that’s perfectly fine. Hope this helps you!

Studio Élan has released their second Voice at the Edge of the Universe teaser!

Other News

Today in things I would totally buy and never wear, this handsome Sailor Uranus x Sailor Neptune watch from Wicca, for a mere $300. I can’t wear watches because…they stop working. Something about my magnetic field kills watches dead. But it is pretty. ^_^

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