Yuri Manga
Via YNN Senior Correspondent Eric P. we have news of Love Me For Who I Am, Volume 1, a “An LGBT+ manga about finding friendship and common ground at an untraditional maid café.” This story, which is very moe in art style, will be hitting shelves in June.
Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete, Volume 3 (私の拳をうけとめて) continues the relationship between two former gang girls as they try and figure out who they are in the adult world.
Sailor Moon Eternal Edition, Volume 4 joins its siblings on the Yuricon Store.
Via Yuri Mother, we have the encouraging report that Mieri Hiranishi will release English print editions of her online lesbian life comics. Hiranishi became popular for her bilingual essay The Moment I Realized I Wasn’t Straight. The artist also noted this week that a Thai edition of her comic is up on Pixiv.
Very interesting news via Comic Natalie. Creator of Kiss & White LIly For My Dearest Girl, Canno has a new series in Dengeki Daioh magazine! The series, titled, “Goukaku no Tameni! Yasashi Sankaku Kankei Nyuumon” (合格のための！やさしい三角関係入門) is a story about three-way relationship. Since, IMHO, her three-person story was among the strongest of the arcs in Kiss & White Lily, I’m looking forward to this new series.
Via YNN Correspondent Dash on Twitter – Seven Seas has 6 Yuri/BL/LGBTQ manga out this week, including Kase-san and Yamada!
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Via ANN’s Kim Morrisy, a retrospective of French art in Kyuushu will also be selling Rose of Versailles goods. How fun!
Huge news for LGBTQ marriage equality in Japan, Osaka City began recognizing same-sex partnerships at the end of last month and via Melon on Twitter, Hamamatsu City announced that on April 1st, it will begin registering same-sex partners. Melon also reports that Hiroshima is hoping to add partnerships for the new fiscal year. If this is of interest to you, definitely follow Melon, who does great work on the topic in Japanese and English.
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“Huge news for LGBTQ marriage equality in Japan, Osaka City began recognizing same-sex partnerships at the end of last month and via Melon on Twitter, Hamamatsu City announced that on April 1st, it will begin registering same-sex partners. Melon also reports that Hiroshima is hoping to add partnerships for the new fiscal year. If this is of interest to you, definitely follow Melon, who does great work on the topic in Japanese and English”.
Honestly, I am still surprised that Japan is “behind” the United States in this matter. Of course, I’m not so naive as to believe in the absolute tolerance of Japanese culture, but it always seemed to me that the Japanese have historically been much more open to LGBTQ.
So, this is kind of a misunderstanding about a bunch of things. LGBTQ rights everywhere was – and is – not a straightforward path. There’s a lot of progress, regress and digress. Tolerance is kind of irrelevant when it comes to rights.
A culture being “tolerant” of people just means that no one waits outside bars and beats them up. It isn’t acceptance or normalization or equal rights, or partnership status. And while Japan isn’t a Christian country, it has plenty of angry old men who use “tradition” as the same cudgel in the same way.
So Japan is moving forward on LGBTQ partnership pretty much the same way as everywhere else has – piece by piece, until there are so any pieces that it tips the scale.
But the story doesn’t end there. Transgender folks have to undergo pointless surgery before they can transition in Japan, and that’s unconscionable and has to be changed. And even if all that shifts, there’s all of the other issues we’re still working on the US; adoption, education etc.
So don’t be surprised. This is a long, slow change that has so far taken 50 years in the US and will take another 50 and the 50 after that and that, because people are idiots.
In this case, I wonder how long it will take in my country if it still has laws about “gay propaganda” and trans man losted his children because his gender identity is considered an “immoral way of life” by officials in 2018-2019. Which is rather paradoxical, considering that the main slogan of monarchism and traditionalism in Russia was created by a bisexual man who had open relationship with his best male friend.
In any case, although I don’t know the attitude of ordinary Japanese people to this issue, I hope that this practice will become a steady trend and works like Tasogare Shimanami or Horo Musuko can help people be better aware of the queer POV.