Yuri Light Novel
The first of the Sayaka Light Novels from Seven Seas has arrived. ^_^ Bloom Into You : Regarding Saeki Sayaka Volume 1 is exactly as good as I remember it to be. For a really insightful exploration of a character who really resonates (with me, for oh-so-many reasons,) this is a truly excellent English edition and well worth your time and money! Review to follow this week.
Yuri Manga
Big news! Seven Seas has added two manga from Akiko Morishima to their catalog! Along with Rakuen no Jouken, which is now named Conditions of Paradise: Our First Time, they have added the short story collection Ruri-iro no Yume, which will be released as Conditions of Paradise: Azure Dream! I’m very excited for you all to have her work in English…and hope we’ll get the Joshikka series next. For an overview of her works, Ariel ‘Solowi’ Nakandakare has a great article up on AnimeFeminist, Beyond the Bear Storm: Morishima Akiko, yuri mangaka.
We’ve got a pile of new stuff up on the Yuricon Store:
Goodbye, My Rose Garden, Volume 1, which fittingly will see a spring release from Seven Seas, is Dr. Pepperco’s Victorian fantasy about an English girl and her Japanese maid.
Global Bookwalker has all of Akiyama Haru’s Octave, (オクターヴ) available in Japanese digitally. I’m just glad to see this available outside Japan again. It was really quite excellent.
MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 16 (ムルシエラゴ ) hit shelves in Japan last month. I’m so behind~~~.
I’m ever further behind on MURCIÉLAGO BYPRODUCT Arania, Volume 2 (ムルシエラゴ- BYPRODUCT -アラーニァ). More Reiko please. ^_^
Ari North’s beautiful ALWAYS HUMAN is indeed modified from Webtoon format for a print run and is available in hardcover and soft. Amaryllis wants you to know that Little Bee, the publisher always does a pre-order special, so there will be extras, if you buy it and submit proof of pre-order! I’m going to get this in hardcover because it’s so beautiful.
Nicki “YuriMother” Bauman, wrote up a terrific analysis of the Yuri audience in answer to the often-stated, and rarely true assumption that Yuri is “for men” in Yuri is for Everyone: An analysis of yuri demographics and readership over on Anime Feminist.
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Yuri Doujinshi
Lilyka is running a time-sale on translated Yuri doujinshi. Grab the coupon code on their Twitter feed and head over to their store.
Briana Lawrence is the creator of a magical girl comic she describes as “a queer as hell book featuring a team of black queer girls.” Check out Magnifiquenoir!
Yuri(?) Anime
The Tamayomi baseball anime trailer is out and Alex Mateo over on ANN has the details. It’s going to be Yuri-ish, as it’s a MangaTime Kirara baby. Some of you will caution me pointlessly to not consider it Yuri, others of you will gush about how awesome it is. Few to none of you understand will why this is still not the sports Yuri series I seek. ^_^
Yuri Game
Brianna Lei’s Butterfly Soup, a Visual Novel about Asian queer girls and baseball has been added to the Store! (And is probably more interesting than Tamayomi, tbh.
Studio Élan has revealed what looks to be an absolutely breathtakingly beautiful new “solarpunk lesbian” Visual Novel, Summer at the Edge of the Universe. From the Press release, this voiced VN “features three routes, each centered around one of Summer’s friends. Every route contains both romantic and platonic endings. More fantasy than sci-fi, Summer aims to be a positive and uplifting experience, with one of the core tenets for the game being ‘good vibes only.'” The game will be coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, and Playstation 4 and is expected to be released in 2021.
Yuri Goods
I know, I know, it’s $300, but I added the Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune wicca x collaboration watch to the Store, too. ^_^ Because I can.
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Hello
About Always Humain, Little Bee books runs a preorder campaign (Goodies !).
https://preorderalwayshuman.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/25/
Best Regards
Amaryllis
Thank you, this is great. I’ll add it in.
“The Tamayomi baseball anime trailer is out and Alex Mateo over on ANN has the details. It’s going to be Yuri-ish, as it’s a MangaTime Kirara baby. Some of you will caution me pointlessly to not consider it Yuri, others of you will gush about how awesome it is. Few to none of you understand will why this is still not the sports Yuri series I seek. ^_^”
Well, as the person who sent you some of the news about this anime, I can say that it is a matter of expectations and each title separately. I am traditionally extremely skeptical about evaluating such shows as yuri, but this is only my personal opinion, so if someone enjoys it like yuri, then why not?
I’m a bit confused by what’s happening with the *Saeki Sayaka* series of novels. Amazon lists volume 1, and pre-orders for volume 3 (to be released in November), but no mention of volume 2.
I’m wondering if you have heard anything from Seven Seas about this, or if it is just Amazon flakiness.
Thanks (I am enjoying volume 1 very much, thanks largely to your reviews).
Volume 2 is up on Amazon with a June release date.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1645054624/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=yuricon-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1645054624&linkId=5c27a2d08d6575b2ae787407f019edad
Thanks — since I bought the first novel on Kindle, that’s what Amazon shows me, and, as happens frequently with Kindle titles, Amazon confuses one book in the series with another (in this case, it shows me *Bloom into You* manga v2 instead of the *Saeki Sayaka* novel v2). If your browser behaves like mine, if you click the Kindle & Comicology link on that page, you end up at v2 of the manga.
PS, look at the reviews on the link you gave me — they’re for v2 of the manga, as well.
Ah I see what you’re saying. That appears to be a problem on Amazon’s side. Neither Volume 2 nor 3 appears to be available on Kindle, since, quite probably, they are in pre-order. You could email Seven Seas and mention that, or just wait until closer to June for an actual link…but I think telling them the V2 link goes to the manga would be kind.
Amazon has a “report incorrect product information” link. I used that. I’ll also send a note to Seven Seas, that is a good suggestion.
Thank you.