Yuri Events

Top News this week: Yuriten is back! This traveling Yuri art exhibit and store will be going on the road for a Japan-wide tour beginning in March. So far, that’s all the info we have, no cities, or dates have been announced, yet. Stay tuned for details. And pray to the Yuri gods that the tour manages to hang around ’til June so I can squeak it in. ^_^

I am pleased to announce that I am a Featured Guest Panelist at Anime Boston 2020! I will be doing 5 panels and presentations and a game, over three days, so definitely join me! As always I’ll be bring boxes of stuff to giveaway as prizes for good participation. ^_^  I haven’t been back to Anime Boston since 2005 – I’m looking forward to returning.

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Yuri Anime

Alex Mateo over at ANN has reported that Funimation has added Revolutionary Girl Utena and the Utena movie, Adolescence of Utena, to its streaming catalog, along with Princess Knight and other Tezuka classics. Brush up on early anime (and Yuri) history on Funimation.com.

Yuri Manga

While we’re talking Utena, Kara Dennison at Crunchyroll has the news that Viz Media announced the license of Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution, the 20th anniversary manga. I reviewed that back in July 2018.

Next up, we’ve got some new titles on the Yuricon Store:

In Akegawa Yuu’s adult life manga, Tsuki to Suppon, Volume 1 ( 月とすっぴん), opposites attract!

Scarlet, Volume 1,by Yuino Chiri, out from Seven Seas this month in English, is a horror story about drugs and werewolves and blood.

Akashi’s Still Sick, Volume 2 from Tokyopop heats up the weirdness between Makoto and Akane, in this office romance (probably?). I reviewed the Japanese edition of V2 last October and am kind of on pins and needles about V3. ^_^ I reviewed Volume 1 in English in November 2019.

Staring in the April issue of Comic Yuri Hime is, Uchi no Shishou ha Shippo ga nai (うちの師匠はしっぽがない) a Yuri manga about rakugo, traditional Japanese comedic storytelling, with a teacher who is an animal girl? So…that’s a bunch of things smushed together. Translator Jocelyn Allen posted on Twitter that it’s cute.  Fingers crossed. (Although, realistically I do not particularly want it to be “cute.” I want my Yuri to be adult and stylish and sexy and about competence and achievement and triumph. Thank you.)

Yuri Light Novel

Via Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G, Seven Seas announced ROLL OVER AND DIE: I WILL FIGHT FOR AN ORDINARY LIFE WITH MY LOVE AND CURSED SWORD!, described as a “bloody” Yuri action LN. “…a brush with death finally awakens something in Flamme–rather than ending, her story might just be getting started. And this time, instead of a traitorous party, she has a woman she loves by her side.” This is a first volume. Sean notes that it looks to be good value for your money.

Via Molly Lee, Kaeruda Ameco, creator of the Sexiled series, has a new novel out in Japanese at the end of February, Issekai ni Saku ha Yuri no Hana (異世界に咲くは百合の花) – “A Lily Flower Blooms in Another World.” This is available on JP Kindle only from GL Bunko right now, but as soon as we can access it outside Japan, I’ll be sure to let you know!

Yuri Visual Novel

You can pre-order the next installation of Innocent Grey’s Yuri VN series Flowers -Le volume sur automne- at J-List.

Other News

Via Grace Ting, we have news of OVER magazine, a new Japanese LGBTQ magazine.

Via The Nerds of Color, we have the most awesome news that John Jennings is curating Megascope, a new line of diverse graphic novels from Abrams ComicArts. I’m so happy for John – whose work can also be seen in the currently kickstarting Rosarium Publishing’s horror GN Box of Bones, looks breathtaking. I met John at TCAF a few years ago, when he told me about Box. and I’ve been looking forward to it, ever since.

Last up this week, here’s a link to a 2017 interview with Hirao Auri-sensei on the manga Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu. which is now an anime (that I am woefully behind on…catching up on that is next on my to-do. ^_^)

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