Yuri Events

Join us all today on the Okazu Discord for our lowest-key Yuri event ever. There is no agenda, so come by, relax, have some tea and snacks with like-minded folks on the Okazu Discord Yuri Tea Party! ^_^

Please mark your calendar for May 31, and join us on Youtube for an Online Yuri Panel! I will be sending out a link when we are sorted.  The Panel will be free to anyone. If you support Okazu on Patreon for as little as $5/month, you’ll get backstage access! We could really use a few new patrons, too. We’re hovering at just around $500 , I’d like us to be able to move past that sustainably and start investing in Yuri creators again. ^_^

I’ll be joining a couple of podcasts in days ahead, so keep you ears peeled for those, too!

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Yuri Anime

Adachi to Shimamura anime will have a October premier date and has a second trailer on Youtube. It looks just as exciting as I remember it being with extra slo-mo on the already-slow scenes of them doing nothing. Honestly, I remember the whole book being slo-mo.

Mamoru Oshii’s VladLove anime has been delayed due to COVID-19, according to Jennifer Sherman at ANN.

Yuri Doujinshi

Irodori Sakura has announced their first set of translated doujinshi which, they say, will include 3 safe for work and 1 NSFW titles. Momoko Wants To Do What? by Ichinorai is the one they are working on now.

Yuri Manga

Yuri Mother has collected together suggestions from a ton of folks who discuss Yuri manga with The Ultimate Quarantine Yuri Reading List! Take a look for some ideas. ^_^

Yen Press‘ Éclair Blanche is now available, featuring works by Kiss and White Lily creator Canno and Bloom Into You‘s Nakatani Nio. Check out my review from last month – this is a pretty solid anthology and a good read.

Also from Yen Press, Volume 14 of MURCIÉLAGO.

Out this week is Bloom Into You, Volume 7; as Yuu and Touko struggle to figure out what they mean to each other, Sayaka confronts her final inner boss.

Yuri Voice Drama

Galette announces a new Voice Drama story, Ippen Arumi’s Shinda Onna no Hanashi (死んだ女の話). The first part is up on Galette online!

Other News

Via YNN Correspondent Vialla, renaissance woman Sandy Toksvig has taken to doing videos from her home and in one of her recent videos, she discusses Japanese suffrage and Kimura Komako, a Japanese woman who came the the United States in 1915 to be part of the Women’s Suffrage March in NYC. Here is a photo of Kimura-san from the archives of the Japan Society in NYC. So, if a shouty primate tells you that feminism in Japan is modern or a Western import, share this name and information with them. ^_^

The British Film Institute is celebrating 100 years of Japanese cinema with months of Japanese films streaming on their BFI player. They’ll be releasing some of these for free, so take a look at the schedule and catch up on Japanese cinema classics.

Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G reports on Megan’s thread on Twitter of their translation of an “interesting interview with Japanese openly gay LGBT+ rights campaigners Nanasaki Ryousuke, Mizonoguchi [sic] Akiko, Matsuoka Munetsugu, about the evolution of BL and whether queer media should be realistic.” 

ATo wrap up, the Japan Foundation has shared this memory from a year ago, when we kicked off the 100 Years of Yuri celebration with an interview of Kase-san creator Hiromi Takashima as part of TCAF!

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