We have officially reached the tipping point, I can no longer keep up with all the Yuri coming out in either Japanese or English. Yay! (I mean, “Boo!”, but you know what I mean. ^_^) Today I’m playing catch up from a couple of week’s worth of being busy with the Yuri Panel.
Yuri Manga
YNN Senior Correspondent Eric P. wants you to know that Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution is now available for pre-order. This print volume is slated for an October release and follows the Student Council members 20 years after the events at Ohtori. I reviewed the Japanese edition here in 2018.
Speaking of Utena, Comic Natalie reports that director and co-creator Ikuhara Kunihiko has some commentary on the obi of the upcoming Mayu, Matou, Volume 3 (繭、纏う) Hara Yuriko. That seems right up his alley! ^_^
Lilyka has announced their first print book and…it’s not one of their doujinshi at all, but a print volume of Love To LIE Angle, the “comedy” manga from Comic Yuri Hime. I’m sincerely disappointed in this choice. I was actually hoping we’d be getting a collection of Ruri Hazuki‘s stuff, or SWHD.
Via Yurimother, we have news of a Yuri collaboration on Webtoon Canvas between 15 artists, called A Girl’s Love Collaboration.
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On the Yuricon Store we have a lot of new items!
Tamifull’s How Do We Relationship? Volume 1 is out now from Viz Media. I just started Volume 4 in Japanese last night. I have complicated feelings about this series. Check out my 2019 review of Volume 1 in Japanese.
Éclair Rouge: A Girls’ Love Anthology That Resonates in Your Heart (Book 4 of the Éclair anthology series) is hitting bookshelves in September. I reviewed Éclair Bleue this week, if you missed it. ^_^
tMnR’s If I Could Reach You, Volume 5 is available for pre-order, looking forward to a September print release.
Chiri Yuino’s bloody fantasy Scarlet, Volume 2 concludes this October in English from Seven Seas.
Sailor Moon, Eternal Edition, Volume 9 begins the Galaxia arc.
Shimura Takako’s new adult Yuri series about a woman falling for a married woman, Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 2 (おとなになっても) is out now in Japan.
And Ohsawa Yayoi’s Hello Melancholic!, Volume 2 (ハロー、メランコリック!) is hitting shelves this week.
Akashi’s Still Sick, Volume 3 is on shelves in Japan (at last!)
Yuri Light Novels
I’m in Love With the Villianess, Volume 1 is hitting us in print in November (digitally in September,) with Volume 2 heading our way in February 2021. If you don’t want to wait, or would like to practice your Japanese, you can find Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) Volume 1 and Volume 2 in Japanese on US Kindle! (Oddly, the GL Bunko series I’m reading hasn’t been licensed yet!)
Villainess is also getting a manga adaptation which begins in the August issue of Comic Yuri Hime. ^_^
ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!,Volume 1 will be out in print in October and available in August digitally.
Ameco Kaeruda’s overtly feminist Yuri isekai light novel, Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress! Volume 1 is now available in print! Volume 2 will be available in print in September. I loved both Volume 1 and Volume 2 when I read them in digital format.
Yuri Interactive Novels
Studio Élan’s Yuri Visual Novel Highway Blossoms was very pleasant and now it’s officially getting an sequel/DLC, Highway Blossoms Next Exit on Steam this year! It really looks like they are pulling out the sops with multiple perspectives and several stories.
Creator Natalie Cannon has written in to let us know that she’s created an interactive Text Yuri Novel, Moonrise. Available for the low price of $1.99, Moonrise has multiple player routes and romance options. You can play the first two chapters for free, so give it a try!
Other News
Kodansha in Japan is launching a new COVID-19 themed manga project with over 50 artists contributing to Manga Day to Day.
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I thought I remembered Love to Lie Angle being published as physical a while ago, and it turns out it was printed by a different DMP imprint in 2017. I believe it was physical-only then too. I wonder if they’re just the same ones, or a continuing print license?
Same one, since Lilyka is a DMP imprint.
I was thinking more specifically like “are they printing more, or are these actually the very same ones and they’ve been gathering dust in a warehouse since 2017?”
Ah, I understand. I have absolutely no idea.^_^
LGBT-manga related: ボーイズ・ラン・ザ・ライオット, a fashion manga focusing on a trans boy protagonist, is getting its 1st volume released on July 6. The wraparound and other official info also now state (unlike when the manga first started serialisatio) that the author is an out trans man.
Thank you for paying attention to this work. Typically, a manga uses a trans theme as a “beautiful cover” to feteshisation of androgynous characters, but this one really looks interesting and safe. This is probably the first such work, where the first chapters never even used the boyish appearance of MC for yuri fanservice. This is definitely worth reading.