Yuri Anime
We’re starting this week off with some song and dance. Rafael Antonio Pineda at ANN has the details of the upcoming Revue Starlight film and the teaser trailer.
Kyoto Animation is producing Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Season 2, Adriana Hazra’s got the news on ANN.
Via YuriMother, in The Owl House, Disney’s First LGBTQ Protagonist is a Bisexual Dominican-American.
Yuri Studio
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Yuri Manga
Comic Heaven magazine , No. 49 (コミックヘヴン) will include a short Yuri story, “Hinata no Yuri” (ヒナタノユリ」) about an office lady who has never fallen in love.
Kaishaku’s news series, Himegami no Miko (姫神の巫女) , the sequel to Kannazuki no Miko is available for free on Comic Walker. In Japanese of course.
Also on Comic Walker is Goukaku Tame no! Yasashi Sankaku Kakei Nyuumon (合格のための！ やさしい三角関係入門) the new girl x girl x girl series by Canno. Since I felt that the three-way relationship in Kiss & White Lily For My Dearest Girl was the strongest writing in the series, I’m interesting in seeing what happens when she focuses on one.
I’m absolutely beside myself with joy that Shio Usui’s Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts has been licensed by Seven Seas as Doughnuts Under a Cresent Moon. I enjoy this series immensely.
Other News
YNN Correspondent Megan has written in with this fascinating item, on “BL news site Chil-Chil about the intersection of BL and Yuri fans” BLと百合、近くて遠い 2つの世界 translates to BL and Yuri, two worlds which are close but far apart. (It’s in Japanese, but you can follow it easily enough with a translate tool. Megan has translated some of it on Twitter.) This is part of their ongoing BL research column, and this article is a survey of BL fans who like Yuri. Chil-Chil also has a collection called BL Yuri, a term I have not heard anyone else use, (and, if I’m being honest, makes me cringe a bit, based on the cover…)but as I haven’t read it, I will withhold judgement.) The premise appears to be BL without a seme, so not really “Yuri” in the sense we understand it. If you have read it, do let me know what your opinion is.
In The Atlantic, Gabrielle Bellot has taken a look at Kuniko Tsurita, an influential female manga artists of the early 20th century in How Kuniko Tsurita Shaped Literary Manga History. This article also celebrates a new collection of Tsurita’s work, The Sky is Blue With a Single Cloud with translation by Ryan Holmberg. It looks fantastic, Tsurita’s art has a clear Aubrey Beardsley influence that I find quite appealing.
We’ll wrap up this week with an article on the NYTimes How Queer Women Powered the US Suffrage Movement by Maya Salam.
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“BL Yuri” just makes me think of the Auri Hirao story in Eclair Bleue in which the mabnga author is trying to convince her poor editor that a yuri set in a boys’ school is a good idea…
Haha, yes.
To be fair there’s so many ‘girl(s) in an all-boys school’ stories – I even seem to remember one that took it as far as ‘I’m the only boy in this all-boys school’ (all the rest were undercover girls) ;)
Haha!
Not only. In the visual novel market, such “fake” yuri or BL is so common that it is even considered a genre of its own. At one time, Erica even wrote a review on an anime adaptation of the first hit of this type. This is probably a kind of “safe” queer fantasy for the straight audience
Well, I remember that at one time yuri with two dominant prince-ish characters was jokingly called that. Or vice versa, I know a mangaka who really likes to draw BL with very androgynous guys and near-yuri tropes.
“Comic Heaven magazine , No. 49 (コミックヘヴン) will include a short Yuri story, “Hinata no Yuri” (ヒナタノユリ」) about an office lady who has never fallen in love.”
Does this magazine have anything to do with Goraku? The latter is currently publishing one of the most problematic yuri titles I could imagine lol. It is drawn by Takatou Rui, whom we indirectly mentioned several times earlier.
It’s worth checking out Gabrielle Bellot’s other contributions to *The Atlantic*: including an essay on how Miyazaki’s heroines helped her shape her own views of the possibilities of being a woman, *Valerian and Laureline*’s Laureline as unsung feminist SF icon, queer writers in the time of Trump.
Thank you, I will do that.