Yuri Light Novel

Seven Seas wants us to know that it’s almost time for the release of “reincarnated into an otome game” school comedy I’m in Love with the Villainess, by inori and hanagata.

They also wanted to remind us that Adachi and Shimamura, Volume 3 is on sale and will be hitting your mailbox in early 2021.

Via Yuri Mother, the upcoming Seven Seas release of Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight For an Ordinary Life With My Love and Cursed Sword!, will be delayed slightly.

Yuri Manga

Yen has nabbed the Adachi and Shimamura manga license, and Alex Mateo at ANN has the details.

Seven Seas hits this month’s licensing announcement with several Yuri titles. First up, School Zone, a school comedy by Ningiyau.

Seven Seas has also licensed Hero-san to Moto Onna Kanbu-san, Volume 1 (ヒーローさんと元女幹部さん) as Superwomen in Love! I sympathize with this title change as the other might play well in Japan, but yeah, The Hero and the former Middle Management Villainess would die on the shelves here. ^_^ I have reviewed both volumes here on Okazu. Volume 1 | Volume 2.

ANN’s Alex Mateo reports that A Witch’s Love at the End of the World, which has also been licensed by Yen Press will end this autumn with a third volume in Japan. I have not yet read this series, so you and I are on equal footing here. ^_^

Yuri Studio

We’re finishing up a new video for Yuri Studio that we’ll be launching this week. I decided to make this one way too complicated and our video editor Louise worked triple time to make it look good. ^_^ We’re hoping to get a few more Patrons before September to help us support this work and keep us on track for 2020. If you enjoy the weekly news report or the manga and anime reviews or our Yuri Studio videos, please support us on Patreon!

LGBTQ Manga

Via Megan on Twitter, we have news of Boys Run the Riot, a manga with a trans male lead, written by a trans man. I’m looking forward to reading that. Megan’s also offered up this interview with Gaku Keito and why he decided to come out. It’s in Japanese, but you have Google Translate.

Yuri Podcasts

Laethas and Mamma Luvs Manga talk about Viz Media’s How Do We Relationship on Yuricast, Episode 1.

I am doing a podcast, along with with Kit and Sarah from the Tomochoco Podcast today on Manga Maverick’s podcast about the Kase-san series!

Yuri Visual Novel

A spin-off of the Visual Novel Twofold, Yuri VN First Snow is free on Steam right now!

Other News

This is in no way Yuri, but the news that Sentai Filmworks has licensed Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit anime is very good. For many reasons, this anime is one of the very best I have ever watched and it stands as one of the few series I’ve seen that is significantly better as an anime than the original novel (the entire series of which I have reviewed here.) If you have not seen it, I can only make this the strongest recommendation I’ve ever made. It is really that good.

Via real-world journalist Jake Adelstein, comes this reminder that Takarazuka has recently done a production of Once Upon A Time in America.

The Yagate Kimi ni Naru / Bloom Into You encore stage production has been delayed due to the pandemic, but they are planning a live dramatic reading of a Sayaka story instead, according to the Yagate Kimi ni Naru Official Twitter account.

Let’s wrap up with this piece of news, via Mari Kurisato, Marvel celebrates Indigenous history with a landmark special, Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 that features native artists and writers taking on indigenous Marvel characters.

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