Yuri Manga
Volume 1 of Canno’s new throuple series, Goukaku Tame no! Yasashi Sankaku Kakei Nyuumon (合格のための！ やさしい三角関係入門) is now available on Japanese shelves.
We’ve got Volume 3 of Takako Shimura’s new adult life Yuri drama Otona ni Nattemo (おとなになっても) on Yuricon Store!
The recently-licensed by Seven Seas School Zone manga will be going on hiatus until October. Happily, the reason is a good one, reports Jennifer Sherman on ANN.
Yen Press official Twitter account shows off their new Puella Magi Madoka Magica Omnibus.
Via Comic Natalie, Yuri Comedy Ohime-san no Ohime-sama (お姫様のお姫様), which takes place in Cho-Yuri Gakuen, Looks goofy rather than ghastly…even if it is a Champion comic.
Kanojo to Himitsu to Koi mo you (カノジョと秘密と恋もよう) is a secret love Yuri comedy from ToMoe and Ichijinsha’s 4-koma Kings Palette magazine. I’m sure we’ve seen the artist’s name in an anthology or three, so I might give this a chance. ^_^
From another 4-koma magazine, this time Magatime KR Comics, we have Hoshikuzu Telepath about an alien who can understand people’s feeling when she touches her forehead to theirs, and Kaika,who cannot speak well, because of her extreme illness.
Yuri Webcomic
YuriMother brings us the news that comedy Yuri webcomic Not So Shoujo Love Story by Curryuku is being serialized on Webtoon Originals this month. From the webtoons page: “A delinquent girl that hopes to find romance in her high-school, pursuing a love story just like her Shoujo mangas, but what happens when her unexpected “Antagonist” rival falls in love with her?” – sounds like it could be fun.
Yuri Anime
Section 23’s release of the Fragtime anime movie is now available on Blu-Ray. If you enjoyed Seven Seas’ omnibus of the Fragtime manga, you ought to enjoy this as well.
The official Twitter account for Otherside Picnic anime has announced a January 2021 debut for the scifi horror series, based on the novels by Miyazawa Iori, available from J-Novel Club with an action-filled trailer. (I only just noticed that one of the tags for this series on J-Novel Club’s website is “creepypasta.” That’s some fine taxonomy right there. ^_^)
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Yuri Light Novel
J-Novel Club is pleased to announce the arrival of Otherside Picnic, Volume, Part 1 on their website!
Translator Jenny McKeon is super excited to let us know that she’s worked on Yen Press’s new release Virgin Road, which she described on Twitter as “an isekai yuri story about an executioner and her would-be target, with great characters and lots of twists and turns“.
Via Yuri Mother, Sexiled, Volume 2 is now available in print from J-Novel Club.
Other News
Anime Feminist has a chat with a bunch of cool folks on Shoujo Manga Part 1, and Shoujo Manga Part 2, now with transcript!
Hazel Newlevant has a wonderful tweet in which she illustrates what is one of the first written uses of “gay” to represent a homosexual relationship, in Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr & Miss Skeene.”
Comitia is once again going online for the November even. Kim Morrisey has the details on ANN.
I’m actually kinda stoked that Watanabe Naomi has been cast as Zirconia for the upcoming Sailor Moon Eternal movies. ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has the scoop.
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“YuriMother brings us the news that comedy Yuri webcomic Not So Shoujo Love Story by Curryuku is being serialized on Webtoon Originals this month. From the webtoons page: “A delinquent girl that hopes to find romance in her high-school, pursuing a love story just like her Shoujo mangas, but what happens when her unexpected “Antagonist” rival falls in love with her?” – sounds like it could be fun.”
As far as I can see, these kinds of stories have been quite popular in yuri in recent years. From Katarina and those villainous isekai to a bunch of similar works in a more normal school setting. It has even begun to be parodied, for example, one yuri manga takes this premise to the extreme, portraying the alleged “rival” as a toxic predator who is literally obsessed with MC.
This is not my cup of tea, as I do not like obsessive love interests, but I am quite interested in the reasons for such popularity.
The results of Yuri Navi’s Yuri manga fan vote for this year are out – 17 of the top 30 are currently licensed in English http://yurinavi.com/2020/09/12/yurimanga-sosenkyo-4-1_10/
I noticed nothing that ended earlier than last year ranked, with even Aoi Hana having been pushed off now.
I also found it interesting that editor Ten has overseen 7 of the 30, including SasaKoi in 2nd and WataYuri, which has managed to keep climbing to reach 4th.
Manga and anime fans polls always look like this, in my experience. Last year anime companies in America did “best anime of all time” or “of the last decade” polls and the answers were – I though rather predictably – what fans are watching *now.* My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer, etc. “Fandom” doesn’t have much of a memory, because new enthusiastic people are entering all the time and their the ones filling the poll rankings.
Older folks fade out, newer folks don’t have much interest in old stuff. I was told flat out that older classic manga don’t often sell that well, even if people say they want it. They older styles are out of fashion. So it makes sense that what’s popular now is all of a similar style.
Well, I was even a little surprised that about 7-8 works from the list I see for the first time. Usually such lists in any genre look like “the first thing that comes to mind”. Not to mention, unlike many of last year’s polls, this list only consisted of solid “pure” yuri.
Now I’m wondering how much the license situation in action shonen, shoujo romance or isekai looks like this.
If an anime poll had a top 30 with nothing more than 2 years old I would definitely wonder what was going on with it to produce that weird result.
I agree…unless it’s “of the last decade or century” where it starts to look like fandom has a memory of about 3 seasons long. ^_^
Hello! I was redirected here to ask a question. I’m wondering if there’s any yuri series (preferably a manga, but anything is fine) that has a dynamic similar to the one shown in this tweet? https://twitter.com/bukitikikaku/status/1301998721882783746
I hope that artist does make a manga based off that concept, though the reason being is that it seems to be based off of one of their (and my) favorite mlm pairs (their Pixiv logs of that said pair can be found here => https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/526694/artworks/%E5%8F%8B%E6%B8%89).
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the bother!