Yuri Manga
We have some new items on the Yuricon Store!
Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu! Volume 7 (私の百合はお仕事です!) Miman’s Yuri-themed cafe drama is still moving along, as Hime and Mitsuki struggle to understand one another and, probably, themselves.
Yurizukushi no Kyoushitsu, Volume 1 (ゆりづくしの教室) by Shiime is an exploration of Yuri couples tropes, all together in one rowdy classroom.
Haruki Hiroki’s Watashi Igai Jinrui Zennin Yuri, Volume 2 (私以外人類全員百合 ) wraps up this science fiction story in which a straight girl ends up in a world where everyone is in a Yuri coupling. Here’s where you can find Volume 1.
Via Comic Natalie we have word of a Yuri school comedy which sounds like it might actually be funny, Yuri ni Hasamarete, Esper (百合に挟まれて、エスパー) by Suruga Kiryuu in Ultra Jump magazine. It’s about a girl who can read minds, who can’t not be aware of her friends’ secret relationship and passionate feelings for one another. I have always thought that ESP would be a horrid burden. ^_^
ANN’s Crystalynn Hodgkin reports the news that tMnR’s Tatoe Todokanu Ito da toshitemo, licensed by Kodansha as If I Could Reach You, will come to a climax in the December issue of Comic Yuri Hime, on sale in October.
Galette Meets 12 has gone out by PDF to all backers at their crowdfunding page, ガレット＠Fantia (ガレットワークス).
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Yuri Anime
Massive news from Diskotek as they pick up the license for a bunch of Yuri fandom faves, including Rose of Versailles, Project A-ko (making them the first company since CPM/U.S. Manga Corps to put that out in a physical format), Battle Athletes, and happiest of all, Devilman Lady. Rafael Antonio Pineda gives you the scoop on ANN.
All of these titles have been reviewed here on Okazu in our first 20 years of existence and all are exceptional for one reason or another. But, I cannot stress this enough – Go Nagai’s Devilman Lady is an extraordinary Yuri anime, with a star voice Japanese cast. It is one of my favorite anime of all time. I’m very excited to see it come out again in time for it’s 20th anniversary. I’m only a little sad that they aren’t waiting for the 20th anniversary remastered set next year, but this is still going to be worth having.
My thanks to YNN Correspondent Shannon and a pile of other folks for sharing this news with us!
Brian Ruh has written up a great early review of Takako Shimura’s Happy Go Lucky Days anime for ANN which he streamed on Asian Pop-Up Cinema.
Otherside Picnic has a new, extended trailer. Crystalyn Hodgkins has details on ANN. I think it’s going to make a good visual media. We’ll be seeing it for ourselves in the new year.
Fragtime Blu-Ray is out now from Section 23 at pretty bargain price.
LGBTQ Comics
UK publisher ShortBox on Twitter announces a slate of new comics that include “lesbian space adventures and lesbian earth adventures.” ^_^
Other News
Megan on Twitter is stoked to noted that the upcoming anime Requiem for the Rose King, is “ the 2nd anime with a trans protagonist (after Wandering Son)? And the first with an intersex protag.” I know nothing about this series, and while a BL-adjacent harem isn’t going to be for me, some of you might enjoy it!
We were pretty stoked to hear that Naomi Watanabe will be voicing Zirconia in the new Sailor Moon Eternal movies. Daryl Harding has the story on Crunchyroll News.
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“Brian Ruh has written up a great early review of Takako Shimura’s Happy Go Lucky Days anime for ANN which he streamed on Asian Pop-Up Cinema”.
The case when you are very interested in reading a review, but you do not want to spoil your impression before viewing. A truly biblical temptation lol.
In terms of Battle Athletes, how much are you looking forward to an anime adaptation of the remake? Two-thirds of Rui-sensei’s work is yuri and from what I’ve heard the original was not subtle about that either, but I’m still confused by the new author’s strong commit on lewd and weird stuff.
The new Battle Athletes manga is absolute trash. I hated every page of it.
Hmm, I haven’t seen a single page, but being familiar with Rui-sensei’s work, I can imagine how controversial the new content can be.
“Megan on Twitter is stoked to noted that the upcoming anime Requiem for the Rose King, is “ the 2nd anime with a trans protagonist (after Wandering Son)? And the first with an intersex protag.” I know nothing about this series, and while a BL-adjacent harem isn’t going to be for me, some of you might enjoy it!”
Hmm, I’ve heard about the announcement of this anime before, but your mention made it clearer. I wouldn’t say it’s BL, but I think the girls will definitely like to ship characters with each other, one way or another. I just do not understand who exactly Megan is talking about. The information I found speaks more of an all-male (?) cast.
Sorry for the late reply, didn’t see this last week – Rose King definitely doesn’t have an all-male cast. One of the protagonist Richard’s love interests is Anne Neville, who was in real life, as well as later on in the manga and stage play, his wife. There’s much more pagetime given to the various M/M romances involving Richard, but Richard and Anne get some focus in the earlier volumes and more recently in vol 13.
(P.S Thanks Erica for mentioning Rose King and its LGBT+ elements here!)
I made a grave error in my ‘support all Yuri that releases on Bookwalker’ and now my library is tainted with ‘Our maid is too annoying’, a horror manga about a young girl stalked and terrorised by her ex special forces pedophile maid. I try not to yell at the clouds about age issues in JP media much, but this one .should not exist.
I wish i could refund it :(
Youch. At least you can take it off your library.
I’m not a huge fan of returning books because one doesn’t like them. Even digital books. I have a number of things on my Bookwalker purchase list which I have hidden, and won’t be reviewed, but I don’t begrudge the few bucks.