Yuri Manga
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December is going to see loads of Yuri riches, beginning with Tamifull’s How Do We Relationship, Volume 2 from Viz. Volume 5 of the same series is just out in Japan, with Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 5 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな ), but if you’re reading the EN edition, do not read the summary of V5! Huge spoilers. ^_^;
Inui Ayu’s office romance Teiji ni Ageretara, Volume 4 ( 定時にあがれたら) continues as Kaori and Kayoko celebrate their 1st anniversary together.
Hero-san to Moto Onna Kanbu-san, Volume 3 (ヒーローさんと元女幹部さん) continues the tale of hero Rapid Rabbit’s love affair with a former middle manager for the bad guys.
Naoko Kodama’s Days of Love at Seagull Villa, Volume 1 has a November release in English, while the series has wrapped up in Japan with Umineko Bessou days, (海猫荘 days) Volume 3.
Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts creator, Usui Shio, will be starting up a new series in monthly Yuri magazine Comic Yuri Hime, Onna Tomodachi to Kekkon Shitemita, according to ANN’s Crystalynn Hodgkins. This should not be confused Tanaka Yuuki’s Shonen Jump Plus one-shot webcomic, Tomodachi Kekkon. Usui’s series Donuts Under a Crescent Moon,is slated for a 2021 release from Seven Seas.
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Anime News
Via Senior YNN Correspondent Eric P., Diskotek’s new releases for Devilman Lady and Battle Athletes (TV series *and* OVA on Blu-Ray!) are up for pre-order. Justin Sevakis has been tweeting about these and it’s interesting to read about the process from the inside. I’m really looking forward to seeing Devilman Lady. These will be getting December releases as well.
Kim Morrisey at ANN lets us know that Shiraishi Jougi, creator of Wandering Witch: The Journeys of Elaina has asked the animation staff to not upskirt the character. I hope more creators request this, because as an industry, animation is far too comfortable with what is – at absolute minimum – a pervasive form of sexual harassment. I’d really like to see it shamed out of existence because it is fucking creepy to upskirt. The anime is streaming on Hulu. Yen Press publishes the Light Novels, Square Enix is publishing the manga.
ANN’s Alex Mateo want us to know that a new extended trailer for Sailor Moon Eternal is now out. This is the first of two movies that will cover the “Dream” arc. of the manga. It’s not my favorite arc, but there’s still some good stuff to look forward to. For one thing, it looks honestly really well animated. This will also be the first time the Inners’ power up includes the spirits of their planetary castles, which I’m actually really excited about. (Nerd!) Naomi Watanabe as Zirconia is a great choice, but I feel like we’re all owed a redo of the first two seasons of Crystal with Kon Chikai in the director’s seat, because she is absolutely killing it.
Can we declare a “curse” on the first two seasons, since they’ve kind of been screwed over twice now? ^_^;
RetroCrushTV is streaming – free and legally – Dear Brother (Oniisama e) based on the manga by Riyoko Ikeda, directed by Osamu Dezaki. I’m going to keep reminding you of this until you have all watched it. This should be assigned homework for any Yuri 101 course. In fact, one could do an entire class on it. Monique Thomas and Steve Jones cover some of this vast territory in their review on ANN, Does Dear Brother Still Hold Up?
Yuri Light Novels
Via Senior YNN Correspondent, Sean G. J-Novel Club has announced the license – and new translation – of GL Bunko’s Girls Kingdom 1 written by Nayo with art by Shio Sakura. Part 1 is available on the J-Novel website as a preview. I reviewed this novel back in 2018, when GL Bunko did their own translation. I’m really liking Shio-san’s revised art on this current crop of webnovels-turned-LNs.
J-Novel Club has also announced a December release date for Otherside Picnic, Volume 4. This link leads to the Kindle edition. It will also be available on Global Bookwalker.
Yuri Games
Via Senior YNN Correspondent Louise P, we have Thirsty Sword Lesbians Tabletop RPG by April Kit Walsh. This Kickstarter has one of the most compelling video pitches I’ve ever seen and if I played games, they’d definitely have my money! With 26 days to go in their campaign, they blown past their initial goal almost 4x over.
Other News
My brain got five times bigger, listening to Third Impact Anime Podcast’s Interview with Anime Scholar Helen McCarthy. Helen is my idol and anytime I have a chance to learn from her, I take it. I hope you will, too.
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I perfectly understand the author’s desire to maintain a family-friendly atmosphere in Majo, but if we develop this issue further, then I wonder what their opinion was on the adaptation of the darker chapters. It’s not Madoka or ReZero, but some of it is pretty dark for what I might call an all-ages show.
There is absolutely no relationship between something the author put in intentionally and casual sexual harassment added in by an animation studio though.
The work contains the elements the creator wishes it to have.
I don’t argue and even support Jougi in this decision. I still remember the Fruit Basket remake doing it with one of the female side characters and it looked very awkward and weird. There was even one scandal a few years ago when Feel turned food porn manga into ecchi romcom.
I don’t know how much control the authors have in adaptation of their works, but personally I would be upset if my family LN were turned into a pedo bait.
One of the refreshing things about *Girls und Panzer* was the director’s prohibition on up-skirt shots (I think an animator was fired for trying to sneak one in). That, and the fact that they did a wonderful job of showing team-work and strategy, plus out-of-the-box brilliance on the part of the main characters.
Any idea what translation they’re using for the RetroCrush Oniisama-he broadcast? Did they get the AnimeSols script, or the crowdsourced one from Viki, or do a new one?
(The screenshot in the ANN article you linked that translates “kenzan” into “spiky frog” suggests they went with a thoroughly unprofessional method, if it’s from RC. But I have a tiny amount of hope that I’m wrong. The show so very much deserves respect for the nuances of its language.)
I don’t. I know they are not unprofessional.
Kenzan is called a spiky frog in English, honestly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzan
Huh, well I’ll be. I wonder where that came from, and who uses it, since it has nothing to do with the kanji for “kenzan?” I guess someone somewhere just tried to think of something to call it that didn’t sound “foreign.”
I have taken ikebana courses in both Japan and the US and it was always just called “kenzan” with no further discussion. ><; Still feels to me like a thing that doesn't need translation – anyone sufficiently interested in Japanese culture to be watching a niche anime from the 90's would be more likely to know "kenzan" than "spiky frog," but at least it's not just some random nonsense. :p
Sure, in an ikebana class, but I have seen it as “spiky frog” in Michaels and other chain “craft” stores.
It’s all about the audience.
Also thanks for the recommendation for the Helen McCarthy interview. In addition to the interview, it looks like there’s a lot of interesting content on that podcast.
It sure does. They do good work. Enjoy!