Yuri Manga
Akiko Morishima’s The Conditions of Paradise: Our First Time is a prequel for Sumi and Sabrina’s relationship in The Conditions of Paradise, coming to you this month from Seven Seas!
Our Teachers are Dating, Volume 2 will be here at the end of January.
Takako Shimura’s Even Though We’re Adults, Volume 1 is heading our way from Seven Seas next February,
Yen Press has Kujira’s A Witch’s Love at the End of the World, Volume 1, coming our way this month!
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Yuri Anime
RetroCrush TV has added Yamibo: The Darkness, The Hat and the Travelers of the Books. ANN’s Jennifer Sherman has details.
This rather mediocre anime has had ridiculously long staying power. It’s quite befuddling.
RetroCrushTV also has announced that they have the Vampire Princess Miyu OVA, which is wonderful. I hope they get the TV series, because it fantastically queer and creepy.
Via YNN Correspondent Megan, Takarazuka-esque revue troop story, Kageki Shoujo, is getting an anime. While not Yuri, it’s a really great story, I hope you’ll enjoy it. Seven Seas has the manga as Kageki Shoujo: The Curtain Rises!.
Otherside Picnic anime gets some key visuals and frankly, I’m a little disappointed at the service. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details on ANN.
Yuri Light Novels
We’ve added I’m in Love With the Villainess Vol. 2 to the Yuricon Store. It has a January release date.
And ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! is now out in print!
Other News
The fabulous Stitch has written about rap artist Megan Thee Stallion’s love for anime and says, clearly, “No one gets into anime for clout.”, for Teen Vogue. (Lizzo, whose chanteuse voice and flute playing charmed me, is also is a fan of Sailor Moon and that’s just one more of a zillion reasons to love her.)
Legendary composer Yoko Kanno is collaborating with Takarazuka for an upcoming work about the Silk Road, reports Sora24’s Casey Baseel.
The Yagate Kimi ni Naru live-reading of the stage play is happening in Japan, in two parts. Streaming is available for purchase for an earlier version and they have an English language page, which I presume means they allow overseas viewers.
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Vampire Princess Miyu? Are you talking about that old homoerotic series from the 90s? Strange, it seemed to me that minus a few subplots, you considered it nothing more than yuri-ish.
The new manga is noticeably bolder in this regard, but unfortunately the studios haven’t gotten to it yet. Too bad, because I like stylish paranormal stories like this.
“Via YNN Correspondent Megan, Takarazuka-esque revue troop story, Kageki Shoujo, is getting an anime. While not Yuri, it’s a really great story, I hope you’ll enjoy it. Seven Seas has the manga as Kageki Shoujo: The Curtain Rises!.”
Eh, but I also gave you a link to the this anime’s announcement on Twitter :D. However, this news is too good to be salty about it. I’m looking forward to how this story will look animated.
What the everloving hell is going on with Toriko’s spine in that promo art?!?!
(Probably) not Yuri at all but might be of interest for GitS fans – Kamiyama Kenji, writer and director of Stand Alone Complex, is now writing and directing an original, “long-form” anime to release in 2022. The anime has gone into full production, which certainly seems a longer lead-in time than usual for TV anime. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this one. https://natalie.mu/comic/news/403519
Internationally popular heavy metal band Love Bites is performing the Mai version of Vlad Love’s OP, and also serving as ambassadors for the series: https://twitter.com/VLADLOVE_ANIME/status/1324319954720624640
AdaShima is getting a pop up shop in Amnibus’ Shibuya store with some wintery merch on offer: https://store.amnibus.com/adashima/
Another Shonen Jump Plus+ manga with a LGBT+ character – this time, a one-shot titled Ichijiku and Kagehinata, about the friendship between a plain high school boy and a girl who likes girls. https://shonenjumpplus.com/episode/13933686331700196801
A beautifully illustrated Yuri one shot about two androids in the post-apocalypse: https://viewer.heros-web.com/episode/13933686331725060414#
Thank you! I saw the android manga news, but wanted to read it before giving it a look. I’m really on the fence about Vlad Love. I expect it to be queerbaity (queerbitey?) since it’s all women but don’t see it being Yuri, as such. ^_^
For what its worth, on the Vlad Love panel uploaded to the official Youtube, Oshii specifically said that he sees the show as primarily orientated towards girls/women, with a secondary audience of おっさん (old geezers) like himself. It’s hard to judge especially since Oshii and some of his team haven’t made a TV anime for over 30 years and seem relatively uninfluenced by current trends, but from what little we’ve seen so far I feel relatively hopeful about it.
I can see that it’s mostly or all female characters, but as an adult I know that that is not at all what *I* mean by a story being focused on women, or woman-identified.
Oshii’s not that great at showing women as fully developed humans and he has a lot of fetishes I expect we’ll have to wade through to get to any story.
At the moment, I’m simply staying neutral and waiting for this to actually premiere before having an opinion.
Love Bites? I usually listen to other all-female J-metal bands (like BAND MAID, one of whose members is someone like Yumi IRL, by the way), but judging by the videos and reviews I’ve seen in the western metal community, these girls are at a pretty outstanding technical musical level.
Ah, yes, *Yami to boushi to hon no tabibito*. You have a near-infinite library full of books that contain worlds and a star-crossed romance and… that’s all you manage to do with the idea?
Yuuuuuup.
There’s an interview with Morishima Akiko in Waseda Nijiiro, a free paper published by Glow, Waseda University’s Sexual Minority Circle.
https://waseda-glow.com/news/2020/11/
Oh excellent! This is very interesting – and helpful for another project I’m working on.
Thank you. ^_^