Yuri Manga
On the Yuricon Store, we’ve got a couple of new items!
Whisper Me a Love Song, Volume 2, will be hitting shelves next month.
Yamada and Kase-san, Volume 2 (山田と加瀬さん。). I can’t wait to read this! Because I haven’t gotten to Japan at all this year, I feel so behind on this series ^_^
Also super high on my looking forward to reading this list is Akuyaku Reijou desu ga, Heroine ni Kouryakusaretemasu wa! (悪役令嬢ですが、ヒロインに攻略されてますわ! アンソロジーコミック) This anthology has five stories in which the Villainess gets a HAPPY END with the Heroine. ^_^ The description was so exuberantly otakuish I laughed.
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Kodansha has licensed a merely Yuri-adjacent manga, called Will It Be the World or Her?. You can get the details from ANN’s Adriana Hazra.
From Wings magazine, we have a two-part OL and witch story, Mi-chan to Airi (みーちゃんとアイリ). Volume 1 and Volume 2 are available in Japan.
Also in two-parts, Yume no Hashibashi (夢の端々), Volume 1 and Volume 2, tells a story about a school love that manages to survive over 70 years and lifetimes of obligations.
For those of you still reading, Akili’s Vampeerz, Volume 4 (ヴァンピアーズ) is out in Japan.
Mikanuji’s Fuzoroi no Renri (不揃いの連理) has a new chapter up on Web Newtype and a voiced comic promotional video! I enjoy those so much. ^_^
Yuri Light Novels
Otherside Picnic, Volume 4 will be out on Kindle or Global Bookwalker at the end of December.
Bloom Into You Regarding Saeki Sayaka, Volume 3 is also hitting shelves in December.
Wow, there is a new edition of the Cream Lemon: Escalation novel, Escalation (エスカレーション). Much nicer cover than the original!
Doukyusei no Oshi Sakka ni Yuri Mousou ga Bareta Kekka (同級生の推し作家に百合妄想がバレた結果) is a cute story about a girl whose classmate is her favorite writer. Read it for free in Japanese on Sai-zen.
YNN Correspondent Megan shares this gonzo piano Yuri comic, Kizu-darake Piano Sonata (傷だらけのピアノソナタ), which you can read on Shonen Jump Plus, in Japanese.
Anime News
Komatsu-san at Crunchyroll news has a bunch of reports this week:
WATATEN! An Angel Flew Down to Me launches a new project.
Toei announces the next PreCure series, Tropical-Rouge! PreCure.
And the first 6 minutes of the 20th anniversary Ojamajo Doremi project Majo Minarai wo Sagashite is up on Youtube for us to enjoy. I have the Ojamajo Doremi 20s novel sitting here. I’ll get to it one day. ^_^
VLADLove trailer is up and as if it is determined to keep me from watching, it’s not just going to be old guys/young girls vampires…it’s going to be slapstick! Ah. hah. Paul Chapman has the details on CR. YNN Correspondent Megan also dropped some more VLADLove news: There will be a “Vlad Love advance screening event on Dec 28th – event will also feature a talk with Oshii and other staff.
There’s also a casting interview up on the official Youtube, plus cast announced for the dads of the main characters – I suppose Oshii wasn’t exaggerating with how this anime only has bishoujo or Ossan characters and nothing in between.”
I think there’s an ever-decreasing chance for this to be Yuri. ^_^;
Other News
I’m delighted to hear that India is getting their own legal streaming site, Animei TV! It should launch in 2021 if all goes well. That’s a huge market, so if there is a legal option for the subcontinent, that’s all to the good!
Via YNN Correspondent CW, Waseda University’s queer group, GLOW, has a wonderful interview with Morishma Akiko-sensei! This was a great read. ^_^
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“Also super high on my looking forward to reading this list is Akuyaku Reijou desu ga, Heroine ni Kouryakusaretemasu wa!”
Yuri or straight LN about isekai-ed into Vilainess has become so popular these days that it even seems a little funny. It even influences other genres, like the recently licensed shoujo harem where the MC is reborn as a side character in her favorite game.
“VLADLove trailer is up and as if it is determined to keep me from watching, it’s not just going to be old guys/young girls vampires…it’s going to be slapstick! Ah. hah”
Don’t like a slapstick? Or did I misunderstand you?
You did not at all misunderstand me. ^_^ I strongly dislike slapstick comedy. There have been exceptions of course, Hayate x Blade was full of slapstick – even going so far as to have an entire volume of people slipping on banana peels – and I found it hilarious. But mostly, it just annoys the daylights out of me. ^_^
Well, if you don’t want watching this even for “scientific purposes”, then I hope Megan can do a guest review. I’m not a big fan of these shows, but I would be interested to read about what we get in the end.
I don’t think it’s likely to be reviewed here unless it significantly more queer than just a bit of vampirish biting.
‘The world or her’ sounds mildly intriguing, I didn’t even notice the queer aspect reading Kodansha’s press release the other day… I’ll probably check out vol 1 and see if anything interesting happens with the girlfriend character. At the least having some form of queer aspect in this kind of manga is a modest step in the right direction.
Quite a lot this week… Let’s start with Seven Seas licensing survey, now with entries for both manga and light novels for the categories of Yuri, BL, and LGBT+. https://twitter.com/gomanga/status/1325962233273348097 Anime Japan’s annual ‘manga you want to see animated’ survey is also out: https://pro.form-mailer.jp/fms/e7ef5039155031
AdaShima is getting a special event titled “Decide what sort of chocolate fits me!” on February 2nd – lottery tickets will be included in the 1st and 2nd volumes of the BD/DVD releasing on Dec 2nd and Jan 6th https://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/adashima/special/special03.html
Manga adaptation announced of LN series “”The story of a girl who insists there’s no way she’d date women, who fell completely into the world of Yuri” (女同士とかありえないでしょと言い張る女の子を、百日間で徹底的に落とす百合のお話) https://ln-news.com/articles/110094
New Yuri serialisation in Kirara Forward- follows the relationship between a girl who failed her high school entrance exam, and a girl who rarely comes to school because of illness, but when she did happened to be the cause of the exam failure… http://yurinavi.com/2020/11/28/anemone-start/
In English-licensed LGBT+ manga, the vol 3 cover for Boys Run The Riot is out: https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000347352 a shame this series didn’t get more colour pages, I love every colour art of (protagonist) Ryou we’ve seen… And another vol 3 cover for the delightful “My son is probably gay”: https://magazine.jp.square-enix.com/top/comics/detail/9784757569430/