Yuri Manga
While Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon, Volume 1 is on the way in English, Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts, Volume 2 hit shelves last month in Japan!
Heading our way in spring is Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, Volume1, by Hazuki Takeoka with art by Fly. (I have a fondness for this series I cannot explain. ^_^ I guess I really like Fly’s art.)
Alex Mateo over at ANN reports the news that Makoto Hagino’s A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow will end with Volume 9. Reviews here are up to Volume 5 in Japanese and in English. ^_^
Via Comic Natalie, Akarui Kioku Soushitsu (明るい記憶喪失) is completing it’s run in Japanese manga magazine Comic Cune and the final volume will be released there at the end of January. It has not been licensed for the American market as of yet.
I am super excited for Volume 1 of Watashi no Oshi ha Akujyaku Reijou., the manga for the popular light novel, I’m in Love with the Villainess ( 私の推しは悪役令嬢。) I think the art in the manga suits the story much better than that in the LN.
Yuri Light Novels
Via Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G., want you to know that Volume 2 of I’m in Love with the Villainess LN will be getting an early digital release on January 7th, with a print release on February 23rd, from Seven Seas.
Girl’s Kingdom, Volume 1 is out now in English for J-Novel Club and it is highly amusing. I’ll have some thoughts on it soon enough. ^_^
I’m also extremely pleased that, after the Sayaka novels, Nakatani Nio and Iruma Hitoma have teamed up again to bring us another Yuri light novel. End Blue (エンドブルー), about a woman who meets another woman, then a year later, their paths cross again….
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Yuri Webtoons
Very exciting – Mieri Hiranashi’s semi-autobiographical comic The Girl That Can’t Get A Girlfriend is up on Webtoons! These are heart-warming and funny self-owns by the creator- who is one of the many queer creators we support on Patreon here at Okazu! ^_^
YouTube News
Carpfish on Twitter has linked to the Youtube version of their Rekijo panel from Fujocon: Romancing the Past, about women who are fujoshi for Japanese history. ^_^ This video has subtitles/cc.
Speaking of that, we’ve got the English subtitles/closed captions up and edited on our final Yuri Studio video of the season, Are There Queer Creators Creating Yuri? I hope you’ll give that a watch. Feel free to share it around and please don’t forget to like it, and subscribe to my channel…YouTube Watches Over Us. ^_^
I don’t know if I shared this with you yet, so if I did, I apologize. Calorie Mate, a nutritional supplement/diet bar, (depending on the audience they are targeting), made an advert that included some of the staff of the movie Your Name, about a Karolina Styczyńska, the first foreign female to become professional Shogi player in Japan. It’s…lovely. Give The History of Karolina a watch!
Sailor Moon News
Komatsu-san at Crunchyroll News, shares a link to a “behind-the-scenes” look at Momoiro Clover Z recording the Sailor Moon Eternal theme.
Komatsu-san also has some fun visuals on Sailor Moon Eternal shows at Konica Minolta planetariums in Tokyo. ^_^
If you are a Sailor Moon fan, don’t miss the fourth trailer for the Eternal movie which features the Inners thinking about what they want to achieve. If the movie looks like this, I may forgive Toei for decades of cheaping out.
Via my own Okazu First Lady, there is a new Sailor Moon Cafe, Eternal Memories in 6 cities in Japan, but as a complete aside I want you to take a look at the top image of all the Senshi and note that both Haruka and Michiru have definitely gotten a grow-up along with everyone’s glow-ups. ^_^
Other News
Via YNN Correspondent Megan, Wonder Egg Priority anime will feature a character who is a boyish girl, who the other girls find attractive. Rafael Antonio Pineda has details on ANN including the Utena-esque premise.
Yagate Kimi ni Naru Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite novels got a live read through and the cast has provided some audio commentary! Check out their conversation (in Japanese, obviously) on Youtube.
The Advocate covers Queer Japan, the crowdfunded movie by Graham Kolbiens and a host of others, documenting the lives of queer folks in Japan. Hopefully after it runs through the film festival circuit we’ll get to see it for real!
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