Yuri Manga
We had a bonanza of releases this week!
Shio Usui’s charming office romance story, Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon , Volume 1 is out from Seven Seas.
Also from Seven Seas this week we have Failed Princesses, Volume 3!
Akashi’s Still Sick, Volume 3, which finishes up another office romance story with a manga side plot is out from Tokyopop!
Kujira’s A Witches Love at the End of the World, Volume 2 is out from Yen Press. I’m very interested to see how this progresses as I never read it in Japanese. My review of Volume 1 is here. There is a Volume 3 headed our way in May!
Adachi and Shimamura manga, Volume 1, also from Yen Press hit shelves this week! This looks like it moves pretty quickly through the story.
Tokyopop released Ana C. Sánchez’s Alter Ego this week, which is a school life drama about crushes and love rivals.
Seven Seas has licensed the manga for Tai Ari Deshita. ~Ojou-sama wa Kakutou Game Nante Shinai~ (対ありでした。 ～お嬢さまは格闘ゲームなんてしない～), which is also getting an anime. Crystalyn Hodgkins has the news at ANN.
School Zone Girls, Volume 1, out from Seven Seas in May, is up for pre-order. Delinquent girls in love. I’ll check it out for sure. ^_^
YNN Correspondent Megan wants you to know that Comic Natalie reports on a new Yuri short story collection from an author named Battan (also the author of Ane no Yuujin), Mabataki, (まばたき) has at least one story which is Yuri.
Yuri Light Novels
I’m in Love With the Villainess, Volume 2 in English and it’s Japanese counterpart, Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou, Volume 4 (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) came out this week. inori-sensei’s story has kept me on my toes for sure. ^_^ Volume 1 of the manga will follow up this summer.
Otherside Picnic series’ twitter account announced a Volume 6 on the way in Japanese. Volume 4 is out in English and Volume 1 of the manga in English is coming this summer.
A Lily Blooms in Another World in paperback format from J-Novel Club is headed our way in Autumn 2021!
Yuri Live Action
We have a new key visual for Kanojo (彼女), based on Nakamura Ching’s manga GUNJO (羣青), which will be on US Netflix as Ride Or Die. Starring Mizuhara Kiko & Sato Honami this is slated for an April release in Japan. Komatsu-san on Crunchyroll News has nabbed the Kanojo trailer from Netflix and yeah, its not the same story as GUNJO, but it’s not too far off, I hope. The kind of super-intense pacing of the manga would have been a better mini-series than a movie.
It won’t be the same, I just hope that it will be good for what it is.
LGBTQ News
Again, Via Megan, Volume 1 of essay manga 性別X (Gender X) is out, about a non-binary person who is attracted to women.
And Megan wants you to know that Viz’s Shojo Beat has licensed Kieta Hatsukoi under the title My Love Mix Up. Megan says “it’s a shoujo but with a bisexual male lead. Comes highly recommended by people I trust.”
If you haven’t been watching it, I recommend Heaven’s Design Team, which is streaming on Crunchyroll…for a number of reasons, but also because Venus is a terrific trans character. ^_^ Like so many Kodansha series, it’s educational and fun.
Seven Seas has licensed LGBTQ+ manga Boy Meets Maria. ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details.
Via YNN Correspondent Ivan V. Steven Universe has been picked up by HBO Max!
Anime News
Kageki Shoujo!! anime has a trailer and Daryl Harding at Crunchyroll News has the details.
Paul Chapman had more details and a short PV for game-turned-anime Blue Reflection Ray on Crunchyroll News.
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is getting a second season. Check out the trailer on Crunchyroll.
ANN’s Crystalyn Hodgkin’s has details and a scenery porn-filled promotional video for upcoming Aria the Crepuscolo.
Other News
Via Comic Natalie JK kara Yarinaosu Silver Plan (JKからやり直すシルバープラン) is a voiced comic promo episode about, it appears, a homeless woman in her 50s who finds herself waking up as her herself at 17 and able to remake her previous life choices. A kind of isekai story and probably would not have rated a mention here usually, but the cast stars Mitsuishi Kotono, Hisakawa Aya and Ogata Megumi and that’s a 1-2-3 punch for me. ^_^ Check it out on Youtube!
Speaking of Ogata-san, we wish her a speedy recovery after emergency surgery for a herniated disc.
Zombieland Saga is getting a stage play in Japan this spring. Crunchyroll News’ Daryl Harding has the details. Previously, CR announced that they’ve added Zombieland Saga Revenge anime to their acquisitions!
Komatsu-san has the delightful news item on Crunchyroll News of a web writer who wrote a song that could have existed in K-ON! and had it covered by Yui seiyuu Tomosaki Aki. ^_^
And while you’re doing a musical tour of shippable anime, check out the Uji City musical online festa that features Kyoto-area school bands performing music from the Sound! Euphonium anime series.
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So much material! Thank you for doing these reports. School Zone Girls looks like it could be a lot of fun, and definitely something I would have missed had you not pointed it out here.
Thank you for the kind words. I’m always happy to let folks know what’s out there. And even happier when folks let me know what they’ve found. ^_^
Now that my copy of ‘I’m In Love With The Villainess’ vol 1 has escaped shipping hell I can finally say that this is a great series! Somehow I keep getting blindsided every time you mention a new one, because I assumed there wouldn’t be that much material, but having read the plot summaries I think I’m actually excited for the later volumes especially because Claire and Rae just… get to be together!
Also this YNN was jam packed with good stuff, thank you for the content. Extremely intrigued by Boy Meets Maria.
I;m read V4 now and it’s absolutely off the rails. ^_^ Thank you for reading!
“I’m in Love with the Villainess” has been out of stock here in the UK for a while – which doesn’t happen with most LNs or manga. A sign of good sales? At this rate my preorder of vol 2 may arrive before I can get my hands on a reasonably priced copy of vol 1 >_<
Boy Meets Maria sounds excellent, but the license is so bittersweet – after the author tragically passed away last year. But no matter the sad circumstances I'm very much looking forward to checking out the author's most acclaimed work.
I think it’s a combination of factors really, both supply and demand factors and Covid shipping hell. For myself I actually had to give up and cancel my order of Villainess vol 1 with my local bookstore bc it had been almost 6 months and they couldn’t find a copy anywhere.
I caved and ordered Vol. 1 and 2 from Amazon, as much as I loathe them and try to only buy local bc every other local comic store and bookstore had none in stock. I literally couldn’t find a new copy anywhere where I live in Canada and there were no copies for the stores to order in either. It’s very strange and a little disheartening.