Yuri Events
Our top story today is the very exciting news that creator of My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, Nagata Kabi will be a special guest of this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival! This year’s TCAF will be held virtually from May 8 through May 15, so you, too, will be able to see Nagata-sensei interviewed by the inimitable Deb Aoki. Frankly, I can’t wait! TCAF is always my favorite North American comics show, so I hope you’ll all watch some of the panels, see some of the guests, and support the artists – your purchases do triple duty, as they pay artists and support both the library and the sponsoring comic stores.
I was absolutely thrilled to have caught Sarah Frederick’s talk from Brown University this week, “Reading Like A Girl: Yoshiya Nobuko.” When that video is posted, I will absolutely recommend you all watch. It was a great talk.
Anime News
Discotek has opened up pre-order on their gorgeous remasters of Riyoko Ikeda’s classic anime Rose of Versailles Collection 1, Rose of Versailles Collection 2 and Dear Brother.
Daryl Harding notes that the Mawaru Penguindrum film crowdfunding campaign made it’s goal in less than three minutes. He has the details on Crunchyroll News.
Over at ANN Crystalynn Hodgkins has cast and staff news and a new promo video from the folks making upcoming anime Aquatope of White Sand.
You can watch Blue Reflection Ray anime over on Funimation, and read the ANN Spring Anime Guide team’s first impressions.
TubiTV, free streaming service has added Liz and the Blue Bird. Joseph Luster gives us the report on CR News.
Crunchyroll is getting Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S and has the shorts for those of you who can’t get enough!
Crunchyroll also launched Zombie Land Saga Revenge this week, and Alex Mateo has the promotional trailer voiced by Mitsuishi Kotono, who also voices the series’ best zombie, Tae. Kara Dennison shows us the cover art from the ZLS manga anthology.
Once again we turn to Kara for news on the Puella Magi Madoka Magica 10th anniversary project and the new OP “Luminous.”
Okazu News
This week I’ve added a new video to the Okazu Patreon detailing not just what you’ll get as a Patron, but even more importantly, the impact you have on the Yuri ecosystem! I hope you’ll take a couple of minutes and hear me out, because as an Okazu Patron you do a lot to make a difference on a micro, meso and macro levesl. We’re just a few patrons away from adding support for another creator and giving Okazu contributors another raise!
With the mad translation skills of our buddy Mimmy Shen, we’ve added Japanese subtitles to the Yuri Studio video What Makes a Story Yuri? Now you have two subtitle choices. If you want to add a new language translation to any of our videos, please contact me and we’ll work something out.
While I’m banging on about all the cool stuff we do here on Okazu, one of the folks we support directly as a part of our microgoal program, manga artist Hiranashi Mieri has posted a new video as well, detailing a “Week in the Life of a Japanese Manga Artist.”
Yuri Doujinshi
Lilyka is running a “Sakura sale” on most of their Yuri doujinshi this week. Coupon Code is YURIS21 for 20% OFF of eligible title through April 11.
Yuri Manga
Speaking of Lilyka, I was amazed and pleased to see that they have Momono Moto’s, The Rain and the Other Side of You, which I reviewed some years ago in Japanese, Ame to Kimi no Mukou (雨と君の向こう).
Yurimother has the news that newest volume of the Yuri Drill anthology (百合ドリル) Includes a transgender character.
Hana ni Arashi, Volume 8 (はなにあらし) continues the sweet love story of Nanoha and Chidori.
Ahead of this coming out in English later this year, we’ve added KUJIRA”s Sekai no Owari to Majyou no Koi, Volume 3 (世界の終わりと魔女の恋) to the Yuricon Store.
Yuri roadtrip manga Kita no Onna ni Tamesaretai (北の女に試されたい) is up on the Store, as is Kuzushiro’s office life story, Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu., Volume 1 (笑顔のたえない職場です。)
Coming this month from Seven Seas is Superwomen in Love! Honey Trap and Rapid Rabbit, Volume 1.
Yuri Light Novels
Pre-order for the print edition of Ameco Kaeruda’s A Lily Blooms in Another World is up on the Yuricon Store.
Via Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G, we have some early digital release dates a’coming!
The *amazing* I’m in Love With the Villainess, Volume 3 is headed our way on June 3. No kidding, do not miss this . Just because it has one of everything.
ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (Light Novel) Vol. 3 will hit your digital device on April 29.
Yuri Visual Novels
Via YuriMother, we have news that “El Dia announced a new Yuri mystery adventure visual novel Kanda Alice mo Suiri Suru which will be released for Nintendo Switch in late April. The game’s scenario is written by Hatsumi Hatsumi, who also wrote the Flowers series, The Curse of Kudan, and contributed to Yumeutsutsu Re:Master.”
KikaiDigital are planning to release a new Yuri Visual Novel in Summer 2021, Symbiotic Love – a demo of which is already available on Steam. According to the press release, “Symbiotic Love is a coming-of-age Yuri visual novel set in a southern coastal city of China, with mystery elements. It is the prequel to Melancholy Love, another visual novel already localized into English. The game is influenced by notable works such as Flowers. It also integrates Chinese traditional and youth culture to create a very Chinese story which is part of the Linghua Series (a total of four Yuri VNs).”
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I’m kind of in awe at everything going on in this post that you had to keep track of, wow!
Well, looks like we’re going to TCAF together this year, that’s awesome! ^_^
I sincerely hope events continue to be virtual, so more people can enjoy them.I’ll look forward to attending with you. ^_^
I won’t lie, working from home really helps, every time I see something newsy go out, I can just bookmark it for YNN. Even so, the YNN report takes me 2-4 hours a week.So I appreciate you and everyone else who find them useful. ^_^
I didn’t know a 2-minute short could put such a smile on my face until the Maid Dragon mini shorts (or the Molcar shorts I watched just after)! Felt almost nostalgic, like I was back on a cold Winter 2017 night watching my first Yuri anime.
Yuri Navi has the results of their fan vote for best Yuri manga for 2021, don’t be surprised to see some of the more popular titles making their way into English in the next rounds of licensing: http://yurinavi.com/2021/04/07/yurimanga_taisyo_2021-top10/
Along with the release of vol 4 of 不揃いの連理, Mikanuji has a short story collection with an ojou-sama/maid lead story. This volume has an endorsement from voice actress Uesaka Sumire, and Fusoroi vol 4 has an endorsement from voice actress Suzaki Aya: https://natalie.mu/comic/news/423848
Line manga has a new serialisation, 百合にはさまる男は死ねばいい！？, despite the comedic-sounding title the story is actually on the serious side. Katagiri has long been the best trumpet player in her school’s music club, she loses the title to transfer student Aikawa, but she’s happy to be able to play together with her – or so she thought, when Aikawa starts spending time [and dating, judging by the preview pages] with a boy. http://yurinavi.com/2021/04/08/yurinihasamaru-start/
Japan’s most popular sports drink’s new ad has a Yuri-ish vibe, apparently made without any CGI too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcZo5sVK6QM
Crunchyroll News has a new trailer for ‘Sing a bit of harmony’, two female protagonists and a “girls meets girl”-style premise: https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/anime-news/2021/04/06/ai-no-utagoe-wo-kikasete-anime-films-new-teaser-delivers-tao-tsuchiyas-clear-singing-voice
As far as I can tell, the description of this ad implies that it is about running as a metaphor for “being yourself” and the importance of having friends who have the same interests (?). But what about “Sing a bit of harmony”, yes, I think that even if it is not yuri, it will be at least yuri-ish. The author of the idea used to write short science fiction ONAs about “girl meets boy”, but judging by the disclosed information, all this is far from that. From my personal impression at the moment it looks like something like “Anthem of the Heart” with bonds between girls.