Yuri Manga
We’ve added a bunch of titles to the Yuricon Store to start!
Failed Princesses, Volume 4. Ajiichi’s tale of opposites tells a whole story on the cover. ^_^ This will be out in later summer from Seven Seas.
Sex Education 120% is getting a lot of positive buzz right now and it’s been recommended to us by several of our YNN Correspondents. I’m looking forward to it. This is from Yen Press.
Also from Yen, the conclusion of time-travel Yuri manga Strawberry Fields Once Again, Volume 3 will hit shelves here in June.
I’m super excited for Mejirobana Saku, Volume 2 (メジロバナの咲く), by Nakamura Asumiko. I love the cover for this volume. We can expect this out in English as A White Rose in Bloom, Volume 2, in November of this year.
Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし) sounds like an intriguing fantasy of a mermaid who flips the script on her chosen human.
Canno’s triangle love story concludes with Goukaku Tame no! Yasashi Sankaku Kakei Nyuumon, Volume 2 (合格のための！ やさしい三角関係入門).
Via Comic Natalie, Kishi Torajirou’s Yuri comedy Otome no Teikoku (オトメの帝国) ) has been given a short Voiced Comic you can enjoy on Youtube! And I mean that…this is an absolutely adorable little scenario between Ayano and Miyoshi that was genuinely enjoyable. This is an advertisement for Otome no Teikoku, Volume 16, if you can believe it. ^_^
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Yuri Anime
The Puella Magi Magica Madoka franchise is getting a sequel movie to the 2013’s Rebellion, Gekijouban Mahou Shōjo Madoka Magica: Walpurgis no Kaiten (劇場版 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ 〈ワルプルギスの廻天〉). As Walpurgisnacht was last night, this seems reasonably appropriate to announce today on a sparkling bright May Day here where I live. ^_^ ANN’s Crystalynn Hodgkins has the details.
If you want the full Madoka experience of blackening your soul gem fighting witches, Proplica has the toy for you! Kim Morissey has the news of a life-size soul gem and grief seed that speaks 40 lines from the Madoka series. ^_^
Sailor Moon News
Netflix made a huge splash this past week with the news that they will be releasing both Sailor Moon Eternal movies on June 3rd, worldwide outside Japan. Click the link to watch what I think is genuinely a fantastic trailer.
Yuri Art
Backers of Galette Magazine might be interested in this announcement of the Galette Illutration Book 01, which collects some of the color illustrations from the magazine. Supporters of Galette can pre-order the book at Booth.pm. Since my Yuriten goods have yet to ship, and I love Pen’s cover art, I jumped at this. ^_^
Other News
Thanks to YNN Correspondent James W, Japanese Language and Literature, Vol. 55, No. 1 has a special section on reading the Japanese literary canon through manga. This sound really fascinating and right smack dab in my wheelhouse.
And from my wife, the most Senior YNN Correspondent ^_^, Netflix has a movie coming this month from Japan they are calling My Father the Bride, Osihii Kazoku (おいしい家族) in Japanese, about a woman whose father says that he wants to become a wife and mother. This looks I schmaltzy/heartwarming family + food+ acceptance. Regional restrictions may apply. ^_^ It vaguely reminds me of Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, I wonder if there’s an homage in there. Check out the trailer on Youtube.
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Oh, huh, the Yen Press blurb for Sex Education 120% is pretty thoughtlessly written. Its implication that the pupils are ignorant and make things hard for the teacher really goes against how the series depicts them.
Hopefully the announcement of the sequel will eventually motivate me to watch the entire franchise. I’m not a big fan of mahou shoujo unless it’s Sailor Moon or CCS, so the overly big hype always scared me a little.
The Yen Press site has a description for Sex Ed 120% that’s accurate, a big improvement on the other one:
“Naoko Tsuji, an unorthodox health teacher at an all-girls school, doubts whether the sex ed status quo truly teaches young people everything they need to know—so she ramps it up to 120%! Luckily for Tsuji, her class proves to be an almost unflappable group, including a BL fan, a lesbian, and a girl who just really likes her cat! With topics like safe sex for same-gender couples, masturbation positivity, and why sugar gliders have three vaginas, this sex education comedy is more than just dirty jokes. It’s time for class!”
Thank you. That was my fault for using the “Amazon hates any manga that mentions sexuality” description. I’ve switched to to the much better one. Thanks very much for noting that.
With the Madoka news I was about to joke that Shaft dragged Urbuchi away from Taiwanese puppets long enough to make the next film – but it turns out the script was finished 5-7 years ago ^_^’ https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/anime-news/2021/04/26/madoka-magica-writer-gen-urobuchi-says-he-finished-writing-sequel-anime-film-5-years-ago
Vol 2 of A White Rose has various tokuten illustrations available from different shops, for anyone thinking of picking up the Japanese print version: https://www.hakusensha.co.jp/benefits_event/60364/
Vol 1 of いえない秘密の愛し方: a highschool teacher is secretly a fan of Yuri manga, but when she goes to a doujinshi event she finds out her favourite creator is actually one of her students, and after she invites the student home for a meal they end up living together. https://natalie.mu/comic/news/426637
A one-shot, “Cosmic Lily”, from Comic Days about a girl living on a moon base and a robot: https://comic-days.com/episode/13933686331798188580
Otaquest reports on another Japanese film (following last year’s Midnight Swan) focusing on a trans woman, but this time the even better news is the lead is played by a trans actor: https://www.otaquest.com/the-fish-with-one-sleeve-shot-in-quarantine-with-a-transgender-lead-hits-japanese-theaters-in-july/
The 1-volume manga adaptation of Japanese gay marriage campaigner Nanasaki Ryousuke’s autobiographical essays is now out in tankobon: https://books.bunshun.jp/ud/book/num/9784160901018
Thank you!