Yuri Events

Toronto Comics Arts Festival, on Wednesday, May 12 at 7 PM Eastern NA Time will host Deb Aoki talking with creator Kabi Nagata. This is a don’t-miss panel for fans of her work.Nagata-sensei’s newest book, My Alcoholic Escape from Reality is out now digitally, and will hit shelves this week in print.

Check out the TCAF Youtube channel for more great panels!

I’ll be participating in the online convention Casacon this June. Since it’s a new audience, I’ll probably be doing my “Secret” History of Yaoi and Yuri and maybe a couple of other panels. ^_^

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Yuri Manga

Since we’ll all be watching the above interview with Kabi Nagata, grab a copy of her

Kodansha’s release of Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, Volume 1 is on shelves near you!

School Zone Girls by Ningiyau comes out this week from Seven Seas. Also from Seven Seas is the adult anthology Syrup, Volume 3, focusing on first times for couples. One more from Seven Seas, the fifth Adachi and Shimamura light novel, is headed your way this June.

Galette No.18 (ガレット) is available to backers by pre-order now. Check it out on their Fantia crowdfunding site.

Comic Cune magazine has begun serializing a new Yuri manga by Izumi Minami, Isekai Joshi Kangoku (異世界女子監獄), about a women’s prison in another world. My “lesbian pulpometer” would go through roof, except, no, it’s Comic Cune and super moe. ^_^ You can read it in Japanese on Comic Walker.

Anime News

Crunchyroll News’ Humberto Saabedra has the details on the dub of Netflix’s release of both Sailor Moon Eternal movies. Check out the dub trailer on Youtube and welcome back the Viz dub cast. ^_^

Sentai Filmworks has announced the license of 6-episode Princess Principal: Crown Handler. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news.

Paul Chapman has the whole story on how the original masters for Project A-ko were lost and found on Crunchyroll News. Discotek’s remaster preview clip is definitely a marvel of color and action.

Yuri Audio Drama

Via Yurimother, Yuri VN creative studio SukeraSparo is releasing a Yuri audio drama,  Meidoindoriimu ~ Hime-sama to Meido no Amaama Seikatsu, about, well, the life of a princess’ maid. This marks the debut of the SukeraSono imprint for audio works.

Live-Action Stage News

Hojou Tsukasa’s classic seinen manga City Hunter is being given the Takarazuka treatment. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details on ANN. It took me about 30 seconds to write a whole new plot for the drag king and her girl on the poster. ^_^

Cutey Honey is getting another live-action stage play. Komatsu-san over at CR news has the details and some great visuals.

Other News

For those of you watching Yasuke on Netflix, Japanese food and culture writer, author of the Just Bento Cookbook, Makiko Itoh, has written up an essay on the historical “black samurai” Yasuke. Makiko’s a very interesting writer about Japanese life and culture – and food! – check out her FB group, give her a like and a follow and support her Patreon. ^_^

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