Yuri Events

Anime Lockdown was a lot of fun and you can still watch my panel on Youtube (and lol at my wife’s interjection.) Yuri: How It Began, How It’s Going. ^_^ Honestly, Anime Lockdown was 9/10. I’d participate with them and Casacon again any time!

On July 26, join me at HYPER JAPAN for a “LGBT+ in Japan” panel on which I will likely to have nothing to say, as it’s about LGBTQ life in, y’know Japan. ^_^

Keep August 14th, 8AM Eastern US time clear, because I’m being joined by James Welker and Verena Maser for our Yuricon 20th anniversary event! We’ll be talking Global Yuri fandom. Registration is currently open to Okazu Patrons only, and there are limited spots, so please register asap!

August 20-26, you can watch the 2019 Nogizaka 46 Sailor Moon Musical online on Japan 2.5 Stage World. I already have my ticket, of course. Sure, let’s rehash that same story one more time from the top! ^_^

Make a note for November 2022, when German Yaoi and Yuri focused event, YaYuCo will return. With luck – and the ongoing efforts of our own Okazu Hero Karin – you’ll see some edifying Yuri content!

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Yuri Manga

Bookwalker is running a 30% back coin event. Grab some of your favorite manga and light novels in English today!

We’ll start off with a pile of new titles on the Yuricon Store! We’re still working through updating everything, almost all the English translated anime and manga have been updated, with expanded purchasing links.

Hara Yukiko’s, Cocoon, Entwined, Volume 3 hits shelves later this month from the folks at Yen Press. I’ve got V4 next up in Japanese and I’m pretty sure it’s going to end just right. ^_^

Nakatani Nio’s Farewell, My Alter, also from Yen Press, is out now. This is her short story collection from the Éclair anthologies and some originals.

Kodama Naoko’s Day of Love At Seagull Villa, Volume 3, wraps up the series in early August.

Via Comic Natalie, Galette WORKS has released a new collection, Anoko no Hana ga Hoshi (あのこの花が欲しい), by Asuba Yui. As I mentioned yesterday, every collected volume that come out of Galette is a mark of perseverance and effort in trying times!  Galette No. 19 (ガレット No.19) in paper has gone up for order on Galette’s Fantia site.

Also from Comic Natalie an android x human story is staring up in Comic Yuri Hime, Android ha Keiken Ninzuu ni Hairimasuka?? (アンドロイドは経験人数に入りますか？？)

Wada Shinji is spinning in his grave, as Sukeban Deka is getting a spin-off manga. He killed Saki off at the end of the manga, but cannot kill off corporate greed. ^_^; Rafael Antonia Pineda at ANN gives us the news of who and what the new manga will be.

Yuri Webcomics  & Doujinshi

In Yuri online comic news, YNN Correspondent Evie Starcross wants you to know that “Ratana Satis’s “Soul Drifters” has only 2 chapters left & they just released info about their next upcoming webcomic titled “Beast Knights” & the 3 new main characters are Lunar (Bunny Woman), Akela (Wolf Woman), & Synne (?). ” Thanks, Evie!

Lilyka has a new Yuri doujinshi for sale, The Story of Inhuman Girls, by Siu Yosiujima. “From fairies and mermaids to witches and zombies, The Story of Inhuman Girls, is sure to have a little of something for everyone.”

Yuri Light Novels

Otherside Picnic, Volume 5 is headed our way next month! Since Bookwalker’s running a sale, I’ve linked to it there. ^_^

The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Volume 2 is on Global Bookwalker, with coin boost this week!

I’m reading End Blue (エンドブルー) by Iruma Hitoma with illustrations by Nakatani Nio and stumbled across this voiced ad for it on Youtube!

Inori-sensei noted in a recent Pixiv fanbox post that there are now two free indy-developed browser scenario games for I’m in Love With the Villainess:
Revolution Lily!? ~Claire-sama’s Birthday Party~  and Revolution Lily!? ~Desert Island where can’t escape without ??~.  I started the first one and was awed by it’s wholesomeness. I hope to finish it up this week. ^_^

Yuri Anime

While we’re talking Executioner and Her Way of Life, let’s not forget that an anime of this grim, yet interestingly built world, is headed our way in 2022. YNN’s Rafael Antonia Pineda has the details and trailer. Thanks to everyone who kept me abreast of this news! (Yeah, pun intended.)

CR New’s Paul Chapman invites us to watch the Blue Reflection Ray creditless ED for some quiet time between the characters.

Komatsu-san has a trailer for the Tropical Rouge Precure movie that brings back some old friends from Heartcatch Precure! Amazingly, I am still watching Tropical Rouge Precure…. ^_^

Other News

I want to shout out to Kaelan Ramos on Twitter who deftly noted that memes about Takeuchi Naoko being a starving, lonely artist when she drew Sailor Moon is incorrect, and that “celebrating” women by not actually crediting them for their and work is a bullshitty and demeaning thing to do.

And, to that end, why not listen to the recorded session for No Friend to Girls: Kawabata Yasunari, Shōjo no tomo and the Appropriation of Girls’ Culture, to see how Kawabata Yasunari took Nakazato Tsuneko’s work and put his name on it.

In happier news, Zombieland Saga Revenge is getting an exhibit (and pop-up shop, of course) in Harajuku. Choo Sum Lee has the scoop on ANN!

Last, but not least, Takarazuka’s never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. ^_^

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