Yuri Events
There are a double handful of spaces left for the 20th Anniversary Yuricon Community Event. I hope you will join James Welker, Verena Maser and myself for an event celebrating you, the global Yuri fandom – in one week, on August 14, at 8AM Eastern US time on zoom.
Yuri Studio
We have a new video up on Yuri Studio. Following S02 E03 Gateway Yuri Anime Part 1: The 1990s, in which we looked at anime that had a powerful impact on developing what we now think of as the Yuri fandom, in Yuri Studio S02 E04 Gateway Yuri Anime, Part 2: The 2000s we talk about the anime that helped a new Yuri fandom grow and evolve! Please do not forget to like this video on Youtube and subscribe to the channel. It is a huge help.
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Yuri Manga
Out now from Seven Seas, we have the conclusion of Days of Love at Seagull Villa, Volume 3 and Doughnuts Under A Crescent Moon, Volume 2!
Coming next winter from Seven Seas, we are getting Monologue Woven For You, a full-color Yuri manga that has been on my to-read pile for months. I’d better get to it!
Shizuku is directly involved in Kaori’s trauma, but wants sincerely make it up to Kaori in Volume 1 of Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata, (君と綴るうたかた). Complicating matters, Kaori is Shizuku’s favorite author!
In Doukyuusei no Oshi Sakka ni Yuri Mousou ga Bareta Kekka (同級生の推し作家に百合妄想がバレた結果) a classmate finds her classmate is the writer of her favorite Yuri novel! Which is like the same plot as above without trauma.
The Manga Park app has sample pages of a new occult Yuri comedy up for free in Japanese. Occultken ha Sonzashinai!! (オカルト研は存在しない!!) is also coming to Japanese shelves as a collected Volume 1 later this month.
Yuri Anime
The historical fantasy Yuri manga Uchi no Shishou ha Shippo ga Nai, about a Tanuki who learns Rakugo from a Kitsune woman is getting an anime adaptation! ANN’s Egan Loo has casting details and Alex Mateo has the rest of the story. I reviewed volume 1 of the manga here last winter.
Adrian Hazra on ANN has the news that Retrocrush has picked up Revolutionary Girl Utena Movie – The Adolescence of Utena for streaming.
Yuri Doujinshi
This news item was a whole story in 4 panels: Lilyka has licensed a new doujinshi (Yay!) call Hakuba Run. It’s an action adventure story! (YAY!) I’ll just go over and read that synopsis….(What the ever-loving fuck? What did I just even read?) I won’t spoil…go read that synopsis for yourself. It’s an adventure, for sure.
Yuri Light Novels
Seven Seas tweeted that Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight For An Ordinary Life With My Love and My Cursed Sword, Volume 4 is on shelves. It’s been a pretty violent series, even so, let me suggest you read Sean Gaffney’s review before picking this one up.
Other News
Hayate x Blade Fans! Hayashiya-sensei has put together another round of limited shirts on her webstore. Some of the Black Group characters are available and Nagi and her shinyuu.
AkiYanagi on Twitter wants us to know that Yahoo News JP announced that Takarazuka will be making an appearance at the Olympics closing ceremony, with a Rose of Versailles performance.
Among a number of other anime/manga homages at the Pandemic Games, the Uzbekistan rhythmic gymnastics team performed their routine to Sailor Moon theme Moonlight Densetsu.
Princess Weekes has news on The Mary Sue that Renee O’Connor and Lucy Lawless will be teaming up for some episodes in Lawless’ new series. It’s heart-warming to know that they are still out there, enjoying their fandom enjoying them. ^_^
The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a relatively new open-access peer-reviewed academic journal about anime and manga studies. This journal is hungry for your submissions and is a fantastic resource for independent scholars. You can find them on Twitter, where they retweeted this discussion by Billy Tringali on the Importance of LGBTQ+ Representation in Anime.
JAMS also shared ANN CEO and Publisher Christopher MacDonald’s editorial about How Much Does It Cost to License Anime? This was a direct response to the AnimeTube debacle of a Kickstarter that expected to license anime for bout $4 an episode, so was probably only 100000x off projection.
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Congratulations on the announcement of the “Uchi no Shishou ha Shippo ga Nai” adaptation. It’s not really my taste, but I’m happy with the new announcement of open yuri work. At the same time, it’s pretty funny that even with such a work, there were people who began to dispute this, arguing that it is not yuri if this genre is not next to the title. However, they did not even know that some chapters of this manga were published in Yuri Hime.
I am also quite hyped by the news that Takarazuka may appear at the Olympics. I love Takarazuka-inspired anime and I am pleased that Japan has recognized theater and Oscar as an important part of its cultural heritage.
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies – I actually came across this journal recently when researching a conference presentation on disability in anime/manga last month. One of their articles I found useful, on both disability and sexuality – “”I Hear You Just Fine”: Disability and Queer Identity in Yuki Fumino’s I Hear the Sunspot.”
Aquatope is getting a scale figure of Kukuru and Fuuka based on one of the key visuals – no prototype shown yet but details are forthcoming. https://twitter.com/aquatope_anime/status/1423305544861843464
Also in Aquatope news, the first set of exclusive merch with new art for the official fanclub. I love the art with Kukuru’s hair tied up like that! https://shop.aquatope.info/
Slightly Yuri-ish comedy manga ‘Police in a Pod’ is getting an anime. Going by the teaser they’re playing up the ‘ish’ there ^_^ https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-08-01/police-in-a-pod-comedy-manga-gets-tv-anime-in-2022/.175790
KyoAni’s Youtube uploaded a noncredit version of Tohru’s love song from ep 3 of Dragon Maid s2 – time limited, but looks like the track will be on the original soundtrack CD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU_EKBDYm5w
Volume 2 of Raiyou to Aoume (来陽と青梅) by lesbian mangaka Fukayama Hana was released. It’s a series from Bessatsu Shounen Champion about a middle school girl falling in love with a high school girl. Homophobia and the stress it causes the protagonist is at the forefront of the story.
Thank you, I’ll take a look for it!