Thanks very much to every one who came to last week’s Yuricon anniversary event and thank you all for your patience as I made my way through this busy month. Here is a gigantic news report as your reward!
Yuri Events
Sailor Moon fans, here’s a chance you don’t get that often – the Nogizaka 46 Sailor Moon Live-Action Musical is streaming online from the 20th through August 26th. Tickets are available on Japan 2.5D Stage Play World online now along with a couple of other anime stage plays!
Flamecon starts today as a virtual con. Admission is free, but you’ll need to register. Donation and VP packages are also available.
Yuri Light Novels
The fifth Watashi no Oshi ga Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) noveI is now available for pre-order in Japanese, on US Kindle, and of course on JP Kindle. The cover is boss.
(Speaking of inori’s series, I played through fa- created I’m in Love with the Villainess visual short, Revolution Lily!? ~Claire’s Birthday Party by wataoshi. It was sweet (and short!) ^_^ Queued up for my next break is Revolution Lily? ~Desert Island where can’t escape without ?? by the same team. ^_^)
Otherside Picnic, Volume 5 has just released and Otherside Picnic, Volume 6 is on the way next month!
And, for something lighter, Girls Kingdom, Volume 4 is headed our way at the end of this month.
Not sure what you’re in the mood for? Bookwalker Global is doing another Coin Boost Promotion with a number of Yuri titles included. So pre-order these and get extra coins!
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Yuri Manga
New licensing announcements from Yen Press! They have licensed Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete as Catch These Hands!, a post-girl gang life romance. And they’ve gotten Mizuno and Chayama, the two volume Romeo & Juliet story by Nishio Yuhta, creator of After Hours.
We have some new items up on the Yuricon Store!
Superwomen in Love! Honey Trap and Rapid Rabbit, Volume 2 is out now from Seven Seas.
Also from Seven Seas, the My Next Life as a Villainess Side Story: Girls Patch.
Even Though We’re Adults, Volume 3, Shimura Takako’s new and very excellent series.
Makoto Hagino’s A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Volume 8, is still a lovely girl-meets-girl story.
Monologue Woven For You, Volume 1 is a full-color story about two women who meet and change each other’ life.
Galette No. 19 (ガレット) is available in print and digitally, with new chapters by Morinaga Milk and Morita Miyuki among others!
Ookami no Kawa o Kabutta Hitsuji Hime (狼の皮をかぶった羊姫) is an animal-ear Yuri manga about a wolf butler who falls in love with the Princess of the the land of sheep.
Via YuriMother, we have some fascinating news. Kadokawa’s Bookwalker platform is launching a new infinite scroll, Webtoon-style format. Among the titles being launched on the service is Nakatani Nio’s Yagate Kimi ni Naru (やがて君になる).
Comic Yuri Hime on Pixiv has a new manga, Yandere Meruko-chan Loves Senpai (ヤンデレめる子ちゃんはせんぱいがお好き), you can read a sample in JP on Pixiv.
Via YNN Correspondent Megan on Twitter,” A new LGBT+ manga out in Japan today,” Kikon Starters, (既婚ステータスだけいただきます！)…”about a lesbian couple and a gay couple that enter into fake hetero marriages so they can stay closeted to their families, the 4 of them end up living together in a flatshare.” I remember the Mist magazine version of this… ^_^
Yuri Doujinshi
Lilyka has a new interview with their Arabic translator, Jamila, as part of their “Yuri Save the World” project.
They also have a new title, The Gathering of Love by Toriniwa.
Lilyka also has an artbook collection now, Ｌ∴Ｋ∴Ｒ：La Lilio kaj la Rozo Illustration Book / Shirahime Lilio (White Princess) & Kuro’oujo Rozo (Black Princess) and an interview with the creator.
Yuri Anime
I’m super excited to have Stellvia: The Complete TV Series from Diskotek up on the Yuricon Store.It’s a solid scifi school story.
Other News
ICYMI, this week I published a fanfic that kind of got away me, from as a novella on Amazon Kindle. For a brief moment, it was the #1 Bestseller in its category, so that was fun. ^_^ You can get A/CI Case File: An Inside Job for only $2.99 if you want to see what series it started as a fanfic of. ^_^
We have new Yuri research on the Yuricon Essays page! Tales of lilies and girls’ love. The depiction of female/ female relationships in yuri manga – by Marta Fanasca, from Tracing Pathways 雲路 Interdisciplinary Studies on Modern and Contemporary East Asia, Firenze University Press, 2021.
Here’s something fun to enjoy, an original song about “enemies to lovers,” on Youtube Vices & Virtues by Reinaeiry.
Since the Age of Keisuke Kinoshita and Yasujiro Ozu: The Journey of Japan’s Queer Films is a fascinating article, from Japanese Film Festival Plus.
Seven Seas has announced a collaboration with Hiveworks, “the charming, full-color LGBT+ graphic novel LIFE OF MELODY by Mari Costa.”
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