Yuri Manga
Added to the Yuricon Store, we have Bloom Into You Anthology, Volume One, now available from Seven Seas. Volume Two is available for pre-order, with a January release date.
I hadn’t even realized this Comic Yuri Hime story was licensed until Luce mentioned it! Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, Volume 1 will be out shortly in print and is already on Bookwalker!
Ichijinsha is putting out Matching App Yuri Anthology (マッチングアプリ百合アンソロジー) which includes a short by Canno.
Hero-san to Moto Onna Kanbu-san, Volume 4 (ヒーローさんと元女幹部さん) hit shelves earlier this summer. We’ll get Volume 3 of Superwomen in Love this December.
Galettemeets 16 (ガレットmeets16) is now available!
If you’re looking for serialized Japanese-language Yuri manga you can read free, look no further than Yuri Navi’s list of serialized Yuri manga. Most of these have the first chapter or two available for free, then current chapters free for limited time and the embargoed chapters are either collected into volumes or cost money to read. You can get along reading the current chapters free, with exceptions.
Which brings me to this exciting news, via YNN Correspondent Thomas Baudinette! A manga I have been reading online has just been collected into the first volume. Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna, Volume 1 (作りたい女と食べたい女) is a story of a woman who likes to cook to relieve stress, but can’t eat as much as she cooks. She invites her larger, more muscular female neighbor over and they become friends. In chapter 16 (which is still free to read until Chapter 18 comes out at the end of the month), Nomoto comes to the conclusion that she is a lesbian and is interested in Kasuga. Thomas’ news is that there is an interview with the editor of this series on Wezz-y. It is a very good interview about the lack of characters who identify as – or even use the word – lesbian in Yuri manga. Yuzaki-sensei always wanted this manga to be Yuri/GL and Lesbian and, meant it to be for women, not just about them.
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Yuri Visual Novels
Studio Élan has some news: First Snow, a free lesbian visual novel developed by Salty Salty Studios that they published last year through Bellhouse is getting a partial voice update this winter, followed by some merchandise. Additionally, to celebrate Highway Blossoms’ 1st anniversary last week, series merchandise is 15% off on their store.
MangaGamer has a sale through October 4th on selected Yuri and other Visual Novels. Check out their Mangagamer Catalogue Spotlight for deals!
Crystalynn Hodgkins reports on ANN that Blue Reflection: Second Light game has a new trailer!
Yuri Doujinshi
Lilyka has a new title available now – Epigonen by nyankokawaigari. Lilyka describes this as a Yuri Thriller.
Anime News
Shoutout to the “other” Yuri, from Dirty Pair. ^_^ The Dirty Pair TV series is now streaming on Retrocrush.tv, or Crunchyroll reports Rafael Antonio Pineda on ANN. Those of you looking for DP on home video, can now back a dub version on Kickstarter!
ANN’s Kim Morrisy reports on a recent interview with the writer and producer of Zombieland Saga on the subversive elements of Lily as an trans idol.
Alex Mateo reports that Discotek will be releasing Cutey Honey The Live on home video for ANN. That was a pretty fun show overall.
Other News
I just did a podcast with Shojo & Tell about Rose of Versailles, and wanted to share this fun news: Scientists decipher Marie Antoinette’s redacted love notes. Turns out, it appears that Fersen himself did the redactions. This was very cool, not least because they have a new technology to do the ink analysis.
If you’re interested in the letters, check out Evelyn Farr’s video on them on YouTube, “I LOVE YOU MADLY”. (Don’t forget to give it a like!)
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