Event News
There’s still time to register for Shojo Manga: The Power and Influence of Girls’ Comics sponsored by the Japan Foundation of New York. I’m looking forward to it so much and hope to see you online for this fabulous talk, featuring Deborah Shamoon, Mia Lewis, Kazumi Nagaike and me.
Okazu Patrons will be receiving their invitations to our Online Holiday Party shortly, and while I know that this time of year is just the worst, I’ll be happy if as many of you can come as possible. We have a lot to talk about…and I am really hoping that we’ll be able to do a book cover reveal for By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga.
This summer’s 20th Anniversary of Yuricon Discussion Event is now live on Yuri Studio! I’m super sorry it took so long to get done, things just kept getting in the way. But this makes 8 videos for Yuri Studio this year, which is 2 more than my original goal, so yay us! Thank you very very much to Ashley for your video editing, you’ve been a tremendous help, and thank you to Okazu Patrons!
One last bit of serious news. I’m sure most of you have heard that there was a omicron variant case who was at Anime NYC. It’s 2 weeks today and I have had no symptoms, but I’ve got an appt. for a test as soon as I could get it, because I care about people who have seen me since. I expect it to come back negative. Let me be clear – everyone at the con was vaxxed and masked the whole time and I expect no more than a handful of folks will test positive. Nonetheless, I couldn’t help but make the worst joke about it all. ^_^;
Yuri Manga
School Zone Girls, Volume 3 hit shelves this week. More wacky school fun.
Seven Seas announced another Comic Yuri Hime license, Yuama’s The Summer You Were There. I’m still tapping my foot impatiently waiting for Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru. ^_^
Not manga, but equally as fun: Jacqueline Lesnick has released all of her Girly collection for free on itch.io. I was and am, a fan of that gonzo Yuri series. She’s also making You Suck available and the first several chapters of her current story Princess Panic. These are name your own price and I hope you’ll all throw her a few bucks for the time, effort and entertainment these offer.
ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda offered me a new reason to re-up my subscription to Rakuen Le Paradis magazine, with the news that Mizutani Fuuka is wrapping up her 14-sai no Koi series and starting a side story about Aoi and her relationship with the school doctor. I referenced that relationship a few years ago in a review of Issue 26. ^_^ I’m kind of interested how it goes. That magazine – indeed, that very manga series – is full of problematic relationships, so it will hardly be alone in it’s “urk” value.
Live Action News
The next Sailor Moon Musical, Kaguya-hime no Koibito, will stream online in the new year, through Live Viewing Japan. Alex Mateo has details on ANN. I watched the last streaming musical because of course I did. ^_^ Nogizaka46 members are perfectly fine in their roles.
Yuri Light Novel
Look. I know, I am the only one who care about this series. But it’s my blog. ^_^ The Kunoichi Bettegumi ~ Igarashi Satsuski series has a fourth volume! I finally managed to make time to read Volume 3, review to come eventually, and I am actually glad that it’s continuing. I wish J-Novel club would pick these up. They are absurd, yes, but no more absurd than Girls Kingdom. A definitely-gay-probaby-a-vampire, a maid, a samurai and a ninja in a historical drama. Seriously. This series is a hoot.
Yen Press has released The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Vol. 3: The Cage of Iron Sand ahead of the 2022 anime.
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