Yuri Manga
Kodansha has announced the license of  Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki.This book, which is slated for a Autumn 2022 release is “A poignant coming-of-age story about a young woman coming into her own as she discovers her identity as aromantic asexual.” Isaki is the creator of Mine-kun is Asexual. 

Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, Volume 3 hit shelves this week, from Kodansha.

I’m in Love With the Villianess manga, Volume 2 has a digital release this week and will be out in print next week. 

Kase-san and Yamada, Volume 2 is headed our way in February! This is the 7th volume of the Kase-san and… series by Takashima Hiromi.

The American Library Association has released their 2021 Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List, and this year it includes Kabi Nagata’s My Alcoholic Escape From Reality.

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Hayate x Blade creator Hayashiya Shizuru has put a number of Volume 1s of her other series up online to read for free in Japanese on Mangaz.

Via Yuri Navi on Twitter, the Horse Racing x Yuri manga we had no idea we were waiting for! Kimi to Mitai Race ga Aru (きみと観たいレースがある) is available in Japnese, free on Comip.jp.

Yuri Visual Novel News

Lilyka is running a Valentine’s Day sale on Yuri VNs purchased through their shop! You have a choice of 20%OFF for each with discount code: GAME20, or 33% OFF – buy 2 get 1 free – with discount code: GAME33 on The Curse of Kudan, OshiRabu, or OshiRabu Love・or・die.

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Other News

This week marked the birthday of the most popular Senshi! according to last year’s poll, Sailor Uranus, Tenoh Haruka. I had a lot of fun tracking the hashtag on Twitter for fanart. And OG Haruka voice actress Ogata Megumi drew a picture of Haruka and recorded a message about her upcoming anime and game song festival on her Instagram.

This past week, I had the incredible honor of moderating a panel  for Bonham’s Auction House on nime cel collecting, featuring Helen McCarthy, Susain Napier and Darren Ashmore as our panel of experts. I learned a lot and had a great time. You can watch the video, Inside the World of Anime, at your leisure on Bonham’s YouTube channel.

And it was again my sincere pleasure to speak with Thomas Maluk over at Secret Stacks about Yuri, being a librarian and doing the thing. Take a listen!

Ahhhh! Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir has a cover!

On a completely different tack, I’ve recently discovered a service for pan-Asian shopping that delivers, Weee!. We placed an order from their Japanese store and we’re really pleased with the service, the price and the condition of the food (which included perishables.) If you’d like to give them a try, here is my referrer code for Weee!, use it when you sign up and we both get discounts.

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