Yuri Manga

Top news this week is Seven Seas’ license for Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou!

This incredibly gentle and sweet story takes place during the twilight of the human race, as advanced companion androids outlast their masters. One such android, Alpha, runs a coffee shop in what used to be the Yokohama metro area, but is now a windswept grassy plain. This series, also known as known as Yokohama Shopping Log went for 14 volumes. It had 2 anime OVAs, which have extraordinary animation, an artbook, and several Drama CDs, some of which I have reviewed over the years on Okazu in it’s own category, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. There are sporadic manga reviews, as nothing happens for most of the manga. Alpha will sit and watch the wind blow the grass for pages on end. Then she’ll take a ride on her scooter. It’s definitely an iyashikei-style manga, except for the idea that humanity is over. And even that seems okay. Seven Seas describes it as “quiet and bittersweet,” and I would add, just like Alpha’s coffee blends.

This has long been on my list of manga I have wanted to see licensed. My thanks to everyone who reached out to tell me – apparently everyone in the manga world knew how I felt about this series, because I received a *lot* of messages. ^_^

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We had some issues with the Yuricon Store this week, due to a conflict of a plugin and a PHP upgrade. That was fun. ^_^; It’s fixed and  we did manage to get Tamifull’s Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 8 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)  and Bloom Into You Anthology, Volume 2 up.

It looks like Ikeda Takashi’s Futari ha Daitai Konna Kanji will be ending next month. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the news at ANN. But you’ll be able to read this in English as The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This (a title I absolutely adore, btw,) this summer.

Viz will be releasing Look Back, by Tatsuki Fujimoto as a print volume. Alex Mateo has the news on ANN. I reviewed that recently, and sobbed my way through it. It’s a brilliant and compelling book.

Hayate x Blade creator Hayashiya Shizuru has a new title that she is selling on Japanese online 18+ manga platform Fanza, ULTIMATE-MAMA. This series has all her hallmarks – lots of bloody gags, tons of fighting, and a woman with ripped abs. Lesbian sex. The synopsis reads “Manatsu, an ordinary school girl, is attacked by a monster one day. It’s a female warrior with a child who saves her?  The next day, Manatsu learns there is transfer student at the school. It’s the daughter of that female warrior–“

You *know* I’m getting this. ^_^

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Yuri Visual Novels

Via YuriMother, we have some Yuri VN news! She reports that “ebi-hime’s Yuri visual novel Blackberry Honey was released on PlayStation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch. The game is ported and published on consoles by Ratalaika Games.”

Yurimother also wants folks to know that Heart of the Woods by Studio Élan is being released on PS4 and PS5.

Yuri Doujinshi

Via Lilyka, Senpai no Kouhai, Part 2 by Alt Hanakage is now out. This concludes the series and now I hope we’ll get some of her beefier doujinshi. ^_^

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