Yuri Manga

ANN’s Adriana Hazra has news that Kodansha has licensed the newest from Kamatani Yuhki, Hiraeth ~The End of the Journey – . The first chapter is available for free in Japanese on moae.com and it’s just beautiful. Take a look!

Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 6 (おとなになっても) is up on the Yuricon Store. I am really enjoying this series and think it’s Shimura-sensei’s best work to date!

Exciting news from Wings magazine on Twitter, Fujio-sensei is returning to Yuri with a new series! Onna x a Onna Umakuikana Renai Essay parlor, Volume 1 (女×女のうまくいかない恋愛エッセイ parlor) is “an essay comic about her own woman x woman’s ‘unsuccessful love.'” I haven’t seen Fujio-sensei’s work since Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari. And yay for another autobiographical manga about/by queer Yuri manga artist

Volume 1 of 18+ comedy Android ha Keiken Ninzuu ni Jairimasuka??, (アンドロイドは経験人数に入りますか？？) from Comic Yuri Hime is now available as a collected volume.

Jitsugyounonihonsha publishing company is releasing Kanojo. Yuri Shousetsu Anthology (彼女。 百合小説アンソロジー) this month. It will also be available in Japanese as an audiobook! I don’t recognize a single name in the authors’ credits, but I chalk that up to me not keeping up with Yuri prose at all. If any of you have read any of these authors, let us know!

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Via Comic Natalie, the April issue of Comic Flapper has a new manga, about an older woman whose heart begins to pound as a woman at the store applies her makeup. Biyou ni Mezameru o Baachan no Yuri Manga, (美容にめざめるおばあちゃんの百合漫画) by schwinn will probably have me popping over to Bookwalker to grab this issue when it’s out. ^_^

Volume 1 of Hime to Onna Yuusha ga Musubareru Tame no 12 no Hijiri Koui (姫と女勇者が結ばれるための12の聖行為) is out in print, but before you commit to this pervy Yuri fantasy, check it out on Pixiv. A female hero asks for the princesses underwear as a reward.

Via Yuri Navi, DolYan! (ドルヤン) is a Idol x Yakuza Yuri oneshot webcomic available in Japanese on Sunday Webry.

Also via Yuri Navi, Yuri manga Wakuto Komako  (わくとこまこ) “depicting the frustrating love pattern of two girls” is being serialized in Japanese in Big Comic 4, on Yahoo JP.

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Yuri Events

Galette Works is celebrating the 5th anniversary of Galette magazine with a Galette 2nd Yuri Matsuri! March 20, Nihonbashi Hamacho Plaza Marm, From 11AM – 4PM. It’s basically a Galette Yuri pop-up shop event.  If anyone one can make it there, do let us know how it goes!

I’ll be a Featured Panelist at Anime Boston, May 27-29 in Boston, MA. I hope you’ll drop by and join one of my many panels. ^_^

My book, By Your Side – The first 100 years of Yuri anime and manga will be out in June! If you’d like me to come to speak at your event, school or organization, Contact Me! Pre-orders will be going up next month – stay tuned!

Other News

I wrote a review! I know, I know, that’s not that exciting in itself, but this review was not for a Yuri title, which is exciting and it’s on ANN, which is also exciting. I actually read a lot of manga that isn’t Yuri, so it’s nice to be able to share this one with a broad audience. Check out my review of Summertime Rendering, Volume 1 on ANN. It was really a great read.

Adriana Hazra has a manga-focused breadown at The Comics Beat report about the growth of graphic novels sales. It’s worth reading this breakdown. It has always seemed obvious to me, but this really makes the case that when a manga exists for a popular anime property, making a strong connection will really bump those numbers up. (I still feel like Yen and Funi blew it entirely on the Madoka franchise. If they had coordinated, it would have owned the world for a while, at least.

Speaking of Funimation, RIP their endlessly crappy streaming service. Ding, dong, the glitch is dead. You’ll be watching all of their anime, along with Verve and Wakanim on Crunchyroll now. Even NPR noticed that this is big news.

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