Yuri Anime
Sentai Filmworks has licensed The Executioner and Her Way of Life.This means that it will be exclusive to their HIDIVE streaming service. The anime will be premiering in Japan on April 1, Alex Mateo on ANN has more details. The first 3 light novels have been reviewed here on Okazu. (Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3)
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Yuri Event
Galette magazine’s Yuri Matsuri event is being held on March 20th, but if you can’t get there, maybe you can still get yourself the 5th anniversary 2-set on Booth! This anniversary special includes an anniversary book, a signed card and an original tote bag (they are currently out of stock, but fingers crossed they get more after the Matsuri is over.)
Yuri Visual Novels
SukeraSparo has a new Yuri VN out now in Japanese. Naisho One Room ~ Sewayaki Imouto to Sugosu Kyuujitsu ~ (ないしょワンルーム ～世話焼き妹と過ごす休日～).
MangaGamer is running a White Day Sale through March 21st, with 75% off of selected titles. They are including a number of Yuri titles in the sale, so drop by the sale page!
Via Yuri Navi, Lycoris is pleased to announce their newest Yuri VN, Uso kara Hajimaru Koi no Natsu (嘘から始まる恋の夏). You can check out the Japanese-language trailer for The Summer Begins with a Lie on Youtube.
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LGBTQ Media News
Kabi Nagata’s newest manga My Wandering Warrior Existence will be hitting shelves in English this coming week! This book delves into Nagata-sensei’s connection to her gender, and her sexuality. CW: childhood sexual assault. I reviewed this in Japanese last year.
One of the very few podcasts I listen to regularly is the Mangasplaining podcast, featuring Christopher Butcher, David Brothers, Deb Aoki and Chip Zdarsky. Last month they launched a new feature – Mangasplaining Xtra, a substack newsletter with all the show notes, extra commentary and they are publishing manga that has never been seen before in English. I was honored to have an article published there, as a companion piece to their show on Takako Shimura’s Even Though We’re Adults. In An Introduction to Takako Shimura’s Work in English, which is free to read, even if you don’t subscribe, I take a broad look her other works that are available in English for folks who might not be familiar with her.
Senior YNN Correspondent Eric P wants us to know that a new Korra comic is on the way! The Legend of Korra: Patterns in Time, will be hitting shelves this summer. With stories by series creators by and illustrated by I’m really looking forward to this.
Last week Ogata Megumi-san, the voice of Haruka in Sailor Moon, Shinji in Evangelion, won the Seiyuu Award for Best Actress. Ogata-san’s acceptance speech was a forward-looking hope for genderless awards, and an announcement they don’t consider themselves male or female. The speech has been translated in this Twitter thread and its worth a read. ““There is so much talk about being “genderless” nowadays and there are voice actors in the industry who have come out [as queer]. And like myself, there are people out there who go on about their daily lives mostly not thinking of themselves as women.”
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Yuri Novels
Pixiv and Comic Yuri Hime are pleased to announce the 4th annual Yuri Novel Contest. I’m just finally starting to read the winners of the 2nd year and I love this contest so much. Here’s to more Yuri fiction! Nominations can be made by you for your own work or for someone else’s work. Submissions are open until March 10. Here’s to more literary Yuri fiction! Full details are available on Pixiv.
Not Yuri, but certainly Yuri-inspired, The Marble Queen by Anna Kopp with cover by Gabriell Kari pings all the Utena strings. Take a look at that beautiful cover and I’m sure you’ll agree.
Onna-doushi toka Arienaidesho to Jiharu Onnanoko o, Hyaku-kakan de Tetteiteki ni Otosu Yuri no Ohanashi ( 女同士とかありえないでしょと言い張る女の子を、百日間で徹底的に落とす百合のお話), Volume 1 and Volume 2 are a very Gangan Yuri novel series, about a girl who does not believe that women can fall in love. A classmate pays her for 100 days to prove that they can.
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I didn’t get any of the Korra comics after “Turf Wars” for a few reasons, but that cover on this new one… hnnggg *bites knuckle*… too gorgeous! If the cover artist also did the comic illustration, I might have to get pulled back in.
Yeah, it is a great cover. ^_^