Yuri Manga

Catch These Hands! by murata is out now from Yen Press and extremely entertaining. I’m glad to have at least one gang girl manga out, since all the ones I truly love would be  massive suckhole of time and money. ^_^

AHHHHHHH!!!! I’m so very excited to announce that Yen Press has licensed Tsuriktai Onna to Tabetai Onna as She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat! I’ve reviewed Volume 1 and Volume 2 here and I love this manga so much. It’s charming and sweet, with solid queer representation and it makes me hungry. As a good manga ought to. ^_^

Seven Seas has licensed Futari Escape, which is a goofy, harmless, story that is one-third travelogue, one-third food and one-third fucking around. This runs in Comic Yuri Hime and is enjoyably weird.

Back to Yen Press for a sec. They will be releasing the whole Mizuno and Chayama series as one volume. 384 pages to tell a modern Romeo and Juliet story about the secret relationship between the daughters of a massive tea-making concern and the family that controls the town’s water. Content Warning here for serious violent bullying in school. I reviewed both volumes on Okazu if you want to know what you’re getting in to.

Yen has also licensed the Executioner and Her Way of Life manga, Alex Mateo has details on ANN.

Taifu Comics announced the third volume of Akili’s Still Sick Shakaijin Yuri series. I’m sorry that series kind of slid by people. I enjoyed it. You can find all three volumes in French at Pointmanga.

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A name we’ve seen in many Yuri anthologies, Yodogawa, has a collected series, Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki (毎月庭つき大家つき). A woman suffering after a breakup with a long time partner moves into a new home. The landlord turns out to be a former idol. This looks like another nice slice of adult life manga – a trend I’m really grooving on right now.

I mentioned this previously, but really want you all to read Hana Mongatari (はなものがたり), a very sweet story about a widow who rediscovers life when she visits a cosmetics boutique.

Hirao Auri has a new collection of shorts Joushi ni ha Reikishi ga Arimashita Hirao Auri Short Story Collection (女子には歴史がありまして 平尾アウリ短編集). This collection includes stories from previous anthologies, about idols and and other awkward relationships.

Via Comic Natalie, Comic Cune magazine is, quite unusually for them, starting a story about adult women, “Kayakushimai” (ケイヤクシマイ). A closet otaku meets her crush and asks her to be her “onee-sama.”

Also via Comic Natalie, LN series Shimekiri mae ni wa Yuri ga Hakadoru (〆切前には百合が捗る) is getting a manga version. I tried reading this story of a runaway who falls for a mangaka and becomes her assistant. But there were too many bath scenes per chapter for me to find it worth continuing.

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Legend of Korra: Patterns in Time is up on the Yuricon Store.

Flung Out of Space is a new graphic novel biography of novelist Patricia Highsmith, author of the very first lesbian novels in English to have a happy ending, The Price of Salt. Mey Rude has a review on The Advocate.

While we’re talking lesbian classics from the last century, the Kate Delafield novels are getting the audiobook treatment, starting with Amateur City. This series is a blast from a much more homophobic past, if you want to know what life in the 1980s really was like for lesbians in the workplace.

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Anime News

My Master Has No Tail anime has a new promo and more cast and staff, according to Crystalin Hodgkins on ANN.

Other News

Yomuco announced on Twitter that Akiko Morishima has a new manga going up on the LINE webtoon platform:  Morishima Akiko’s Sloppy Fungal Activity (森島明子のずぼらな菌活) about pickling and fermenting foods. ^_^

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