Yuri Interview
We have some exciting news here on Okazu! Tomorrow, we have an interview with I’m in Love With the Villainess creator inori. I’m super excited for you all to read it. (And for you to run out and ask Ichjinsha for an anime for this series. ^_^) Check back tomorrow for the interview!
Coming up this week, too, is our next Yuri Studio video. I have been looking forward to this one for a long time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. ^_^
Yuri Manga
Futari Daitai Konna Kanji, Volume 4 (ふたりはだいたいこんなかんじ) is the final volume of this adult life Yuri series. But you will be able to read volume 1 in English as The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This, this June from Seven Seas. I really like this series. ^_^
Haruka and Nao’s story continues in Syu Yasaka’s Monologue Woven For You, Volume 2 headed our way in June, as well.
Fuzoroi no Renri, Volume 6 (不揃いの連理) continues Miman’s series about various Yuri couples, including a punk girl and her career woman girlfriend.
To celebrate the release of the first collected volume, Miman’s comic Sempai, Oishi desuka? (先輩、美味しいですか？) has been given a voice comic, available on Youtube!
Men-men Musubi (麺面むすび) is a collection by Yuri anthology contributor Yodokawa, with 7 short stories about life and loves of adult women.
Hatsuka from Comic Yuri Hime showed off the RIDIBOOKS Comic Award for Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou., on Twitter! Now we just need an anime for this series! ^_^
Yuri Webtoon
War Bunny’s Appolonia is a gay cowgirl drama that has reached 1000 subscribers on webtoons! Give it a try for your recommended daily dose of gay cowgirls!
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Yuri Light Novel
Out now from Yen Press is the LN of The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Volume 1. It’s very similar to the manga, but seems more good-hearted, with less yelling. (Or maybe I read it with less yelling, since I don’t have to look at the screaming faces…)
New from Kadokawa, is Hataraku Watashi to Kanojo no Dosei (働く私と彼女の同棲) about a woman who takes in a relative’s daughter after her mother dies. I don’t know if this is Yuri, per se, but it looks like they find healing and family in each other, and I am all for that.
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Anime News
There is a lot of chatter on JP channels that Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto desu! / Yuri is My Job! will be getting an anime adaptation. According to anime “leak” site, SUGOI Lite, the domain watayuri.com has been registered. Fingers crossed. Next up, let’s get an anime for Wataoshi, as well. ^_^
I had a chance to watch the first three episodes of The Executioner and Her Way of Life and I’m going to give it a recommendation. The art is much better than it has a right to be, there’s much less guro than in the light novel, and the tightened timeframe of the anime amps up the tension. HIDIVE is streaming this series and the Light Novels (which have been reviewed here: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3) are available from Yen Press.
Birdie Wing – Golf Girls’ Story is >this< close to being the sports anime I need. All it needs is some Yuri. ^_^ It’s a story about financial inequality and crime and and intense competition and…golf. It’s bonkers in exactly the way I love. I recommend this higher than highly.
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Yuri Doujinshi
Lilyka is running a “pay what you want” sale on Sachi Miyabe‘s works, starting at $1.99.
Other News
Cherry Magic! Manga Artist Donates Film Rights Fee to Marriage For All Japan, reports Kim Morrisy on ANN. Cherry Magic is a goofy BL series about adults in the workplace, and having a popular BL manga, series and movie boosting Marriage for All is really terrific. I love when Yuri and BL acknowledge the real lives and issues of queer folks.
Absolutely unrelated to Yuri, but I thought you’d appreciate this video of Michelle Yeoh talking about her most iconic characters. ^_^
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth made an appearance on Jeopardy! of all things, this week. Boter the Ninth has the clip on Twitter. ^_^ Thanks to YNN correspondent Ashley who caught that!
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