Yuri Event

Anime Boston is next week, don’t forget to drop my panels and say hello! My full schedule is posted on Yuricon: Yuri Panels at Anime Boston.

There will be no YNN Report next week as a result. ^_^  See you in Boston!

Yuri Manga

Sal Jiang’s collected shorts from Web Action Comice, SAL: Stories About Love is up on the Yuricon Store.  This collection also includes the extra chapter of the popular web action series Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koi Shiteru.

Via Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G, Yuri creator merryhachi is launching a new title Zenbu Kimi no Sei da in Ultra Jump magazine.Crystalyn Hodgkins has the details on ANN.

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Seven Seas has licensed some new Yuri manga and and has announced a new Yuri imprint!  Seven Seas GL is launching with two new titles. Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels!, which is an 18+ sex work fantasy and the light novel There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… This second title has an interesting set of credits, with three Yuri creators listed, Terem Mikami, Takeshima Eku and Musshu. It’s fascinating to me that almost no other manga publisher uses imprints, but Seven Seas creates new ones regularly. ^_^

However, there is a reason why we, creators and fans of Yuri do not call it GL. I’ve written about that quite a few times. Here is Why We Call It “Yuri” for Anime Feminist, one of many essays that are included in my book about Yuri history By Your Side. (They also apparently went withe a chrysanthemum for their BL line, another oddly ahistorical choice.)

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Games and Visual Novels

Studio Elan held an Elan festival with a host of new announcements. Three new games from their Bellhouse imprint:

Who is The Red Queen? is  “a dark and graphic girls love visual novel taking place in a twisted version of Wonderland. Help Alice solve the mystery of the Red Queen and avoid death.”

Love In a Bottle follows Ankora the Love Demon as she strikes out on her own for the first time, on a mission to prove she’s able to make it on her own, but more importantly, let all of the HOT SINGLE WOMEN know she’s available.

They also have announced Heart of the Woods soundtrack on vinyl. A two-LP gatefold release, featuring both the Snowfall and Moonlight halves of the soundtrack, as well as 2 extra tracks for Snowfall. There are also two new cover illustrations drawn by adirosa and each order comes with a Tara sticker. They also have a limited amount of HotW Kickstarter merchandise for sale.

Locke and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery is up on Steam and is going to be on itch.io soon.

They formally announced the game Our Home, My Keeper in association with Ebi-Hime. Singto Connely has a sample track of the OST on Twitter!

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Other News

Namori’s two series are having an art collaboration, according to Comic Natalie. Yuru Yuriand Omuro Family art collab will be at Atre Akihabara  from July 31.

Also from Comic Natalie, we have news of a new web comic magazine, Comic OGYAAA!! which, the description says will run original manga of various genres such as “gag, essay, fantasy, action, lily, and animal.” First chapters are free on the Comic OGYAAA!! website, so take a look!

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