Yuri Manga
We’re starting with some new stuff up on the Yuricon Store!
To begin with, the first volume of the Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Deluxe Edition is hitting shelves in English in August! Waaahh~~~ This is the gentlest post-apocalyptic tale ever. Get ready to sip coffee and watch the grass move in the wind with the android Alpha, as humanity slowly dies out. I cannot believe we’re actually getting this manga. It’s one of my favorites, just for the sheer beauty of the waving grass and fading lights.
Coming in July is another manga I absolutely love, Hello, Melancholic!, Volume 2. Not only is this a lovely band story by Ohsawa Yayoi, but this volume is where things really begin to happen.
I cannot express to you how much I have a clear idea of how I want the arc that begins in Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu!, Volume 10 (私の百合はお仕事です) to end. We got into this story because of the cute Yuri concept cafe idea…we are now waiting for divine retribution, no joke. What an amazing series this has been.
Excellent news! Kodansha is putting Princess Knight back into print in an omnibus volume. I gave my first set of these from Vertical to my library. I’ll be thrilled to have a new copy on my shelves. Adriana Hazra has the scoop on ANN.
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ANN’s Crystalyn Hodkins shares that there is a second trailer for the upcoming My Master Has No Tail anime, about a tanuki who learns rakugo. It’s a charming little story, honestly.
I’m going to remind you all that you really should be watching Birdie Wing on Crunchyroll. It’s the best sports anime I have ever watched. When the series is over, I will write a long, long, long, post about it.
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Other News
This month I got to do something fun and and a little different for Pride Month. Queer Bookstore Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia is hosting a three-part series on manga by me. To begin with, I wrote about Boy’s Love, i.e., Yaoi Manga, hoping to encourage queer folks to pick up some good manga. Next week, it’ll be Yuri’s turn. ^_^
Also in time for Pride Month, Yen Press released I Want To Be A Wall, about an asexual woman in a marriage of convenience with a gay man. This is getting some good reviews for ace representation.
The Speculative Fiction Showcase gave my book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga some space on their blog!
Via Ramos Rise on Facebook, one of the voice actors from the Serial Experiments Lain (my most recent reviews of Disk 1 and Disk 2 are from 2013, but I think it stands the test of time and deserve some serious thought) anime has a video of him DJing a set “Cyberia Layer X” that suits nicely with the anime. Check it out for some tunes.
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Volume 7 of Otherside Picnic also came out this past week.
It has the feeling of perhaps concluding the story. I hope it is concluding only the first arc of this story, since I would be happy to spend more time with these characters. There are hints that there is more to come.
I think the author has grown a good deal in the course of writing these novels (and the illustrator has done so, as well!). The characterization is more solid, and Sorawo, in particular, has added dimensions to her character.
I am finding My Master has no tail frustrating in its hints at rakugo stories — how to learn more! Otherwise, a fun little series. I am looking forward to hearing solid Kansai-ben when the animation is released.