Yuri Events

Okazu’s 20th anniversary is coming up and I’ve asked our Okazu Patrons for some feedback as to what might be good way to celebrate. They came through with some fantastic ideas! I’m putting together a special event for fans of Okazu, and hope we’ll all be able to enjoy some fun and Yuri!  Of course, the number one way to celebrate would be to get a copy of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga and get the whole story!

August will continue to be full of Yuri at Flamecon, August 20-21 in New York City. I’ll be talking about the first 100 years of Yuri there. Schedule TBA.

There is a fairly good chance I’ll be at AnimeNYC in November, as well. Fingers crossed that I’ll have a table there for selling books!

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Yuri Manga

MangaPlaza is a new-to-me-service that is offering legit English translations for a monthly subscription. Among their offerings is something new in English – AYAKA is in LOVE with HIROKO!, one of Sal Jiang’s shakaijin Yuri series about two women who have crushes on one another, but each think the other is uninterested. I haven’t had a chance to take a look at this translation yet, but plan to. MangaPlaza is run by the company that owns Comic CMOA (“see more”) in Japan, a popular chapter-based online subscription manga service.

Speaking of Sal Jiang(!), her violent office hate/lust not-a-romance,  白と黒~Black & White~, Volume 2 is out and I am gleefully waiting for my copy to arrive. I love this series. I just grin like a feral something reading it. It’s not for everyone, but it is definitely for me. ^_^

sometime’s sentai Yuri series, Superwomen in Love! Honey Trap and Rapid Rabbit Volume 4 hit shelves this month from Seven Seas.

Sabishisugiru Onna Shachou ga Rezu Fuuzokujou ni Byou de Ochiru Hanashi, is the story of, as the title explains, a lonely company president who falls for the lesbian sex worker she meets through a service.

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Yuri(?) Anime

Deep breath. Yuri no Aida ni Hasamareru. Aru Asa Dummy Head ni Natteita Ore-kun no Jinsei is an upcoming anime about….sigh…an ASMR club in Japan…with a microphone that is a reincarnated guy…heavy sigh. Anyway, Liam Dempsey has the details over at Crunchyroll News. Sigh.

Other News

Via Comic Natalie, the show “Another Stories” on NHK takes a look at the influence of The Rose of Versailles for the series’ 50th anniversary. The show includes an interview with Riyoko Ikeda and discussion of the first Takarazuka show.

Kara Dennison over at Crunchyroll News has the scoop on a new Cardcaptor Sakura artbook with tons of animation details.

There will be no YNN report next week as I will be offline for a few days.

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