Yuri Live Action
Big News! Via Yuri Navi, Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna is getting a live-action TV series on NHK in 2023! This manga is out in English as She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat and we love it here on Okazu! Volume 3 of the Japanese manga is hitting shelves next month. The promo visual looks good.
Crystalyn Hodgkins also has news of a live-action series for Young Women Don’t Play Fighting Games on ANN.
I have said for *years* that Jousei manga makes better live-action than anime and I think the live-action folks finally have caught on. ^_^ Expect to see more Yuri as live-action than as anime in years ahead.
Yuri Manga
Tokyopop has licensed If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It To The Budokan, I Would Die. Volume 1 is slated for a June 2023 release in English.
Seven Seas has licensed Shilin’s Amongst Us, which is an AU of her characters from her fantasy webcomic Carciphona. Both of which I have been reading since forever. I’m a huge fan of her art. This volume was originally a Kickstarter, and was reviewed here in 2020.
Via YNN Correspondent Karin, inori’s I’m in Love With the Villianess has been licensed by Manga Cult for a German release. They also seem to have at least one Yuri title, Everyday Escape (Futari Escape).
France24 has a an article on The Rose of Versailles‘ 50th anniversary celebration!
ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has news that Natsu to Lemon to Overlay in Comic Yuri Hime is coming to an end after one volume. I really liked the idea of this manga, but, tbh, it squandered a lot of space not delving into…well, anything. So I’m sorry to see it go, but it feels like it was an idea, not a plot.
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Yuri Light Novel
J-Novel Club is now selling directly through their own site (which makes sense given how much trouble they were having with Amazon) as well a Global Bookwalker. If you join their J-Novel Club to buy directly, you’ll get extras like interviews, bonus stories and art!
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Yuri Anime
I still think the chances of this having any vestige of the original Yuri is slim to none, but Hulu has picked up Black Rock Shooter Dawn Fall. If you’ve got Hulu, please let us know how it goes. ^_^
Yuri Wecomics
Creator Jackie Lesnick has collected all her previous series up and redone her website so Girlie, You Suck and all of Princess Panic so far are online for free on her updated website.
Other News
About a dozen folks wrote in to let us know about Kodansha’s Last Gender, by Rei Taki. Here’s what Kodansha summary says:
“Welcome to BAR California, a place for you to reveal your true self.
People of different genders, propensities, and sexual orientations gather at a certain chic bar that’s hidden from the public eye. While some come in search of themselves, others step into the establishment looking for sex and love. There are as many sexualities as there are people, and the patrons’ stories intertwine as they struggle to find happiness. A bisexual trans woman who’s been hurt by the voices of others wishes she had a “normal” relationship; a married, middle-aged salaryman secretly expresses his female side; and a pansexual cis guy is on the lookout for true love.”
The 2022 Yuri Game Jam submission deadline is December 2nd! Check out the games that have already been submitted. ^_^
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean G, Now You See Her: How Lesbian Culture Won Over America by Annie
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“I have said for *years* that Jousei manga makes better live-action than anime and I think the live-action folks finally have caught on. ^_^ Expect to see more Yuri as live-action than as anime in years ahead.”
Screen adaptations of josei manga have always been mostly live-action. Whether yuri will be more common as live-action than anime seems like quite a separate issue and I think it would probably come down to how someone perceives the genre’s scope. Love Live vs Love My Life.
Yes, of course you are right. It was mostly speaking to the anime/manga readership in the west which wants everything to be an anime. I wasn’t clear perhaps that I meant that and that we’ll be seeing more Yuri as live-action as so much of it is jousei in sensibility.
I apologize for my lack of clarity.
Which yuri josei manga are you thinking of as candidates to get adapted to live-action? Even Though We’re Adults? How Do We Relationship? Yume no Hashibashi?
By the way, there’s no う in 女性.