Yuri Anime

Crunchyroll has picked up Liz and the Blue Bird, say ANN’s Alex Mateo. I really hope you’ll watch this, if you haven’t already. It was quite good and worth watching a second time, as I mentioned in my 2019 review.

I believe I’ve mentioned this, but YNN correspondent Cryssoberyl brought it up again on the Okazu Discord and I want to make sure you are realize that Citrus is celebrating a 10th anniversary, with an memorial exhibition in the Shinjuku Marui and an 10th anniversary broadcast of the anime. Check the Citrus 10th Anniversary Website for details.

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Yuri Manga

We’ll start with some new items up on the Yuricon Store. ^_^ It’s still been kind of busy, but I really hope to catch up on adding items starting this week.

Yuri is My Job, Volume 10 is out and features Nene having had it with “friggin’ heteros” and I am here for it. ^_^

Yuri Espoir, Volume 3 complicates the issue of Kokoro’s “death” by marriage.

For fans of messy relationships, Uso to Kiss ha Houkago, Volume 2 (嘘とキスは放課後) is now up on the Store.

It’s been delayed a few times, but Dark Horse has finally released Legend of Korra: Patterns in Time. I’m really looking forward to reading this.

Jennifer O’Donnell and I talked about the darling Yuri series Whisper Me A Love Song from Kodansha, by Takeshima Eku on her Translation Chat podcast!

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Yuri VNs/Games/Voice Drama

Kiss The Demiurge is now available on Steam! A mage tasked with hiding magic meets three girls obsessed with finding it.

Samurai Maiden is also out on Steam, in which kisses lead to power ups. ^_^ Again via Cryssoberyl, here are all the “devoted hearts” animations, in a YT compilation by Kakuchopurei.

It’s not Yuri, but anyway, River City Girls 2, has a release date for North America and Europe, reports Liam Doolan at Nintendo Life.

The Good, The Bad and the Horsey is a “fantasy Wild West GL/WLW/yuri VN” available on itch.io from Team Bumblebee. Someone  offer to review this for us, please. It looks fun as heck. ^_^ Features of the game include Horses and “More horses,” what’s not to like?

Yuri Novels & Light Novels

Lots on news from Twitter over the last couple of weeks.

Manga Mogura had the news that the Adachi and Shimamura series will end with the 12th novel.

Yurimother announced that Seven Seas has licensed Qualia the Purple light novel.

douqi says that Chinese baihe novel An Endless Story (有终) are up for pre-orders on Weibo.

Via kokumura, we learn that Kimi no Kyoshitsu ga Eien no Nemurinitsuku ni Made (君の教室が永遠の眠りにつくまで) Yuri horror, mystery novel, has won the The 42nd Masafumi Yokomizo Mystery & Horror Grand Prize of Excellence award. Our little genre is growing up. ^_^

By Your Side News

My publisher has a roundup of some of the stuff I’ve been doing this year for my book By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga! While I’m at it, let’s do one more thing: Buy a copy of BYS as a gift for someone and I’ll make sure that you and they get a signed bookplate or digital bookplate! Just email me at bys@yuricon.com with a scan/screencap of your receipt and the addresses or emails you’d like me to send to, names and whether I’m sending a real or digital bookplate.

Because I can’t write much anymore, I apologize that I can’t write custom messages. But for hand-signed I’ll my best to get names in there. ^_^;

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