Yuri Manga
We have some new items up on the Yuricon Store!
Coming this summer, we have If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die, Volume 2 from Tokyopop.
We’ll be getting The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This, Volume 3 next month! I still love this series about two hard working, yet goofy, people who are very much in love.
Monologue Woven For You Vol. 3 completes this series about dreams deferred and changing goals.
Seven Seas announced the license of Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel, the story of man reincarnated as a woman sex worker in another world. This will be released in February 2024.
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Zerogo: Yuri Literary Magazine (零合 : 百合総合文芸誌) with cover art by Shimura Takako-sensei is definitely part of a trend of one-volume Yuri fiction collections in Japan.
Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru, Volume 3 (踊り場にスカートが鳴る) is the ongoing saga of two girls finding themselves through ballroom dancing.
Natsu To Lemon To Overlay (夏とレモンとオーバーレイ) had a great idea and had a pleasant ending.
Hero-san to Moto Onna Kanbu-san, Volume 5 (ヒーローさんと元女幹部さん) continues sometime’s sentai Yuri love story.
Sal Jiang’s Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koi Shiteru, Volume 3 (彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋して) is up on the store and in my to-read box! Now that Ayaka has proclaimed her love in front of the whole office, what will Hiroko do? This manga is available in English over at Manga Plus as AYAKA is in LOVE with HIROKO!. Check out the free chapter and subscribe for the rest.
Yuri Anime
Also on the Yuricon Store, we have the If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die Blu-ray set! I honestly think the anime fixed a lot of the problems with the early volumes of the manga and was pretty good. ^_^
Yuri Light Novels
Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta The First, is also up on the Store.
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I’m In Love With The Villainess News
Volume 6 of the Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) manga was released this week in Japan! inori.-sensei noted on her Twitter feed, that that week, Yuri manga topped the “purchased by women” on both Amazon and honto.jp.
Also announced this week was an October premiere date for the Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou anime. A new promo video hit Youtube to whet our appetite.
Queer Comics News
Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For will be getting an Audible adaptation version with an all-star cast. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya has the details on Autostraddle.
Netflix has posted a trailer for ND Stevenson’s Nimona, which is going to premiere in June.
Yuricon News
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime And Manga turns 1 year old at the end of the month! Going to ask my Okazu Patrons and Supporters how they’d like to celebrate. I’m thinking of doing an online reading. ^_^
Other News
The Library of Congress Magazine for May-June 2023 looks at LGBTQ+ at the Library. You can read or download the issue as a free PDF.
Kara Denison over at Crunchyroll News has the details on a full orchestra concert for the beloved Anne of Green Gables anime.
Over at ANN, the Editorial staff went through Viz Media’s new manga app and two of them voted for How Do We Relationship as their Best Series Out Now On The Viz Manga App.
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