Yuri Events At Anime Expo

Anime Expo kicks off today with a surprising number of Yuri events! I’m In Love With The Villianess manga artist Aonoshimo-sensei will be doing signings for the first 50 people who buy $50 of goods at her table today as the con opens!

And, Episodes 1 and 2 of the upcoming I’m In Love With The Villainess anime will be premiering on July 4. Liam Dempsey has key visuals and special AX art on Crunchyroll News.

Then Comic Yuri Hime editorial staff will be joining the Kodansha panel to talk about Kodansha releases Whisper Me A Love Song and Yuri Is My Job! (I’m hoping for some more licenses, but also news about the Whisper Me A Love Song anime…).

So if you’re at AX, we definitely want to hear your Yuri experiences!

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Yuri Anime

While we’re talking anime…

Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury is teaming up with the European Space Agency to show support for its Mercury Planetary Orbiter.

We have The Executioner and Her Way of Life Complete Collection up on the Yuricon Store.  Chris Beveridge has a review of the set over at The Fandom Post.

Steve Jones gives us his final thoughts on Birdie Wing over at ANN. I am working on an end-of season eulogy myself.

Lycoris Recoil and Pizza Hut have teamed up. ^_^

Serial Experiments Lain turns 25 years old this year, and to celebrate, a new alternate reality game 3301: De-cipher has been announced. Crystalyn Hodgkins has the details at ANN.

Korean Yuri animation The Summer (그 여름) gets the full music video treatment from singer JUNGWOO (정우). Check it out in full on Youtube.

Yuri Manga in English

On Publisher’s Weekly, Shaenon Garrity noted that Rose of Versailles Episodes, Volume 1, the 40th anniversary stories, will be released in November. This was an amazing collection. Post the Revolution, there is still more to tell.

Battan’s Run Away With Me Girl, Volume 3, wraps up that messy story with a tidy ending.

Otherside Picnic manga, Volume 6 will be hitting shelves in August.

Seven Seas has released Ratana Satis’ Pulse, Volume 3. Mel has to face her feelings for Lynn.

Seven Seas is also releasing Failed Princesses 6.5 by Ajiichi. This is a collection of shorts that were not published with the volumes, and some extra original content, as a digital-only release.

Tokyopop has launched a new imprint called LoveLove, it will include all shoujo, josei, BL and Yuri titles. It seems like a relaunch of the Love Is Love imprint to me. I’m not thrilled with there being an imprint for “girls'” stuff while stuff for “boys” is just the regular non-imprint. But, hey, no one asks me. ^_^

Yuri Manga in Japanese

Natsuo Mutsumi is launching a kickstarter for a second [Boyish²] collection. This one includes artists from Japan, USA and Canada. [Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology, Volume 2 has already beaten its original goal in mere days, so let’s help them get to a couple of great stretch goals! The book will be available in digital and print and in English and Japanese, as was the previous volume. And do check out those adorable author profiles on the KS page!

Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 9 (おとなになっても) hit shelves this month in Japan! Volume 6 of Even Though We’re Adults hit English bookstores the same day. I just finished that last night, review to come soon.

Komatsu-san has the news that Yuzaki Sakaomi’s She Loves To Cook, She Loves To Eat manga is on hiatus due to the author’s health after the 40th chapter was published. He has details over at Crunchyroll News.

Vampeerz, Volume 3 (ヴァンピアーズ) is up on the Yuricon Store in Japanese and Volume 3 of Vampeerz: My Peer Vampires is headed our way from Denpa Books in August.

Koharu to Minato: Watashi no Partner ha Onna no Ko, Volume 1 (小春と湊 わたしのパートナーは女の子)  is a comic essay in Comic Yuri Hime about a long-distance relationship that began on social media and eventually they moved in together.

100 Nichi-Go Ni Saku Yuri (100日後に咲く百合) is a collection of 100 Yuri “situations” by Muromaki.

Gal to Nekula no Kyuuketsu Kankei (ギャルとネクラの吸血関係) is s story about a girl who “failed to make her gal debut” and the girl at the desk next to her, who is rumored to be a vampire.

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Light Novels in Japanese

 Shuu ni Ichido Classmate wo Kau Hanashi ~ Futari no Jikan, Iiwakeno Gosenen~ (週に一度クラスメイトを買う話 ~ふたりの時間、言い訳の五千円~) is about a girl who hires a classmate as a companion in order to have an excuse to hang with her.

Chou to Teikoku (蝶と帝国) looks fascinating. It’s a science fiction Yuri story about Russia at the end of the Imperial period.

Other News

Via YNN Correspondent Frank H., the cast and crew of live-action Thai Be Mine The Series, held a gender and sexuality seminar with pics on Twitter!

Via Yuri Daily on FB, real-life lovers and Vtubers Momijiri Koyu and Emu were married. They announced the marriage on their Twitter.

Vrai Kaiser wrote What Role Are You Playing? Communication, queerness, and neurodivergence in Yuri is My Job! for Anime Feminist. It’s definitely worth a read.

Bang, Bang, Pop!: Reviewing Girls With Guns Anime by Burkely Herman is a reprint of an older article, but has loads of fun nostalgia – and not just ’cause Okazu is cited a number of times. ^_^

Finishing up a Pride Month series, Brianna Lawrence takes a look at Anime Characters Who Made Us Realize We’re Queer on Crunchyroll News.

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