Light Novel News
Seven Seas has announced that they are doing an audiobook edition of I’m In Love With The Villainess! Click the link to pre-order and to listen to a sample, narrated by Courtney Shaw.
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean G, two Adachi and Shimamura novels are coming out in Japan in November. He says, ‘one is a SS volume, one is “Vol 99.9″.”
Yuri Anime
I’m In Love With The Villainess has a Japanese broadcast schedule up on the official twitter account. We’ll be getting it from Crunchyroll, undoubtedly asap. Voice actresses for Claire and Rae, Yu Serizawa and Karin Nanami, respectively, are undertaking some silly challenges to promote the series. Watch those on Twitter with the hashtag #わた推しチャレンジ. ^_^
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration, Serial Experiments Lain has launched a Lain chatbot, where you can “speak to Lain.” Richard Eisenbeis has the story over at ANN.
Via Yurimother, we learn that Aniplex announced Puella Magi Madoka Magica -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- for a winter 2024 debut. The trailer is up on Youtube.
From VIVERSE, the same folks that brought you the Birdie Wing Museum, now have a special offer for players of the Nintendo Switch Game (reviewed this week on Okazu by Eleanor!). You can pick up an outfit for Eve and Aoi – and VIVERSE is holding a cosplay event in the “museum.” Dress as Eve or Aoi and join other fans of the series.
Other News
LilyGL Net is a new Yuri-themed online art gallery. If you register, you can customize what kinds of art you see. I unallowed AI-generated art, but left everything else as it. Hopefully they’ll get more works to share as more folks join.
From meow on the Okazu Discord, Princess Peach is getting a new game, in which she is taking on the bad guys and gaining new forms and power. In effect, they’ve created Cutie Peachie for Princess Peach: Showtime!
Alex Henderson takes a look at Queer time and the quarter-life crisis in contemporary yuri over at Anime Feminist.
We’re wrapping up today with a thank you to the lovely folks at CitrusCon for hosting me as I talked about why BL and Yuri are not Opposites At All.
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