I’m In Love With The Villainess News
Some great news to start this week’s report – Seven Seas has announced an audiobook for I’m In Love With The Villainess, featuring Courtney Shaw as reader. The book is so far available on Bookwalker and a few other systems – we’ll be getting it this November. Click the link for a sample!
The full trailer for the upcoming I’m In Love With The Villainess anime is up, with subtitles and a bit of the end theme from Crunchyroll.
Ichijinsha shared these photos of an ILTV ad display in Shinjuku station. There will be a ILTV pop-up store on October 7-22nd at the Akihabara Gamers store. Click the link, you will be able to purchase goods from this store online and with Tenso or some other shipping service, they’ll ship to you!
The third and final volume of the Claire POV spin-off, Heimin No Kuse Ni Namaikina! will hit as a digital book in Japan this week. Volume 1 of She’s So Cheeky For A Commoner! is available in English from Seven Seas now.
inori’s newest novel, Yuusha ni Naritai Shoujo to (Boku), Yuusha ni Narubeki Kanojo (Kimi) (勇者になりたい少女と、勇者になるべき彼女) is already up for pre-order on Melonbooks and Amazon JP. I’ll get this up on the Store as soon as it has a cover.
And, finally, after many delays and illnesses on both sides, I am proud to announce that our interview with inori.-sensei for Yuricon 2023 is live! We of course talk a bit about how she got into becoming a novelist and the global success of ILTV.
We have a bunch of new panels lined up for Yuricon 2023, so I’m excited to share more as they go live!
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Yuri Events
The Yuriten Exhibition has announced their Tokyo and Osaka locations. If you are going to be in Tokyo from October 14-22, you can find the Yuriten at studio fab in Morishita, and in Osaka from October 28-November 5, at T5 Studio in Osaka’s Minato-ku (not that far from Universal Studios Japan.) I am definitely looking for someone to cover one of these events for Okazu, so if you are going to attend, please contact me!
Yuri Manga
ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! Manga Volume 4 hit shelves this week.
Mikanuji’s Assorted Entanglements, Volume 3 came out this week. We just had a heckuva a review for Volume 2 here on Okazu by Matt Marcus.
Seven Seas announced the license for the “salacious Yuri” manga by Kiyoko Iwami, My Girlfriend’s Not Here Today.
Also heading our way in November from Seven Seas is Sheep Princess in Wolf’s Clothing, Volume 1. This fluffy soft princess is an animal in bed.
This winter we will see sono.N’s muscled women vs monster action series continue with SHWD, Volume 2.
Usui Shio’s series “Onna Tomodachi to Kekkon Shitemita” will be ending in the next issue of Comic Yuri Hime, writes Joanna Cayanan on ANN.
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Yuri Anime
ANN’s Egan Loo points us to the third Hoshikuzu Telepath trailer, which debuts the end theme of the anime.
Yuri VNs
Via YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Witches and Lilies is a new Yuri VN from Stromatsosoft on Steam, where the game is described, ““Witch and Lilies” is a 3D dungeon RPG with a theme of romantic relationships between girls. Players form a party of five girls from 10 different job classes and navigate dungeons to clear them while managing the relationships between the girls.”
Other News
Also via Matt, this amazing music video by Mashiro Shirakami of his song Kawaranaide as an official collaboration with How Do We Relationship? by Tamifull. It’s a beautiful animatronic. The song is perfect – Matt says that Shirakami says he was inspired by the manga to write it. The animation really highlights the art. Give it a “like” on Youtube if you enjoy it!
Alex Henderson writes on Queer time and the quarter-life crisis in contemporary yuri for Anime Feminist.
Worth your time is Sara Moon’s documentary about the anime/manga localization industry, By Fans, For Fans. I have a short segment as do a bunch of other folks in or adjacent to the industry. Sarah’s funny, and incredibly insightful about the history of the anime, manga and gaming translation as we know it. She describes this opus as “” ^_^
You may have heard the news that RightStuf is closing on October 10 and their operations will be moving to Crunchyroll on October 25. RightStuf links on the Yuricon Store are still working, but we may need to do some re-jiggering this winter, so heads up. No one is particularly happy about this, and decreasing competition is never a good thing for customers. We’ll have to see who gets to be the next up-and-coming smaller business that steps in. Tokyo Otaku Mode, Robert’s Anime Corner Store (if they ever update that website…). I guess we’ll see.
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