Yuri VN News

Studio Élan held their Élan Festival last week, so we have a number of news items! From their press release: “Please Be Happy has passed over 5k copies sold! PBH will be celebrating its 1st birthday-anniversary next month and to celebrate we have brand new anniversary merch available for pre-order and a reprint of the PBH art book hic et nunc.”

Our Home, My Keeper is a new collaboration with Ebi-hime. This follows an author whose new home comes with a friendly fairy. ^_^

They are overhauling the art for Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, and they are planning a Kickstarter next year for this VN, but a demo is available now on Steam.

They’ve also announced Love in a Bottle, “a point-and-click yuri romance game about a love demon trying to make it on her own in the world- but there’s too many hot women for her to meet! We’re happy to share that jaxcheese will be composing the game’s OST with hazel contributing to the character themes.” This is slated for a February 14, 2024 release. They ask you to Wishlist it on Steam.

The demo for Bellhouse’s Twofold, a tale of campus club rivalry, is now live on Steam & itch.io. The release for this should be the end of this month. This takes place about a month after their VN First Snow.

Coming up next is Summer at the Edge of the Universe, a sci-fi road trip, the demo for which is available now to Patrons of Élan. ^_^

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Yuri Manga

Adrian Hazra on ANN has the news on Isaki Uta’s newest manga, Leaper. Irodori comics is running a Kickstarter for a collection of Isaki-sensei’s work, Isaki Uta – The Lost & Found Collection. This collection will include four manga centered around queer life.

Kita no Onna ni Tamesaretai（北の女に試されたい）is getting a sequel manga. Read my review of the series on Okazu in 2021 dnd check out the first chapter of the sequel, Kita no Onna ni Tamesaretai – 2nd Trip –（北の女に試されたい – 2nd Trip -) on Yuri Navi!

Nagata Kabi-sensei has announced a new My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness Special Edition in hardcover, with metalic highlights on the cover.

Yuri Anime

Crunchyroll is streaming Power of Hope ~ Precure Full Bloom starting today.  We’ll get to see what happens to PreCure when they grow up a bit. Crystalyn Hodgkins has the details on ANN. I have been assured many times that Gogo Precure has a Yuri couple and the trailer for this seems to at least imply feelings may still exist there. I’ll remain hopeful.

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Yuri Events

The Yuriten Event has put together a nice little promotional video for Twitter. Right now they have locations in Tokyo and Osaka. Their store is online and with a shipping service, you can already place pre-orders for goods! There are drop-downs to browse by series, creator or kinds of goods, which I think is fantastic.

The Shortbox Comics Fair is up and has categories for Sapphic, LGBTQ and Queer comics. This is a terrific way to celebrate and support independent comics creators. Go pick a few new comics!

Other News

The official Wataoshi Twitter account has been sharing illustrations by other manga artists celebrating the I’m In Love With The Villainess anime. Check them out for some lovely art by artists you know and new ones to follow!

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