Yuri Manga
Some news from Seven Seas this week. They have licensed Mochi_Au_Lait and majoccoid’s Ikemen Onna to Hakoiri Musume (イケメン女と箱入り娘) series as a 1-volume omnibus under the name Handsome Girl And Sheltered Girl: The Complete Collection. I reviewed Volume 1 and Volume 2…and I missed “the joke,” but primarily because I was desperately hoping that that wasn’t the joke. But, it is. A naive woman assumes the handsome person she’s met is a man… spoiler, she is not. Alex Mateo has details on ANN.
Seven Seas also wants to remind you that How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend?, Volume 1 is up for pre-order right now. By Syu Yusaka, creator of Monologue Woven For You, this manga series hits shelves here in March!
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Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna, Volume 5 (作りたい女と食べたい女) has hit shelves in Japan just as the TV drama is airing NHK. This story of found family is just so good.
Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru, Volume 4 (踊り場にスカートが鳴る) by Utatane Yuu continues to be an interesting look at body image and self-esteem through the lens of ballroom dancing.
Relationships are not always forever, as we discover in Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 12 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな). YNN Staff writer Matt notes that a Tsukiatte online merchandise lottery is opening up shortly at Oshi Chara (this is in Japanese and they probably will only deliver in-country, so you’ll need a shipping company like Tenso or White Rabbit to give you a JP address.) 1 ticket is 770 yen (a little over $5 USD right now.) The lottery runs through March 25.
Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata, (君と綴るうたかた) by Yuama has ended in the March issue of Comic Yuri Hime. I’ve added Volume 5 and the final volume, Volume 6, to the Yuricon Store. The Summer You Were There, Volume 4 just hit EN shelves last month from Seven Seas!
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Yuri Audiobooks
On the heels of my review this week of Volume 3 of I’m in Love with the Villainess Audiobook, Volume 4 is out now! They’ve thwarted the Pope’s assassination, but the tensions in Nur continue. This has been a very rewarding way to re-experience this series. Narrator Courtney Shaw does a great job.
Yuri Light Novels
It’s been a month since I reviewed Heimin no Kuse ni Namaikina!, Volume 3, the finale of this series, but we’ll be getting I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner, Volume 2 of Claire’s perspective in April in English.
I mentioned this last week, but as a reminder Karasu Piero’s new LN series, Seijou-sensei no Mahou wa Sunderu! Ochibore no Kyoushitsu (聖女先生の魔法は進んでる!1 落ちこぼれの教室 ) is hitting JP shelves this upcoming week. Adriana Hazra has more details on ANN.
Yuri Literary Fiction
The second volume of Zerogo, Yuri Literary Fiction magazine, (零合 百合総合文芸誌 第2号 ) actually exists in the universe! Yay! I reviewed the first volume last autumn and found it to be one of the best Yuri short story collections I have read. This second volume already intrigues me, as they are serializing some new works, which means that they definitely have a plan for future volumes, at least.
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Yuri-ish Anime
Check out Twitter for a key visual on the Look Back anime official account. Alex Mateo has details on ANN. This one-shot by Chainsaw Man creator Fujimoto Tatsuki was a profound read. I reviewed it here on Okazu in Japanese and English.
Crystalynn Hodgkins has the news about the music for the upcoming Sound Euphonium 3 anime series over at ANN.
Other News
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, ANN’s Monique Thomas and Christopher Farris take a look at a roundtable by Nick, Chris, Nicky and Steve on When Your Fav Anime Couple Is Problematic, with some of our own Yuri favs popping up.
Scholar James Welker has put together a list of fan (doujinshi) events in Japan. It’s on Facebook, so you’ll need an account to read it, but this is an incredible resource for those of us who research in fan spaces.
Polygon has done a survey of 4000 anime watchers and broken it out by the numbers in Who Watches Anime?
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