LGBTQ Events
April is the second-best month to be in NYC, so if you’re around, join me and Rica Takashima at the Rainbow Book Fair at CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies in midtown. Pick up a dual-signed copy of By Your Side: The First 100 Years Of Yuri Anime And Manga in person!
Anime News
Whether you think they will be “Yuri” or not, the YURI TIMES has an overview of what they think is the upcoming season’s Yuri anime in Yuri Anime of Spring 2024!
To start, the definitely Yuri anime Whisper Me a Love Song, which will be premiering in Japan on April 13. Adriana Hazra has the details over at ANN.
Also check out the write-ups on ANN for maybe-there-will-be-some-Yuri series; Seiyuu Radio no Ura Omote (which initially was being promoted as Yuri, then that disappeared, so who knows), Highspeed Étoile both by Crystalyn Hodgkins and I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Season 2 by Egan Loo.
Definitely not Yuri, but golf, because they think golf is what made Birdie Wing great, Sorairo Utility. Joanna Cayanan covers this one.
In the Ep. 24 cast commentary for Mobile Suit Gundam – The Witch From Mercury, the cast and staff once again take the opportunity to note that Suletta and Miorine are married. ^_^ I love that they are not letting that go.
Toei Animation noted on Twitter that March 7th is the anniversary of the very first time Sailor Moon appeared on Japanese TV.
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Yuri Manga
Heading our way this month is How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend? Volume 1 from Seven Seas, by Syu Yasaka, creator of Monologue Woven For You.
Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 4 (毎月庭つき大家つき) by Yodokawa is out in Japan (and on my to-read pile!) Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord, Volume 2 will be headed our way in English this month from Yen Press!
Usio Shio, creator of Doughnuts Under A Crescent Moon, is starting a new Yuri series starting in Storia Dash called “Koi ni Koi suru Koibito no Kankei.”
Yuri Light Novels
Stellar Step, Volume 1 (ステラ・ステップ) tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic Earth in which idol competitions take the place of wars. Undefeated Rain meets and has her life changed by Hana, whose song moves her heart. This is the first of a series.
Via Yurimother, we have news of Miss Savage Fang: The Strongest Mercenary in History Is Reincarnated as an Unstoppable Noblewoman, which is about, according to Yurimother, “a gender bender light novel focuses on a male mercenary reborn as a woman and becomes involved in a bisexual love triangle.”
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Other News
I am incredibly pleased to announced that Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women, Volume 3 (1964-1968) is now available from Journey Press. I was able to contribute to this volume in a small way, as I wrote the end word for the story by Miriam Allen deFord. I also contributed to Volumes 1 and 2 and am thrilled to be in such amazing company as Seanan McGuire and Marie Vibbert. I hope you will pick this book and the rest of the series up. It’s amazing stuff.
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