Yuri Manga in English
The Moon on a Rainy Night, Volume 5 is headed our way this month. It’s up on the Yuricon Store, but more links to come, as it’s not yet up on CR or Bookwalker Global.
Coming up from Tokyopop is Yomogimochi’s weirdly titled Boys Gilding The Lily Shall Die!?, Volume 1. Let me talk about this a little bit. Tokyopop had this initially listed as “Boys Interfering With Yuri Shall Die!?” and I completely understand why they went with that, but neither title has anything at all to do with the story.
At Comitia this year I picked up a sample doujinshi of the first couple of chapters of this story. I was interested because the premise of girls in band always interests me, but the title was so weird and the description focused on the wrong thing too, so I had passed when it first came out in Japanese. But at Comitia I picked it up and it was what I thought it might be. So the story is about Katagiri, a very, very serious trumpet player and Aikawa, who transfers in and takes the top position. Aikawa has a boy friend. He is not important to the story, really. But Aikawa and Katagiri begin to have a rivalry/something else thing going on that is quite good and tense. Ignore the title and just get the book.
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Yuri Manga in Japanese
While we’re adding stuff by Kuzushiro-sensei, we’ve added Kimi no Tamenara Shineru, Volume 11 (姫のためなら死ねる) her “historical” fantasy about life in the Heian court with Sei Shonagon and Murasaki Shikibu.
Galette, No. 29 (ガレット) is also up on the Store, as is a collection of manga from the magazine by Uno Jinnia, called Mokuyoubi Ice Cream Morning + Night (木曜日のアイスクリーム 朝＋夜).
Kashikaze’s Lonely Girl ni Sakaraenai, Volume 6 (ロンリーガールに逆らえない) completes the set in Japanese. I reviewed Volume 1 of I Can’t Say No To The Lonely Girl in April.
Kodama Naoko’s current manga in Comic Yuri Hime, Usotsuki Hanayome to Dousei Kekkon-ron, Volume 1 (嘘つき花嫁と同性結婚論), is about a lesbian whose life is upended when a woman she used to crush on leaves her husband and asks to stay with her.
Via Comic Natalie, we have another (!) fantasy series starting in Comic Yuri Hime, but also a historical series set in the Taisho period, with “Muryoku Seijo to Munou Oujo ~ Maryoku Zero de Shoukansareta Seijo no Isekai Kyuukokuki ~” (無力聖女と無能王女～魔力ゼロで召喚された聖女の異世界救国記～) a story of a summoned” saint” with no power and a princess who cannot use her power, and “Kanaria wa Kiraboshi no Yume o Miru” (カナリアは綺羅星の夢をみる), a romantic story set in the Taisho period about Fumino, a female student who dreams of pursuing a career in fashion, and a high-class prostitute who becomes her model…and I am really hoping that one rocks.
Yuri Manga in Spanish
Via Arai Sumiko-sensei’s X account, The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All, Volume 1 is now available in Spanish for Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México and Perú. I find it kind of interesting that this Spanish-language translation is going with the English-language title.
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Yuri Interview
Via Staff Writer Matt Marcus, here is an interview with Tamifull, creator of How Do We Relationship in Japanese on 47 News, Don’t miss out! Masterpiece depicting love between college students: 10,000-word interview with Tamifull.
Yuri Novel
Via YNN Correspondent MakiPeakSpider, Libery Pub has a an English translation of Thai GL novel Petrichor Rust In the Rain, available on Thai novel sites, Meb, Naiin and Mareads.
Yuri Live Action
Via Comic Natalie, we have key visual for the Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau stage play!
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