Yuri Live Action
Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko, based on Sal Jiang’s manga of the same name (of which I have reviewed Volume 1 and Volume 2 here on Okazu) is getting a live-action series and is pounding the internets with updates. ANN’s Crystalyn Hodgkins has news of the premiere of the opening theme and ending theme for the series.
This series is meant as a comedy, so I think the character of Hiroko is going to be key to the success of the thing, as she is the overtly gay character. Happily, the trailer seems like she’s going to be handled well enough by Mori Kana.
Okazu Staffer Frank Hecker notes that this series will be getting an international release with subtitles on the GagaOOLala pan-asian LGBTQ+ media streaming service, on July 5th.
Some Thai GL news from Frank, as well. The Secret Of Us, Episode 1 is up on Youtube! This appears to be story of a professional women rekindling a love with a former lover who had broken her heart.
Yuri Manga
ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda wants you to know that Usui Shio has a new series beginning in Comic Yuri Hime, which looks like a stark departure from her recent gentle romances. Bokura no Ai wa Kimochi Warui, is yet another fetish relationship in a magazine that has become increasingly laden with them among the fantasy stories.
Rafael also has the sad news that Yuri Is My Job manga is on indefinite hiatus as the author is in ill health. We all wish Miman-sensei a speedy recovery.
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Yuri Anime
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury has been released in a smexy Steelbook Blu-ray set. Season 1 and Season 2 are up on the Yuricon store!
Dollip Daze has hosted a Q&A with the English voice cast for I’m In Love With The Villianess. Check it out on Youtube.
Whisper Me A Love Song continues to have production issues through Episode 10. I’m only mentioning this here, because I do feel that I’m In Love With The Villainess had a visibly very low production budget and I really hope Ichijinsha stops trying to make anime on a shoestring. It makes it harder to tell people that it’s worth it to watch. Alex Mateo has details on ANN.
On the premise that all PreCure are of interest to Okazu fans (which may be a stretch, I know, but oh well) Anita Tai wants you to know that the Wonderful PreCure! Movie theme song has been released. This movie will have appearances from characters from Hirogaru and Mahou Tsukai PreCure series. I am shocked, honestly that I am still watching and enjoying Wonderful Precure! Given the premise I didn’t think I’d last a week, but here we are and I’m still watching.
Continuing the stretch, let’s talk Sound Euphonium, for a bit. Episode 12 aired and it was an *amazing* episode, except for one fatal flaw that I cannot forgive. I promise to discuss in future review. But today, let’s look at what Ken Iikura-Gross has to say on ANN, about the novel author’s reaction to the episode. It is a bit interesting and may make me seek out the manga.
Stilllll stretching, Alex Mateo on ANN notes that Bad Girl manga is getting an anime. Let’s cut to the chase here – good girl pretending to be delinquent in a Mangatime Kirara Carat manga series, so…good chance on Yuri-adjacency.
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Yuri Games and VNs
YNN Correspondent m and the lue bird wants you to know that Revue Starlight El Dorado will be premiering in August on Steam!
Studio Élan is running a sales on their Yuri VNs! Check the sale out on Steam and Itch.io.
Other News
Yuricon/Okazu trivia time. Back in the late 1990s when we had a Yuricon Mailing List on Yahoo groups, I ran a poll about people’s favorite Yuri character. The very first winner of that poll was….Priss from Bubblegum Crisis. For more than a decade after that, I would periodically receive angry ranting emails, “explaining” to me that Priss was not a lesbian, goddammit, how DARE I think so. The fact that this was not my personal choice aside, it was always so sad/funny how angry people got at that. Anyway. I watched Crisis and Crash and 2040 and Priss is bi, get over it. ^_^
Udon Entertainment is hosting Bubblegum Crisis and Crash (and Gunsmith Cats /loud throat-clearing, Misty/) creator Sonoda Kenichi at San Diego Comic Con to mark the publication of Bubblegum Crisis: Complete Archive Artbook. Rafael Antonio Pineda has details on ANN.
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