Yuri Manga
We have some new titles on the Yuricon Store!
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Deluxe Edition, Volume 5 hits shelves next month and I cannot wait for an end of the world which is far gentler than that which we are headed into.
If you have not read it, please do give The Moon On A Rainy Night, Volume 5 a read. Things are changing here in ways that are remarkable. I love this story so much.
We’ve also added Kiss the Scars of the Girls, Volume 1, which was reviewed here by Christian LeBlanc.
Lastly, Yukidoke to Agapanthus, Volume 2 (雪解けとアガパンサス) continues a story of which I reviewed the first volume of here on Okazu. Will Summer be thawed by Spring? Yes, obviously. ^_^
There is a delay with The Rose of Versailles Episodes, Manga, Volume 1, which contains the 40th anniversary comics for the series. I am amazed at the complications this series has faced, falling through every single possible crack in all the awards it could possibly ever have been eligible for. This absolute fucking classic of manga has been utterly ignored by the Eisners. It’s a crime, honestly. But I beg you to please get this volume. It is SO worth it.
Great news for Yuri fans in France, via YNN Correspondent Manga’Albine. Meian has licensed This Monster Wants To Eat Me, Volumes 1 & 2 are on their site so far. Meian also put together a list of their French-language Yuri licenses on Twitter that is very impressive!
More evidence that Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta is definitely being set up for success. My local Kino had both volumes of the series front and center on their Pride month display and had acrylic art plates (which I absolutely might have bought but they were $80 each and I just couldn’t,_ so I bought a couple of blind box pins and got them in a promotional bag! YNN Correspondent An Over Acheiving Potato noticed the “retro music” soundtrack CD for the series on store shelves. I am delighted at this and wonder if this could lead to a live-action drama, given the complexity of licensing any of the music.
And, for those folks in Tokyo, there is a Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta cafe in Tower Records in Omotesando. Do let us know how it is!
Comic Natalie tells ups about Bodokan (ボドカン) that takes place in a prison where the female prisoners” play boardgames and form Yuri couples.” Points for the cops being literal pigs. Check out a sample chapter on Comic Walker in Japanese.
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Anime News
Anime Expo hasn’t brought us much in way of manga, but the anime news is good.
A Rose of Versailles anime movie has been announced for 2025. It looks awfully like the Rose of Versailles anime movie I saw a trailer for at the Tokyo Animation Fair a decade ago. Hrm… Anyway, check out the trailer on the official Twitter account and sit up a bit straighter when you hear that they picked Sawashiro Miyuki as Oscar and Hirano Aya as Marie Antoinette. Nice choices.
Viz Media announced an anime (and probably more manga) license for RWBY, which…good! It’s a series I have stuck with since the beginning and deserves to get a decent end. Plus, Blake and Yang are kind cute together. ^_^
Momentary Lily premiered and ANN’s MrAJCosplay said of it, “I felt like I was having keys dangled in my face while multicolored bleach was poured into my eyes.” So, exactly what we expected, then ^_^
On the 40th Anniversary of Magical Angel Creamy Mami, Studio Pierrot announced that they are planning a new Magical Girl series. Crystalynn Hodgkins has the details on ANN.
Rafael Antonio Pineda says that Crunchyroll will be adding Go! Princess Precure and Witchy Precure (presumably ahead of streaming the new Mahoutsukai Precure Mirai sequel anime). I will continue to pine for a Heartcatch sequel.
Yuri Live-Action
Based on Sal Jiang’s Shakaijin Yuri rom-com of the same name, Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koishiteru (彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋してる) Live-Action series has premiered on GagaOOLala and TVer.jp.
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Yuri Apparel is Back in the Yuricon Store!
After a number of delays, we have returned our most popular shirts to the Yuricon Store on Printify!
To make it easier for me to sell them, I am also added them back to the Yuricon Store under Yuri Apparel. Right now, we have the incredibly popular 50 Years of Yuri Couples T-Shirt and the 100 Years of Yuri T-shirt, which comes in 7https://www.yuricon.com/product-category/yuri-apparel/ colors. All shirts are available in sizes Small to 3X.
Once everything is back up, I’ll think about some new designs…maybe featuring some of the art for By Your Side.
Other News
Not Yuri in the slightest, I want to just give my recommendation to The Apothecary Diaries light novels. They are super fun, great summer reading. Volume 1 is out now and Volume 2 is headed our way in August. This is one of those rare series that my wife and I agree upon.
Also notable, this weekend at Anime Expo, an anime for award-winning manga Witch Hat Atelier was announced. This series is something I have long be meaning to read, so maybe I’ll finally get around to it now. ^_^Alex Mateo has the news on ANN.
ANN’s Bamboo Dong reports on an AX panel of interest in The Beauty of Takarazuka Transcends Borders.
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I will say I’m still pretty new to yuri manga (and just manga in general), but I’ll definitely have to check out all the ones you’ve mentioned. And I’ve been meaning to watch the original Rose of Versailles and with the new movie, perhaps now is the time.
The license for RWBY is great news! I had been a been proponent of Bumbleby for a while, and like Blake and Yang together, despite what some annoyed fans say, and in fact, believe that RWBY got better as it went ahead. I’m glad that I bought all the Blu-ray volumes of RWBY recently, along with Ice Queendom. I am overjoyed it survived Rooster Teeth being shuttered / shut down as a so-called “cost-cutting” measure by the WarnerDiscovery conglomerate.
I hope some other series they started there, like Nomad of Nowhere (had a lesbian protagonist) or Recorded by Arizal (apparently future episodes where going to explore LGBTQ themes), both of which were short-lived series, get new homes as well… I never cared much for Red vs. Blue or Camp Camp, and didn’t watch them, but I did watch gen:LOCK, which had a genderfluid protagonist, and had a rocky second season (the creator stepped down as head of the company’s animation division after people criticized the hostile work conditions he fostered, he later left the company, and the same people didn’t work on season 2 as on season one)… Otherwise, I did buy some of the RWBY manga (the five-part official manga anthology), which was deemed “canon-adjacent” but they are good, and surely shipping fuel for fans, especially those who ship Ruby and Weiss…
I had low expectations for Momentary Lilly (its by Go Hands after all), so I’m not surprised by that review. I did start reading Witch Hat Atelier recently too! Oh and as for The Apothecary Diaries (the second season is coming out sometime next year), as a person who watched (and enjoyed) the anime, I don’t remember there being any yuri at all, but I was thinking of slowly buying the manga, but the light novels would surely be great too. I’m definitely planning to watch the Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koishiteru live-action series too.
There is no Yuri in Apothecary Diaries, as I said, but it is a great female lead and a good story, so worth watching. ^_^