Yuri Manga
Good news from Dark Horse, who has announced a new omnibus edition of Sonoda Kenichi’s Gunsmith Cats. Crystalyn Hodgkins has the news on ANN. If you’re a recent fan of Yuri, you should pick this up to understand the kind of material we had to work with in the early years. ^_^ I am both joking and being quite serious. (I also wrote some GSC fanfic back in the day that I still like, so there’s that.)
We have some items up on the Yuricon Store for you!
The Summer You Were There, Volume 5 is the penultimate volume of this series. Kaori and Shizuku have been through so much, will they get the book done before the inevitable?
Class S tale of vampires at school, Kiss the Scars of the Girls, Volume 2 continues the story, such as it is Christian LeBlanc will be reviewing it for us shortly, as he has already reviewed Volume 1.
Also coming up in a review from Luce, My Idol Sits the Next Seat Over, Volume 7 is on the Store for you all to enjoy.
Sasayakuyou no Koi wo Utau, Volume 9 (ささやくように恋を唄う) brings us through Shiho’s arc, at last. Now we can all move on.
Twinstar Cyclone Runaway, Volume 1 (ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ) is a Yuri short story contest-winning science fiction story turned into a manga. Can our protagonist find someone to fish with, when fishing is only allowed for husbands and wives?
Inui Ayu manga Matou Kimi, Hokorubu Watashi (まとう君、ほころぶ私) is being released on eBook Renta manga service in English from Shodenhsa! Fan of Inui-sensei’s gentle slice-of-adult-life manga should jump on that.
Yorita Miyuki is running a Kickstarter of her collection Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles (彼女のくちづけ感染するリビドー). Click the appropriate link on the page to get the news when it launches!
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Yuri Literature
Lee Sanhwa’s cyborg science fiction, An Error Occured (오류가 발생했습니다) is now up on the Yuricon Store. It is in Korean and, as I said in my review, it was a great read.
Kanojo. Yuri Short Story Anthology (彼女。百合小説アンソロジー) is, as it says, a short story collection, that has the distinction of being available to Japanese Amazon users as an audiobook as well as in print.
I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner (Light Novel), Volume 3 is up for pre-order. This concludes the Claire P.O.V. spin-off that is absolutely worth reading for the extra content.
I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner Audiobook, Volume 2 – For those of use who want to experience the story as read and acted by Courtney Shaw, this volume – which I reviewed in print last week – is hitting devices next month.
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Anime News
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is a series that almost always fails to do anything I want it to do. For a 10th anniversary, it turned the first two seasons of the TV anime into films which have been reviewed here (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 2nd A’s)
For the 20th anniversary the films are being turned back into TV series.
… Okay, I guess. I just think it might have been cool to do something new. Movie up StrikerS, or animate Force…or hey, how about a new series? Nope. Okay. Anyway, Rafael Antonio Pineda has the news on ANN.
Yuri VN
Via their account on Twitter, check out Saku Takeno/Sakaki Yoshioka’s Visual Novel The Vampire Bride: The Novel Game English Version Sample.
Other News
From their official account on X, Sasayaku Koi wo Uta Soundtrack album, Sing a SonG, will be released this month! Best part of the anime which otherwise has been a frustrating experience.
Via YNN Correspondent Cryssoberyl, “Machikado Mazoku will receive dual wedding dress figurines as part of the 5th anniversary celebration of the anime.”
Anita Tai has the news that “Kunihiko Ikuhara announced on X… that he will write and direct a Rodoku-geki (Reading Theater) play titled “Ikuni Produce Reading in the Dark Shunkin no Sasuke” with the main illustration by Classmates artist Asumiko Nakamura.” Check out the full article by Anita for details and a lovely illustration.
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