Yuri Manga
New items up on the Yuricon Store!
Chasing Spica, Volume 1, by Chihiro Orihi, follows the tried and true formula of a popular girl who is targeted by the head of the morals committee at school. Volume 1 is available now from Seven Seas.
Also from Seven Seas is the final volume of my beloved end-of-the-world series, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Deluxe Edition, Volume 5. I’m so glad to have been able to get this in English. It is just so beautiful.
There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…, Volume 4 continues this love triangle / polyamory story by Teren Mikami.
Via her post on X, Mira Ong Chua’s ROADQUEEN: ETERNAL ROADTRIP TO LOVE ~afterglow edition~ “is an 288pg 18+ romcom graphic novel about love, revenge, and getting your bike back. This new PDF edition includes everything from the original, plus a new preface and bonus story. Also, it’s free!”
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月) is up on the store. I cannot WAIT to tell you about this volume of Kuzushiro’s story. It was perfection. Volumes 1-5 of The Moon On A Rainy Night are available in English from Kodansha!
Two girls who are a little introverted try grabbing their springtime of their youths in Inkya Gal Demo Ikigaritai!, Volume 1 (陰キャギャルでもイキがりたい！)
Yuri manga artist Aneido has launched a kickstarter for Now No One Lurks Beneath the Snow: A Queer Fantasy Romance.
Hanakage Alt’s ALL BE PLUS Yuri manga about a heavy woman is available for preorder on DLSite. Check out some sample pages.
The Galette magazine kickstarter has passed it’s third stretch goal with 3 weeks left to go. I’d like to see it get to the 5 million yen stretch goal. To encourage folks to pick up the top reward level, they are adding more rewards to it! I’d love to, but $1000 is a little steep for me right now. They are going great guns, though and are only a few hundred away from fundraising 2x what they wanted for the initial goal.
In a conversation on the Okazu Discord, I noted that supporters for the Japanese edition are credited inside every issue of the magazine, so I counted how many people support that edition. As of Issue 30 (the one before the most recent issue) there are 210 supporters. As an interesting point of comparison the English edition has 279 supporters as of this morning. So probably about what the JP edition began with. I’m too lazy to dig out the first issue and count. ^_^
The magazine crowdfunding has gone through a couple of platform changes – and Fantia just stopped accepting overseas credit cards, which has caused support drop-offs. Comic events are back in Japan, so some of their sales may have shifted back to those as well as on online bookstores and digital platforms – so the low number of supporters may be deceptive, but the fact supporters give them guaranteed income they can go into the creation of each issue before they sell issues through other venues. On this Kickstarter, they intelligently accounted for 6 issues, so about one volume’s worth each of the ongoing stories.
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Yuri Anime
Toei announced on X that Girls Band Cry has been licensed for a digital-only North American release. Alex Mateo has the news on ANN.
Discotek’s remastered Dear Brother is back in stock on Amazon. Don’t miss this gorgeous edition of Osamu Dezaki’s masterwork of shoujo anime.
Discotek’s new release of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s Complete Collection on Blu-ray is now available on the Yuricon Store! I want to commend Discotek for writing a superb synopsis for this, the best I have ever seen from an anime company.
Yuri/Baihe Novels
In extremely exciting news, via YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, Yáng Shuang-zi’s novel Taiwan Travelogue is being released in English by Graywolf Press, with a November release date. You may recognize Yang’s name as the co-author of Girls’ Love: The Development History of Lily Fan Culture in Taiwan’s ACG Industry 2023 Revised Edition (少女之愛：台灣ACG界百合迷文化發展史 2023增修版), which I reviewed here on on Okazu in May. She is a famous lesbian novelist – I’m thrilled to have one of her books headed our way.
Via YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Yen Press announced the license of the novel Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days. I reviewed it back in 2023. It was very like the anime, which makes sense, as the writer is the same. There is a little Yuri at the end in a dream sequence.
New friend zhufree on X has these pics from an ice cream shop in China that is also a Baihe novelist qxhs goods shop! We agreed that we are both jealous. ^_^
Now that it has a manga, I finally added the first novel of Twinstar Cyclone Runaway, Volume 1 (ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ) to the Store. In a world where only married straight couples can fish the skies, two young women decide to believe in one another.
Yuri Events
Japanese manga artists are gearing up for Comiket 104, so don’t forget to keep your eye on the #C104 hashtag to discover artists like Chigusa Minori, or find out that Takemiya Jin’s circle Junk-Lab is back!
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Other News
Mieri Hiranashi, creator of The Girl That Can’t Get A Girlfriend is releasing a new series of manga how-tos. The first part, Making of a Manga (pt 1) – Storyboards is up now on Youtube!
Clearly inspired by Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu/ If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It To The Budokan, I Would Die (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ ) , an “Oshi Meguri” in Okayama has been announced for October. See popular spots featured in the series, led around by founder of the Yuri Times, Fujishiro Ayumi!
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