Yuri Events
The Girls Love Fest doujinshi market will be held in the Tokyo Asakusa/Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center, Taitokan, once again on October 6th.
ANCHOR rainbow port tokyo is running a Thai GL collaboration from September 27 through October 7 with special food, drinks and limited edition goods. Follow their Pixiv fanbox for event news!
Okazu Staff Writer Frank Hecker wants you to know about the live readings of Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright, “this millennium’s best giant robot yuri space epic,” in verse. Author Thaliarchus is doing live readings on Twitch starting today! You can also download the poem on Itch.io…and clearly…you should. We need more epic Yuri poetry. ^_^
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Yuri Manga
Kadokawa and NicoNico announced the Next Manga Awards 2024 and the English-language edition of Kiyoko Iwami’s My Girlfriend’s Not Here Today from Seven Seas won the Global Special Prize English Edition! Congratulations to everyone at Seven Seas!
Mejirobana Saku, Volume 4 (メジロバナの咲く), the continuation of Nakamura Asumiko’s first serial Yuri story hit JP shelves in August and I’m dying to know what happens. It’s up on the Yuricon Store!
Via Comic Natalie, beginning at the end of August in コミプレ-Comiplex- magazine is Shinni Modori Ojou ha Ikinobiru tame ni Yuri Harem o Tsukurukoto ni Shita (死に戻り王女は生き延びるために百合ハーレムを作ることにした), about a selfish princess who is executed. When she returns to life, builds a Yuri harem to survive.
Also via Comic Natalie, the September issue of Comic Cune includes a new Yuri comedy, 7-Kakan Gentei Kanojo (7日間限定彼女) about a gal and an honor student “trying out” dating for a week.
Via X, Shonen Jump magazine has announced Ichi the Witch by Osamu Nishi and Shiro Usazaki starting this Sunday in Shonen Jump! In this world magic is alive, but only women have the aptitude to wield it. Until one fateful day… If you love “the one guy in a world of women” fantasies, this may be for you.
Headed to shelves in Japan in November is Kawaikutte Tottoi! Yuri-ple no Kaki-kata (可愛いくって尊い! 百合ップルの描き方) an anthology of how-to draw Yuri Couples by a number of Yuri artists.
Yuri Games
The Yuri Game Jam is upon us! From September 30 through December 2, get your Yuri game dev hat on and submit those Yuri VNs and games! We all win when we get more Yuri work. ^_^
Studio Élan is also running an internal game Jam with Bellhouse to develop YuriVns. Check out their post on Studio Élan Garden Variety: Dandelion Set to learn more.
A year late and probably never, Birdie Wing -Golf Girls’ Story- Golf Venus app’s production has been “put on hold.” Anita Tai has the news on ANN.
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Anime News
Crunchyroll has opened the flood gates! PreCure Max Heart will be added to their library, and a number of other PreCure series are on the way. Still no Heartcatch though…. ^_^; Anita Tai has this report on ANN, too.
Other News
Kodansha is trying something new with Kodansha House, an interactive cafe/meeting space focusing on manga, with a manga library, manga artist talks and more. Opening on October 4 in SOHO in NYC, it will be very interesting to see where this experiment goes!
This Week In Anime on ANN looks at the book banning landscape now that it has found BL manga to demonize in Banned Together. In that article, Steve mentions the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and I’ll just mention that I wrote an article for the CBLDF some time ago about the legality of reading drawn characters. That was more than a decade ago…
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