Because this week wasn’t bad enough, I have lost my job once more and can face the uncertainty of the future with that to stress about as well. Whee. So to take my brain away, I have spent all week catching up on all the dozens of items that were backlogged to be added to the Yuricon Store. As a result, this week’s news report is going to be very long. The good news is that I am caught up on Yuri manga and Light Novels for the moment! ^_^ (A statement that did not last a full 12 hours as accurate. There is just so much Yuri these days!
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Yuri Events
Yuriten has begun announcing the participating artists for the 2025 event. I was initially considering going to one or both, but that’s not happening now unless someone sponsors me. ^_^ Many of the artists have been part of the previous Yuriten exhibitions, but there are some new names as well. You can track the announcements on the Yuriten official X account. I have written them to ask that they consider moving to Bluesky, as X is not safe now for queer folks at all and will get appreciably worse in 2025.
Comitia is going to be at Tokyo Big Sight on November 17th in the East Halls 3, 4, 5, 6,and 7. A bunch of Yuri manga artists will be there AND Winter Comiket table announcements are coming through, so look for Yuri on Sunday, December 30 in the West Halls. Follow your favorite artists on X and Twitter to keep up with who will be where.
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Yuri Anime News
Sugoi Lite shared a rumor that Kuzushiro’s The Moon On A Rainy Night will be getting an anime. If true that would be very big news – they are very accurate, so we should prepare. ^_^
Also from Sugoi Lite, Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is getting an anime adaptation.
Hidekuni Shida provides a translation of the Newtype exclusive interview: Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night Ryōhei Takeshita and Composition Writer/Screenwriter Yūki Yaku on ANN.
Dear Brother Complete Blu-ray Series is back in stock from Diskotek! Get the best remaster of the Dazai Osamu’s shoujo masterpiece.
Via YNN Correspondent Cryssoberyl, Rock ha Shukujo no Tashinamideshite, aka Rock Lady ( ロックは淑女の嗜みでして) combines “S” Aesthetic private school for girls and rock & roll rebellion for what looks like a fun niche crossover that is likely to appeal to our audience. ^_^ Check out that trailer on Youtube, it’s a banger.
As I detailed yesterday here on Okazu, I’m In Love With The Villainess is now in the #2 position for Best 100 Anime from the Tokyo Anime Award. It has fierce competition, so read Can “I’m In Love With The Villainess” Win The Tokyo Anime Award Festival? and get your vote in. ^_^
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Now buckle in, because I added a few dozen volumes of manga on the Yuricon Store – including getting a few series fully caught up and updating the earlier issues. To make it easier to digest, I’ll split it up by languages.
English Yuri Manga
Hitting English-language shelves just in time for holiday gifts, Viz is promoting Rainbows After Storms, Volume 1. I have been reading and reviewing this incredibly slow-burn, sweet story of two girls in love in Japanese as Hana ni Arashi (はなにあらし) since 2019. ^_^ Now I’m motivated to finish it up!
The final volume of Yuama’s tragic love story, The Summer You Were There, Volume 6 is available for pre-orders for a new year release.
Assorted Entanglements, Volume 6 by Mikanuji continues this series of various Yuri couples and their various complicated situations.
I’m in Love with the Villainess, Volume 7 of the manga is out in English. Cardinal Lily joins the cast just as Claire is grasping how important Rae is to her.
All of Tsukiko’s Futaribeya is now up! Some of the earlier volumes are digital only now: Volume 6 | Volume 7 | Volume 8 | Volume 9 | Volume 10
There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…, Volume 5 and Volume 6 a are up, brings us up-to-date with the manga for Teren Mikami’s series, illustrated by Musshu, based on character designs by Takeshima Eku.
Next month we’re getting The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 6 of the manga!
When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine, Vol. 1 is a silly, raunchy, manga about a heroine whose heart is stolen by the villainess…and she couldn’t be happier. I reviewed the JP volume in 2023 here on Okazu. Review of Yen Press’s EN edition is on the way.
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, Volume 1 is about an immortal child set to battle for an orphanage which trains children as weapons. This has very moe art on the cover and is full of very guro art on the inside.
And, finally, we’re all caught up with Shio Usui’s I Married My Female Friend, with Volume 3 | Volume 4.
Japanese Yuri Manga
Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 9 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし ) follows what happens to Miko when Tsubaki destroys the juzu that keeps her kitsune self in check. Check this series out as This Monster Wants to Eat Me in English!
For those of you following Hana ni Arashi in Japanese, the final volume of is out! Hana ni Arashi, Volume 13 (はなにあらし) bring Chidori and Nanoha’s story to a close, but we’ll be getting Rainbows After Storms in English soon, as I mentioned above.
Out this month is Shimura Takako’s Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 10 (おとなになっても). This series is available in English from Volume 1 through Volume 9 as Even Though We’re Adults.
I am super excited to be able to list Heimin No Watashi Desu Ga Koushaku Reijou-sama o Taburakashite Ikite Imasu, Volume 1 (平民の私ですが公爵令嬢様をたぶらかして生きています) by Kitao Taki, as a collected volume. A commoner finds her place with a Duke’s daughter who is besotted with her.
The second volume of Usotsuki Hanayome to Dousei Kekkon-ron, (嘘つき花嫁と同性結婚論) completes this story of a married woman and the lesbian who saves her from a shitty marriage.
Gal Maid to Akuyaku Reijou ~ Ojou-sama no Happy End Shika Katan!, Volume 1 (ギャルメイドと悪役令嬢 ～おじょーさまのハッピーエンドしか勝たん！) is an isekai about a gal reincarnated into a game her friend lent her where she becomes maid to pay off her family debts.
Kimi no Tamenara Shineru, Kuzushiro’s (creator of The Moon on a Rainy Night,) Heian period comedy about Sei Shonagon and Murasaki Shikibu in the Imperial palace with their respective empresses, is finally on the store as a complete series: Volume 13 | Volume 14 complete the set.
I really like Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!, Volume 1 ( 崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせたい) almost despite myself. ^_^
Nauchi’s Yukidoke to Agapanthus, Volume 3 (雪解けとアガパンサス) is live on the Store!
We also have Inkya Gal Demo Ikigaritai!, Volume 2 (陰キャギャルでもイキがりたい！) by Kashiwagi Tsukiko.
Kanno Fumi’s Osananajimi BIG LOVE (幼馴染BIG LOVE (KITORA)) is the story of childhood friends who meet later and find they have wildly different personalities.
Sono Uruwashiki Hito to ha (そのうるわしきひとは) is the first Yuri manga to run in Hana to Yume magazine in years. This Yuri mystery is available in one collected volume.
Genkai OL To Joshidaigakusei Ga OO Suru, (限界OLと女子大生が〇〇する) tells the story of a hopeless OL and the high school student next door who changes her life for the better. Volume 1 | Volume 2 are up.
Check out interspecies Yuri anthology, Umare ha Chigaedo – Koi Takushou Ishuzoku × Yuri Anthology ( 生まれは違えど一恋托生 異種族×百合アンソロジー).
The final volume of Yodokawa’s Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 5 (毎月庭つき大家つき) hit JP shelves last month.
Another cheerful school girl series, Watashi no Megami ga Kyou mo Oseru ~ Kore Kara Mo, Itsu Made Mo is up. Volume 1 & Volume 2 is a complete set.
Only married couples are allowed to fish among the stars. Two women, Terra and Diode, choose to challenge the culture, in the manga adaptation Twinstar Cyclone Runaway, Volume 2 (ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ)
Fujio’s lovelorn comic essays about her life continue in Onna x Onna Umakuikanai Renai Essay parlor, Volume 2 (女×女のうまくいかない恋愛エッセイ parlor).
Yuri Manga artist Seta Seta announced on X that their comic Wakeari Jiken (ワケあり案件) won the Young Jump Yuri Category Grand Prize! Read it online now in Japanese!
hakei, on X, says they have a new masc x masc GL comic called A Refreshing Summer.
And Tiklil took to X to announce their comic with Viz Originals Drifting Into Summer, which is a swim team drama, you can real online. It was pretty good for a one-shot.
Galette Illustration Book 03 is a collection of Galette magazine covers and color illustrations that is available digitally on US or JP Kindle. Book 04 is just out now from Galette WORKS and I’ll get that up as soon as links become available.
French Yuri Manga
YNN Correspondent Mang’Albine tells us that Taifu has licensed Murata’s Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete as Coup de foudre dans ta face !which, she tells us can be read as “Love at first sight IN YA FACE !”
Vietnamese Yuri Manga
Sumiko Arai announced that her series Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta has been released in Vitenamese, as Người Tôi Để Ý Không Phải Con Trai.
Yuri Light Novels
Via Yuri Daily on Facebook,
There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… (Light Novel), Volume 4 & Volume 5 are up on the Yuricon Store, which bring us to “Season 2” of this series.
The novel series for Twinstar Cyclone Runaway ( ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ) Volume 2 and Volume 3 are on the store. On ANN, Rafael Antonio Pineda tells us that the series will end with Volume 4.
Ao To Kaibane No Rakuen Shoujo (蒼と壊羽の楽園少女) is a science fiction novel about a water world where two girls undertake a journey to “paradise.”
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