Yuri Light Novel
inori.-sensei has announced a new light novel! Homonculus no Namida: Kieta Kimi no Renkinjutsu (ホムンクルスの涙 ～消えたいキミへの錬金術～). This will be simultaneously published in Japanese and English as Homunculus Tears: Alchemy for the Brokenhearted through Amazon KDP, in Spanish from Sekai Edition and in German by Dokico, with illustrations by Aonoshimo-sensei.
The Executioner and Her Way of Life by Mato Sato is slated to come to a completion in March 2025 with volume 11. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details on ANN.
Yuri Games and VNs
There have been a record-breaking number of entries for the 2024 Yuri Game Jam. The counter currently says 110 submissions! We’ll have a review of a few that our writer really liked coming up soon. As I read my feed, I discovered one of them is Three Peach Hill, by m ebel, about a fox-girl and the woman who woos her.
The creators of Kyuuketsuki no Hanayaome – Vampdoll no Hanayome The Novel Game (吸血鬼の花嫁 ヴァンプドールのはなよめ The Novel Game) took to X to ask folks to wishlist their game on Steam.
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Yuri Manga
ANN’s Joanna Cayanan want you to know that Assorted Entanglements by Mikanuji is set to conclude with a solid ten volumes.
I forgot to mark down the source for this, hopefully someone will help me out and remind me. Another Yuri series that is struggling in Japan has been identified as Kimi no Tame no Curtain Call (君のためのカーテンコール) by Satoru Shiho, with art by Shigeta Megumi. This appears to be an odd-couple style high school romance.
Galette Web noted on X that the English-language Galette Magazine, Volume 1 has shipped to kickstarter backers! A few folks have received theirs already. I’ll certainly report in when I get mine. ^_^ Supporters for Galette through Galette Fan Club will also receive a digital copy of the magazine in English.
Hanakage Alt has also stated that all of the Sempai no Kouhai Yuri manga kickstarter signed books have been sent out.
Akiyama Haru provided a 14-page sample of her new book Watashi no Blue Garnet (私のブルーガーネット), Volume 1, on X. Volume 1 is out now in Japan.
Light novel Doushi Shoujo yo, Teki o Ute (同志少女よ、敵を撃て) the story of a girl left orphaned by the war and the passionate conflict she wages with her Russian military instructor, Irina, is now a manga.
And from Comic OGYAAA! on X, Koi Yori Aoku, Volume 3‘s (恋より青く) release is being celebrated with a cute acrylic standee of the principles, Takamine and Sakakura.
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Anime News
See You Tomorrow At The Food Court manga is getting an anime adaptation. Crystalynn Hodgkins has the details on ANN.
Discotek announced the release of the original Cutie Honey anime series. It’s not really Yuri, but it sets up a decades long ship that will never go away. ^_^
Somi, a company known for their vinegar, is partnering with The Rose of Versailles movie to…um, sell vinegar! They are running a contest with a possible prize of a trip to France.
I still doubt that this is at all Yuri, or even Yuri-ish, but Momentary Lily is slated for a January streaming start on Crunchyroll, according to ANN’s Alex Mateo.
Other News
Manga Erotics F, which has been out of print for ten years, is launching an online presence. This was the magazine in which Shimura Takako’s Aoi Hana/ Sweet Blue Flowers ran. Anita Tai has the news at ANN.
Good news for researchers needing access to Japanese art and imagines. NCC Japan now has a image use protocol and form for gaining access to images for reseaarch. These probably do not include much manga, but this is a good resource to bookmark.
Via Senior YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, ZeroReq011 note the power of Cute Girls Doing Cute Things Cutely (often abbreviated on the Okazu discord as CGDCTC ^_^) in Not Your Average Anime about Cute Girls Doing Cute Things on ANN.
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