Anime News

While it’s not Yuri in any sense, Magilumiere is a very affirming series about adult women – and it is getting a second season! Alex Mateo has the details on ANN. I’m really pleased by this news, as I look forward to every episode.

Look Back has received a nomination for this year’s Annie Awards. ANN”s Crystalynn Hodgkins has the news. I still haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it. ^_^;

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Yuri Manga

Galette WORKS has announced an imminent second English-language Galette Magazine Kickstarter. Click to be notified when it opens.

Yen Press has licensed Convenient Semi-Friend, a sketchy looking roommate story. ^_^

Don’t forget to pre-order She Loves To Cook And She Loves To Eat, Volume 5, which will hit EN shelves in January!

Utatane Yuu’s Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru, Volume 5 ( 踊り場にスカートが鳴る) hit shelves this week in Japan! It’s love, it’s intense emotion, it’s longing, it’s ballroom dancing!

Volume 1 of Shibori Kazuko’s Genjitsui Sekai Demo Shiawasenishite Kudasai, Ne? (現実世界でも幸せにしてくださいね？) is a reverse isekai story in which characters from a game come to our world to interact with their “hero,” who is a lonely women who actually needs some self-esteem. This series runs in Comic Yuri Hime.

Chapter 3 of Morishima Akiko‘s Hitorime is up on Amazon JP Kindle, and chapter 2 of the English edition of THE SINGLE LIFE: A 60-year old lesbian who is living single and alone, is up on US Kindle.

Via narandearuite on X, for folks who liked the original, a Fragtime Anthology (fragtimeアンソロジー) is in the works.

Akili, the creator of Still Sick, has a new series with Ichihatsu Yuzuko, Sweet Lime Juice (スイート・ライムジュース) about two women who meet again after years of one-sided dislike. Check out sample pages in Japanese on Kadokawa.

I freely admit I have been paying no attention to Anemone ha Netsu wo Obiru (アネモネは熱を帯びる), but MangaTime Kirara on X says that Volume 8 is out now in Japan! Yen Press has licensed this series as The Anemone Feels The Heat to be released in March 2025.

Yuama, creator of The Summer You Were There, has a new series coming out in Summer 2025, according to their post on X.

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Yuri Light Novels

In terrific news, inori,’s fantasy series The Girl Who Wants to Be a Hero and the Girl Who Ought to Be a Hero, Vol. 1 has been licensed by Yen Press. Maybe we’ll get a chance to get the extremely fun acrylic standee I got with my copy of Volume 1 in Japanese, as an extra if we ask Yen nicely. (I spoke about the lack of extras yesterday on Bluesky. There is a market for this stuff, and I hope we get some!)

Via Yuri Navi, Teren Mikami has a new light novel, this time illustrated by Yuri Is My Job‘s Miman, Makemasenkara to Iiharu Kao no Ii Onnanoko o, Zenryoku de Kuppukusaseru Yuri no Ohanashi (負けませんからと言い張る顔のいい女の子を、全力で屈服させる百合のお話), is being debuted at Comiket. The JP Kindle version is available in Japan.

Yuri Live Action

Via YNN Correspondent CW, Shandou Yuki’s Call Me By No Name (コールミー・バイ・ノーネーム) is getting a live-action series. I absolutely remember reading this novel, but I never reviewed it here on Okazu.

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Other News

Justin Guererro has put together Tools To Get You Started In Webcomics over at KComics Beat.

The KyoAni shop is celebrating 15 years of K-ON! with cute goods.

We end on a somber note today, remembering Takahashi Macoto, who passed away last month. He is one of the folks responsible for our ideal of what Shoujo and Yuri art looks like and creator of proto-Yuri manga, Sakura Namiki. His doll-like girls with sparkles and hearts in their eyse influenced generations of mangaka. Anita Tai on ANN has the news. In 2014, I reviewed an artbook I had picked up in Nakano Mandarake, Akogare – Takahashi Makoto Collection.

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