And here we are, the very last YNN Report for 2024. This year has undoubtedly been an astoundingly good year for Yuri and we’ll certainly hope that that that energy increases in the new year. Okazu Staff is working on our Best Yuri of 2024 list even as we speak, but there was definitely more great Yuri than fits on a list for sure. ^_^
Yuri Event
TODAY is the premiere of Whisper Me A Love Song, Episode 11 & 12 on HIDIVE. We’re having a watch party on the Okazu Discord, now! We’re streaming all of Whisper Me A Love Song right now and will continue to do so until the new episode launch….then will undoubtedly run into technical difficulties. ^_^ Feel free to join us for the stream and a chat!
Yuri Manga
We have a few new titles up on the Yuricon Store for you:
She Loves To Cook and She Loves To Eat, Volume 5 by Sakaomi Yuzaki, from Yen Press, is only a few weeks away.
Yuama’s The Summer You Were There, Volume 6 brings this dramatic story to a close. We’ll be getting that from Seven Seas at the end of January.
Also closing out a very different kind of story, Shio Usui’s I Married My Female Friend, Volume 4 hist EN shelves from Seven Seas in February.
Yen has Naekawa Sai’s This Monster Wants To Eat Me, Volume 3 coming out in January, as well.
Via Chris Beveridge over at The Fandom Post, KManga has added Yuhki Kamatani’s otherworldly manga about love and loss, Hiraeth.
The magical revolution continues in The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Volume 6 of the manga, written by LN author Piero Karasu, with art by Yuri Kisaragi, from Yen Press.
And we have Akiyama Haru’s Watashi no Blue Garnet (私のブルーガーネット) up on the Store.
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On X Arai Sumiko revealed the cover art for Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume 3 (気になってる人が男じゃなかった). She’s listed all the various stores where there will be extras in the thread on X.
Via Comic Natalie, Kashikaze’s new series, Kimi ga Hoeru Tame no Uta o, Volume 1 (キミが吠えるための歌を) is out in Japan, and so is the Lonely Girl ni Hanataba o Kashikaze Short Story Collection (ロンリーガールに花束を 樫風短編集).
Via Lexie on X, Love Love Shitai Tatsunomiya-san wa Jouriku Shimashita (結婚したい竜宮さんは上陸しました) is a love story between an undersea princess and a handsome female college student.
Via Okazu Staff Writer Matt Marcus, there will be a new Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury spin-off manga in which Suletta and Miorine are regular schoolgirls. I guess I’m the only one who wants the spin-off when they are both adults and handling shit together. ^_^;
Rebecca Silverman reviews There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless…, manga Volume 1-6 on ANN.
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Yuri Kickstarter
Galette WORKS’s second English-language Galette magazine Kickstarter will begin in the new year. Links to digital copies of the completed first magazine have been sent and physical copies have arrived in some European and Asian countries. We’re still waiting for them in the US. ^_^ Galette Works also told Japanese magazine backers that they will be selling a limited number of EN editions at Comiket and Comitia, as supplies last and they are working to get the EN edition available in Japan digitally. It’ll be interesting to see what they can arrange.
Yorita Miyuki is also planning a Kickstarter for the second volume of the English-language edition of her Galette manga, Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles. The first one was very good in terms of production.
Light Novel
If you enjoyed The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio, you might want to check out Futsu Ota Hairimasen! ~ Gakeppuchi Seiyuu, Rajio de Jinsei Risutaato!~ (ふつおたはいりません！2 ～崖っぷち声優、ラジオで人生リスタート！～) An experienced voice actor who is having trouble getting work starts a new radio series with a young, upcoming seiyuu. Sequels occur. ^_^
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