Yuri Manga

News this week has to start off with the blazing success of Galette magazine’s Galette- Special English Edition02 Kickstarter campaign which launched on January 1st and surpassed the first four stretch goals by today where it is at about $300 away from beating that final (for now) stretch goal at time of posting.

I reviewed the first issue of this EN translated special edition on the 1st and found that it was exactly what I hoped and more. I expect Issue 02 to be just as good and possibly better, as the number of backers on 01 ended up at 674, and the 02 campaign (which does have a method to get Issue 01 as long as supplies last) is already over 400 – with 26 days left! So if you want to support independent, crowd-funded Yuri manga, this is a great Kickstarter campaign.

Yorita Miyuki is also about to launch the 2nd volume of her independent Yuri series, [her kiss, my libido twinkles]. According to Yorita-sensei, Volume 1 will be available as an add-on to the V2 campaign.

Former Bilibili manhua, Straight Girl Trap by 42℃ Latte and Ice Free Herbal Jelly has been picked up by Tapas comics. This is about a bitchy boss and the worker she favors who is sure that the boss is straight, but wishes she wasn’t….

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, here is a very cute 6-part Yuri manga in Japanese on X. Idol Group no Oshimen to “Kekkon” Suru to Hanashi (アイドルグループの推しメンと”結婚”する話) is by Akuse-chan.

ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has the news that Yomogimochi’s Yuri manga “Boys Gilding the Lily Shall Die!? (Yuri ni Hasamaru Otoko wa Shineba Ii?!) manga will change its title to Kiss Yori mo Kimi no Neiro de Me ga Sameru (Your Timbre Brings Me to My Senses More Than a Kiss Would)” and then begin serialization once again.  I was able to read the early chapters of this as a doujinshi. The story isn’t at all suited to the original title – possibly not the new title, either. ^_^  Volume 1 of this band rival Yuri is out from Tokyopop.

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Anime News

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance anime has been announced for 2025. Anita Tai has the details on ANN.

We had a pleasant watch-along on the Okazu Discord, but I have not had a second to write up a review of this so, here is ANN’s Rebecca Silverman’s review of the Whisper Me A Long Song anime, Episode 11-12 finale.

Not Yuri, but firmly in Cute Girls Doing Cute Things Cutely territory, Egan Loo has the news that Non Non Biyori anime staff has reunited for Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi: Food for the Soul.

Light Novel News

Did You Think My Yuri Was Just For Show sounds like it could be interesting as a tale of two voice actresses, one up-and-coming and the other trying to hang on to her career, which will be out in February from Yen Press.

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Other News

Okazu Staff Frank Hecker has done some analysis of Yuri titles and has put together a nice chart detailing the growth of Yuri published in the years since 1990 using the listings at Anime Planet as a dataset. It’s interesting reading, you should take a look. There was an apparent peak of titles in the year just before the pandemic, which has not been met since, but I would say that has to include some work that was self or small-press published, since I’m seeing far more Yuri being published by the top half dozen JP (and EN) publishers now.

The folks at ANN put together their Best Manga and Light Novels of 2024 list which includes a number of Yuri titles.

I did a not-Yuri thing! My review of Tonbo!, Season 2 is up on YNN.

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