Yuri Event
Feeling a bit hopeless these days? Queer joy is the number one way to enrage the assholes who want to destroy things. Join myself, JD Glass and Mala Kumar for a talk at the The Ripped Bodice on Friday, March 21 in Brooklyn, NY to celebrate queer joy and give a hearty fuck you to the Nazis in the world. Ticket price will be refunded as a coupon for a book, so come by and get some great books signed by great authors!
Yuri Manga
Seven Seas celebrated Valentine’s Day with 5 Yuri licenses!
The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess by Nekotarou. “A frustrated office worker gets transported to the world of the visual novel she’s been playing and decides to help the villainess succeed in this fantastical isekai manga!”
The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate by Kodama Naoko. Shisagawa Rei meets an old coworker, the darling of everyone at the office, who imposes upon Rei to escape her unhappy marriage. This starts rather darkly, but ends on a surprising note.
A Yuri Manga That Starts With Getting Rejected in a Dream by Hijiki sounds interesting. “When one girl gets rejected by her best friend in a dream, she starts to reevaluate her feelings. Is the dream a premonition or a spark to set a romance in motion?”
We got some Yuri vampires with I Won’t Let Mistress Suck My Blood by Paderapollonorio.
My Goddess is Precious Today, Too by Kawauchi is a collection of goddess-like girls and girls who are a mess who meet and fall for one another.
While we’re on Seven Seas, I Married My Female Friend, Volume 4 hit shelves this month. Back in the Dark Ages of Yuri, the couples often broke up in a trope I called “Death or Marriage.” One would die or leave to get married, forcing the other to cope. Now the marriage is more often the couple getting married and I just can’t be mad at that.
Absolutely recommended by me as being hilarious, Not So Shoujo Love Story, Volume 1 by Curryuku, out from Viz, is a very funny webcomic that has been picked up as part of Viz Originals. It’s up on the Yuricon store for your convenience.
Fans of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, will be excited to know that Kinokuniya is doing a pre-order for Volume 2 with a special keychain. And, according to Arai Sumiko herself on X, Kino International stores will be selling Volume 3 in Japanese with exclusive merchandise.
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Inui Ayu’s Matou Kimi, Hokorobu Watashi, Volume 1 (まとう君、ほころぶ私) is available on Bookwalker JP or JP Kindle. This is a serialized story about a woman who is small and cute and is therefore often treated like a child and the woman at a kimono shop she encounters. Check out chapter 1 in Japanese on Feel Web.
Yuri Light Novel
I’m going to keep pounding this drum –
Yuri VN
Studio Élan is excited to announce that Please Be Happy is coming to Sony PlayStation 5 & 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Microsoft Store on February 21st.
Ebi-hime released Cage of Roses for Valentine’s Day – “A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret. “
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Yuri Anime
Our favorite golf girls have a crossover mini-anime! Seriously! Visit Youtube for the First Part of the Sorairo Utility and Birdie Wing Special Collab Mini-Anime (「空色ユーティリティ」×「BIRDIE WING」スペシャルコラボ ミニアニメ)!!! Anita Tai has details on ANN.
Via Sugoi LITE on X, Yuri Drinking Comedy Manga Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana (Kamiina Botan, the Drunken Form is a Lily Flower), created by Hey has a TV anime adaptation in the works. I had not heard of this, nor have I read it yet, but it is a Champion manga, so I am cautious. At a glance, it looks like unnecessarily childish women get messily drunk.
Other Reading
It’s a kind of joke at Anime News Network that their reviewers are constantly being accused of not liking isekai, y readers who perceive any critical comment as hatred for the subgenre. As I am now a part-time reviewer with them, it was my great pleasure to be part of an article Our Favorite Isekai Titles Are… . There are a bunch of great titles in this article, including a few Yuri titles that are not my entry, so drop by and give it some love.
Anime Feminist hosts Maddy’s thoughts on Kamikaze Girls: An alternative and queer retrospective. I also touched on the franchise’s potential queerness in my reviews of the movie, novel and manga, almost 20 years ago when they first hit. ^_^
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