Yuri Anime
“Coming Soon”…the website for a Jellyfish Can’t Swim In the Night x Girls Band Cry collaboration says, but what, exactly, is coming, is unknown. Fans of these two band anime can look forward to something, coming soon! In the meantime, enjoy the key visual on the site, which shows both groups passing on the street.
Via SugoiLITE on X, ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword is getting an anime adaption.
On ANN’s This Week In Anime, Coop and Steve delve into their perspective on Utena’s Revolution. On the same topic, there will be a Utena pop-up in the Shinjuku Marui Annex at the end of March, if you find yourself in Tokyo.
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Yuri Manga
Kase-san and Yamada, Volume 4, the ninth in the Kase-san series, hits EN shelves in April.
Yen has licensed two new titles, Common Sense Monster, and the Lycoris Recoil Official Comic Anthology: Reload.
Azuki has licensed a huge batch of Square Enix titles, including, Flower Princess of Sylph and LILIES.
Via Comic Natalie, we have a couple of Yuri romantic comedies:
7-Kakan Gentei Kanojo,Volume 1 (7日間限定彼女) is a rom-com story of two opposite-personality schoolgirls, who pretend to be dating for a week.
“Chou Fuka Uchuu Yori Ai o Komete” (超深宇宙より愛をこめて) has begun in Comic Yuri Hime after the one-shot did well in a contest. Cool, but very loner, student Teradate finds herself proposed to by an alien princess who says that she saw Teradate from deep space and feel in love when their gazes met. I’m reading it right now and the story is kinda cute, honestly.
Yuri Light Novels
Via GA Bunko’s official X account, the final volumes of Shokei Shoujo no Ikiru Michi (Virgin Road), Volume 10 ― Isekai Hito-shi Subeshi ― (処刑少女の生きる道（バージンロード）10 ―異世界人死すべし―) and Shokei Shoujo no Ikiru Michi (Virgin Road), Volume 10 ― Curtain Call ― (処刑少女の生きる道（バージンロード）11 ―カーテン・コール―) published in English as The Executioner and Her Way of Life will be published simultaneously in Japan this month.
ANN’s Joana Cayanan has the news that Mikami Teren’s Onna Doushi toka Arienai Desho to Iiharu Onna no Ko o, 100-kakan de Tetteiteki ni Otosu Yuri no Ohanashi (女同士とかありえないでしょと言い張る女の子を、百日間で徹底的に落とす百合のお話) novels are slated to end with Volume 9 with a link to the manga on Square Enix’s Manga-Up in Japanese.
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Games and VNs
Via YNN Correspondent KatGrrrl, Yuri adventure game, Black Lily’s Tale is planning a kickstarter for an EN localization.
This week I met game dev Rosario, who creates Parfum Nostalgique, “A fantastique, dramatique, romantique, traumatique” story in beta. Check out Priro.pro’s work for more gendery gothic fantanstry!
Aikasa Collective is excited to announce that Mizuchi 白蛇心傳 is now available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 & 5 in the US, Europe, and Australia regions. The game is also scheduled for physical console release in Japan on May 5th in major game stores and Rakuten. Congrats to everyone at Aikasa!
Live-Action
Via Senior YNN Correspondent Frank Hecker, the British Film Institute’s LGBTQIA+ film festival, BFI Flare, has a nice variety of films for us to enjoy!
Also via Frank, the trailer for gritty Thai GL prison drama CLAIREBELL The Series is on Youtube.
Other News
New, on X is Baiheverse, a publisher dedicated to bring Baihe out in English. If you chat with them, suggest they move to Bluesky where there are fewer fascists in charge.
Hayakawa publishing held an Ogawa Kazumizu and Miyazawa Iori talk and autograph session celebrating the end of Twinstar Cyclone Runaway and the release of Otherside Picnic, Volume 10 in Japan.
Also in a paired event, directors for the Asagao to Kase-san and Flagtime movies, Sato Takuya and Takahashi Minami will be sharing the stage at a March event in Tokyo. Comic Natalie has details.
Once again, Burkely Hermann offers up an excellent read, this time with “The King is the crime!”: Commoners, royalty, and animated depictions of monarchy on Pop Culture Maniacs.
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For a bit more yuri manga news, How Do We Relationship/Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana just finished up at 133 chapters. The final chapter is definitely worth checking out imo, especially since it involves the main characters frankly discussing the lack of legal rights for same-sex couples in Japan.
Thanks, Matt Marcus will be reviewing that final volume.
Thanks for the shoutout for my piece on animated depictions of monarchy! I really appreciate it and for everything you do in putting these news updates together. There’s been a LOT of yuri news recently, from the impending releases of “This Monster Wants to Eat Me” anime in October, “Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games” anime sometime this year, and scheduled development of “I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day” (said to be a yuri dark fantasy anime), “The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All” getting an anime adaptation (you mentioned this in a previous , a new “Is The Order a Rabbit” anime (the original was yurish), D4DJ getting a mini-anime (the original series was yurish and featured one episode I distinctly remember where two protagonists had a rap battle about their feelings) and season 2 of Skip and Loafer. While the latter has some yurish subtext between two characters (Makoto Kurume and Yuzuki Murashige), I remember it as one with a supportive trans character, Nao, who is the aunt of protagonist Mitsumi Iwakura. I even wrote a review of it at the time. I hope Nao continues to have an important role in season 2. Also, maybe Makato and Yuzuki will become a canon couple? I doubt it, but who knows, it could happen, I suppose.
Otherwise, I’m slowly working toward finishing my watch of Dear Brother. I know it may seem odd to hear it, but it’s my first watch of the series. I started it some years ago, but for some reason I didn’t finish it, and this time I’m committing to finishing it. I probably will finish it the next couple days. Otherwise, I’ve been watching a variety of series this anime series, including Ave Mujica, which has got a warm reception from some over at ANN. With Yuniko Ayana is the writer, it is replete with yuri subtext, which *can* become text, sometimes, but is more of a psychological drama more than anything, and goes far beyond where it’s predecessor, It’s My Go!!!!, went. While saying that, it is surely enjoyable, in its own way. I just thought I’d bring it up because it has more yuri subtext than the two Precure series airing right now, even the Witchy Precure revival (which has some subtext between the two female protagonists, but canonwise, they are just really good friends). And Precure tends to lean more toward female friendship than anything else, from the ones I’ve watched so far, unless the girl Precures are paired off with a man (which happened to one of them in Wonderful Precure, for instance). Then there’s other series like “Flower and Asura”, which I’m enjoying a lot. It arguably has some yuri subtext, but, more than anything, is focuses on female friendship.