Yuri Anime
We said goodbye to the last season and now we face a….no, no, there’s no way Momentary Lily would jut let us move on that easily. And so, there is one. more. episode to watch. It is certainly about intense, if nonsensical, emotional relationships between girls, so, sorry, it is required homework. Go with grace.
In better news, the shiny new Rose of Versailles movie is coming to Netflix on April 30. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the details. I know I’m pretty excited about it. We’ll have French food for dinner. Expect high ridiculousness from me about this. ^_^
Finally, on to new things! Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty has arrived on HIDIVE and it is being received with critical acclaim. The Okazu Discord was buzzing last night and Anime Feminist’s Vrai Kaiser has high praise for this mix of Class S aesthetic and girls’ band stuff….and Yuri.
Via Zack Davisson, the original 1990’s Sailor Moon anime is on Amazon Prime. If you haven’t watched it ever, and have Prime, this is a great time to boggle at the monsters of the day back in the 90s.
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Yuri Manga & Comics
Yen has a few license announcements for us and ANN’s Alex Mateo has all the info! First up, is the manga for Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty, and the anthology comic for the Lycoris Recoil series. The third one, Muromaki’s “100 Yuri Situations” comics (#百合シチュ101 ) on Twitter has been collected and licensed. I know I read it, but somehow it slipped through the cracks here and I never reviewed it. It has been licensed by Yen as Lilies Blooming in 100 Days. I humbly suggest that “in” be replaced with “for”.
Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau offers us this voiced comic covering the days after the school festival as Aki and Shiho repair their relationship and become a couple.
S.I.R. , a “GL Motorcycle Jousting romance” by Fell Hound and Eleonora Bruni is up for pre-order, and will be hitting shelves in June. You bet I have pre-ordered a copy! ^_^
Mage and Demon Queen creator Color-LES is pleased to introduce her patrons to “Leina and Aisha, the main characters of my upcoming GL/ Yuri manga【Detective Reaper Morrigan】” Keep an eye out for that!
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Yuri Visual Novels
Noodletub games is very pleased to announce the launch of their Renai Bakudan on Steam and Itch.io. “The ultimate 18+ yuri visual novel! Romance seven beautiful ladies, work at the weirdest love hotel in Japan, and live your best life in Akiyama’s red-light district!”
Also adult, but in a different way, we have the Adult Life Yuri Bundle by Team ANPIM on Steam. They describe this as a collection of “4 yuri stories by Team ANPIM, featuring women who are 23 years and older! No longer students, they are finding romance while balancing the responsibilities of working, rent, and adulting.”
Studio Élan has a few announcements as well. A Tithe in Blood is getting a full Japanese translation as well as full Japanese voice acting on release. That’s all kinds of cool. Their Upwards Rain, “The post office of farewells,” is getting a Steam release in July. Our Home, My Keeper now has a playable demo on Steam, as well.
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The news about Upwards, Rain! could be a bit clearer. What’s notable isn’t simply that it’s being brought to Steam, but that it’s getting a paid version with voice acting and other additions and changes.
Thank you for the clarification.
The Anime Herald Discord group-watched Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty last night. I’d put off that premiere due to not being sure that a mash-up riff on MariMite’s Class-S-ness and a girls band show would land, but… there’s SO MUCH going on with this one! The Class-S-ness looks to have some bite to it (commenting on the oppressive mores), there’s some serious personal drama to be dug in on, and then there are the two rock-n-roll gremlins at the heart of the thing. And in the premiere at least, the show juggled those three tones & elements effortlessly. I came away curious to see if they can keep everything going for the length of a series.
I watched it yestrday as well, and plan on rewatching today. It was great!
Thanks for putting this together, as always. Excited about the Yen Press announcements, the Rose of Versailles movie, and so much of what you wrote about here. I really enjoyed watching Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty myself and funny enough I just started my Marimite rewatch (after finishing my Lycoris Recoil rewatch) and I can definitely see the parallels. I can even see some echoes of Dear Brother characters in those on Marimite. I’m interested to see where Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty goes. In the yurish realm, the I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level is back for a season 2 (which has some yuri subtext, you could say), and while Maebashi Witches does not seem it will have yuri in it (I think it may lean more toward female friendship), I would like to point to one more series: Anne Shirley. Now, I seriously doubt that this will have *any* yuri (considering Anne’s story in “Anne of Green Gables”), but from the preview for next week’s episode, it does seem it will have a female friendship between Anne and another girl (I think Diana Barry). The first episode was enjoyable and I’m interested on seeing where it is going from here. And ANN received it well in their preview guide as well: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide/2025/spring/anne-shirley/.221951.
Otherwise, I don’t know if you saw it, but ANN did a good piece earlier this year about *possible* censorship which could come to the U.S. from book bans and trade policies, to say the least: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2025-02-03/.220808, and this related article: https://www.tcj.com/what-will-potential-tariffs-mean-for-comics-publishers-in-2025-well-likely-have-less-customers/, and another saying tariffs could hurt the anime industry even more: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2025-02-17/.221098. I was even going to put in something to answerman asking about the impact of tariffs, but they’ve already done there. Sadly, there’s no doubt that the tariffs will cause prices of manga and Blu-rays, and DVDs to increase, and it may have a negative impact.