Yuri Anime

Just making sure – we are all watching Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty, on HIDIVE, right? ^_^ Class S, Yuri service and rock music make for an amusing series so far. Review to come soon! Kara Dennison over at Crunchyroll News has the creditless opening and closing animation segments for your enjoyment.

Speaking of girl bands, over at ANN Egan Loo has the news that two cast members of Girls Band Cry are resuming recording dialogue for the upcoming first of two compilation movies. If you missed that series it is streaming over at Crunchyroll.

Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time, the six-episode short film series, will be streaming on Aniplex’s YouTube channel starting on April 16, according to Crystalyn Hodgkins on ANN.

From Komatsu-san over at Crunchyroll News, we have Science SARU’s new The Ghost In The Shell anime, which is, for the first time, an adaptation of the manga art style. Check out the trailer on Youtube.

ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news that Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime will be getting same-day dubs. I’m told that, for an Amazon anime, this one has subtitles and translation that are not terrible. ^_^ Today is Gundam day for me. Catching up on my GWitch rewatch and this.

Ken Iikura-Gross has news that the cast and staff of Kaleido Star would *also* like a new anime…and they are hoping to reinvigorate fandom, with a teaser on Youtube to get our blood pumping. As you may recall, I have a complicated relationship with this series, and have a whole category on Okazu filled with my love of Sora and Layla and hate for Yuri and Carlos. ^_^ 

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Yuri Manga

Shin Ikkitousen manga is returning from hiatus. It helps to remember that no matter what the world brings us, this series just never dies. ^_^ ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has the news. Did I ever mention that a friend of mine who is scholar of Chinese poetry once came to my house and was absolutely aghast at my Ikkitousen figurines and wrote a whole article about it? ^_^ Fast Times at San Guo High: a Visit to Erica Friedman of Yuricon.

Daryl Harding at Crunchyroll News says that Girl Crush manga, about two girls who want to become K-pop idols, has passed half a million copies sold! Not a romance, but intense relationship, ahoy! Check out the manga trailer on Youtube.

waffle.zone on the Okazu Discord was pleased to share the news that Inklore has licensed Sora and Haena by Jackbull. They describe this as a “sweet and silly GL.”

Once again, I am playing catchup on adding manga to the Yuricon Store!

Otherside Picnic, Volume 12, which was reviewed by Sandy this week on Okazu.

If My Favorite Idol Made It To The Budokan I Would Die, Volume 5 was reviewed by me this week, as well.

SHWD: The Complete Yuri Collection by sono.N will be headed our way in June, from Seven Seas. Frankly, I think this will be good as an omnibus violume. I loved this action series about beefy, but sweet, adult women fighting monsters.

Hitting shelves this summer from Seven Seas is Tough Love at the Office: The Complete Yuri Collection, Sal Jiang’s violence in the office Yuri series which I really enjoyed for all the right wrong reasons. ^_^ Read it in small pieces…it’s a lot.

A White Rose in Bloom, Volume 4 will be here in June, from Seven Seas. When I reviewed this JP volume in January I called it a “gem” of Rakuen Le Paradis magazine.

I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, Volume 6 came out in March, and is now on the Store! This is the final volume of the series…but not the end, because we also have Lonely Girl Hanataba wo – Kashikaze Short Story Collection (ロンリーガールに花束を 樫風短編集) in Japanese – the collection of shorts and doujinshi Kashikaze has drawn about Ayaka and Sora in college. I’m looking forward to those.

Garan no Hime ( 伽藍の姫 -がらんのひめ-) , Volume 1 and Volume 2, is the one science fiction/fantasy currently running Comic Yuri Hime magazine. I love the story, honestly.

Kiraware Majyo Reijō to Dansou Ouji no Kon’yaku, Volume 2 (嫌われ魔女令嬢と男装皇子の婚約) has a cover that does not do the series justice, but in this volume Eve and Ciel take on society, the rewritten history of their kingdom and a surprise antagonist.

Genjitsu Sekai Demo Shiawasenishite Kudasai Ne?, Volume 1 (現実世界でも幸せにしてくださいね？) is a reverse isekai, about characters from a game coming to our world to meet their hero and get her decision on which route she’s taking.

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Yuri Audiobooks

Seven Seas Siren released Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!, Vol. 2 audiobook this past February.

I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner (Audiobook) Vol. 3 is on the Yuricon Store, and completes the story. (For now.)

Yuri Light Novels

While we’re talking inori.-sensei’s work, don’t miss Homunculus Tears: Alchemy for the Brokenhearted, her newest novel, self-published on Amazon, with art by I’m In Love With The Villainess manga artist Aonoshimo-sensei and translated by ILTV translator Kevin Ishizaka! This book will hit Kindle later this month.

Also on the way from inori.-sensei in June, is The Girl Who Wants to Be a Hero and the Girl Who Ought to Be a Hero, Vol. 1. (no EN cover for it yet.) I reviewed this in Japanese last year, where I said about it, “It was a lot of fun. Everything I want in a Dengeki Bunko read – a “light” novel in the broadest sense. It’s small, quickly paced, not entirely predictable and ends just where you want it to.” This is coming out from Yen making inori.-sensei one of the few creators I know who are being published by more than one American publisher.

Yuri Visual Novels

Hat tip to Matt Marcus for news of the Toxic Yuri VN Jam on itchi.io. I have a theory about the trend of toxic Yuri popularity. Back in the day, when all we had were failed relationships, all Yuri fandom wanted was happily-ever-afters. Now that we are used to couple staying together happily, folks are looking for flaws and nuances and failures in their Yuri. ^_^

Studio Élan’s newest Kickstarter is for Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery Visual Novel, which they describe as “…a pair of married magical girls take on one last case together…” This VN has already surpassed the initial goal with two stretch goals to go!

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