Last post of April already! Time is moving fast this year!
Yuricon News
Two quick items. We have committed to a collaboration with Hand Design Co. to give a new look and functionality to the Yuricon site. This is the first new site we’ll have there in a decade. I coded the first three Yuricon sites myself, then had rebuilds in 2006, 2012ish and now. This will be a big undertaking, so if you love our weekly news roundups, event reports, interviews and reviews, now would be a GREAT time to become an Okazu Patron or Ko-Fi Supporter!We’re starting by getting updates on the Yuricon Store done, we’re on the last few sections now, and I am hopeful that this look will last us another decade. ^_^
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Secondly, here is my speaking schedule thus far this year:
Of course I would love to speak to your organization, class or at your convention! Contact me and we’ll work something out. ^_^
Yuri Manga
Galette No. 33 (ガレット) is up on the Yuricon Store and so is Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 14 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな ) the final volume of Tamifull’s series.
To backers of Volume 2, Galette WORKS has announced the upcoming Kickstarter for Galette Special English Edition, No. 3. This will launch in May and will have a shortened campaign. I’m reading No. 2 right now and honestly think it looks even better than 1. I have to find some time to review some of the stuff sitting here that I have already read first!
Baiheverse announced the release of Submission Time: Yes or Yes? manhua with a series PV on Youtube. Chapter 1 is free to read in English.
Via Okazu Staff Matt Marcus, Battan (Run Away With Me Girl) has a new manga debuting next month in KISS magazine.
Matt also wants you to know about Blue Proustian Moment which is available right now on Shueisha’s MangaPlus app, and at leas Chapter 1 on desktop. He says this feels as if it has a lot of potential.
Not Yuri, but of note:
Seven Seas has announced an EN edition of Kabi Nagata’s My Twisted Eating Disorder.
Via YNN Correspondent Patricia B and ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda, Bloom Into You creator Nio Nakatani has a new manga series beginning in Dengeki Daioh magazine in the fall.
Star Fruit Books has licensed classic shoujo sports manga The Final Strike by Chikae Ide. ANN’s Crystalynn Hodgkins and Anita Tai have that news item.
Yuri Light Novels
Homunculus Tears: Alchemy for the Brokenhearted is here! inori-sensei’s first self-published work is out today. I hope we can all agree that supporting her is a good thing. ^_^ inori-sensei announced on Bluesky that this series is being adapted into a manga by Kadokawa, with art by Nata Ookura, so cool for her!
Via Sr. YNN Corespondent Sean Gaffney, Volume 11 of Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei will be hitting JP shelves in June.
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Yuri Live Action
Matt Marcus points us to X where, Shimura Takako says that episodes 1 and 2 of the live-action adaptation for Otona ni Nattemo is now streaming on Hulu Japan. Check out the trailer on the official Hulu JP site.
Yuri Anime
“Ambivalence” does not cover my feelings about the news that Roll Over And Die: I Will Fight For My Life With My Love And My Cursed Sword, is getting an anime. I expect that the grossness will have to be ratcheted back for time, if nothing else. Maybe it’ll be like The Executioner and Her Way of Life and be better as an anime that it was a novel. Crystalynn Hodgkins has the news on ANN. I reviewed Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 of the LNs, but could not bring myself to read Volume 4 after Sean Gaffney’s obvious distress at having read it.
Not Yuri, but we’ll let it in the club as a friend, the Zombieland Saga movie has cast, staff news and a teaser. Alex Mateo on on ANN has the news.
Look Back anime has won the Japan Movie Critics Award. I keep telling you about this movie, because I really, really want you all to watch it. ^_^ Rafael Antonio Pineda has this news on ANN.
Yuri Games/VNs
Via YNN Corespondent KatGrrrl, Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate, a Yuri VN by Xso, is on sale for 20% off on Steam.
Yuri Doujinshi
YNN Correspondent Patricia B. wants you to know that aneido’s newest doujinshi in English Kickstarter features two different books: The Soul-Selling Corporate Drone & Other Fanciful Tales and The Snared Siren & Supernatural Stories. Positing this reminded me to back these. ^_^ With 22 days to go, this has already made almost 500% of the initial goal, and the first two stretch goals are unlocked.
Lastly, my very sincere congratulations to our friends at Manga Mavericks for entering the publishing world with a number of new titles including Yuri works Now No One Lurks Beneath the Snow and The Murderer and Her Runaway Desire by aneido and Senpai no Kohai by Hanakage Alt, all translated by Red String. Great news for all of us!
Bit of a story here. You know that I absolutely love Hayashiya Shizuru‘s work, yes? Creator of Hayate x Blade, Strawberry Shake Sweet, Utimate MAMA and a bunch of other great series, is someone whose doujinshi I also collect obsessively. I am confident that I have most of her books, from back in her earliest years. She had a new doujinshi out at Comiket last winter and I planned on getting it through Melonbooks, but they are no longer able to accept American credit cards for online purchase. This is not their fault. This is part of an endless, ongoing battle by regressive asshats here in the US and Japan to increase censorship using Visa and Mastercard.
Hayashiya-sensei announced her new work and I commented on her Pixiv that I was sad I would not be able to get it this time. The universe folded, as it sometimes does, and 1) Hayashiya-sensei released the entire doujinshi for free on her Fanbox and now on public-facing Pixiv and, 2) Roxie asked if I wanted anything from Japan. Today I have a hard copy of and you can read a digital copy of original doujinshi Shake Rock Candies, by Hayashiya-Shizuru. It is an idol story…also not really. ^_^
Other News
Check out WONK|Deep Dive: online- GHOST IN THE SHELL concert on the official GiTS channel on Youtube. ANN’s Ken Iikura-Gross has details on the concert series.
Rebecca Silverman reviews A Sinner of the Deep Sea manga series on ANN, which she sums up as what if the Little Mermaid had a friend who would sacrifice everything to save her?
ANN’s Steve Jones gives us the Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty, Episode 1-3 review we deserve.^_^
Comic Natalie has an interview with Kitagata Sahoko, who is a Shueisha Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Cocohana magazine about how she shepherds manga into the world. Good insight from an experienced editor.
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