Happy Protest Day! Stay hydrated, wear a mask, you have every right to be there. And remember, being queer in public spaces is itself an act of protest and pride!
Yuri Manga
Top story today is Seven Seas announcing the license of Koharu and Minato: My Partner Is A Girl, the comic essay serialized in Comic Yuri Hime about two women, how they met, dated and moved in and their happy everyday life. I reviewed Volume 1 in Japanese here on Okazu last July and found it to be comfortable and pleasant manga. Look for that to hit shelves in spring 2026!
Via YNN Correspondent waffle.zone on the Okazu Discord, Momozerii’s High-Class Homos webtoon is now out in print. “Princess Sapphia is decidedly not into princes, or any boys for that matter. So when her parents begin to push her to marriage, she quickly enlists her equally gay best friend to organize a sham marriage, navigate life and love, and hopefully get the girl.” Sapphia, LOL.
Yurinoko (ユリノコ) is a collected volume of Yuri suspense between two girls and one extra creepy doll. Thanks, Comic Natalie, for that news. ^_^;
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Yuri Live-Action
Queer media streaming service GagaOOLala has picked up Ayaka-chan Is In Love With Hiroko 2 which moves past the text of the Saj Jiang manga (which I reviewed here: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3) and into Ayaka and Hiroko dating. I’m going to subscribe for that. I watched the original on a JP streaming channel.
Kickstarter for Yuri movie, Her kiss,my libido twinkles (彼女のくちづけ感染するリビドー) has 6 days to go and is less than $30 away from unlocking the next stretch goal of everyone at a 3000 yen backer level and above receiving a free download of the movie with EN subtitles.
Our Sr. East Asian Live-Action reviewer here, Frank Hecker has this reminder for folks: For anyone doing a trial subscription to GagaOOLala in order to watch Ayaka Is in Love with Hiroko, a reminder that it also has the Taiwanese series Fragrance of the First Flower, which is truly excellent . GagaOOLala also has the Japanese series Chaser Game W and its sequel Chaser Game W 2 (which he hasn’t watched).
Also via Frank, new Thai GL drama, the oddly-named Whale Store, has a trailer up on Youtube.
Yuri Visual Novel
Yuri Events
Yuriten will be coming to Nagoya and Sendai, according to their official X account. Nagoya is lined up for June 20 -22 and Sendai has a one-day visit at the Michinoku COMITIA on July 13.
Girls Love Fest 44 is on June 29, in Keikyu Kamata, Ota Ward, Tokyo, Sangyo Plaza PiO.
I will be presenting at CitrusCon on June 21, about the origins of Yuri fandom and our current demographics. CitrusCon is free online, but you do have to register!
Yuri Anime
There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless… has revealed new cast, songs, and a July 7 start date says Joanana Cayanan at ANN.
And….it looks like we’ll be getting a new Kaleido Star anime. I will love and hate it and rage about it, no doubt. ^_^;
Volisia of Pluto‘s second chapter is up on Youtube with EN subtitles for a limited time. (Why? Who knows.) Crystalynn Hodgkins has details on ANN. Cryssoberyl reviewed the first chapter here back in 2023.
ANN’s Alex Mateo has the visuals and trailer for See You At The Food Court Tomorrow anime, which is also getting a July 7th debut in Japan.
Not Yuri but Card Captor Sakura 2: The Sealed Card anime movie is getting a re-release in Japanese theaters with new special goods. Kara Dennison has the news over at Crunchyroll News.
Other News
Danmei authors in China are being targeted by the government and ANN’s Chris and Coop take a look at the issue on This Week In Anime: The Danmei Controversy.
And again, on TWIA: Want Your Bad Romance, Lucas and Steven discuss Getting to Know Grace as an abusive GL webtoon among all the abusive BL ones. Thanks to Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney for that.
At Anime Feminist, Elif Sinem Erdem writes In Sailor Moon S and Revolutionary Girl Utena, butchness is vital fluidity.
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