Pride Month Campaign

We are doing a Pride Month Fundraising Campaign here on Okazu! We’d like to get just a few more sustaining members of $5 or $10 a month on our Patreon or Ko-fi. Sustaining members make it possible for us to have more new writers and more content from our staff writers, as well help us invest in great Yuri creators through crowdfunding and by buying their work. We’re working on a full Yuricon redesign right now, as well. The folks helping us at Hand Design are crafting us a unique look from scratch. Patrons and supporters have had a glimpse at what’s coming.

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Yuri Manga

SHWD: The Complete Yuri Collection is out from Seven Seas. I really enjoyed this series by sono.N about burly, but very sweet, women who fight against a monstrous foe.

The Next Manga Award nominations are out and a number of Yuri manga appear in both print and online categories. Interestingly, YNN Correspondent Akastukinoluna mentioned one on the Okazu Discord which is actually nominated on the Web manga category, so check out Kono Koi o Hoshi ni wa Negawanai (この恋を星には願わない). 

Also announced this week is the America Manga Awards nominations and The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All is up for Best New Title! I am incredibly honored to be able to vote for the AMAs this year. In fact, I voted for the Eisners and the AMAs this year, and wow, what a thrill, every time. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the full line-up. Everything is so good.

Nakafuji Nui’s  Toi Et Moi, (トワ・エ・モア) – which I believe I read in Galette magazine –  is being published online on Kodansha’s Palcy. Hat tip to Akastukinoluna for this link as well.

Nagata Kabi is launching a new manga this month with Futabasha, Ganbarisugi Jigoku kara Dasshutsu Shimashita Repo (A Report on Escaping From the Hell of Trying Too Hard) according to Joanna Cayanan on ANN.

Running from domestic violence, a traumatized woman finds family and affection in Shigoto no Ato ha Nukumori o (仕事の後はぬくもりを) 

Bamboo Blade is getting a 20th anniversary 1-shot in Gangan. ANN’s Joana Cayan has the news.

Yuri Visual Novel

Via YNN Correspondent Roxie, Yuri VN Eclipse has launched an extremely impressive Kickstarter. “Under the blessing of La, the one true god, women have peacefully ruled the world for over a millennium. Guarded by Eclipse, a special forces unit composed solely of women gifted with Supernatural Powers, peace seemed eternal—until now.”  Check out the kickstarter for videos, great character designs and watch the demo playthrough on Youtube. Their initial goal has been made with 25 days left!

Via YNN Correspondent High on Lullabies, Sounds Of Her Love 2, is available on Steam.”A cute romance visual novel set at an international school in Japan. As you approach the final hours of your school years together, help your sweet but shy girlfriend Ceri overcome her fears to be able to play the harp at the school’s graduation ceremony. A tender, wholesome love story awaits.”

Anime News

ANN’s Crystalynn Hodgkins has the scoop on the new trailer and end song for See You Tomorrow at the Food Court anime.

Weirdly, everyone BUT Crunchyroll news is announcing that Crunchyroll has acquired the rights for Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid movie to get a theatrical release. So here’s Alex Mateo on that.

Other News

Toei has announced a full release of all the Sukeban Deka (スケバン刑事) television series in a remastered Blu-Ray box set. The Toei shop does use Buyee, so overseas fans can buy it.

Animate HQ in Ikebukuro celebrated the upcoming No Freakin Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless… anime with this display of the manga in their Yuribu! ^_^

ANN’s This Week In Anime is pulling out the Pride flag in TWIA: Manga to Show Your Pride, Lucas and Steve discuss their queer manga picks. I want to give props for the intro pointing out that probably most of anime/manga fandom knows it is Pride month, thus leaving anyone who wants to melt down over this as a fringe weirdo..because, yes.

Congrats to my buddy Zack Davisson for winning a Bram Stoker Award for Gou Tanabe’s The Call of Cthulu!

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