Baihe News
Baiheverse is excited to share a new collaboration with Bilibili comics, for the official release of Straight Girl Trap about office worker Zhan Ying, and cold queen boss Zhou Yuanyou. and Seeing Xinghuo Again, which sounds like a paranormal school club adventure as Gu An sees something in an old school camera that sets her mind to fulfill the club’s wish from 3 years ago..
Baiheverse is asking that, even though there may be illicit versions of these floating out there on the Internets, they’d appreciate if folks supported the official versions with, y’know, money.
Yuri Manga
Pink Candy Kiss, Volume 3 will be headed our way in October. I reviewed Volume 1 and Eleanor Walker reviewed Volume 2 here on Okazu.
ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has the news that Yuri Is My Job! will be resuming in Comic Yuri Hime after a 15-month hiatus. We’re all hopeful that Miman-sensei is feeling well and we’re very happy to have everyone back. ^_^
Ohsawa Yayoi has a new adult life office comedy Harrassment ga Kowai Maki-sempai!, (about a fantastic work sempai who would like to get to know her office kouhai better, but is desperately afraid of being seen as harassing her.
Comic Yuri Hime (コミック百合姫) is celebrating a 20th anniversary! We at Okazu have been covering them for all of those 20 years and we look forward to another 20 together. ^_^ They’ve put together a 20th Anniversary promotional video on Youtube, and, via Comic Natalie, they will be holding a 20th anniversary campaign this winter.
They are also putting out a handful of new anthologies, including and Gengoh Yuri Anthology, (元号百合アンソロジー) which has stories about Yuri through (and in between time), One-Night Yuri Anthology (ワンナイト百合アンソロジー), and a two part series Merry Bad End Yuri Anthology (メリーバッドエンド百合アンソロジー), Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Also from Comic Yuri Hime is Volume 1 of Yume to Koi de ha Hatsuri Awanai (夢と恋ではつり合わない) about a girl who believes that love will stand between her and her dreams, but falls in love anyway.
Via Comic Natalie, we have news of illustrator Kamo Kamen’s original adult life work, K to M, about how K and M met and fell in love.
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Anime News
Via YNN Correspondent akatsukinoluna, Kuzushiro’s story of work at a manga office, Egao no Taenai Shokuba Desu. (「笑顔のたえない職場です。), translated in English as A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace anime adaptation offers us a trailer, main cast and some of the songs, Joanna Cayanan tells us on ANN.
The movie of the series based on the movies, based on the series, Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Walpurgisnacht: Rising- trailer and release date is reported by ANN’s Alex Mateo.
Otakon is hosting staff and cast from Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty anime, says Adrian Hazra, and Crystalynn Hodgkins noted that the Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty manga is set to go on hiatus, both on ANN.
Kara Denison over at Crunchyroll News wants you to know that Turkey! Time To Strike is offering up creditless OP and ED segments for your enjoyment.
Yuri Visual Novel & Games
Trinket Studios hope you will wishlist Battle Suit Aces on Steam, for which they offered this delightful work in progress clip on Bluesky saying “If you like indie games, old school anime, or #yuri side stories, you should wishlist hybrid visual novel-deckbuilder Battle Suit Aces!”
Studio Élan has announced that their upcoming Visual Novel Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery will launch in September.
Yuri Light Novels
Via YuriMother, Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta, Volume 4 hit shelves this month from J-Novel Club!
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Other News
Once again over at Crunchyroll News, Komatsu-san has the amazing news that Dirty Pair! is celebrating at 40th anniversary with a memorial exhibition. In related news….
Magazines may be making a comeback? (Big question mark.) Shonen Jump was the longest-running manga magazine in English in print, but it has been replaced by the SJ app, where SJ manga are simulpubbed. Shoujo Beat is now just an imprint for shoujo and josei manga. But Galette magazine has had three incredibly successful kickstarters and Anime Herald is releasing a new anime magazine, in print (for which I wrote an article!). Now there is news that Kodansha’s Young Magazine has announced a special American issue. ANN’s Anita Tai has the details. It’s hard to say if this is merely a curiosity, or a trend equivalent to vinyl records, in which some collectors will just pay for the format because they like it better. As I see it, the battle to keep print alive is “how do we sell the container as well as the content?” This might be a last gasp for magazines as my generation ages out and no one is left to care.
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There’s really a lot happening with yuri news right now! I’ve heard of Straight Girl Trap, but will have to try to read that sometime, and also catch up on Yuri Is My Job! I’m a bit excited for A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace, unsure what exactly to think of Turkey!, but really loved Rock Is a Lady’s Modesty. Also, just finished watching the original Dirty Pair (the first 24 eps, and the two OVAs) recently, and one day I may watch the rest, but I know it’s immensely popular. Magazines COULD make a comeback, but probably in online form, rather than paper copies, if that’s my guess.