Yuri Manga
Top story this week is the big win for Sumiko Arai’s contemporary romance Yuri The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t Guy At All won the Best New Manga Series award at the 2o25 American Manga Awards! Congrats to Arai-sensei and everyone at Yen Press.
Also featured at Anime NYC today is Love Bullet creator Inee, who will be doing a signing at Kinokuniya booth 321 at 1pm. I couldn’t be there for this, but if someone does make it, please let us know how it went! I did get over to the Love Bullet Pop-up shop yesterday and got a bunch of stuff for Lucky Boxes. ^_^ Love Bullet is headed our way this November from Yen, as well.
Seven Seas announced a new Yuri license for The Deliquent And The Transfer Student by Fujichika, about a… good girl with a fascination for the school sukeban.
Listed as LGBTQ, Square Enix’s Manga UP! Platform has listed Rikitake’s Have a Great Trip After the End Credits. ANN’s Anita Tai has details about this post-apocalyptic travel tale.
Queer Manga
Also premiering at AnimeNYC this weekend in the new English-language edition of Young Magazine, is Keito Gaku’s sequel Boys Run The Riot – IN TRANSITION.
Peow reminds us that Stop! Hibari-kun! is available for pre-order. All pre-orders come with a bonus post card, but more importantly this effervescent trans manga comes complete in softcover.
Join a fantastic panel of queer manga enthusiasts and professionals at GEEKS OUT x AnimeNYC panel Finding Your Story: Manga Recommendations for Queer Readers, Sunday, August 24 at 3:30 PM in room 1A23 at Javits Center. It’ll be great, so I hope to see you there.
Also today, multiple manga publishers are going to be talking about The Future is Queer for Manga in Libraries!
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Yuri Light Novels
GirlsLine on X has the news of a new Yuri light novel “Eh? Wataghi ga Socchinano!?” Koinu-kei Kouhai Kanojo ni Taberareru Kakkoii Watashi (「え、私がそっちなの！？」子犬系後輩彼女に食べられるカッコいい私) from the synopsis on Kayomu, “If you attend a girls’ school, one student has a reputation for being “cool.” That’s me, Amenone Sakoto. In that position, I am often confessed to by the same sex. Today’s confession was from Hanaka Meguru, a new student who gives “puppy that has recently started watching me.” Her eyes were different from other students, and I felt excitement for the first time…”
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Yuricon News
Yuricon.com launched a new look this week to celebrate our 25th anniversary, our first redesign in almost 10 years! I hope you’ll pop over and take and look…and let us know what you think!
Yuri Anime
HIDIVE announced the dub for Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty for a September debut. I’m sure we’re all interested to see how that is handled. ^_^
AnimEigo has announced a license for Vampire Princess Miyu OVA at ANYC.
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