Yuri Manga
After 15 years, Otome no Teikoku (オトメの帝国) is ending. The 20th and final volume ships in December. Anita Tai has the news on ANN.
Ikuta Hana (creator of the reborn Bakumatsu souls as high school girls series Oni to Yoake,) has a new series, Niseai Honai, (ニセアイホンアイ) about a college student and a entertainment veteran who are paired as a “Yuri business” couple to avoid any scandal with men as they work, who fall in love.
Comic Natalie reports that Dr. Pepperco (Goodbye, My Rose Garden) has a new comic beginning in Comic Cune magazine – which is celebrating a 10th anniversary! In Aruiwa Watashi no Meitantei (或いは、私の名探偵) two girls team up to solve mysteries.
Chou Fuka Uchuu Yori Ai o Komete, Volume 1 (超深宇宙より愛をこめて) has hit shelves in Japan. This story about a large-bodied alien princess and an outcast human high school girl is absurdly heartwarming. It’s being serialized in Comic Yuri Hime.
Miyazawa Iori’s novel U ha Uchuu Yabai no U! (ウは宇宙ヤバイのウ！) about a girl whose life is changed by an alien who arrives in a meteorite, is being adapted into a manga by Piyopiyomaru with illustrations by Imai Tetsuya.
Aidetai no Sensei (愛でたいセンセイ) is a personality gap/age gap comedy about a gym teacher and the new teacher at her school, by Takano Haru.
And one more about aliens! In Project Yuriforming! (プロジェクト・ユリフォーミング！) Lily, a Yuri-loving alien comes to Earth to create a better world for Yuri.
According to Takashima Hiromi-sensei on Bluesky, Yamada to Kase-san, Volume 5 is headed to JP shelves in December. (山田と加瀬さん。)
Yuri Doujinshi
Gomandoru has put their Strawberry Panic! doujinshi, Until Spring Comes up in English for purchase on Booth.pm. Take a look and throw them a few bucks for the fun look backwards.
Yamino is offering a physical edition of their popular Sailor Moon doujinshi Kissing Game.
And Laurz Drawz on Bluesky offers a sneak peek at their upcoming sapphic sports comic One on One. With real sports!
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Yuri Visual Novels
Autumn is Yuri season on Steam!
Right now on Steam is Citrus Season, presented by Winfield Games. The listing on these are “with Yuri undertones” which is pretty thin, but take a look and see what you find.
Hosted by Studio Élan is the Fall In Love Festival, coming soon from September 24-October 1. The link is not live until the 24th, but we’ve already had a number of demos posted for this event including Comet Angel and Distant Oceanic Getaway reviewed here on Okazu. Studio Élan also recommends these public demos:
Yuri Anime
ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news that Kamiina Botan, Yoheru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana (上伊那ぼたん、酔へる姿は百合の花) anime will premiere in April 2026 and has announced some new cast.
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Yuri Live-Action
Comedy travelogue and slacker slic- of-life series Futari Escape by Taguchi Shoichi is being adapted into a live-action series, beginning in October and starring two Nogizaka 46 members Iwamoto Renka and Tomiri Nao.
Via Comic Natalie, Thai GL novel Cranium! is being adapted into a manga in Japanese and Thai simultaneously and is expected to get a live-action adaptation in 2026.The story follows doctoral classmates Pinya and Busaya, who fell out of touch. They meet again to identify the victims of a charter plane crash, but their discovery of a skull that does not match the body draws them into a complex mystery. This sounds good.
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