Yuri Anime

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless… is getting an additional 5 episodes, which will be released as a theatrical event. ANN’s Alex Mateo has details. 

ANN’s crew put together their list of the Most-Anticipated Anime of Fall 2025 and in the #1 place is, This Monster Wants To Eat Me, based on the manga by Naekawa Sae. I did not participate in this article, but..well, yes, me too. ^_^

Speaking of this series, Anime Feminist as posted a look at the world premiere of the anime, and interview with the staff in WATATABE: This Monster Wants to Eat Me—World premiere and insights from the creative team.

Girls Band Cry is getting a new anime film – Egan Loo has the details over on ANN.

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Yuri Manga

Muromaki’s collection, Lilies Blooming in 100 Days is coming our way from Yen Press at the end of the year. This was the result of a self-imposed challenge, in which Muromaki-sensei drew a Yuri scenario every day for 100 days.

If you have backed Galette Special English Issues No. 1-3, you will have received a survey from Galette WORKS about the affect of the tariffs on any new Kickstarters.  They are furiously discussing the issue behind the scenes.  I will let you know what I said. I told them that I believe that it is more important than ever to support Yuri/queer comics and that my primary goals in backing Galette is to support the creators of Galette and promote Yuri manga. I enjoy digital and physical media, so if the tariffs make it impossible for a physical copy or goods, I’m happy to get digital. 

Baiheverse has launched another new title, Wolf and Rabbit. “One is a wolf, seemingly aloof, yet gentle and caring deep down. The other is a bubbly, resilient rabbit. Together, they share sweet moments in the calm of everyday life…” This is by Nihaohaohaojun, which a commenter on their platform noted is  same creator as The Wayward Tenant and Her Pretty Landlady, another Baiheverse title. 

I stopped by the closest Kinokuniya where the Love Bullet pop-up is live! Drop by to get some fun Love Bullet merch. I snapped a picture for you. ^_^

The Shortbox Comics Fair is nigh! Read comics for free from October 1-31. Lucky Cavity announced a masc woman comic for their entry on X. Keep your eyes peeled…there’s always good queer stuff at SBF.

Yuri Visual Novels

Studio Élan’s Fall In Love Festival is live on Steam. We’re getting a lot of folks sending us demos and we’ve picked a few to review, so keep your eyes peeled for those. 

Studio Élan will be releasing their newest Yuri VN, Lock and Key on the 30th at the end of the festival.

Not part of the event, but worth knowing about is Her Love, Like Poison, a toxic Yuri VN from Ebi-hime, also on Steam.

Denfaminicogamer has the news that Takano Marika who plays Jill and Ito Kanae who plays Dorothy in VA-11 HALL-A Valhalla will appear in a collaboration with Astral Party, which is a free party game for up to 4 people.

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Yuri Events and Research

I am a Guest at Y/CON in Paris, France on November 15-16, 2025. I hope you will join me there for a weekend of fun Yuri, BL and queer manga, comics and BD antics! I’ll be paneling, signing my book, and if enough of you join me, I’ll arrange for a Yuricon/Okazu meet-up!

Our new Yuri research project is cooking. Frank Hecker and I are looking for folks who watch Yuri/GL dramas on Youtube or on streaming services to take a short survey, and maybe do a foll.w-up interview if you are interested. Surveys are being conducted in English, Spanish and Portugese. We’d love your input! The survey will be open until November 30, so please share around on all your socials. Here is my Bluesky post with all 3 languages to share.

I am taking speaking invitations for Q1 2026 now, so if you’d like me at your organization, school or event, please contact me!

On a personal note, thank you to everyone who congratulated me on working with ANN. They are a fantastic group of people. Today I have some more good news to share. I will be working with the lovely (and gloriously talented) team at Manga Mavericks on their upcoming book, FISHGOD and a few other titles they have not yet announced, as an editor. Among other titles, they publish Yuri/queer work by Alt Hanakage and Aneido. ^_^ I cannot wait to get started. 

So, after decades of working in and around the manga industry, I am officially a full-time freelance writer/editor.  ^_^

Other News

Thank you to Austin, who posted some photos from a Narumi Kakinouchi (creator of Vampire Princess Miyu) exhibit in Japan! 

The Comic Yuri Hime x Eiden collaboration began on September 23, and X user halu shared this picture of a Yuri train car.

Jameson Rohrer, an online pal of mine is starting a new Youtube channel and is hoping folks will help him out by subscribing. Comix 4 All is “a channel where you can learn about upcoming comic book and graphic novel releases, interviews with comic creators, librarians, educators, publishers and more.” So if you love comics, please subscribe. ^_^

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