Yuri Manga
Pre-order for Sumiko Arai’s The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 3 is up on the Yuricon Store and will be here as a holiday season gift for us all. ^_^
Pre-order for the JP volume, Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume 4 (気になってる人が男じゃなかった) is up on Amazon and CD Japan. I’ll add more links to the Yuri Store when they become available. Prom volume!
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, we have news from ANN’s Anita Tai that The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess Manga Ends in 9th Volume.
Watanukihiroya’s Aliens, Volume 1 (エイリアンズ) tells a scifi Yuri story of an alien who crashes on Earth and is saved by a sexaroid.
Via Comic Natalie, we have news of a new story beginning serialization in Comic Yuri Hime, “Hina-chan ga Iketerunara” about a girl who returns after disappearing (kamikakushi, the “spirited away” of the Ghibli title.) Also mentioned in this article is the new look for the 2026 covers, this time with art by Cheriko.
Tayutau Futari, Volume 1 (たゆたうふたり) is about an introverted girl whos life changes when she meets an older girl who smoke and has a centipede tattoo.
Via Comic Natalie, Nagashiro Rouge ‘s collection of Yuri short stories Eve to Eve-tachi (イヴとイヴたち) is now in a new edition with added stories. The original volume was licensed by Seven Seas, and reviewed on Okazu, as Eve and Eve.
Also via Comic Natalie, I’m going to just cut and paste their description for Oshi-Koi Cappriccio (推し恋カプリチオ)- Mitsuha Hikawa, a second year high school student, likes BL. She spends her days daydreaming about her male classmates with her friend Majima Rui, but one day she is horrified when one of her “observation targets,” a boy named Kagomiya, tells her, “Hikawa, you like Rui, right?” Kagomiya is also in love with his best friend, Kitamura… A fujoshi gal and a handsome yuri boy who share a secret struggle for their love. The work is currently being serialized in Monthly Comic Gene from Kadokawa.
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Anime News
Via Egan Loo over at ANN, Girl Crush, the first two volumes of which we’ve had reviewed here by our own Eleanor Walker, will be getting a TV anime series.
The newest Precure series has been announced, 2026 will see Detective Star PreCure. Anita Tai has the details at ANN. I didn’t watch this year’s iteration, it just didn’t work for me at all.
Yuri Light Novels
Sean Gaffney has reviewed This Gyaru’s Got a Thing for… Vampire Hunters?!, Vol. 2 on A Case Suitable For Treatment and while it’s not as Yuri-ish as Volume 1, still has some elements worth reading.
Via YNN Correspondent Mang’albine, France’s Animation Digital Network will stream Utena, la Fillette Révolutionnaire, anime and movie!
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Other News
My review of Volumes 4-5 of Drops of God: Mariage, is up on ANN. It’s such a silly series.
Slight ever-so-Yuri-scented if you want that with your dystopian landscape touring and motorcycle obsession manga, I do recommend Touring After The Apocalypse, Volumes 2-3, on ANN.
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As always, your news update is great. I’m definitely excited for Girl Crush, and certainly will read the manga before the anime comes out, as a big fan of KPop Demon Hunters. I’ll definitely have to check out the other manga too. I’ve read one volume of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, but I surely need to catch up.
I am interested in the newest Precure series too. Detective Star PreCure will certainly add another dimension to the Precure franchise. For your comment about not watching this year’s iteration (i.e. You and Idol Pretty Cure), you said it “just didn’t work for me at all.” Could you expound on that a bit? It’s not my favorite Precure series either (my favorites of the ones I’ve watched so far are probably Tropical and Soaring Sky, but I also liked Wonderful too). I guess I am a bit biased in liking You and Idol Pretty Cure as a fan of Love Live! and all those girls band series recently. There isn’t any yuri apart from those episodes where Uta has a crush on Zukyoon, but her friends explain it away as “fan fascination” rather than actual love. Even so, I’d say, like the other Precure series, the friendship between girls is at the center and it is a nice series for that alone. I have no idea how they are going to end it, but considering there’s been 48 episodes now, I expect it will end in the next few episodes. Precure isn’t always the best with *ending* series, as the series tend to be wrapped up too quickly, from my memory.
Anyway, to each their own on this. I’ve been rewatching Anne Shirley as of late, now watching the English dub, and finishing up the English dub of Call of the Night (it does have some queer characters). Thanks, as always, for your work in putting this together.