Yuri and Yuri-adjacent Live-Action
Via Comic Natalie, we learn that SakaShima‘s student council Yuri manga Fukukaichou no Omona Oshigoto (副会長の主なお仕事) is getting a live action adaptation. The drama is currently airing on TokyoMX on Fridays.
Fans of Chaser Game W (reviewed here on Okazu by Frank) will be thrilled to hear that the second season of the live-action series is getting a sequel film in Spring 2026, Chaser Game W Intimate Relationship. ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details.
Discotek has announced the release of 2016’s cyberpunk Cutey Honey Tears. I know it probably won’t be Yuri, but Honey always is welcome on Okazu. ^_^
Also not Yuri, but darn interesting-looking is Cosmic Princess Kaguya, which will be streaming on Netflix this month. Japanese mythology, idol/band stuff and girl stuff. ^_^ Maybe adjacent? We’ll see. Looks colorful.
*Also* not Yuri, but adjacent is the news that the Sound! Euphonium Final Movie, Part 1 has a theme, by TRUE. I do wish to express displeasure at multi-part final movies. Bad. No cookie.
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Yuri Manga
Hanakage Alt’s Unnie’tte Yonde mo Ii desuka? (オンニって呼んでもいいですか？) about a K-pop stan and the star she idolizes meeting on a dating app, has moved to CMOA and is heading for a tankoubon collection, according Hanakage-sensei’s X account. Check out the free sample chapter in Japanese.
Adeline Kon‘s Yuri GN about two competitive skaters, Just Between Us is available from YuandMe Books!
Yuri Light Novel
inori. has announced a new I’m In Love With The Villaness sequel novel, which will be released in Japan with GL Bunko, Furimukinasai, Watakushi ni! (振り向きなさい、わたくしに！), which follows the adventures of Rae and Claire’s adopted daughters Aleah and Mei. The link above goes to Kindle JP only, but I’m sure we’ll see it in other formats and languages soon enough.
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Other News
Of interest to fans of the series and/or libraries, Berkely Hermann discusses the library design in Bloom Into You in An open library and the value of studying in “Bloom Into You”.
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Ashley, yoneztsu on TokTok got to ride the Comic Yuri Hime x Eizan Railway collab cars! Check out the video for fun Yuri on train action. ^_^
My ANN reviews for this week are Black Jack – The Complete OVA collection, with direction by Osamu Dezaki and wow, was that weird and wonderful and 10Dance, the live-action adaptation of Satoh Inoue’s BL manga, streaming on Netflix.
Also key your eyes out for my upcoming review of another live-action series, The Drops of God, second season on AppleTV. Alex Mateo has the news on ANN for that series.
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Erica, thanks for the shoutout for my recent post on Bloom Into You, studying and value of libraries. I’ve been watching a bunch of Pretty Cure! series recently as You and Idol Pretty Cure is coming to an end. The next PreCure series looks interesting as the protagonist is transported back in time to 1999 (from 2027) and becomes a Precure detective… and has to figure out how to get back to the present. Oh, I thought I’d also mention Wheels & Roses. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it or not, but it’s an indie animation which promotes itself as a mix of roller derby and Sailor Moon. I personally would say it reminded me a bit more of all those girls-centered sports anime, and even Pretty Cure series. Anyway, the creator is a queer Black woman, Pearl Low, and only the animated short is out so far, but they are hoping to make a full series with 22-minute episodes, which is certain be centering queer characters.
Apart from all of that, I did watch the first episode of Roll Over and Die and well… I’m cautiously hoping it will be a “triumph over adversity” story, although that probably is too much to hope for. The other series which came out like Champaign Witch (possibly going in a yuri direction beginning in episode 3?) and Journal with Witch seem promising. I still have to watch the final season of Sound! Euphonium and I’m hoping that the film you mentioned will be in a local theater near where I live.