Yuri Events

The YuriTen will be celebrating it’s 10th anniversary in conjunction with the first permanent Yuri Cafe in Ikebukuro, Atelier Lilium.  Yuri Navi has the complete rundown. Keep your eyes peeled for dates and more.

Yuri Manga

Gal x Gal Yuri hit 5th place in the “Manga I Want To See As An Anime” rankings. It’s a fun little manga, you can read it for free at Viz.com.

Aoi Uozumi’s Pink Candy Kiss, Volume 5 is headed our way in June.

Sweet Heat!, Volume 1 (スウィートヒート！) is about two pro-wrestlers who are rivals in the ring and lovers at home.

Baka Onna 26-ji, Volume 1 (バカ女26時) is a road trip adventure when one woman tells another she’s killed the woman’s husband.

Edizioni Star Comics announced on Instagram they are releasing an Italian edition of Sal Jiang’s office comedy Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko!

Via Hotwaterandmilk on Tumblr, sono.N was selling a new SHWD doujnishi this past Comitia. This series began as a doujinshi series. I picked up the first 3 chapters at Comitia some years ago, as it happens. We can order this from sono.N’s Booth store in print or digital download. 

rainbow port Tokyo Anchor’s Yuri Club is doing a signing with Hanakage Alt, for her new manga Unnie ‘tte  Yonde mo Ii Desuka?, which is about to be released as a collected volume.

Yen Press premiered the cover for the upcoming Shino and Ren, a raunchy peek into the two high school girls’ love lives.

Seven Seas announced pre-orders for Koharu and Minato: Happy Life with My Girlfriend, Volume 1! They also licensed, A Love Yet to Bloom by Kon Fukaumi. My Goddess is Precious Today, Too, Volume 2 is also on the way from them, as well.

I wanted to leave Seven Seas until last this week to address concerns about their acquisition by Media Do. I’m sure you’ve all heard that Seven Seas employees were not told of the acquisition beforehand. I can attest from many rounds of this that companies don’t – and often can’t – tell employees while they are in the process of mergers and acquisitions.  

Seven Seas put out a  statement declaring that their leadership and editorial will remain the same and that they have no intention of using AI in their books. Media Do as a company is looking to use AI and in a recent presentation to investors stated that they want to double Seven Seas’ output. Needless to say ,people were concerned by this gap. Following this, Media Do put out a statement that they do not plan on using AI for Seven Seas’ books. They still mention their LLM program to “assist” translators. Therefore, I would read all of this as “for the foreseeable future” in which foreseeable future is anywhere from 3 months to a year. 

While of course I ask that people not be paranoid in advance, do stay on top of Seven Seas/Media Do, and police their overall quality politely. Keeping up the pressure that AI slop is not wanted, will not be supported and is anithithetical to a genre rooted in human creativity, is our best weapon against it.

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Yuri Anime 

Via YNN Correspondent Burkely Hermann, Media OCD is re-releasing the remastered Blu-ray edition of Dear Brother, the classic anime based on Riyoko Ikeda’s Onii-sama E. If you haven’t seen this, grab a copy now. It’s…a lot. But a gorgeous masterwork of a lot.

Yuri Literature

The amazing award-winning Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ has been longlisted for the Booker Prize.  It’s also available as a audiobook. I’m definitely going to get a copy of that. I listened to a sample and the reader, Sarah Skaer, is very careful with pronunciations.

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Yuri Other Things

Kinokuniya USA announced an improbable and amazing thing: A The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All x Sanrio collaboration. My gob is smacked. I know Sanrio collabs with a lot of stuff, but…wow. Can’t get to a Kinokuniya? Take a look at Kino USA online shop.

Nancy, the classic American comic about the girl with the spiky hair and spikier personality, now drawn by Caroline Cash, took a step into our world on March 4 with a very gay comic.

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