One of the most amazing things about doing the weekly report these days is that we almost never have no Yuri news anymore. Since I took last week off, get ready for a multi-week deluge of Yuri News! ^_^
Yuri Anime
This season has -thus far- given us two top-tier Yuri anime.
A Hundred Scenes From Awajima, based on creator Shimura Takako’s manga about girls at a famous all-female musical revue troupe school, will take us in and out of several generations’ drama.
Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk has made a splash with Yuri fans. This travelogue, product endorsing alcohol advertisement with college age lesbians is way popular. Apparently, there was some kerfuffle with some viewers making straight ships for characters online, and the creator, Hey, came on to X to confirm that they consider this a GL series. This fills me with a happy glow, and sadness for all those series in the past that were clearly Yuri, but the creators were like, “you can see it if you want, I guess.” Times sure have changed for the better!
HIDIVE is bringing back Blue Drop! For fans who were not here in the 00s, let me give you a quick rundown. Blue Drop anime is a pretty good anime set in the past of the Blue Drop manga, which was weird and decent, then got awful enough that I didn’t even bother reviewing Volume 2, then had a decent Drama CD Lovers Side and a very good Drama CD, Enemies Side. ^_^ Because this is a series by Yoshitomi Akihito there are many uncomfortable-making features. Age gaps are gappy, teachers are literally alien, consent is canonically non-existent, and other potential icks. But the anime is not the manga and is full of intensity and longing and a VERY SYMBOLIC ship breaching out of the water. Just…go watch it.
Young Ladies Don’t Like Fighting Games anime has a second trailer, more cast and OP, says ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda.
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Yuri Manga
Seven Seas wants you to know that The Delinquent and the Transfer Student, Volume 1 is up for Pre-order now! I started to read that years ago and forgot to continue, so I’m excited about reading it in English. ^_^
Crossed Hearts says all three of their Glam Beat Yuri titles will be releasing in May. Follow them to get updates!
Global Comix has added manga from Yuri Hub, so now you can get works by Ayu Inui and Rion Nomiya in English on Global Comix or Bookwalker! Alex Mateo has the news on ANN.
Kadokawa’s CandleA Yuri imprint is out there banging the Yuri drum. sono.N’s new series Hoshi no Taion, Meguru Yume(星の体温、巡る夢) is an adult age gap romance between a woman in her 20s and a woman in her 40s. (It can’t work – she won’t get your music references. ^_^;) Read it free in Japanese on Comic-Walker.
Yodokawa has a new series on Comic Walker as well, Neko ni Hakuchou, Hotaru ni Koban (猫に白鳥、蛍に小判). According to the author, this is a story about “a runaway girl in love and the adult who is swayed by her.”
KadoComi on X has…are you ready?… an actual sports Yuri manga! I am so happy, I could scream. Slow Step (スロー・ステップ！) is about a baseball pitcher who is recruited to her new school’s handball team. I scanned the first chapter and I’m ready for more. Check out KadoComi’s Yuri rankings page for other great Yuri manga.
Via ThaiHyper on X, Thailand’s smash-hit GL novel *Cranium クレイニアム* manga adaptation now available for early release on Renta!” Episode 1 is free, with 4 chapters available now. “A small plane crashes in the countryside of central Thailand, killing all 15 people on board. A young doctor, Bua, is dispatched to the scene to identify the body. However, it was there that she met Dr. Pinya, her colleague with whom she had parted ways. A forensic investigation begins in a dangerous atmosphere. One day, “another skull” that does not match the accident victim is found.
The discovery was the beginning of a disturbing mystery behind the crash. The two pursue the truth despite their repulsion, and eventually come face to face with each other’s pasts – will the bones reveal the truth about the accident or their fate?”
Japanese store Surugu-ya has created a Yuri page, with suggestions for games, manga, novels, a short history of Yuri and books with “Yuri-ish elements.” Melonbooks also has a new Yuri Recommendations Feature on their socials. This…is a new trend I like. ^_^
Yuri Light Novels
Found on BookWalker JP, Kimi no Kyoushitsu ga Eien no Nemurinitsuku made (君の教室が永遠の眠りにつくまで). This is a school horror Yuri romance that sound super intense. Last time I found a cool Yuri LN on Bookwalker JP, J-Novel Club went and licensed it. Let’s see what magic will happen this time. ^_^
Yuri Visual Novels and Games
Studio Élan and Ebi-hime announce that Our Home, My Keeper is out now, on Steam and Itch.io. “This is a fairytale-inspired yuri visual novel full of magic. Follow Paige, a struggling writer, as she moves into a spacious home in the English countryside, where she meets the mysterious Faye.”
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Ashley, Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting, is a “yuri mystery and puzzle game inside a retro computer. Log on night after night to uncover a story of internet exploits, unexpected friendships, and a chaotic crew of 80s hackers. Solve 2D grid-based puzzles to piece together the mystery. ” has been listed on Steam. Add it your watchlist.
Yuri Live-Action
OUTChina, an LA-based organization that tells the stories of Queer Chinese people, is crowdfunding a Chinese lesbian reality show called LaLaLes: Fluid Love. The trailer is on Youtube and…you know, I’m rooting for this to succeed.
Sapphic Film Updates has news of several (potentially) upcoming live-action film adaptations of queer books. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me caught my attention, for sure. I don’t know how many will make it to fruition. A lot of these die in process.
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Yuri Events
Yuri Cafe and event space, Atelier Lilium is opening for their trial event, May 16-20 in Ikebukuro, right by the Animate Flagship store. That is a perfect place. I think it’s so interesting that where Ikebukuro began it’s growth with BL on Otome Road, it’s renewal and expansion is coming from Yuri. I cannot wait to visit.
Melonbooks is having a Yuri event/exhibition/pop-up called Prism Garden, May 2-6,2026, with multiple Yuri artists contributing works and merch. Here’s an example of goods for Takeshima Eku’s Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau / Whisper Me A Love Song.
Not a “Yuri” event, but guaranteed great queer artists, the exhibitor list for Toronto Comics Art Festival is live. Manga Maverick Books will be there with great Yuri manga!
CandleA on X shared some pictures from the PIAMYFest in April that featured art from Morishima Akiko’s The Single Life, Yuzaki Sakaomi’s Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna and Hanakage Alt’s Unnie ‘tte Demo Ii Desuka?
Yuri Merchandise and Pop-up Shops
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All and Muzzle are doing a merch collab through Sugoi Shop France.
Kadokawa, which is an anime and manga merchandising powerhouse in Japan, is moving hard on the US with MangaSpot stores in major cities. Heidi MacDonald over at The Comics Beat has the details.
Kinokuniya NYC has a limited amount of signboards from inee, when you buy the Kino edition of Love Bullet.
Other News
The Spring Manga and Light Novel Guides are up on ANN and you will find me all over them. There are a lot of good things coming out this season and some not so good. ^_^
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