Yuri Event
A don’t-miss event for Yuri fans! On June 18 in Nakano, sponsored by Loneliness Books, Rica Takashima and Morishima Akiko will be doing a joint talk event about Yuri! Morishima-sensei will be talking about Yuri in the ’90s and Takashima-sensei will be talking about Yuri in America. How exciting!
Yuri Manga
Yen Press announced the license for Snowmelt and Agapanthus at Anime North! I reviewed Volume 1 here on Okazu in Japanese in 2024. This is a classic Yuri school story, with likable characters.
Yen is also doing a The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All, hardcover Vol. 2 Numbered Edition Web Exclusive.
Yuama’s newest story, being serialized right now in Comic Yuri Hime magazine, has it’s first collected volume. Tayutau Koi no Chirisai ni, Volume 1 (たゆたう恋の散り際に) is available on Bookwalker JP.
Note: Because shipping from Japan and buying books due to payment processors being hampered by right-wing bullshit is making things more expensive and slower, going forward I’m going to default to Bookwalker JP for Japanese manga links, until I put things on the Yuricon Store.
Creator Ayukawa Ao on X says that this week Sunday Webry will begin serializing Natori to Shizuha (なとりとしずは), a story about two young women who meet and become close through Judo. May not be Yuri romance, but will be intimate friendship, which is fine by me.
A new series that has been getting some praise and some criticism is Gansaku ni Dai Juuban (贋作の第十番) which runs in Champion Cross. This series is a Yuri mystery about a butch orchestra conductor who pairs with a femme historical musical score analyst in order to recreate the score of Beethoven’s 10th symphony…a score which was responsible for the death of the analyst’s mother. By Kajimoto Reika, the art and story in this are all over the place, but there are also reasonable allegations of AI use in the color pages. That’s a shame because otherwise, the story is fascinatingly too much in a good way.
Sazame to Rio (さざめとりお ) is a story about two women’s lives together.
Another Yuri manga named after the couple (which does seem to be a trend…) is Mikoto to Rei, (ミコトとレイ」), by Kudo Eru. According to Comic Natalie, this story about a girl who is chill and a member of the morals committee at school began on social media and now has a collected first volume.
One-shot Gesso by Kurose Yu won a Kadokawa Editorial reward. This short about a girl who paints is on X.com to read for free. Gesso is the medium one paints on board or canvas as a primer for before painting.
inori. on X.com announced that the German edition of I’m In Love With The Villainess, Volume 2 from Dokioco “will be released as a Deluxe Edition featuring the complete second part and a new cover by Hanagata-sensei.” inori.-sensei also added that she has written a bonus story for this edition!
Yuri Live Action
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Taiwainese lesbian dating reality show Girls Love House, Episode 1 is on Youtube with EN subtitles.
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Yuri Merch and Pop-Up Shops
Via Matt Marcus, there is a Kamiina Botan Fully Blossoms When Drunk pop-up store in the Princess Cafe on Sunshine-dori in Ikebukuro. (I sob with desire to be on Sunshine-dori in Ikebukuro.) The Cafe is promoting it on their X account.
Also via Matt, Here is a Mobile Suit Gundam ~ The Witch From Mercury x kitsune and tanuke collaboration at Maruchan. Gundampixel on Bsky has the images. You probably can guess which creature Suletta and Miorine are. ^_^
For those of you in or around Brooklyn, NYC, the Yurimart will be held at Yume at 671 Flatbush Ave on Sunday, May 31 from 12-6. I’m going to stop by for a bit, so if you see me, say hi! I’ll have a few stickers to give away. ^_^
And via YNN Correspondent Sasori, the folks behind Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai/
Yuri Light Novels
Cinderella no Kutsu Shokunin ~ Risou no Hitoashi, Otsukuri Shimasu ~シンデレラの靴職人 ～理想の一足、お作りします～ is about You, who works at a shoe company and dreams of opening a shop that sells custom-made shoes. About to give up, You meets Aoi, who encourages her to open a shop. Various customers come to “Sun Maid” with various wishes: A bride who pursues perfection, a young man who admires stiletto heels, a girl who is devoted to what she loves…” “Custom-made magic cannot be broken even at midnight.” This is available on Bookwalker JP. I’ll add that to my reading queue. ^_^
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Yuri Literature
The extraordinary Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāngzǐ has won the International Booker Prize. The NY Times utterly failed to make it make sense, but Waterstones on X summed it up beautifully, “A metafictional triumph blending a queer love story with both intimate and sweeping reflections on colonialism, culture and complexities of translation.” Here is a translation of translator Lin King’s acceptance speech.
Other News
Warsaw, Poland has just recognized its first same-sex marriage after an EU ruling that they must recognize marriages from other EU countries.
Last up, you know how I love girl gang stories. One of the three great series that will never die is YajiKita Gakuen Douchuuki. It’s not explicitly gay, but Kita is a chick magnet. Today I realized that the newest iteration of the series is YajiKita Isekai Douchuuki (やじきた異世界道中記) , which is to say the cast of this modern-day Taiga Drama have all been sent..to another world. Outstanding. ^_^
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