Yuri Day Week
To celebrate Yuri Day, we’ve collaborated with Bookwalker Global to offer up a Yuri Trivia Contest on their Instagram. Answer the questions, comment on their page, and be in running for coins to spend on their Yuri Day Sale! The context runs through June 29, the sale goes through July 8!
The Toronto Japan Foundation is doing a Hybrid Yuri Manga Book Club! To start off, they are celebrating Battan’s recent visit to Toronto for TCAF with her Run Away With Me, Girl.
The Yuri Hime Editorial Desk is participating in Hoshi ni Onegai wo Day 1 [星に願いを 2026 -day 1-] for portfolio review.
For folks at Anime Expo, Yen Press is celebrating Yuri cosplay with exclusive pins!
Yuri Manga
Via Comic Natalie, from Yoshitomi Akihito, creator of Blue Drop, Volume 1 of Nazo no Eureka (謎のユリイカ) is out now from the orSIS imprint. Two girls, one a writer, one an artist find each other’s fantasies, are the same.
Henai Shijou Shugi Iwami Kiyoko Sakuhin-shuu (偏愛至上主義 岩見樹代子作品集) is a collection of short stories by the creator of My Girlfriend’s Not Here Today.
Ikuta Hana’s Comic Yuri Hime series has been collected into a volume, Hone ni Negai o, Hoshi ni Noroi o, Volume 1, (骨に願いを、星に呪いを). Twin sisters with different personalities. One day, one of them goes missing….
Schwinn posted a few panels of her new senior Yuri series on X, with a link to more on her Patreon.
Via YNN Correspondent akatsukinoluna, we have news of the Tsumi ni Oboreru Crime Yuri Anthology (罪に溺れるクライム百合アンソロジー) from Takeshobo, who traditionally did not market things as Yuri. This anthology looks at dirty deeds done in the name of Yuri. Obviously, I’m going to have to read this.
Yuri Anime
The Kimi wo Tsumugu (君を紡ぐ) short anime trailer is up on Youtube ahead of the manga Let Me Fix You from Blu Petal.
The new Ghost In The Shell trailer on Youtube looks pretty darn good. It will be interesting to get a look at the manga, animated at last and Science Saru has shown themselves to be the right team for the project.
Amazon is selling an exclusive Strawberry Panic: The Complete Series Blu-Ray set, says YNN Sr. Correspondent Sean Gaffney. Get all 26 episodes of this influential, yet also derivative in a million ways, fanfic of an anime. ^_^
And speaking of old and beloved Yuri anime, on This Week in Anime, Christopher and Sylvia say Happy 20th Birthday, Simoun! Apparently, it is streaming on Darkroom.
Adventure Time: Bubblegum and Marceline is getting an HBO Exclusive. Check out this promo on Instagram, because squee!
Friends in the UK, a Sailor Moon Season 1 Steelbook is headed your way from Disc-connected.
Via green body realness on X, an Ur-text for fans of Utena, Pastoral to Die, directed by Terayama Shuuji. Check out the post for aha! moments.
Another news item for fans of the the Utena movie, vas YNN Correspondent Thomasina Pointer – GKIDS has released the graphic for the movie poster so you can download and print one for yourself!
Thai GL Novels
Via YNN Correspondent Patricia B, The Beguiling in Toronto has begun carrying Thai GL Novels in English! Sr. Thai GL Correspondent Frank Hecker notes that the translations for these can be uneven, so just be forewarned.
Yuri Light Novels
To celebrate Yuri Day, German publisher Dokico announced a new work from inori.-sensei, Dem Mond das Gift, der Nacht die Medizin. This is Dokico’s first of their “original novel” line.
Yen Press debuted the cover for Buying a Classmate Once a Week, Vol. 1.
LGBTQ+ Comics
Respected comics researcher Paul Gravett has written up a look at the Queer As Comics Exhibition in London on Graphic Memoir Blog.
Yuri Merch and Pop-ups
Angless.ig posted this video retrospective of The Green Yuri Market in LA on instagram.
Melonbooks is doing a standee of Koharu and Minato for Volume 4(!) of Koharu to Minato – Watashi no Partner ha Onna no ko (小春と湊 わたしのパートナーは女の子). Here’s a link to the series on Bookwalker JP. No standee, but still a nice series.
Atelier Lilium teased two original mascot characters on X for the cafe. Panels for photos will be up at the cafe (and I bet there will be goods for sale.)
Gamers is holding a Sakura Trick (桜Trick) Fair where special goods for the series will be available. Everything old is new again, now that Yuri is so much more popular!
MangaOh is doing a Kimi ga Hoeru Tame no Uta wo (キミが吠えるための歌を) Volume 4 showcase with acrylic standee.
Atre Akihabara is doing a collaboration with Kimi ga Shinu Made Koi wo Shitai (きみが死ぬまで恋をしたい) ahead of the series’ anime debut.
Yuri Live Action News
Via YNN Sr. Correspondent Matt Marcus, there are calls for extras for an upcoming Japanese live-action GL series, that takes place at a college. The production team gave us Ayaka Loves Hiroko…and the vibes very much sound like a How Do We Relationship drama is on the horizon.
Sailor Moon Super Live is heading out on a new tour of North America and London! This was a lot of fun. Go see it, if you can.
Other News
Yuri couple VTuber HanaLiLial will begin streaming shortly. Follow their channel on Youtube.
Via 90’sanimefashion on Instagram, a look at Worldbuilding in Revolutionary Girl Utena.
The New York Public Library put together a IG slider with queer comics for adults that includes some Yuri manga!
Fun news via YNN Correspondent wall on X, a retrospective of Taiwanese lesbian literature is being published. You can get Dào Huǒ Jí: Yī Bù Cóng Jìyì Chūfā De Táiwān Nǚ Tóngzhì Wénxué Shǐ (盜火集: 一部從記憶出發的臺灣女同志文學史) on any site that sells Taiwanese books, but I have linked to the same site wall used.
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