Yuri/Baihe Live Action
It is official! Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii Kana / How Do We Relationship is getting a live-action drama! The official X account kicked off this week with the announcement and a piece of art by Tamifull and a Key visual.
Via Reddit folks on r/Baihe reports that My Darling Is the Cutest! live action will air on Tencent video. The manga, as poster laine4466 notes, is out from Tokyopop as She Is Still Cute Today, Volume 1.
YNN Sr. Correspondent Matt Marcus points to casting calls for extras for a live-action adaptation of Otherside Picnic is being reported (this via Yanaken on X.)
Yuri Anime
The Animate Times reports that we’ll be getting a MURCIELAGO anime for 2027.Yay! Here is the teaser on Youtube.
I notice that The Moon on Rainy Night anime we were supposed to get this past spring has been silent. No casting or staff news. Boo.
r/anime on Reddit is still working on that Simoun 20th anniversary rewatch. It’s a great series full of giant world-building holes. I loved it. Simoun has the honor of being the very first anime to be marketed as “Yuri” in the US. (Not at all coincidentally, I have the very first DVD that came off the press. The folks at Media Blasters all signed it for me. ^_^)
Takanori Uno announced on LinkedIn a Brazilian Portugese edition of Sal Jiang’s Black and White, from Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, Ltd.
Sylvia Jones reviewed A Hundred Scenes of Awajima on ANN and like everything else she writes, it’s worth reading.
For several days this week, Kamiina Botan Fully Blossoms When Drunk disappeared from Crunchyroll (which is heavily into shittifying itself right now, so I will not be adding links to their store any more to the Yuricon Shop) and people were *pissed*. But it is back, so watch it already. (This last is a note to myself. ^_^)
The first episode of I Want To Love You Until Your Dying Day is up on Crunchyroll. Feedback has generally been positive. ^_^
Yuri Manga
This came in too late last week to make the Anime Expo round up. Seven Seas has licensed I See You, Aizawa-san!, a story about a girl who can see ghosts and he ghost of a former classmate who makes her heart pound.
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, the fantastic Renee Scott has reviewed The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All for School Library Journal’s Good Comics For Kids. Renee aka The Library Lady is great: “if you’re not a fan of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy At All, allow me to help you get out from the rock you’ve been living under.”
Baihe Novels
Seven Seas also announced three(!) Baihe novels at Anime Expo, Matrilocal Marriage: Ruzhui about “a time-traveling woman who lost everything and the mysterious heiress she comes to marry out of convenience. Also by creator of A Clear and Muddy Loss, Qing Jun Mo Xiao, they have My Wandering Spirit Lady, about a woman and ghost! Feels like a theme. ^_^
Lastly, I am very pleased about Miss Forensics: Wo Qinai De Fayi Xiaojie by Jiu Nuan Chun Shen. I loved the live-action of this. Great for the Sherlock Holme fan in your life, this is about “a forensic doctor and the cold detective she works with.”
Yuri Visual Novels
Two days left to get your submissions into the Toxic Yuri Game Jam 2!
Via YNN Correspondent Roxie, Lyyycaena on X pointed to their new Horror Yuri game Kickstarter for Mermaids are Food, with the intruiging tagline “A horror sim and visual novel with yuri and 10+ endings. Are mermaids more like fish, people or monsters?”
Studio announced that Twofold:First Snow “will be coming to Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation 4 & 5 soon—in fact, you can play the Twofold demo on consoles right now!” They also have a Kickstarter running for My VTuber Rival Is Actually Cute?
Max Schwartz on X note that 1000x Resist and Heaven Will Be Mine are being bundled on Steam for 20% off right now.
LGBTQ+ Comics
Via Matt Marcus, we have news of BEAST’S LIBATION – A Dark Butch/Femme Werewolf Romance a new comic Kickstarter from Miki Brewster. This is a “296-page dark f/f romance between a cursed servant and her divine queen. For 18+ readers.”
Other News
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Ashley, here is a fascinating article about Nüwu, a genre in Chinese novels centering women, without focusing on romance. Read Fan Yiying and Mao Rui’s No Woo: At China’s Top Anime Convention, Love Takes a Back Seat.
Once again via Matt Marcus, Manga and women’s service agencies team up to tell untold stories looks at the specific sex work service Kabi Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and Amano Shuninta’s Aisarete mo Iindayo.
AnimeNYC is now on the horizon. Crossed Hearts has already announced their first-ever Industry panel. They are goin all-out with goodie bags, prizes and a new imprint! The schedule is not out for the public, but I know Manga Mavericks will also have a panel, and I am likely to be on it. ^_^
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