Okazu News
This month Okazu turns 23 years old! And like many 23 year olds, it has grown up, gone to school, learned about itself and is off on its own. I have spent 23 years shepherding Yuri into the world and now it’s doing all kinds of stuff without me! I love it. ^_^ Thank you to all the Yuri fans out there!
I am going to launch a new fundraising campaign this month. We are within spitting distance from our fundraising goal for the year. If we get 25 new $5/month sustaining members, or just 12 new $10/month sustaining members, we’ll hit that goal. I’m working on a sweetener for that $10 deal on the horizon. As always if you prepay a year on Patreon, you get one month free, as well. Your support on Patreon and Ko-fi helps us give raises to our writers and makes it possible for us to do event reports and support Yuri creators directly and indirectly!
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Yuri Manga
Pretty exciting news this weekend already from Otakon. Omoi has announced the digital license for Sukeban Deka, the classic girl delinquent manga. I’ve written about it here on Okazu a few times, it has its own category for the anime, live action show and movies, manga and spin-offs. If you’re not familiar with it, begin here, with my overview of the anime and the manga. There is some Yuri, often in ways that made me shriek in laughter. This is such a benchmark series, you absolutely have to read it.
Speaking of classics. Manga Mavericks revealed an incredibly stylish signed shikishi for every pre-order of The Sword of Paros. I’m not joking, every time we touch this, it gets better. Original color pages from the magazine, gorgeous cover and sprayed edges…and now a signed image! Definitely worth pre-ordering this gorgeous book.
Galette WORKS announced that the Galette Special EN Edition, No. 6 Kickstarter will being on August 19! This is the penultimate issue of this project.
Kodansha announced the license for I Love You, Please Dump Me, a Comic Yuri Hime rom-com manga about a girl who has always been told to avoid love, it’ll stop you you from achieving your dreams. Hikaru is determined to do well in school, but when Kairi becomes her girlfriend, everything falls apart.
Via Comic Natalie, we have news of Ijimete Ijirarete (イジめてイジられて) being serialized on Nico Nico, about a yanki that tries to bully an otaku, only to find the otaku girl more than able to stand up for herself. This “ecchi” comedy Yuri is by Chida Daisuke.
Last week I noted that Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury Seishun Frontier (機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 青春フロンティア) is up to a Volume 2, but this week, we got a Youtube Promo video with slight animation, voiced by Suletta and Miorine’ VA’s. Check out this AU of our favorite Gundam characters. ^_^ Aerial is now a motorcycle, upping Suletta’s butch cred another notch.
Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney notes that Yuri-adjacent over-a-decade-old series Gabriel Dropout is ending. Anita Tai has the details at ANN.
Via YNN Correspondent Ambi, ihe director of the There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… has posted on X to say the manga adaptation ended this week, and he has some thoughts about it on the Dash Ex official account.
Yuri Events
The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026 has announced a Call For Papers. I love this event, but won’t be able to present this year, sadly. If you have some queer and/or feminist research you’d like to present, definitely apply. This is an amazing, welcoming group of people. Join them for some fun papers!
Anime NYC is around the corner. I will be there with Manga Mavericks, and creator of Horon of the Closed Country, Sen-sensei. Sen-sensei is lovely and Horon is so wonderful. You’ll definitely want to pick up a copy and get it signed. ^_^
Live-Action
The Look Back movie is doing the film festival circuit and Alex Mateo has some updates on ANN. TIFF is screening it as a North American Premier, says Alex.
Thai GL
Our Sr. Thai GL Correspondent, Frank Hecker, highly recommends the content on Thai GL Hub, which covers series, has interviews, essays and more on Thai GL.
Yuri Anime
ANN’s Joanna Cayanan has news about the upcoming Star Detective Preure! anime. Looks like we’ll get an opposing squad of equally magical girls. That’s a bit different.
ANN’s Alex Mateo wants us to know that Ocean Veil has picked up Yuru Yuri! I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. OV’s stuff is mostly T&A.
Bolts reviews the opening episodes of I Want To Love You Til Your Dying Day on ANN.
Also on ANN, Kevin Cormack takes a look at the opening eps of the new Ghost In The Shell, which is my next watch, for sure.
One more ANN review, the always worth-reading Rebecca Silverman looks at Goodbye, Lara, which our own Eleanor Walker reviewed yesterday. Coop and Sylvia take a look at Goodbye, Lara in Playing Chess with a Dog on ANN.
Yuri Visual Novels
The folks at Yuri Eureka want you to know that they have released a free demo for Exhibition of the Heart on Steam. They want you to know that this 18,000 words and 3 pieces of CG art demo are very explicit.The full release is heading our way this October.
Blue Reflection Quartet is out and George Yang reviews it over on ANN.
Other News
Over at ANN I reviewed the Though I Am An Inept Villainess light novels, in for folks about to watch the anime. I love the LN series, but absolutely cannot bring myself to watch the anime. ^_^;
I quite enjoy doing the READ IT FIRST! series, where I read a gazillion volumes of something before the anime comes out. So here’s a few more I did:
Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky is about a blind woman finding her way through life with the enthusiastic help of her friends, her mom, and her boyfriend.
I also binged Tomb Raider King, Volumes 1-14 and actually enjoyed this “reincarnated to get revenge” manhwa about a terrible person and the idiosyncratic relics he plunders.
I also did a ton fr reviews for the Summer Manga Guide. Some amazing stuff on offer this year! Holy crow, we have Billy Bat! And don’t miss some of the Yuri titles, like The Delinquent and the Transfer Student.
Avery Kaplan of The Comics Beat gives us a write-up on the LGBTQIA+ Activism in Comics panel from San Diego Comic Con.
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