Yuri Manga
Kodansha is running a BL/GL sale on Bookwalker! Many of the Volumes 1s are a mere 99 coins, and further volumes are up to 50% off!
ANN’s Joanna Cayanan has the news that Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. anime shorts will be getting a manga adaptation!
For fans of human/nonhuman Yuri, Drakainae Orbium (ドラカイナエ・オルビウム) is a Yuri science fiction/fantasy nine-story anthology centering dragons…and Yuri. This is available on Booth.pm.
Butch-gumi ~ Yoroshiku Isekai Warera Matake Shin’yuu Akki Messatsu Futsu Chi Yoshihiro-gumi ~ (ブッチ組 ～夜露死苦異世界我等真武親友悪鬼滅殺仏血義礼組～) from Hayashiya Shizuru, her reverse isekai delinquents in another world manga has been released as a digital volume on JP Kindle, but VPN seems to work on Bookwalker JP for the installments. Obviously, I desire a physical volume for this. ^_^
Via Comic Natalie, Atashi-tachi ‘tte tsukiatteru yo ne! ?, Volume 1 (あたし達って付き合ってるよね!?) follows a clingy girl trying to prove she isn’t needy by pursuing her friend, whose sense of personal space is non-existent.
Yuri Live-Action Drama
Yuri is My Job! by Miman, is being adapted into a short drama series, streaming on TATEDOR in Japan, starting in Spring 2027, says Comic Natalie. Thanks to Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus for the tip. According to Miman on X, Volume 15 of the manga series goes on sale this week in Japan!
Yuri Visual Novels
Via Automaton on X, Manatsu no Citrus (真夏のシトラス), an “overworked corporate slave” Yuri romance story which has been overhauled after feedback from the demo and will be getting a January release. Details on their site.
Via Yuri Navi, Haru no Otoha wa Marude Kimi ni Nitete (春の音はまるで君に似てて) will be released on Steam and Switch! This is “a yuri kinetic novel set in a modern Japanese girls’ school, depicting the love and growth of two girls throughout the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.”
From RPLAY Games, The Day It Rained Blood demo is up on Steam. This is “an adult dark-romance visual novel where you choose between a girl cursed to die each day and a childhood friend blessed by fate. Enter the tragedy beneath the blood rain to save her—or turn from the curse and protect your peaceful life.”
OrangeSounds would like to share the news of their Yuri VN The Angel’s Devil Tail – One More Question 2, “A horror-meets-cute puzzle game with a twist-filled Yuri romance story.” You can find this on Steam as well.
Ebi-hime has submitted Pledged to a Princess, a “cute yuri visual novel about an ordinary Welsh girl who discovers that her internet friend and fellow himejoshi is actually the princess of a small European country!” to Steam. Wishlist it today! Although Steam has marked it “mature,” Ebi-hime says it is SFW with no 18+ scenes.
Yuri Anime
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Ashley, atelier’s No Love 0/2 is out now on YouTube! Burkely Hermann reviewed the first episode here on Okazu last spring. I thought it was pretty good.
Baihe Novel
九夏, aka Irene_309, is a Baihe author whose most recent novel is about an idol who shocks the world when she retires, by announcing the world is ending. She retires to a small village, where she lives under an alias, until another woman barges in to her life, looking for freedom. They embark on a journey to save the world, maybe? Shàngwèi zòu xiǎng de shìjiè mòrì xùqǔ(尚未奏響的世界末日序曲) is available on Kadokawa TW. I want to read this one.
Yuri Light Novels
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Fleet-Footed Dungeon Delver: Tune in for Magical Girls and Motion Blur!, Vol. 1 is definitely Yuri. He’s reviewed it at his blog A Case Suitable for Treatment.
Sean also just reviewed The Executioner and Her Way of Life: Curtain Call, the final volume of the series.
I’m working on Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey, Volume 2 now that I have finished the book I was slow-reading, because it was so delightful. Review coming tomorrow for that, and Unsung when I am done.
Yuri ni Narenakya Shine (百合にならなきゃ死ぬ) seems silly. ^_^ “The culprit who stole and disposed of the yakuza’s cocaine was a third-year middle school girl named Kurisaki Yuaself … .The girl, whose life is now in the hands of the yakuza, is tasked with entering high school and putting herself in a real-life romance show to seduce two beautiful girls!?” Sure, why not? ^_^
Other News
Yuzaki Sakaomi, author of She Loves To Cook, She Loves To Eat, will be a guest at the 32nd Manga Barcelona event!
This week’s reading is by ANN’s Coop Bicknell, as they look at the precarity inherent in the infrastructure of manga localization. I know not everyone thinks about who does the work that you read, but those people (among which I include myself) are struggling. Read Manga’s Backbone is Breaking.
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