Thanks so much to everyone who was kind about my health the past few weeks. Turns out I was cosplaying as a dying Victorian infant for the season. I’m doing better and we’re back on track!
Yuri Events
Yuriten is back! The all-Yuri exhibition and pop-up store has launched a new promo video for 2025 on their account on X with January 25- February 2 dates for Tokyo and February 8-16 in Osaka. More details as they become available.
The official Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau X account shared an image of Takeshima Eku’s art exhibition.
Yuri Manga
Last week New York Comic Con brought us the news of some new licenses.
Yen licensed what they have translated as The Anemone Feels The Heat, a school life romance and Desperate March For Love, another school romance that looks Yuri. I’m not familiar with the latter at all.
I somehow missed this announcement, but Yen has released When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine, which I reviewed in Japanese back in 2023. (And I do apologize, I am hugely behind on the Store, since I was so ill for so long. I’ll catch up as I have a moment, which is definitely not this weekend.) I picked it up this week in English…we’ll see if the jokes work. ^_^
Seven Seas announced IDOL X IDOL which looks at the very least like an intense emotional relationship between two young women.
ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news that How Do We Relationship? will end in Volume 14.
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Kodama Naoko’s Usotsuki Hanayome to Dousei Kekkon-ron, Volume 2 is now on JP shelves. ().
Manga Mogura on X has announced that, due to the energized fandom for inee’s Love Bullet, the manga will be reprinted. The problem I foresee here is the publishing company relying on fandom to scream loudly, instead of investing in decent promotion to connect with the fandom in the first place. It’s a hard thing to balance. Take Yen, for instance – they do their very best to get news out by multiple social networks and on their own site and news sites, panels, press releases and announcements, and still even things get by me.
Via YNN Correspondent Katgrrl, and Mangatime Kirara on X, there will be at least one Yuri entry in the Bocchi The Rock Comic Anthology.
I encountered a new digital publisher online this week, Number 9 has some Yuri titles that they have listed under the Creative Yuri Festa title. Check them out!
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Yuri Anime
Via Manga Mogura, This Monster Wants To Eat Me will be adapted into an anime! I am super excited about that, as I love the manga. Check out the trailer on Youtube. If it looks half this good, it’ll be great. Joanna Cayanan has details on ANN.
Crunchyroll has announced that they are streaming Girls Band Cry starting November 6. Our pal Cryssoberyl reviewed it for Okazu and made some excellent points. It’s worth a watch, if you haven’t seen it.
Look Back (link to trailer on Youtube) will be streaming on Amazon Prime as of November 7. I am so looking forward to it and dreading it. I don’t enjoy crying very much. ^_^;
The animation studio Cloud Hearts that worked on the ill-fated Whisper Me A Love Song anime is no more according to ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda. There were a lot of somethings wrong with the production of that anime and I think we may never know the whole story.
Rafael Antonio Pineda also has the news about new additions to the cast for the upcoming The Rose of Versailles anime film.
Other News
2 Tokyo Wards, Nakano and Setagaya, will be listing same-sex couples on a family registry, just as they do heterosexual couples. Another step forward in the face of a government unwilling to move on an issue that has an over 70% approval rating with the public.
Kodansha is looking to publish a special issue of Young Magazine in the US, according to Joanna Cayanan at ANN. I wonder if this is a test issue, since Shonen Jump has thus far remained the sole JP manga magazine in English, until Galette magazine joins it in 2025.
For folks who found this series Yuri enough for them, The Demon Girl Next Door will be getting a stage play in the new year. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the details.
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Welp, seems like a swing and miss on the unlocalized names on the Villainess manga.
Eh, that’s fine, as who is even reading that who is not an otaku, honestly?