Yuri Events
I am writing this in a post-show haze from an incredible Sailor Moon The Super Live! event. Tomorrow, I’ll write it all up. There are a very few tickets left for the remaining shows in Connecticut, Philadelphia and New York City. If you can, go. It was a great show. ^_^
I am incredibly excited to announce that I will be guest at Y/Con in Paris, France, on November 14-15, 2025. I cannot wait to meet French Yuri fans and folks from all around Europe!
Girls Love Fest 44 Yuri doujinshi event will be held on June 29, 2025 at the PiO building in Ota-ku, Tokyo. I’m already hoping to attend the March 2026 event, because I miss GLFes! Last time we made it to one was 2019 for the 100 years of Yuri Tour.
Baihe
Baiheverse has begun releasing chapters of The Clouds of Past Millennia, a time-travel tale of fate. They appear to be taking a free-sample-to-paid-chapter model.
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Yuri Manga in English
Ize Press has announced a manhwa license, I Love Amy, by unni, a 4-volume girls love series. Wonhee Cho has the details on ANN. This is Ize’s first Yuri release!
Yen Press has also announced a new Yuri license, Monster-Colored Island. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news. Mariko S. reviewed Volume 1 in Japanese in 2021 here on Okazu.
We have some new items up on the Yuricon Store!
I Can’t Say No To The Lonely Girl, Volume 6 finishes up this series with a surprisingly warm fuzziness given the beginning premise.
Yodokawa’s Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord, Volume 4 hit shelves in March. This is low-key one of my favorite series of the year, just for the way it does….well, everything.
The Anemone Feels the Heat, Volume 1 is the first of a LOT of volumes following a girl who accidentally missed her chance at the path she wanted to take and now is trying to rebuild, who meets someone who never had those chances at all. Anemone ga Netsu wo Obiru, Volume 2 (アネモネが熱を帯びる) in Japanese is also up on the Store.
The slow, but inexorable, romance between Chidori and Nanoha continues to build in Rainbows After Storms, Volume 3.
There are a lot of monster who want to eat Hinako, but her days with two monsters in paticular are special in This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Volume 4
Assorted Entanglements, Volume 7 by Mikanuji, continues to throw us tidbits of the lives of various women finding their places with each other
Yuri Manga in Japanese
I fell very behind on these, in the last few months, so I apologize for the manga dump, but I am now caught up with my previous bookmarks and am starting in on the new ones. ^_^
Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou., Volume 10 ( 私の推しは悪役令嬢。) will be the penultimate volume of this series, which will wrap up the “Revolution” arc. It’s been a great run.
Tsumetakute Yawaraka, Volume 1 (冷たくて 柔らか) by Uozumi Ami is also out now in English as Pink Candy Kiss, Volume 1 from Viz Media.
Doushi Shoujo yo, Teki o Ute, Volume 1 (同志少女よ、敵を撃て) is a dark tale of a girl whose family is killed by the Germans, so she is taken in by Russians to become a sniper, and her intense and violent relationship with the woman who trains her.
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 9 (雨夜の月) New volume, new volume! I can’t wait to see what happens with Saki and Kanon. ^_^
Gal Maid to Akuyaku Reijou ~ Ojou-sama no Happy End Shika Katan!, Volume 2 (ギャルメイドと悪役令嬢 ～おじょーさまのハッピーエンドしか勝たん！) When a gal is reincarnated into an otome game as the villainess’ maid, she wants to protect her life and live happily with her mistress.
Koi Yori Aoku, Volume 1 (恋より青く) Two girls meet through a book dropped on a train.
Kimi ga Hoeru Tame no Uta o, Volume 1 (キミが吠えるための歌を、) Haru loves to sing, but is afraid of being mocked for her deep voice, Yu is a “vocaloid”_type singer who wants to write for her.
Kekkonshitai Ryuuguu-san ha Jourikushimashita, Volume 1 (結婚したい竜宮さんは上陸しました) A girl is taken to the Dragon Palace under the sea by a mermaid who falls for her.
Haikei, Arishi Hi ni Saku Sana-tachi e (拝啓、在りし日に咲く花たちへ) In this books and Yuri story, a girl transfers into a girls school and discovers a relationship from the past in letters hidden in library books.
Kiraware Majyo Reijō to Dansou Ouji no Kon’yaku, Volume 3 (嫌われ魔女令嬢と男装皇子の婚約) Eve and Ciel take on the final boss in this fantasy about magic and society accepting people as they are.
LGBTQ Comics and Manga
YNN Sr. Correspondent Sean Gaffney says fans of LGBTQ manga and Yoshinaga Fumi ought to keep an eye out for Tamaki & Amane from Yen.
Via Okazu Staff Writer Matt Marcus, Kathleen Gros’ graphic novel I HATED YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL “is an enemies-to-lovers story inspired by classic romantic movies—with a queer twist.”
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Yuri Games
Nichegamer wants you to know that The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily, a deception-based turn-based strategy game will available be on Steam this July.
Yuri Anime
Cutie Honey – The Original TV Series – Blu-ray is now available from Discotek. This is Go Nagai’s original vision for the series and, as weird and horny as it is, it also has some amazing moments.
Sentai Filmworks has the Blu-Ray collection for Jellyfish Can’t Swim In The Night up for pre-order, with a May release date.
ANN”s Steve Jones is on point, as usual, with his review of Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty, Episodes 1-3. Series streaming on HIDIVE.
Girls Band Cry Compilation Film announces staff, cast and offers up this teaser on Youtube, says ANN’s Joana Cayanan.
Light Novels
Fans of Hitoma Iruma’s series won’t want to miss Adachi and Shimamura: Short Stories, a collection of shorts that were, as reviewer Sean Gaffney noted, probably extras for print volumes.
Next week we have a brand-new original self-published work from inori.-sensei, illustrated by Aonoshimo, Homunculus Tears: Alchemy for the Brokenhearted. Don’t miss this fantasy light novel about finding one’s place in life when everything around you is changing.
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Short report today, I’m on the road.
