Lots of stuff happening these convention days! If there’s a bunch of announcements later this weekend, I’ll do a follow-up post.

Sailor Moon News

I hope you’ve all been enjoying the new Sailor Moon anime as much as I have. ^_^ If you are, ANN mentioned the first new Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal Visual Book (美少女戦士セーラームーン Crystal 公式ファーストビジュアルブック) out from Toei Animation, and I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love the lyrics to the OP, Moon Pride (out on CD and Blu-Ray or CD only. I’m planning on/hoping to pick it up when I’m in Japan.) Here’s the Moon Pride music video/OP for your viewing pleasure.

San Diego Comic Con is in full swing this weekend and already we’re getting some Sailor Moon sign there, as well. Check out this Mary Sue report by Victoria McNally with all of the S.H. Figuarts Senshi figurines (except Pluto, since she’s not out yet)!

Speaking of which, the Sailor Uranus figurine is finally up for pre-order on Amazon. (Not yet on TRSI. I’ll get you that link as soon as I see it there.) It’s slated for release in January 2015. Sailor Neptune is expected in March 2015. Arrgh, so long to wait!

Viz is getting into the Sailor Moon swing of things, with a clip of the new, much improved, dub.

Don’t know if you’ve seen these, but there is a lovely line of Inner Senshi-themed accessory rings, as well. I sob at the thought of the amount of money I am going to spend in Japan this October.

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Yuri Manga

Comic Natalie reports that digital comic magazine Comic Meteor‘s Yuri comedy series Buchou ni Igen ha~, is coming to an end with Volume 3. ( Here are links for Volume 1 and Volume 2)

Seven Seas’ English edition of Gakuen Polizi, Volume 2 by Morinaga Milk-sensei is up for pre-order, with a long lead time before it’s April 2015 release date.

Kämpfer Volume 1 is also available now in the Kindle Store.

Quick reminder that Whispered Words, Volume 2 Pre-order is up on Amazon, not yet on TRSI, with a release date in November 2014. I can assure you that the quality is much improved from Volume 1.

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Random Things of Interest

More info on Japan’s most famous badass female warrior, Tomoe Gozen, with a nice collection of art and media.

A comic about gender roles that is basically exactly what I hear in my head. Thank you, Holly Robin, for expressing my confusion about people’s confusion.

Check out this series from The Mary Sue on “Princess” Tropes in media.

ANN has a link to the second Official Rose of Versailles Trivia Exam.

Heidi MacDonald has a really interesting discussion of women comic readers in the days before, during and after The Comics Code in The Secret of Comics History That People On The Internet Don’t Want You to Know!

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Live Action Yuri

Yet another girl group, Nogizaka46, has a long music video/short movie that has a light Yuri frisson. Here’s Muguchi na Lion (Silent Lion).

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Yuri Anime

Sabagebu! anime is upon us and Crunchyroll News has the previews and some cast updates and is streaming the anime for your viewing pleasure. The anime is only remotely like the shoujo manga I read, so I assume it’s closer to the spinoff version running in Morning magazine. It’s still fun and Sentai Filmworks announced the license for the series at Anime Expo.

We’ve got some of the staff information on Psycho-Pass 2, now, but I still say that we really shouldn’t expect a lot on the Yuri side without Fukami Makoto on board.

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Sailor Moon News

Viz announced the dub cast for the original Sailor Moon anime series at Anime Expo.

Friends in the Los Angeles area, if you can, make it over to Meltdown Comics for a multi-artist Sailor Moon art exhibit the week of August 16th. Send us pictures!

If you deeply cared about the hack job DiC made of the original Sailor Moon dub, check out the dub director’s tell-all book.

The Sailor Moon Musical:  La Reconquista  DVD  trailer is now a thing you can watch! The second musical, Petite Étrangère is so far scheduled for an August premiere.

And, honestly I wanted to know this, so I thought maybe a few of you did, too. The simulcast in 10 languages on NicoNicoDouga had 1 million views in the first two days.

The next high-end accessory from the Sailor Moon money-raking-in team are some lovely Senshi-themed rings.

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Yuri Manga and Comics

Sparkler Monthly is making Denise Schroeder’s adorable little Girl-Meets-Girl comic, Before You Go, available on Kindle, as well as still having some paper copies left. Let’s sell this baby out, so we get more Yuri.

Kawai Roh’s new Yuri manga collection Mikansei Girl (未完成ガール), hits shelves next week.

Solomon Fletcher introduces his new comic, The Forest, about “two queer witches who perform a spell together to save a forest”.

The team that brought you Princeless has page from a new title – Princeless: The Pirate Princess up on their Tumblr.

Comic Flapper is starting up a Yuricest series that reads in Japanese Saiyuri no Imouto ha Tenshi-san, and in English, An Angel Who Has Swooped Down Was My Little Sister.

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LGBTQ Event

If you’re in the San Francisco area this weekend, check out GaymerX, the queer gaming convention. And don’t miss our friend and friend of Yuriko, Regina Buenaobra who is going to be on several panels!

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Other News

Jamie Lynn Lano, who is an absolute doll, has officially published her memoir, Princess of Tennis, which tells of her time assisting the mangaka who creates Prince of Tennis, on her way to becoming a successful manga artist. It’s great stuff, especially if you’re hoping to get work in the Japanese industry.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Silent Mobius, creator Asamiya Kia is debuting new manga series Silent Mobius QD, which will run in Monthly Young Magazine.

Hentai website Fakku has contracted with Wani Publishing (who is responsible for Ikkitousen, among other series) for h-manga online publishing. Whether we actually ever get Onegai Suzune-chan or other actually Yuri manga, remains to be seen.

Oh, look, there’ll be a sequel to that amusingly awful live-action series,  Innocent Lilies.

Take a look at this cute comic on Sailor Moon/Thor/Brave hair issues.

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Sailor Moon News

Happy International Sailor Moon Day. ^_^

If you have not yet watched the premiere of Sailor Moon Crystal, you can watch it on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Neon Alley, or Nico Nico Douga (where it will be available in 10 languages: English, French, Dutch, Turkish, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Bahasa Indonesian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese and Bahasa Melayu.)

The Sailors Uranus and Neptune figurines have been debuted and they look great! As *soon* as I have affiliate links for these, I promise I’ll post them. ^_^

Victoria McNally continues her A Ridiculously Comprehensive History of Sailor Moon with Part 3: Tales from Fandom.

Banpresto and Galaxxy have teamed up for some Sailor Moon goods to be included as lottery prizes.

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Live Action News

YNN Correspondent Bea P. found yet another fun Yuri-ish  live action series! She writes in to say:
I just stumbled across a live action trailer and from the looks of it, it features two Yuri plotlines. It is called Houkago Lost「放課後ロスト」and is divided into three episodes, each with its own plot (how they tie together remains to be seen).  Episodes 1 & 3 seem to revolve around two relationships.

Episode 1 is about a student named Yuuki who often skips school. One day she becomes interested in Ayuki, the class representative. Initially, I thought this plot would just be about the subtext but the two shared a quick kiss. Yuuki is played by Honoka Miki, who played Yumi in the Maria-Sama live action film and is starring in another Yuri live action film, Shishunko Gokko (which we mentioned in May on YNN). Episode 3 is about Rika who meets a girl from another class, Yuu. They begin to spend time together as a friendship forms. Again, I thought it would just be subtext but they too have a kiss scene, or what looks like the beginnings of one.

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Yuri Manga

You remember Morishima Akiko-sensei’s project Yurikuma Arashi that was being created in conjunction with Ikuhara Kunihiko? Well, now you can read the first chapter over at Gentosha Comics’ e-reader! It’s in Japanese.

YNN Correspondent Grsiznak has this terrific news to share: Polish doujinshi company The Cold Desire started presales of their Yuri Manga Anthology. It’s officially on sale in July. Yay them! ^_^

New YNN Correspondent Jyun K has two new Yuri manga series to tell us about: “Lily” by Sazanami Chima  (リリィ /小波ちま) from Manga Time Kirara Miracle and comedic Yuri manga “Shinozaki-san Ki wo Ota Shika ni!” (篠崎さん気をオタしかに!) – click the link to read the manga in Japanese.  Thanks for the heads up, Jyun!

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Yuri Anime

YNN Correspondent Emily H wants us to know that Yuri anime (and my Best Yuri Anime of the Year twice) Simoun is streaming on Hulu.com. If you missed this amazing series when it was released, do go watch it now. It’s absolutely terrific.

And thanks to YNN Correspondent Cryssoberyl for the heads up that the upcoming  Sabagebu! anime is going to be well worth our time. I enjoyed the manga quite a bit, so I’m looking forward to the anime! (And the manga is getting a 2-issue shounen-style spin-off in Morning magazine, which I’m hoping might up the Yuri a bit.)

Yuru Yuri‘s next OVA is getting a theatrical release in Japan in late November.

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Other News

Scholar Sophie Winter is continuing her series on depictions of women in comics with Realism versus idealism: sources find different ways to female empowerment in comic book culture. 

Former Takarsienne Higashi Koyuki and her wife Hiroko, the two women who had their ceremony at Tokyo Disneyland, were featured on a on Japanese TV show about married couples . The trailer is notable for referring to them as 婦 婦, wife and wife. ^_^ I’d love for that term to enter the vernacular.

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That’s a wrap for this week! Become a Yuri Network Correspondent by sending me any Yuri-related news you find. Emails go to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com. Not to the comments here, please, or they might be forgotten or missed. There’s a reason for this madness. This way I know you are a real human, not Anonymous (which I do not encourage – stand by your words with your name!) and I can send you a YNN correspondent’s badge. Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!

Just a few items today, as I’m working all weekend and feeling rushed at the moment.

(I know a bunch of you sent in news. I’ll get that up next week. Thanks for your patience.)

The New York Times talks about how bara manga artist Tagame Gengoroh’s art has been adopted as official art by this year’s NYC Gay Pride parade.

Victoria McNally’s A Ridiculously Comprehensive History of Sailor Moon, Part 2: Coming to America is up on The Mary Sue.

OtakUSA reports on The Daily Show‘s taking a few potshots at CNN’s slavering coverage of the zOMG reveal that pictures of fictitious characters that look childish are not actual children, in regards to the news of new child porn laws in Japan. The comments at the top are worth reading and do a better job at IDing some of the issues in play than Stewart’s writers.

An interesting look at why creating Strong Female Characters isn’t really enough. (Hint: You gotta give them something to do, too.)

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Yuri Manga

Alert! Alert! Creator of Collectors, Nishi UKO has a new book coming out! Her new collection,  Houseki-iro no Koi (宝石色の恋) has a July 31 release date.

From Ichijinsha, we have a couple of Yuri Hime collections: Torotoro/Himeawase (とろとろ・姫あわせ) by Nagakura Keiko, Vespa by Ohkita Hiroko finally has a cover image (and now I want to give the series another chance and see if it makes better sense as a volume, swayed as I am by a girl in an eyepatch) and don’t forget the July issue of Comic Yuri Hime – and the pre-order for the September issue (which has a July release date) is up.

Mag Garden Comics has a new Yuri offering, Yurikago no Otometachi (ゆりかごの乙女たち). Based on the clothes and the helpful summary I found with a few moments search, it looks like a ‘S’ story set in the Taisho period. Okay, I’m in. ^_^

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Sailor Moon

What better way is there to celebrate Summer Solstice than to watch the now-subbed Sailor Moon Crystal trailer over and over and over until you suddenly sit up and ask “How many takes do you think it took before Mitsuishi Kotono-san could do “Moon Prism Power Make Up!” without tearing up?”

14 days and counting.

To get you in the mood, Victoria McNally is writing up a Comprehensive Sailor Moon History on The Mary Sue. Check out Part 1!

Also on the Mary Sue, these wonderful Inner Senshi costume redesigns. I lovelovelove Jup!

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Miscellaneous Awesomeness

Action Labs, the folks that brought us Princeless and Molly Danger has a terrific new miniseries starting up, Fight Like a Girl. They got me hooked with that amazing cover art.

For your morning moment of “Awww..”, please enjoy these photos of early 20th century lesbian and gay couples.

Comic Book Resources has put together a list of LGBTQ comics for Pride month, no manga, but maybe something new for you to read, yes?

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That’s a wrap for this week! Become a Yuri Network Correspondent by sending me any Yuri-related news you find. Emails go to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com. Not to the comments here, please, or they might be forgotten or missed. There’s a reason for this madness. This way I know you are a real human, not Anonymous (which I do not encourage – stand by your words with your name!) and I can send you a YNN correspondent’s badge. Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!