Yuri Anime

Via YNN Correspondent Shannon L.  – Media Blasters has licensed an anime from the mid-’00s called Ultimate Girls. It has Yuri, but before you get excited, you might want to take a deep breath and read my review of it from 2005. If you like stuff I don’t, you’ll love this.  ^_^;

ANN reports that Survival Game Club manga, Sabagebu! is getting an anime in 2014. Check out my review to see what Yuri you can expect.

First visuals for upcoming Yuri anime Sakura Trick have been sighted. Crunchyroll’s Scott Green has the details.

YNN Correspondent Jackie S. wants to make sure everyone knows that the Crunchyroll license for Sasamekikoto has ended as of August 30.

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Yuri VN

YNN Correspondent and Guest Reviewer C. Banana would like to let  fans know that there is a Yuri VN  called Lonely Yuri, that is both legal and translated available for purchase. (Thanks for the correction, Lin!)

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Yuri Manga

The final volume of Aoi Hana (青い花) will hit shelves in Japan on September 12. (T_T)

September will also see the street date for Itazura Choucho, Volume 3 (悪戯ちょうちょ) and Hayate x Blade, Volume 18 (はやて×ブレード)

From Twitter, here is a preview of the  covers of the 20th anniversary  Sailor Moon manga release in Japan.

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Other News

While we’re talking Sailor Moon, here’s an article about the Tumblr Re-Draw Sailor Moon project, in which people take individual frames of the anime and redraw them. The project is scattered across Tumblr, so click around there for more!

YNN Correspondent David M. reports yet another upcoming Utena figurine, this time from Megahouse.

From the “no, really” files, I want to first remind you of the epic, completely real  Rose of Versailles Toyota minivan ad. Then after you’ve stopped laughing, check out this live-action version of it. I have no idea where this was from. ^_^

One more  Rose of Versailles item, because I can –  if you think you know everything ever about the series, an official certification for those knowledgeable about Riyoko Ikeda’s masterpiece is now taking applications, according to Comic Natalie.
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Yuri Anime

Amazon is offering a load of video for free to Amazon Prime customers right now, including the first episodes of Kannazuki no Miko as Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, Blue Drop and Mezzo.

Dear Brother, Episode 2 is up  AnimeSols on and the DVD set is over 1/3 funded in the first couple weeks! Do I sound excited? I totally am. ^_^

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Yuri Manga

Volume 3 of Golondrina (ゴロンドリーナ), Est Em’s story of a young lesbian training to become a matador hit the streets last month in Japan.

Coming up from Yuri Hime Comics are Suzuran Techou (スズラン手帖) by Takahashi Mako and the November issue of Comic Yuri Hime.

Yen Press has licensed more of the Magica Madoka manga – this time, Puella Magi Madoka Magica:  The Different Story.

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LGBTQ Comics

Remember back when Kate Kane, as Batwoman, asked Maggie to marry her? Well, she never got a response then…and stuff happened. I honestly thought DC forgot about it. Apparently not, because Kate, out of costume, has asked again – and this time she gets an answer. Bleeding Cool has the scoop.

I can’t remember if I shared this with you or not – Leia Weathington has a whole Tumblr post of teasers for the second volume of  her adventure comic starring a pleasantly lesbian princess, The Legend of Bold Riley.

Via YNN Correspondent Erin S., Midwestern, Genderqueer, and Proud: Exploring Gender in a Middle-America Comics Project looks to create tools to discuss gender through comics.

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Other News

Rica Takashima has moved her blog to new digs – Et Cetetera. She just celebrated 19 years of her atelier, Aozora Art!  Drop by and wish her a happy anniversary!

Here’s something totally trippy – in 1946 Walt Disney and Salvador Dali collaborated on an animation Watch Destino and enjoy the mind-bending concept of Gala as a Disney Princess. ^_^

Comic Natalie is tracking the seemingly never-ending list of cool new Sailor Moon goods in honor of the upcoming anime. Up this time are pendants based on wands, T-shirts,and eyeliners.

Japanese toy company Banpresto is holding a lottery-style contest in Japanese convenience stores for Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As The Second movie figurines. I always seem to miss the really good wastes of money…. ^_^

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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!

Yuri Live-Action Movie

This weekend is the premiere of Yuri Live-Action movie, Schoolgirl Complex in Japan. If any of our Japanese friends want to report on it, please let me know!

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Yuri Manga

YNN Correspondent Grisznak  shared this great news with us: “At the first months of 2014 we’re gonna have Oniisama E… published in Poland, thanks to the JPF company. They’re also going to publish other Ikeda works, like… Lady Oscar (in 2015 perhaps). Oniisama E… will be published in one volume and in big format.”

Comic Natalie tells me that the September issue of Feel Young, will contain the final chapter of Ohana Holoholo. I’m a little relieved, because after the fabulous Volume 5, the story kind of jumped the shark. :-(

For Hakusensha’s 40th anniversary they are re-issuing a 1980’s title,Narita Minako’s CIPHER in a collector’s edition. The new two-volume release (Volume 1) collects this tale of a painter and her painting of her twin brother. The art is very 80s, but it’s totally my style. ^_^

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Yuri Anime

ANN reports that, at Otakon last week, Funimation announced that they’ve licensed a pile of series previous put out by Bandai , including the entire Mai Hime franchise, Mai Hime, Mai Otome, Mai Otome ~S.ifr~ and My Otome Zwei. Funi’s modus operandi right now seems to be to stream titles and then release them on DVD, so expect Shizuru, Natsuki and the gang  in 2014. For reviews of all of these, check out the Mai Hime and Mai Otome categories here on Okazu.

Classic Yuri fans unite! AnimeSols is streaming and crowdfunding the DVD set of Dear Brother. My gods, Saint-Juste on DVD, it’s hardly conceivable. /shiver/

Last report I shared that the new Sailor Moon anime would be streaming on Nico Nico Douga. Well way more importantly, Comic Natalie reports so will the new Sailor Moon Musical. If you’ve never seen a SerauMyu, you’re in for a bit of a “holy crap, this is cheesy…but I think I like it” moment. One of my favorite memories on my first trip to Tokyo was the unexpectedly fabulous SeraMyu I attended.

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Yaoi Manga

Say what? Yes, there is news of a BL Manga you should read. (This is hardly the first mention of BL here, check the category sidebar, you’ll see a Yaoi Category, as well as the LGBTQ category) This is not just any old BL manga, though. ANN reports a new Vertical license – something that has been on my to-read list for a few years. Kinou Nani Tabeta? / What Did You Eat Yesterday? by Yoshinaga Fumi, is a story of a gay couple and their daily life…and the food they eat. I’ve written about Yoshinaga’s love for food and about my love of her love of food. I adore her foodiness. And this is not a typical BL, it’s a story of a real couple. A BL version of Collectors, if you will. I’m really looking forward to this manga. ^_^

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Other News

The pair who goes by the name Himekawa Akira (co-creators for The Gold Ring, the first Arabic-language manga and who did the Legend of Zelda manga, have been chosen to work on the My Little Pony manga. This is all kinds of fabulous – they are really nice ladies, and friends of a friend of mine, and they are a terrific team.  And..My Little Pony **manga!**  I’m already squeeing. ^_^

Via Ben A. on Twitter –  watch this super-swell video. Mid-century art stylings, romantic ballad, space pirates and the girl gets the girl. Whee!

Rose of Versailles-themed shoes! Comic Natalie finds the best stuff.

To cap this week, we’ll take a look back at last week, when Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Charles Brownstein addressed a standing-room only crowd at Summer Comiket on Manga Freedom. Read the full text of his speech. It’s good stuff.

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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!

Yuri Manga

Top Story this week is via YNN Correspondents Shannon L and David M: Seven Seas has announced that they’ve licensed Morinaga Milk’s Gakuen Polizi. I have two things to note about that: 1) I’m glad it’s not Himitsu no Recipe, because that’s pretty dire so far and; 2) They’re using my transliteration of the title. I told you it looked stylish. ^_^

The September issue of Comic Yuri Hime (コミック百合姫) has a 3-D cover and back to pushing Namori’s Yuri Yuri.

Not-Yuri, but fans of Otsu Hiyori might want to get the Comic Rex collection, Otomodachi kara Hajimemashou (お友達からはじめましょう) by Otsu-sensei.

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Yuri Anime

Once again a heads-up from Shannon, that Media Blaster’s release of Yamibo – Darkness, the Hat and the Travelers of the Books is slated for late October.

YNN Correspondent Joel K wants you to know Aniplex US has posted a trailer for the third installment of the Madoka Magica movie trilogy with English subtitles.  He says, “The movie, set for international release on October 26th, 2014, will consist of all new material and will be told from the perspective of Homura-chan. The film will be distributed in the US by Warner Brothers and will be played in a (yet unknown) number of theaters across the country during the upcoming winter season.”

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Yuri Webcomic

Via – I think, my Twitter feed – Missing Monday is a really nice little webcomic by Elle Skinner. “Missing Monday is a coming of age webcomic that follows Foyle Leaf and her growing relationship with Monday Rhodes, a girl from another world who appears one day through a doorway in an abandoned clocktower.”

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Yuri Drama CD

An independently produced Yuri Drama CD, Kyouka-san Yuri Ryoudoku, (Kyouka-san’s Yuri Recitation) has a promotional video up on NicoNico Douga (you’ll need to be registered and logged in to hear it.)

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Other News

I’ve been meaning to tell you this – mistress of manga knowledge and gift-giving, Deb Aoki, has a new blog and if you care at all about manga, you should bookmark it and read it. MangaComicsManga is, as the name suggests, two-thirds manga, one-third comics.

More really interesting reading, Adam B. Vary looks at the question Why Aren’t There More Gay Superheroes? over at Buzzfeed. He’s only looking at Marvel/DC, so don’t get bent out of shape that Uranus and Neptune aren’t mentioned. ^_^

Also totally worth reading, missturdle’s article, On the importance of Magical Girl Heroines & Weaponized Femininity, which is a nice discussion of how magical girls have and keep their own agency.

One more, because…cool! Chocolates For Breakfast, a 1956 lesbian novel has been re-released by Harper Perennial, with the scandalous(!) section that had originally been cut from the American edition. Read about the author – and that juicy (not really, but) section on AfterEllen.

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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!