Yuri Manga

Yay! Fu~Fu (ふ～ふ), Volume 2 is slated to hit shelves in Japan in April. Woot! Boo, Fu~Fu, Volume 2 is the final volume. But the ending is spectacular, I promise you. ^_^

YNN Correspondent Tomo K. wants you all to know “Dowman Sayman’s Nickelodeon Green (ニッケルオデオン 緑) came out last month. This is a collection of 13 short stories which were published in Shogakukan’s IKKI magazine. Each story is 8 pages long. Two of the stories have a Yuri twist.

In “Inshu Bancho”, a girl’s saliva suddenly turns to sake, so her female friends start kissing her to “have a drink”. In “Hikkii and Gakkii”, the class rep keeps bringing school handouts to her hikikomori classmate whose home is filled with trash. The two girls finally confess their feelings for each other when the ward office decides to come take away all the trash.

The series is still ongoing in IKKI.”

Thanks Tomo, we appreciate the heads up!

Via @tougehiro on Twitter, Miniskirt Space Pirates (Bodacious Space Pirates) is now a manga from Asahi Comics. Reviews are comparing it to the TV series and finding it lacking. The manga covers Volume 2 of the novels – the Golden Ghost Ship arc.

Comic Natalie reports a Rose of Versailles magnet included in Cocohana magazine, Volume 4.

Rakuen Le Paradise (楽園 Le Paradis), Volume 11 is available, have you bought it yet? ^_^  

Real Bian manga by Japanese gravure idol Ichinomiya  Ayaka about her coming out as a real lesbian in the Japanese entertainment world is now available in full for free with download of the Zero One Viewer,(the green link in the middle). DL the viewer and choose the complete Real Bian from their menu – the title is in English, so it should be relatively simple. The book is in Japanese.

While I wasn’t looking  Sabagebu (さばげぶっ) has gotten a Volume 3 and Volume 4. Volume 4 is supposed to be turning up the Yuri-o-meter to high. I wouldn’t be surprised, given the earlier volumes.  (Here’s a refresher on the series, if you’ve forgotten the Survival Game Club.)

ROD REHABILITATION, Volume 1, with the new, completely different, Yomiko, goes on sale at the end of April.

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Yuri Anime (and related stuff)

RightStuf’s Spring catalog is a total Yuri fest, with Rose of Versailles on the front and Sweet Blue Flowers on the back. ^_^ Can’t wait for the mail? Download it and enjoy their continued commitment to Yuri anime. ^_^

One More Lesbian’s Lesbian Film Guide: Friends, Lovers and Other Complications covers Desiree Lim’s Sugar Sweet which I saw in San Francisco in 2002 and was released on DVD in 2011. If you missed it the first time around, check out this tale of true love and lesbian porn. ^_^

Hidamari Sketch‘s not-Yuri couple Hiro and Sae will be graduating in a very special episode this month. A promotional video for the episode is up on YouTube. If you like Hiro x Sae, you’re gonna want to watch it. ^_^

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Other News

Rica Takashima’s got a new FB page for her art, the Peeakboo Art Project. Join her for a unique look at life and interactive art projects all around the globe!

On Magazine no Mori this week, I look at GFantasy, a shounen manga magazine for women.

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It’s a bibble and bob kind of week.

Namori-sensei, creator of Yuru Yuri, made the internet squee with a tweet of a cute napkin sketch.

I haven’t read Volume 1, but Volume 2 of Watashi ga Kanojo de Kanojo ga Watashi de (私が彼女で彼女が私で) hits shelves this month.

Yurina Hibi reports that Ichijinsha’s Palette magazine 4-koma series Oikaze Run Jump Throw! (追い風らんっ・じゃん・すろー!) is very high on the Yuri score. There’s at least one couple and some flesbian service.

Fashion magazine commons & sense, Issue 44 – CUBE, has Yuri manga by Tamaka Rin-sensei.

US-based Internet Service Providers have begun tracking file-sharing. Read up on the “6-warning system,”  know your rights and make your choices intelligently.

I was able to wax enthusiastic about the Grandmother of Yuri, Yoshiya Nobuko, in my answer on Quora to ‘Who is your gay hero?’  ^_^

Just the other day, I was whining to myself that there hasn’t been a Yuri-flavored Drama CD in a while, and lo and behold! I learned of the existence of a brand-spanking new one, Seijukuki Jinmei Vega, (思春期生命体ベガ) based on the action-adventure Yuri series by Hayate x Blade’s Hayashiya Shizuru-sensei, that runs in Rakuen Le Paradis magazine. Vega is an alien who fights off giant sea monsters that attack a small seaside town with power she gains from kissing her human sempai. (My wife comments, “Don’t we all?”) The series is one of the many that make that magazine my favorite of all the many manga magazines I read. A Drama CD with Yuri, aliens AND giant sea monsters? I’m totally there.^_^

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Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!

I cannot tell you HOW MUCH I was not writing a YNN report this week, but then stuff, so here we are.

Yuri Anime

There is no GIRL FRIENDS anime on the radar. A Spanish blog announced this in 2009. They later said the rumor was false.  I just know breathlessly excited people asked me to comment before I’d had my coffee this morning. You should all know better than that. Have I taught you nothing?

When you read a rumor:

1) Question the premise: Is it *likely*? Is it sensible? Is it probable? Is it plausible?

If the answer to all 4 of these questions is ‘Yes’ then:

2) Look for a source. 

Sources are how you track the veracity of a news item.

ANN always lists its sources. So does Crunchyroll News. I’m iffier about it that I should be, because I’m lazy. I’ll be better at it from now on, since I hate being a hypocrite. ^_^ I just spent some time looking through Japanese Yuri blogs and news sources and found nothing. Nothing anywhere. The only thing I found was that Spanish blog from 5 years ago.

Next time you come across a Yuri-related rumor, instead of asking me if I’ve heard it, if you do the footwork and track down who said what, where, and report it to me (at anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com,) then a YNN correspondent is you! You’ll get a fetching badge, and everything. ^_^

In this case, the post in question was made in 2009 and was immediately retracted. It appears to have been based on Morinaga-sensei commenting on her blog that it would be nice “if.”

That having been said, it’s is not implausible that a GF anime might be made, although I consider it unlikely to be a series. Maybe a short packaged with a deluxe 5-manga set or something. That’s what I’d do, ‘if.’ ^_^

In other news, Director Kunihiko Ikuhara has announced that he will be showing a new anime project teaser video at a Revolutionary Girl Utena discussion event being held March 23rd in Tokyo. (According the the event site, Utena manga artist Saitou Chiho-sensei will be there as well.)

New Video Group has stated that the Digimon Tamers DVDs will be dub only. The dub was actually very good, but I admit to hoping it would be the subbed version. ^_^; Oh well, there’s still Hulu.

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Yuri Shousetsu

In addition to the reissue of Suzumoto Beni’s PUPPY LOVE, illustrated by Hibiki Reine, there’s a sequel, Bebe Requin: PUPPY LOVE 2

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Other News

The Organization of Anti-Social Geniuses put together a  list of How You Can Watch Anime Legally in 2013. It’s worth taking a look at and bookmarking for future reference.

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That’s a wrap for this week!

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Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!

Yuri Manga

Seven Seas has licensed Centaur no Ayami, a school life series about centaurs. Volume 2, if you remember, goes off the charts with service-y Yuri.

Comic Natalie reports that there will be a Yuru Yuri spin-off, “The Ohmuro Family” which, along with several other Comic Yuri Hime 4-koma titles will run on their upcoming webcomic site Comic Yuri Hime on Nico Nico Douga.

Comic Yuri Hime, May 2013 Issue (コミック百合姫 2013年 05月号) is now up for pre-order on Amazon JP. It will street in March.

Tsubomi has put  new chapters of 4 comics up, and has a nice new top illustration on their webcomic page. Himitsu no Recipe by Morinaga Milk, Eden no Higashitotsuka by Hakamada Mera, Otomo Megane’s Futari and Sugawa Tokushi’s  Zenryaku, Yuri no Sono Yori have been updated.

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Other News

ANN has a new feature which I would recommend to any of you out there who want to understand IP law (in a US context). Part 1 of the The Law of Anime: Copyright and the Anime and Part 2: Copyrights and Fandom are both well worth your time . (Also, if you feel very superior and intelligent about how reform is long overdue, read the comments, too where Sean Thorsden, Esq. says, “yes” to that and then explains why it isn’t happening to your satisfaction.)

And my wife notes that it has been about 5 years since I started to post weekly news updates about Yuri. (My first “This Week in Yuri” was in February 2008). She says, “I think it’s impressive that you’ve had something to report nearly weekly for 5 years.” I have to agree with her on that. So now we have another pin in Yuri’s history, in 2008 it became possible to start writing weekly new reports on Yuri! How amazing is that. ^_^

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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!

Quiet February week. They must have known were getting another storm of the century.

Yuri Manga

The first volume of Morinaga Milk’s new series Gakuen Polizi (学園ポリーチェ) is making its appearance on Japanese shelves next month.

Otomo Megane’s Futari (ふたり) from Tsubomi magazine, will also make a March debut.

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Anime News

The new Ghost in the Shell: Arise anime will be premiered with a multi-channel, real-time event (with subtitles) on Youtube, NicoNico and Bandai Channel that will be streamed globally. The event is being held 9PM on February 12 Japan time. The event will include the trailer and opening footage of the new series. For information about the live event in Roppongi, or the anime, check out the Arise website. (Site in Japanese)

Could this be true? Are my eyes not deceiving me? Digimon Tamers is scheduled for a DVD release this summer. It’s cool on Hulu and all, but I get tired of the guy telling me it’s  presented with “limited commercial interruption.” ^_^

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LGBTQ News

President Obama announced that he will posthumously honor Jeanne Manford, founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) with the Citizen’s Medal.

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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!