Yuri Manga

Ikuhara Kunihiko has launched a Mawaru Penguindrum manga project called Penguinbear, some two years after the anime ran in Japan. (The Penguindrum anime was licensed in English by Sentai Filmworks and is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray,Part 1 and Part 2. Don’t miss it, it’s very interesting. ^_^)

Thanks to your support, Fujieda Miyabi’s slice-of-life Yuri romance Ameiro Kouchakan Kandan, is the number one best seller on JManga this week! I haven’t heard anything about Volume 2 yet, but here’s hoping. ^_^

From Wings Comics comes a collection of a Hirari contributor, Sasada Asuka’s, works the Sasada Asuka Collected Shorts Kira Kira no Natsu (ささだあすか短篇集 きらきらのなつ)

Yurist (百合人―ユリスト―第1号) has an utterly creepy cover, so I have no idea what the inside of this mook will contain. Could be interesting…could be not. ^_^;

Back in print is Suzumoto Beni’s Puppy Love, cover by Hibiki Reine. I previously reviewed Suzumoto’s Ibara-hime, also with a cover by Hibiki. It wasn’t bad, so I’ll give this one a try.

Onna no Ko Sekkeizu, (女の子の設計図) a Hirari collection, hits shelves in Japan next month. And Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari, Volume 10 does, as well.

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Other News

Hooded Utilitarian‘s Noah Berlatsky wrote a piece on The Ethics of Scanlation for the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy. It’s a very good summation of a complex issue, with contributions from Mangablog‘s Brigid Alverson and myself.

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Yuri Anime

Nozomi/RightStuf announces the Limited Edition DVD release of the first half of Riyoko Ikeda’s timeless classic of the French Revolution, Rose of Versailles. Check out their RoV page rov.rightstuf.com for a series preview and ordering information!

And, don’t forget while you’re there to pre-order your copy of Aoi Hana/Sweet Blue Flowers.

A little disappointed with the current season of anime? A Certain Scientific Railgun continues this April in A Certain Scientific Railgun S. (Also, you should watch Psycho Pass, but that’s another thing.)

The Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As The Second movie is due out on March 22 and DVD and Blu-ray will once again include English subtitles. (There are multiple choices for various Special Editions, so I’ll just link you to the regular “Special Edition” and not the super special or regular editions. Feel free to figure it out on your own. ^_^; (Yes, that is the sound of me giving up, funny you should mention it.)

Sentai Filmworks has licensed the K-ON! movie. (There is absolutely no Yuri in it, not even vague service, FYI, but it was fun.)

Hahahaha! Sentai also licensed Kämpfer. Gosh I know we were all waiting for that one. Here’s my take on that series from when it showed originally. The Entrails animals were seriously great, but it’s up to you whether they were great enough to make watching the series worthwhile.

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Yuri Manga

YNN Correspondent from France, vero, reports two new Yuri manga licenses from Taifu – Nanzaki Iku’s Sweet Little Devil and Morinaga Milk’s Kushibiru Tameiki Sakurairo, which will be known as Secret Girlfriends.

As a number of folks have noted that the Girlfriends Collection, Volume 2 by Morinaga Milk is at #5 on the New York Times Manga best seller list. ^_^

ANN reports that Kodansha has listed the first volume of the Sailor Moon short story collections for September, after the main series is complete. The second volume is slated for November.

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Random

A fan of Yuru Yuri has created a 3-D replica of the Amusement Club’s  clubroom as a dollhouse.

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Yuri Manga

ALC and JManga present Fujieda Miyabi’s Ameiro Kochakan Kandan Vol.1 (飴色紅茶館歓談)! We were very excited to work on this for you. I’d love to see sales of this blow JManga out of the water. ^_^

Torikago no Shoujo-tachi (鳥籠の少女たち) looks excruciating, but I’ll probably read it anyway. ^_^;

Itazura Choucho has made it to a Volume 2 in which we’ll learn the results of the piano contest.

Comic Yuri Hime, March 2013 (コミック百合姫) issue hit shelves on Thursday and a whole lot of the mangaka were excited about it on Twitter.

Circus-themed Cirque Arachne (Cirque Arachne -サーク・アラクニ) by Saida Nika has wrapped up in Comic Yuri Hime and a collected volume is being released next month.

Speaking of Comic Yuri Hime. (Amazon JP has CYH and it’s collections cataloged very oddly. Instead of having a Yuri category, Yuri Hime is listed under Magazine> Comic/Anime/BL> Seinen Comic and  the collections are listed as Book> Comic/Light Novel/BL> Comic. Clearly, Amazon employs no librarians or anyone with the vaguest clue how Indexing works.) But that isn’t my point at all. My point is that I just happened to check The January issue of Comic Yuri Hime it is coming in at #23 in its category and the March issue at #1.  Since the magazine came out on Thursday, that’s seems a good sign. I know someone of you keep wondering how it’s doing. Ichijinsha does not, apparently, release circulation data for the magazine. Amazon does not release sales numbers, but that is at least a relative measurement of popularity this week that does not include any measure of direct sales. (Realistically, who buys comic magazines in Japan through Amazon JP? In or near a major city, you’d go to a store, or get a subscription.)

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Yuri Anime

Episode 1 of  Aoi Hana/Sweet Blue Flowers is up on the Nozomi/RightStuf channel on Youtube  (Region blocking applies)

Random Wonderfulness

Via Fernando Ramos on Facebook, this awesome poster from the Kanagawa Rainbow Center sas, “Love Has Many Forms.”

The bit next to the red circles at the bottom says, “Whether it’s heterosexual or homosexual, love isn’t different.”

Scott Green, from Ain’t It Cool News Anime and Crunchyroll, shared these cute Hidamari Sketch latte pictures on Twitter.

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Anime of Yuri-ish Interest

DokiDoki PreCure is going to start up next month and it looks like the cast will be a 6 Degrees of Yuri-fest with Nabatome Hitomi and Kotobuki Minako among the cast. Trailers/ads are up on ANN for your viewing pleasure.

Saki Achiga-hen is being extended to 16 episodes. Crunchyroll will be streaming it starting at the end of the month.

Yuyushiki has been on Yuri lists for some time, and now it’s going to be an anime. Expect a typical 4-koma slice of life gag story with questionable Yuri. ^_^

Queen’s Blade: Vanquished Queens anime trailer is up, as well.

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Yuri Manga

Rakuen Le Paradis, Volume 11 (楽園 Le Paradis) is being released at the end of February. Woot!

Kaneda Natsumi has a collection of Comic Yuri Hime comics called Kanojouna Maid. (かのじょなメイド)

From Mangatime KR comes Lily (リリィ) a school life story about a devil girl and human girl and their paired fates.

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Other News

For those of you who can’t get enough Yuru Yuri goods (I haven’t met any of you, but I have to assume you’re out there, because they keep making them) February and March will see the release of Akari and Kyouko dolls – not figurines, yarn hair doll-like dolls.

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First news report of the year! Always exciting. Let’s see what the Yuri Network has uncovered, shall we?


Other News

Totally random item from YNN Correspondent Mitsu_Manabe on Twitter, from the Japanese otaku culture show MAG Revolution, a screenshot of a list of Yuri Manga listed as “Yuri Manga.”

Interesting choices.

1) Lonely Wolf, Lonely Sheep by Mizutani Fuuka
2) Magarikado no Bokura – by Nakamura Asahimiko (which we know of thanks to Tomo K., but I haven’t seen the Yuri story yet.)
3) Hanjuku Joshi by Morishima Akiko
4) Yuri Danshi by Kurata Uso
5) GIRL FRIENDS by Morinaga Milk

I’m cool with all but one of those choices. Yuri Danshi?!?  With so much amazing Yuri coming out, leave it to otaku to focus on some utterly un-Yuri thing. Oh well, the rest are good. ^_^

Anyway – what do you think of this, Yuri Manga on a show in Japan? Cool? Yes or no? Tell me in the comments!

You know those moments when you see something and you think, “Wait, how did I not know about this?” I don’t have them too often, sitting as I am in the middle of the vast YNN Network…. No, I’m kidding. I have them all the time, because I’m only one person and I cannot read every piece of news on every blog and sometimes I leave the house (at which point, inevitably, a major announcement is made. ^_^;;)

Anyway, my point is, I just had that moment this week, when I learned that Colleen Coover (she of Small Favors fame) has a comic series with Paul Tobin called Bandette. Not Yuri, but an utterly delightful YA female masked thief gig. It’s available for less than $1/issue on Comixology. (Those of you already reading comics on your tablets will love the Comixology app. It’s smooth.) How did I miss this? I don’t know, but I’m on track now and thrilled to have a YA female-lead comic to recommend to anyone who asks, (and random strangers who don’t.)

Go! Read Bandette! We need more non-sucky young female comic leads and clearly DC and Marvel are not to be relied upon for this. Yay Monkeybrain Comics!

Okay, one last utterly random thing. Through my gracious and talented friend Komatsu-san, I have met the cheerful and talented Ransui-san of Fantastic Yuri Rhythm. The two of them were vendors at this past Winter Comiket (and they sold pretty well, I’m told. ^_^)

Well, in reading Ransui-san’s Comiket report, I see that she shared a table with SEINE, who did a lovely Yuri photography book. Red Zoo is SEINE’s website, with some of the pictures available as a slide show (Click “Photography Works” on the Homepage, then the cover of “Kimi no Te” (きみの手) to enjoy the photos.) I hope I’ll be able to get a copy of that book one day, the photos are great and a few of them made me smile before I even realized it. ^_^

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Yuri Manga

Volume 3 of Hoshikawa Ginza Yon-Choume (星川銀座四丁目 ) hits shelves next month. Crisis after crisis. What will happen to our improbable couple? Read it and find out.

Ichigo Mashimaro Volume 7 (苺ましまろ)? Oh, right, that’s still ongoing. Huh.

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Yuri Anime

ANN reports that character designs for the Bodacious Space Pirates movie have been revealed on the official movie site. I’m really looking forward to this. ^_^

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