Yuri Anime

Welcome to the “some series never die” edition of the YNN report! Top news this week is German licensing company m4e has re-licensed the Sailor Moon anime for the German market. It’s not that US companies don’t want to license Sailor Moon, we know that. Remember when Funimation looked into it? And I know two others that have, as well. And…it’s not happenin’ right now. I don’t know why it’s not. but I’m going to close my eyes and pray for a moment that we do get a re-release sometime soon. I really want a DVD set of the third season with sound that doesn’t suck. I like to crank it when the Outer Senshi transform. (I’m sitting here watching Sailor Moon S as a I type and *man* does it have lousy art! But I don’t care, I love it anyway and want to see it re-released.)

Also in keeping with our theme this week, Funimation has announced that the release date for the Noir Complete Collection has been pushed back to July.

Back in the 2010’s, Ain’t It Cool Anime News mentioned that a K-ON! movie has been announced with a release at the end of 2011.

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Yuri Events – Yuri Artists

If you’re in or near Kyoto, Japan on the 21st of the month, you might want to arrange your day so you can participate in the 5th Girls Love Fes, Yuri doujinshi market, being held from 11:30-4:30 at Plaza  Pio.

For those of you in or near New York on the 20th of the month, consider arranging your day to make a trip to the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD) where Rica Takashima (Rica ‘tte Kanji!?) will be joining Jennifer Camper (Juicy Mother), Diane DiMassa (Hothead Paisan) and Joah Hilty (Bitter Girl) for a slide show and discussion panel called “Dykes Draw the Line.” The tickets are free, but you must reserve in advance.

If you were on Twitter last night, around 11PM EST, you were able to catch Fujieda Miyabi-sensei drawing live on Ustream. It was fun and rather relaxing, to watch him create something before our eyes (and hear him sing along to his background music.) Those of us watching it decided that we desperately wanted to live in a world where he designed all the clothing. ^_^ (He’s on his stream still, as I type this morning, so quick go over and say hi!)

Nakamura Ching-sensei has been working like a madwoman and picking up a number of very interesting gigs, along with her work on GUNJO and Girl’s Jump. One of her recent jobs was to pen a Yuri story for a fashion magazine, commons & sense, issue 140. This appears to be a real fashion mag, full of stuff I find laughably poser-y, but people who read this kind of thing probably take quite seriously. Check out the gallery and decide for yourself. I’ve ordered the magazine and I’ll let you know how it is.

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Yuri Manga

It’s a festival of blossoms, today. The Endless Room saga from the Tsubomi anthology has been released as a collected volume. (Room in a hotel, all the people who stay in it, their lives and loves…)

Also from Tsubomi, comes Tandem Lover, a story I thought started off crudely, but then softened up quite a bit. And Kuroyome, another Tsubomi series that I can remember nothingwhatsoever about, has got a collected volume, too.

And, while I’m at it, the 10th volume of Tsubomi itself is available now, and Volume 11 will be available in April.

The fourth volume of Pure Visual Yuri Anthology Hirari, will be hitting shelves in April, as well. (Wow, a non-Hobunsha title.)

From the creator of MAKA-MAKA and Mars no Kiss, Torajirou Kish,i comes a new story hailed by all the Japanese Yuri lists, Otome no Teikoku. It’s a Young Jump title, but there’s a synposis on the Business Jump website that boils down to “schoolgirls gone wild.” Ho-hum.

Hobunsha, the publisher of Tsubomi is re-releasing Hakamada Mera’a Saigo no Seifuku in two volumes. Volume 1 and Volume 2. (Tecnically, they are the Upper and Lower volumes, so don’t be surprised if the entries on Amazon JP does not say Volume 1 or Volume 2.)

Back to the bizarro world for a moment, in which Oka’s  Hen is being reissued. I know Gantz is a huge hit, but do they really expect the audience for that to be interested in this? Lucky for Yuri fans, though, who can get a copy of this long out of print Yuri story.

And to end this section, something for me – Rakuen Le Paradis, Volume 5 will be available at the very end of February.

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Snatches of Yuri

Of possible interest to Yuri fans is Onee-sama ha Budokai de Odoru. Could be good, could be typical, JP Yuri lists rated it with a high Yuri temperature.

Onna no ko no Naisho Hanashi Collection has a horrible title, but a line-up of names that write Yuri or almost-Yuri, an,d so, if you are the kind of person who still insists on believing that there’s a secret world behind the gauze curtain and you’re getting a peep or two…this will likely be a perfect book for you.

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Yuri Anime

Subaru and Gainax have uploaded English subtitled episodes of their 4-part short collaboration Houkago no Preadesu  (放課後のプレアデス) with the name Wish Upon the Pleiades.  For some reason, it seemed kind of sweet that they did that. Thanks, Subaru and Gainax!

I’ve been making a terrible assumption here and I want to apologize. I am assuming you’re all watching Hourou Musuko: Wandering Son on Crunchyroll. I think you definitely *should* be watching this, especially if you are a fan of Aoi Hana. This is Shimura Takako’s other currently running series. The anime is as beautiful, sensitive and bitter/sweet as Aoi Hana was. A review will be forthcoming.

In Japan, a new Ikkitousen Blu-Ray box set is on sale. Now you can see Ryoumou’s underwear with the high-definition and detail you’ve always craved.

Speaking of underwear, Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny is now available on Crunchyroll and following that train of thought, so is Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit. While Moribito is in no way Yuri (or anything remotely like Ikkitousen, except for “woman who kicks ass”) I really cannot express how stellar Moribito is, in every way. It still maintains my vote for “Best Anime Series I Have Ever Watched – Ever.” If you have not yet had a chance to see it, and are not locked out by regional licensing nonsense, then please don’t miss your opportunity now.

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Yuri Manga

The second volume of Nobara no Mori no Otome-tachi will be out in March. Yay!

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Snatches of Yuri

MangaTime Kirara is pounding out a few series of note in the next few months: Yuyu Shiki , Volume 3;  Onegai Kami-sama; and Mashimaru and Taifun, all have some Yuri according to people who are not me and have different standards than I do, so your mileage may vary.

Also of note, but also caveat emptor is Yasashi Kyoshi Shitsukeru, which is an ero-story about a teacher who doesn’t much like kids. The cover and title are enough to turn me off, but as I say, YMMV.

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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!