Yuri Manga

The third volume of the Black Cat Mansion series, Shoujo Hakumei, (少女薄命~猫目堂ココロ譚~ ) hit the market this month.

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Snatches of Yuri

For fans of Rakka Ryuusui, Volume 5 is available as of today.

And if you’re a Fujieda Miyabi fan, you’ll be glad to know that he announced a fourth volume of Twinkle Saber Nova is forthcoming.

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Maria-sama ga Miteru News

We have movie-sign! Here are links for the DVD & Blu-Ray set (with animated spots that ran before the movie, illustrations by Hibiki Reine, making of, cast comments and other extras); just the Blu-Ray and just the DVD.

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Yuri Visual Novel

The folks who created Soulfege are now bringing you Hakuisei Renai Shoukogun, a tale of love and blinking among student nurses at a hospital. You can watch the trailer on Youtube. It seems like a sweet story.

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Other News

You know we’re in constant recruitment-mode for our Yuri army, right?Most importantly, we’re always looking for military materiel. After the helicopters of Strawberry Panic!,  something in my brain snapped and ever since then, we’ve been collecting awesome armaments for our eventual Yuri takeover. We’ve added fighter jets, and of course any number of handguns and sword, but what we were really missing was a tank. I just wasn’t going to be happy until we had some ground support. Well, today, we got it. Ana M. sent us this picture of the official Pixel Maritan tank. It’s perfect, isn’t it? I covet it, with its pink camouflage pattern. And Maritan’s cheerful “Fuck you!” over the gun. OMG, it’s just perfect. Thanks Ana! Now we need an Aircraft Carrier. ^_^

A number of manga artists, including Morinaga Milk are contributing to a Earthquake Relief fund charity doujinshi movement. You can find the website here. It is in Japanese, so don’t be surprised.

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Yuri Anime

The Subaru-sponsored short animation, Houkago no Pleiades, will be coming to movie theaters across Japan…as a series of “Mind your manners” shorts, before the movie plays.

YNN Correspondent George R submits this report on Yuri in the novel Moshidora, on which the anime is based:

Following up on an item from the April 9 YNN, I found the Yuri in Moshidora. It’s not quite as imagined as I thought. It happens in chapter 3, page 77 (which is animated in episode 2). Yuki, the baseball manager who’s currently sick in the hospital asks Ayano, the shy manager, why she joined the baseball team. Ayano’s response is to tearfully admit that she wants to make friends with everyone and be useful to them, then adds “Watashi, Yuki-san ga suki datta’n desu!” [I do like you, Yuki-san], explaining that she’s always looked up to Yuki, wanted to be like her, be useful to everyone like she is, make friends with everyone like she does.

 So, with Yuri goggles on, I can interpret that as Ayano having a romantic crush on Yuki. On the other hand, when I read the novel, I left off my goggles and interpreted this as Ayano wanting to break out of her shell and not be the “expressionless android of a model student” that she was accused of in junior high. Sure, Yuki was someone she admired and wanted to emulate, but I didn’t see it as romantic or Yuri. Given that interpretation, and a bit of fuzzy memory explains why I was shocked other folks saw Yuri in Moshidora. Welcome to the wonderful world of “the ambiguities of ‘suki’.” However I think this qualifies as Yuri just as much as a lot of MariMite does. Goggles-yay!

Yeah, it’s about as Yuri as K-ON! Yuri Goggles help. ^_^

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Yuri Ero-game

There is nothing about the new Yuri ero-game that I could say that is not already captured by the title. The new game is called – and no, I am not kidding – Yukkuri Panic! Escalation. Yes, this is the story of Cream Escalation, with a new title. Yay.

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Yuri Snack News

Convenience store chain Lawson is promoting a series of K-ON! inspired snacks and goods through the end of May. I want that stapler.

But hands down, the best snack-related item on today’s report is the Tohato Caramel Corn with eyes drawn by Ryoko Ikeda. ^_^

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Other News

Manga translator Dan Kanemitsu has worked with artist Nogami Takeshi to develop a bi-lingual Strike Witches doujinshi, Witches of Africa. Nogami also worked on the Bill 156 doujinshi, which Dan translated and Nogami-sensei’s a friend of another translator I know, so he’s kind of immersed in the idea of cross-cultural expression. I am very excited about the idea of bi-lingual doujinshi, as it seems like a natural progression. You can get this collection from Amazon JP, among other sales outlets in Japan. (And, if you run a sales outlet here, Dan and Nogami-sensei are looking for sellers here in the west, too.)

Also in bilingual news, Japanese art site Pixiv is creating an English-language encyclopedia.

Last up for today, YNN correspondent Jenna M. reports that Japanese seiyuu Ogata Megumi, who many Yuri fans remember fondly as Tenoh Haruka/Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon, is on Twitter for a limited time, to promote a charity event and birthday concert.

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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 Anime

From CRNews and YNN correspondent Komatsu-san ,  Morita-san ha Mukuchi is getting  a TV anime. I really want them to cast some ridiculously famous actress as Morita-san who, of course, has no lines. (*_*)

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Yuri Events

Also from Komatsu-san, Shimura Takako original art from Aoi Hana is being exhibited in Chiba and Tokyo to commemorate the release of the  6th volume of Aoi Hana manga. The exhibition will be held at  Shibuya Tsutaya on May 5 to May 29 and the Sanseido Culture Station Chiba branch from May 13 to June 26.

If you’re in NYC today (May 7, 2011,) drop by the Bronx Museum of Art for Bronx Heroes Comic-con. Rica Takashima will be there selling her new doujinshi and participating in a panel. You’ll get a sneek peek at her story Heroine of Art ~ Cutey Beret!

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Yuri Manga

In what I consider to be big news, Ribon magazine is continuing Blue Friend (ブルーフレンド~2nd Season). The new story will pick up with the characters in high school and will begin in the 7th volume of Ribon (available in June.) Blue Friend got a continuation, so did Nobara no Mori no Otome-tachi. Maybe the world really is ready for a Yuri revolution, finally. ^_^

Tsubomi, Volume 12 will be hitting shelves on June 13.

Also being released in June are Tsubomi collections,  Candy (キャンディ ) by Suzuki Yuuko and Renai Manga ( レンアイマンガ ) by Kodama Naoko.

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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 Anime

Nozomi/RightStuf has announced a release date for the 2nd box set of the newly remastered Revolutionary Girl Utena series. The Black Rose Arc will hit the streets on August 2, 2011. The box is freaking gorgeous.

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Yuri Manga

Here we go! Aoi Hana, Volume 6, out in June.

The June issue of Comic Yuri Hime is set to be released on the 18th of May. An The next Yuri Hime comic collections will be Takasaki Yuuki’s Mugen no Minamo ni, Volume 2, Kirakira by Takemiya Jin, Zaou Taishi and Eiki Eiki’s  Renai DNA XX, and Namori’s Yuru Yuri, Volume 6. For fans of Yuri Yuri, looks like Volume 7 is going to have a special edition with, one presumes, some anime-related something.

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Yuricon News

The Yuricon custom toolbar has been updated and is now available for IE, Firefox and Chrome.

We’ve also updated the Submission Guidelines for ALC Publishing. From the updated rules, “These guidelines are a test of your ability to follow simple directions, so if you do not follow them, your work will not be considered.” I hope that clears things up for people. ^_^

Just in time for the first new Yuricon contest, (which was decided by poll and will be a Fan Art contest,) we’ve given a brand new look to the Yuriko and Friends Gallery!

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Snatches of Yuri

Usakame Combo (うさかめコンボ！) looks like loads of loli wacky 4-koma fun for people who like Aisha and Rin-Rin clones.

Tenzen Aluminium, Volume 3 (天然あるみにゅーむ) is more 4-koma with some mild Yuri, just like, um, every other 4-koma. Here are some sample pages.

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Other News

Our good friend Komatsu Mikikazu-san has gotten a great new gig with Crunchyroll News, and will be bringing you some of the most fun news straight from Japan. I hope you’ll drop by and “like” and share his news items!

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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!