Yuri Events

I am a guest at Women In Comics Con at the Bronx Library Center on October 29, from 11-6. Admission is free! Rica Takashima and I will both be there.

And I’m a guest at AnimeNYC on November 18-20 in Javits Convention Center in NYC. I really hope you’ll all make plans to be there…it’s a great convention for fans of anime and manga.

Girls Love Fest is being held in the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsuchō on November 23.

Comitia will be held once again at Tokyo Big Sight on November 27.

I hope to all the gods that these two events are on the same week next year, too. Because that’s when I plan on going back to Japan. ^_^

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Yuri Anime

Joanna Cayanan on ANN reports on The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess Anime’s 2nd Video Cast, Opening Song, and Debut.

Yuri VNs

Our friends at Aikasa Collective want you to keep an eye out for their upcoming Kickstarter: Red Rebellion! This is a “a sapphic fairy tale mashup as Robin Hood teams up with Red Riding Hood to save their town, in this yuri / lesbian historical fantasy.” Sounds fun!

Ratalaika Games and Visual Novels wants you to know about their VN A Year of Springs, which is available on the PS4 and PS5. Don’t worry if you missed the sale the games are priced pretty low. This VN explores “the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami … a visual novel trilogy about three friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.”

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Yuri Light Novels

J-Novel Club has announced new pre-publication chapters of Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta about a two-timing school lotharia. (Yes, I know that “lothario” has no feminine form as a noun. It does now. ^_^)

Yuri Webtoons

Via Yuri Mother, Filipino artist Logihy has a new series called Careless x Confidential on Pinoy Comiks site Penlab. Check out Chapter 1 right now. The art is very slick.

On Color_LES’s facebook page, the creator of Mage and Demon Queen has announced Velverosa and Malori plushies!

Other News

Global Bookwalker is offering up to 50% coin back on selected titles to celebrate it’s 7th anniversary! Some Yuri titles and J-Novel club titles (sadly, not Yuri Tama) are included. Check out the sale this weekend. I picked up Volume 1 of Is Kichijoji The Only Place To Live? for 50% coin back. This was recommended by Christopher Woodrow Butcher on this week’s Mangasplaining podcast. The first chapter talks about Zoshigaya, of which I am very fond…so I was instantly hooked. ^_^

YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter has written in to let us know of the “2022 ShortBox Comics Fair. Patricia says, “It’s a digital comics fair devoted to showcasing a large variety of brand new comics by various cartoonists from around the world. On top of the majority of the cartoonists being LGBTQ+, most of the comics showcased this year revolve around queer themes, especially sapphic characters and couples. The fair will be hosted throughout the month of October, the creators get to keep the rights to their comics, and 100% of the sales go directly to the cartoonists.” Thanks Patricia – I’ve seen a lot of good stuff popping up from this event!

ANN’s Kim Morrisy reports that Bushiroad’s New D4DJ Unit Includes Lesbian Couple. I was thinking about this and wondering if it was indeed, as Kim said, “notable,” and came to the conclusion that, yes, it is notable that the couple, no matter how fictitious or ephemeral, is notable for being announced by Bushiroad as being “lesbian.”

Via Autostraddle,  and apropos of nothing, please enjoy this video clip of Melissa Etheridge and Rachel Maddow put on the spot for a segment called “Do Lesbians Give a Damn?”

We’ll end on this feel-good moment from Thai Yuri publisher lily house with an image of their booth at a recent event! Sold out and having a great time – just the way we like our Yuri! ^_^

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Yuri and LGBTQ+ Manga

She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki is available from Yen Press! This story is about food, and learning to like one’s self, dealing with traumatic past events and the way intimacies can develop between adults. I have loved Volume 1 and Volume 2 and look forward to your comments on this series in English. ^_^

Crystalynn Hodgkins has the news on ANN that Card Captor Sakura Clear Card Arc will end with Volume 14.

Viz Media announced the license of Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist this weekend.

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Yuri Light Novel

I’m In Love With the Villainess, Volume 5 is coming out in print format in English this week. If you haven’t read it, please do….it’s an amazing and unpredictable ending to an amazing and unpredictable series. Inori-sensei says that the manga volumes are getting reprints, and that you can help her by voting for the light novel in the Kadokawa’s Next Light Novel Awards. Check out Sensei’s post here (scroll down for English) to find out how. Voting is open until October 14.

Yuri Anime

By now, you’ve probably heard that Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury is Utena in Space. Well, it is, and you should at least watch Episode 1. ^_^ ANN’s Kim Morrissey has words from Gundam manga artist Koichi Tokita, in Gundam Manga Illustrator Recalls An Earlier Time When Sexism Prevented A Female Protagonist. It is all well and good that Gundam has a Yuri couple as the main pair, but…can I be honest? How much cooler might it have been if they didn’t just borrow from Utena and created an actual new couple? Like with their own creativity and imagination. Who am I kidding… these are the folks who have used Char Aznable’s style in a dozen different iterations. ^_^;

Speaking of imitation, Kim also has this amazing article: Lycoris Recoil Anime Changes Episode 11 Eyecatch Illustrations to Discourage Fans from Imitating the Poses in Real Life. We should not have to tell people to not put poisonous plants in their mouths, but here we are.

Via Comic Natalie and Yuri Navi, Hoshizuku Telepath manga from Mangatime Kirara magazine is getting an anime! This is a school club story in which a girl with social anxiety meets a self-professed alien in a rocket-building club.

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Yuri Live-Action

Komatsu-san over at Crunchyroll News has the details and promotional video for If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It To The Budokan, I Would Die, live action series. Have to say, this looks pretty solid.

Other News

Crunchyroll News’ Kara Dennison wants you to know that ZOMBIE LAND SAGA‘s Franchouchou Announces First 3D Virtual Concert! If this goes streaming, I can easily be convinced to buy a ticket. We genuinely loved their songs.

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Yuri Manga

Volume 3 of the I’m in Love With the Villainess manga has hit shelves this week from Seven Seas. Rae and Claire will face each other in their fight to join the Academy Knights!

Also out this week from Seven Seas is Tsukiko’s 18+ collection Cats and Sugar Bowls.

We’ve also added Mieri Hiranashi’s The Girl Who Can’t Get a Girlfriend. This began life as an online comic and will now be collected into a revised volume from Viz Originals!

She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat, Volume 1 hit shelves this month from Yen Press. This is a very interesting series and I’m looking forward to everyone’s opinions of it. ^_^

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Via Yuri Navi, we have news of a new series starting in Comic Yuri Hime, “Aishitabun Dake Aishite Hoshi i~tsu!” (愛したぶんだけ愛してほしいっ！) about a college drop-out and a hot-head.

Also via Yuri Navi, Lily & Ivy  ~ Kenka Couple Yuri x Seiai Anthology (リリー&アイビー ～ケンカップル百合×性愛アンソロジー～) includes stories by Sakura Trick creator Tachi,  NTR creator Kodama Naoko and others!

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Yuri Light Novel

The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Volume 5 is available now from Yen Press, pitting Menou against her mentor, Flare.

Yuri Anime

Via Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G, we have some recommended reading. Lycoris Recoil And Shingo Adachi: Turning Original Anime Production Chaos In Your Favor,by kViN on Sakuga Blog, is an interesting  – if uncritical – look at the behind the scenes changes that helped make Lycoris Recoil a barnburner this season.

From my perspective, LycoReco was less a masterwork of finesse than a really fun handwave – Noir with jokes. Most of the emotional impact was set dressing and wasn’t going to have real meaning right from the beginning, as we all recognized on the Okazu Discord. Fun, but not smart, or deep, with a million plot holes festooned about the narrative like balloons.

Yuri Doujinshi

New on Irodori Sakura 18+ is Pikachi’s Girlfriends Club, described thusly, “The Girlfriends Club: A mysterious association at Yamayuri Girls’ Academy and its sister schools that essentially pays you to spend time deepening your relationships with other club members. The catch? Your interactions are livestreamed to an audience of very wealthy viewers!”

If you’re fans of Our Teachers Are Dating by Pikachi Ohi, don’t miss Irodori’s translated version of Ohi-sensei’s own doujinshi about Kiyattou-sensei and her girlfriend, in Romance for Teachers.

Other News

Always popular with the fandom and never really Yuri, the K-ON! manga by Kakifly is now available as a single-volume omnibus collection from Yen Press!

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Yuri Event

Rica Takashima and I will be at Women in Comics at the Bronx Library Center on October 29! If you missed us at FlameCon, here’s your chance! The link shows last year’s info. I’ll give you more details as I get them.

I will be at AnimeNYC, November 16-18 in New York City, with a table in the Artist’s Alley, as well as doing a few panels. I’ll be signing copies of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga and I’ll have some of the Yuri from ALC Publishing with me, and bookplates, pins and stickers for you to proclaim your love of Yuri.  Definitely drop by to say hello – it’s been a very long time since I have tabled and would love the company. ^_^ If you’re going to be there are would like to help out, drop me a line.

Not Yuri specifically, but I want to share Manga in Libraries tweet that they will be hosting three panels at New York Comic Con, October 6-9! Camp out in the room with us and let’s talk manga all day. ^_^

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Yuri Manga

How about Akuyaku Rejiou ga Sei-Heroin o Kudokiotosu Hanashi. (悪役令嬢が正ヒロインを口説き落とす話。) in which a villainess tries to seduce the heroine, who is beloved for her wisdom and cuteness? Sure, why not. ^_^

Yuri Games and VNs

Via YNN Correspondent Cryssoberyl, who wants you to know about GrimGrimoire Once More, for PS4, PS5 and Switch. Cryssoberyl says, “Important yuri game news. This is an updated remaster of the 2007 release, which features a canon yuri romance as part of its main story.” Check out the trailer on Youtube.

Via YNN Corespondent Xan, we learn that Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life will have queer romance options and the ability to play as a non-binary character.

Also via Cryssoberyl, SUCCESS Corporation has announced the HD remastering of classic Yuri VNs Akai Ito and Aoi Shiro for Switch and Steam! These both came out in the early 00s just before the big Yuri boom. In 2009, Mara reviewed Aoi Shiro for us here on Okazu!

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Other News

The Volks company is releasing a set of Rose of Versailles dolls. Check out their Twitter feed for images of Oscar and Antoinette!

Colleen’s Manga Recs has a pretty solid video on on the larger issues of Misogyny in the Manga Community. It’s just another popular feature of Patriarchy ^TM!

Eike Exner has written an article for The Comics Journal of interest: Laying the Groundwork for Japanese Comics: Imaizumi Ippyō’s Establishment of Euro-American Narrative Cartoons in the Jiji Shinpō between 1890 and 1899.

I’m currently reading Queer Transfigurations: Boy’s Love Media in Asia, edited by our good friend James Welker. As you know, BL isn’t my area of study, but fandom is of significant interest to me, and I am interested in the parallels and differences in BL and Yuri fandoms. Reading about how different BL fandoms react to real-world LGBTQ issues is interesting, and I have a lot of thoughts about the many ways that “gatekeeping” manifests…some protective, some exclusive. I’m freer than most scholars as I write here on topics of interest to me because I can have an opinion as well as just quoting other people’s opinions. In a lot of ways, I think it gives me the ability to recognize more nuance, since I’m not confined to one specific focus. Maybe. We’ll see where this book takes me. ^_^ It’s been honestly interesting so far, so if you are interested in BL, I give this one a thumbs up.

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