So much is happening this week in Yuri news!

Yuri Manga

Tokyopop’s LoveLove imprint has announced three titles of interest for us! Via multiple YNN Correspondents, we have news of How My Cute Girlfriend and I Started a Love Story by Nomiya Rion, There, Beneath the Water by Fuyumushi Kaiko and Knight-Type Girlfriend by Suzumiya Kiriha.

YNN Correspondent gqll also notes that The Comics Beat’s Ollie Kaplan has an Interview with Lena Atanassova on LoveLove’s inclusive vision and bringing UNNIE, I LIKE YOU! to print.

Seven Seas has licensed The Death Defying Princess Creates a Yuri Harem to Survive by Akashiro Aoi, Kouji Moromi, Murata Shinya, and Yanai Nobuhiko. I’m gonna have to read that.

Yen Press has an interview with Unni, creator of I Love Amy. I reviewed that for ANN’s upcomingwinter manga guide, but really, cannot recommend it here. CW for manipulation, torture, kidnapping and general horribleness. But if you like very toxic Yuri, have at it.

Via YNN Correspondent Manga’Albine, Natsuo Mutsumi’s Yuzuki doesn’t think! which won a Shueisha Newcomer Manga Encouragement Award in 2021, is available for free on their Tomboys site.  This is a story about a butch and tomboy working in a men’s clothing cafe. ^_^

Galette No. 36 is hitting inboxes shortly for members of the Galette Fanclub. Galette Special English Edition. No. 4 backers have been contacted with the price of shipping and tariffs. For my backing level, I’m paying +60% on the cost of the item. In no way do I blame Galette. Contacting our Congress members  and letting them know this is not okay is something we can do.

Love Bullet is out digitally and headed for shelves in print in a few weeks. inee’s remarkable manga is getting a special Kinokuniya pre-order variant cover, for folks who like that kind of thing!

New chapter of Hitorimi desu. by Morishima Akiko, is up on Kadokawa’s highly lesbian CandleA imprint on Comic Walker. ^_^ We meet Sachi’s ex-lover and her cat. 

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Baihe

Seven Seas’ first Baihe release, The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian is out now! This has a standard cover and a Crunchyroll variant cover, as well.

Sr. YNN Correspondent Frank says “The Baiheverse folks are on a roll: They just announced a license for the baihe manhua I Got Blackmailed by the Fake Bitch in Class, another entry in the “opposites attract” schoolgirl yuri genre. (It’s not yet up on their site yet though.)”

Events

If you are in the NYC area, don’t miss Rica Takashima’s exhibit at hetLabo in Brooklyn to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the First Yuri manga ever published in English, Rica ‘tte Kanji!?

While I was in Paris for the wonderful Y/CON 11, I also had a chance to visit Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet for the Manga. Tout un Art! exhibition. Highly recommended and I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow. ^_^

The Kase-san series is 15 years old! To celebrate, creator Takashima Hiromi is doing a web sign event with Shosen book stores. According to their post on X, if you apply to the online event, you’ll get a bonus.

Animate is selling tickets to a Comic Yuri Hime 20th anniversary event/shop. If anyone is going, please let me know and take lots of pictures, because Hayashiya Shizuru-sensei says that there will be Strawberry Shake Sweet illustrations and…I wannnttttt to seeee them!

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Yuri Light Novel

Fantasia GL has a three- part Japanese audio rendering of scenes from the LN Eh? Watashi Socchi Nanno!? (「え、私がそっちなの!?)   Confession, Lap Pillow, and Recall voiced by Tomoha Takayanagi and Akari Kito.

Other News

Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney suggests ANN’s This Week in Anime in which Coop Bicknell & Steve Jones say Bring Out the Big (Girls with) Guns! Many of our favorites are included.

Also on ANN, I take a look at vaguelishly Yuri, two kinda girls travelogue-esque tale of post-destruction Japan in Touring After The Apocalypse, Volumes 2-3.

Anime Herald Magazine is available now in print and digital, or as a print/digital bundle. This is the perfect gift for your otaku friends and family, with in-depth looks at people, series and historical trends by writers like ANN’s Lynzee Loveridge, Red Bard and others, Anime World Order’s Daryl Surat, myself, Anime Herald’s Samantha Ferreira, Yatta-Tachi’s Katy Castillo and many more!  It’s an amazing magazine and you don’t want to miss it! If you’re one of us olds, who miss the days of print anime magazines, then this is a perfect gift for yourself. We’re all hoping that it does well enough to get a second issue for next year.

No Straight Lines, Vivian Kleiman’s documentary about queer comics and comic artists will screen free during the month of December on Pbs.org. If you haven’t watched this, don’t miss it. It’s a very moving discussion of the beginning of modern queer American comics. We’ve lost a number of the featured artists already, so this was so critical a work. I reviewed this movie in 2021, and the comic anthology that spawned it and the Queer and Comics events, in 2013.

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Yuri Manga

Yen has announced a license for Shino & Ren, which looks to be a pretty spicy Yuri manga by Minori Chigusa. Alex Mateo has the scoop on ANN.

Via YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, ANN’s Rafael Anthony Pineda has news that Auri Hirao’s If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die, will end in Japan with the next chapter. Volume 12 will hit JP bookshelves in December. Volumes 1-9 are out in English from Tokyopop, with Volume 10 and 11 looking at releases in December and January. 

Late pledges are being accepted for Galette Special English Edition, Volume 4 until November 15!

Seven Seas has licensed Yuri Yuri Panic, about a girl who gets a marriage proposal from the prettiest girl in school. Anita Tai reports that Seven Seas has licensed a gender-switch love triangle comedy, Uesugi-kun wants to quit being a girl on ANN.

YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter wants you to know there is a new chapter of Inui Ayu’s Threads of Me and You up on Renta! This is in English, on a JP digital “rental” manga site.

Kevin Cormack takes a look at Gunsmith Cats Omnibus Volumes 1 and 2 on ANN. You’ll have to trust me when I say that Rally is actually quite gay, but is more in love with guns and cars than anything. But we do get Misty and Goldie. And it is a classic. Take a look if you never read any of the first three editions of this.

Love Bullet, Volume 2 (ラブ・バレット) is up for pre-order in Japan, and will hit bookstores later this month. That’s up on the Yuricon Store for your pre-ordering convenience. 

Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume 4 (気になってる人が男じゃなかった) pre-order is up on Amazon JP, but will go up on the Store when it can be ordered on other sites as well as Amazon JP. It’s the prom volume and I cannot wait! The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 3 is headed our way next month.

Via Comic Natalie,  Dame Inu Kanojo, Volume 1 (ダメ犬彼女) by Kuwabara Tamotsu tells a story of a school playgirl who was rejected by her first love. When that other girl sees her, she does not recognize her and confesses to Yuhi, who decided to “take revenge” on her. It doesn’t sound “fun” but it does sound unique. This is being published by Kadokawa.

Yasaka Syu has a new series from Kadokawa, as well Baka ni Kokuhaku. Volume 1 (バカに告白), is a love-comedy about a girl who starts an astronomy club who falls for a gym sis. Yasaka-sensei’s name might be familiar to you from their series Monologue Woven For You and How Do I turn My Best friend Into My Girlfriend?.

Also from Comic Natalie, Ichijinsha is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a month of free manga on their online manga site Ichijin Plus! Different days feature different series from their magazines, but a number of Yuri hits are included.  These are all in Japanese.

Fujimoto Remochi’s Makoto- senpai no Mae de Hakakko Tsukerarenai! , Volume 1(真先輩の前ではかっこつけられない!) is about one cool, handsome girl being macked on by and even cooler handsome girl.

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Yuri Anime

OceanVeil added some of the Media Blasters catalog to their streaming service, including that Yuri oldy, Yamibo: The Darkness, The Hat and The Travelers of the Book. This adaptation of a proto-Yuri Visual Novel porn game thingy is variably good and terrible. The OP is great, though. ^_^ Alex Mateo has the details on ANN.

Baihe

Sean Gaffney takes a look at Seven Seas’ release of Baihe novel The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian on his blog A Case Suitable For Treatment. 

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Yuri Visual Novel

Chill Planet from Aozorite, has an EN version up on Steam! This apocalyptic story follows  four young women as they travel towards Hokkaido, as a meteor large enough to destroy life heads towards Earth.

Other News

ANN’s Egan Loo has the story that my hero Go Nagai has received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, from the Japanese government to honor his contributions.

Two items from the Anime magazine world. Otaku USA is cutting back to 2 issues a year, says Alex Mateo. 

Where one door closes, another opens, as Anime Herald’s Samantha Ferreira has announced that pre-orders for the upcoming release of Anime Herald Magazine‘s first issue is just about at the point where she can plan for a Issue 2. I’ve spoken with her about this and the goal is to have this be an annual magazine, featuring writing by some of the best in anime and manga journalism! I’m proud to have an article in this upcoming issue and hope to have one in the next. Pre-order your copy today and enjoy this preview of one of the articles.

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Yuri Manga

Love Bullet, Volume 1 is on the Yuricon Store. (Yen finalllllly got around to releasing the cover art.) Get your copy of this whimsical, bittersweet and action-filled manga today! I’ll be reviewing it soon. To celebrate, Yen Press is holding a 40% off Yuri sale! Thanks, Jae for the heads up on that.

The CandleA imprint at Kadokawa has shown itself to be very Yuri- and queer friendly. Morishima Akiko’s Hitorimi desu, (ひとりみです。) which she released in a self-published English edition as The Single Life ~ The single lives of 60- year old lesbians is up on Comic Walker.

Galette Special English Edition Vol. 4 finished the Kickstarter at 5 of the 6 stretch goals completed! There is an extended period right now where you can still pledge and be counted towards the final stretch goal. 80 more pledges and they make the final goal. You know what to do.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, we have news that Rakuen: Le Paradise magazine will be ending it’s run in February with what will probably be the 50th issue. According to ANN”s Crystalynn Hodgkins, Hakusensha will be announcing what will happen to the current series, including Nakamura Asumiko’s Mejirobana no Saku / A White Rose in Bloom.

 
Queer Manga

Fantagraphic’s Takumigraphics line announced a paperback reissue (and hopefully completion this time) of Takako Shimura’s Wandering Son series. 

Anime Feminist’s Chiaki Mitama talks to gay manga artist Gengoroh Tagame at the deYoung museum Manga exhibit.

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Yuri Light Novels

I reviewed Volume 1 for ANN’s LN Guide and found it to be stupid fun, and Nara Moore wants you to know that This Gyaru’s Got a Thing for…Vampire Hunters?! Vol. 2 is also a good escapist read! Read her review and then read the book from J-Novel Club.

Via the official X channel,  Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei (転生王女と天才令嬢の魔法革命) volume 12 is headed to Japanese bookstores in 2026. We have volumes 1-8 of The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, out now in English from Yen Press.

Fantasia’s Girls Line imprint is holding a Japanese-language Yuri short story competition. Check out their official X account for details.

Via YNN Correspondents Frank and Katgrrrl, Rosmei announced several English-language Baihe novels for release in Singapore. There are some services that will help you get those. This article from Danmei News gives the details on the titles.

Yuri Live Action

Futari Escape is live now on JP streaming channel TVer. You’ll probably need a VPN, but it should be easy enough to watch. In celebration, Melonbooks is running a special campaign on the manga.

Reminder that Yuri movie Her kiss, my libido twinkles 彼女のくちづけ感染するリビドー will be streaming for a time on Youtube due to shipping issues for US backers. Again…a VPN might be useful for non-US folks this time. November 7th, it debuts in JP theaters in my own beloved Ikebukuro.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Frank Hecker, The Secret of Girls on GagaOOLala is a Chinese Hallmark movie about a big-city gal who find love in the countryside. The first two episodes are free.

Via YNN Correspondent Ashley, Ming Ong Chua is selling plushies from her manga-inspired ROADQUEEN: Eternal Road to Love.

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Other News

My review for the Drops of God television series, Season 1 is up on ANN for those of you who are interested in the Apple TV series. Also, more wine talk in Drops of God: Mariage, Volumes 2-3 in which I straight up brag about drinking wine from places mentioned in this manga.

BOOM! Studios will be launching a campaign to fund the Jem and the Holograms: Truly Outrageous Comic Collection this coming week on Kickstarter.

Via Sean Gaffney once again, the folks at Futsutsukana Akujo de wa Gozaimasuga ~ Hinamiya Chounezumi Torikae-den ~ (ふつつかな悪女ではございますが ～雛宮蝶鼠とりかえ伝～) official X account offered this cute Halloween image of our inept villainesses. I intend on reviewing Volume 9 of this extraordinary series tomorrow. This series…it fucking got me sobbing on a plane AGAIN. Sheesh.

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Yuri Manga

Kinokuniya USA is offering a exclusive for the upcoming Love Bullet, Volume 1 release. Get a signboard and sticker with your copy if you pre-order with Kino. This book release is in December from Yen. Interestingly, Yen said at NYCC that they believe this will be their biggest seller of the year. Let’s prove them right! Sr. YNN Correspondent Patricia B notes that Global Bookwalker is running a “Red Yuri” event to celebrate the release.

The Moon on a Rainy Night, Volume 7 is out now from Kodansha. This is an incredible volume. It brings together so many of the themes of this story in a really emotional, relatable way.

The Volume 4 Kickstarter for Galette magazine, has passed the fourth stretch goal! There are 4 days left to get on board and grab this (and back issues) of this creator-owned and crowdfunded Yuri manga magazine.

Via Sr. Correspondent Matt Marcus, Nao Imai’s official X account announced that Yuri Espoir is back, with Volume 5 coming out in November in Japan.

ANN has posted their Fall Manga Guide. I’ve written a ton of reviews for that and the Fall Light Novel Guide. It was a lot of fun and also exhausting. ^_^ Some good Yuri and Yuri-ish stories included, some really forgettable stories, as well. ^_^

Baihe Novels

While we’re talking exclusives, Crunchyroll has an exclusive cover for  The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian, Seven Seas’ first Baihe book. This is headed our way shortly, but I had a hard time deciding which cover I liked better. ^_^

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Frank Hecker, Danmei News has the scoop that all Baihe and Danmei coming from Monogatari  Novels have been delayed, and some have had their pre-orders stopped.

Queer Comics

Super exciting news reported by Christopher Chiu-Tabet at The Comics Beat, that Tilly Walden’s graphic novel of Charity & Silvia, based on the book by Rachel Hope Cleves which I reviewed in 2015, will be available in Spring 2026.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, Datura Magazine No. 4 is on sale now. If tariffs make the print price too steep, she says that the digital version is available on itch.io.

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Yuri Visual Novels

1000-REKA announced the English language track for Black Lily’s Tale on their X account. Grab it now on Steam for 50% off.

Live-Action

Kickstarter backers for Yorita Miyuki’s Yuri movie Her kiss,my libido twinkles (彼女のくちづけ感染するリビドー) have gotten some updates. The movie will be screening in Japanese theaters on November 7! Check out the official X account for where to get tickets. Some folks report that backer rewards have arrived. Because the US shipping situation is so whack, Yorita-sensei is offering online screening for backers in the US, details to be shared. You can watch the trailer now on Youtube. I was just reading the newest chapter in Galette and marveling at how this series has grown.

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Yuri Anime

ANN’s Bolts has a review of Episodes 1-3 of a Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace based on Kuzushiro’s manga. 

Steve Jones is reviewing This Monster Wants To Eat Me for us this season.

Not Yuri, but of interest, the upcoming Zombieland Saga movie trailer is on Youtube and wow.

Other News

Digital service Number Nine sponsored a Yuri Creations Festival, and Yuri Navi has a 2-part report for you.  Read Part 1  and Part 2 on Yuri Navi to get a look at some of the comics featured!

Via YNN Correspondent KaTsu, here is a really nice essay about Aya Kana’s novel Koneko o Hirou, Koneko no Kuse ni (子猫を拾う、子猫の癖に) by 李佾學 in Bearing Pain/Misdelivery- Pick up a stray cat, even though I’m a “stray cat” myself- explanation.

I’ve mentioned this movie before, but I have a date today with the movie The Witches of The Orient about a women’s volleyball team of factory workers who set the world on fire in the 60s. Factory teams were quite common and highly  competitive. If your library has Kanopy for movies, why not check it out?

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Yuri Manga

The Kickstarter campaign for Vol.4 Yuri Comic Magazine Galette Special English Edition has launched and, in 4 days, has nearly 500 backers! This is a relatively short campaign, so there is only 11 days left to get this and any back issues you may be missing…until the next one. ^_^  I am so pleased to see how popular and successful these are. It really speaks to the passion of global Yuri fandom.

Yen Press has posted the cover reveal for Love Bullet. ‘Bout time. ^_^

Via Comic Natalie, a new series is beginning in the December issue of Comic Yuri Hime about a “rental girlfriend” who falls for a female customer, “Kimi no Sei Nandakara, Sekinin Totte yo ne.” by Touma and a bonus Futari Escape chapter to celebrate the upcoming drama series.

It’s All Your Fault, Volume 2 is up on the Yuricon Store!

We also have Project Yuriforming, Volume 1, (プロジェクト・ユリフォーミング), about an alien who wants to bring Yuri to everyone on earth!

The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Volume 1 is also up on the Store and is on the to-review pile.

Baiheverse has launched a new comic by CleverCool, The Mermaid I Met By Getting Fired. This is exactly what it sounds like. ^_^

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Yuri Anime

Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? is getting a short anime. ANN’s Joanna Cayanan has the details.

Chris Beveridge over at The Fandom Post, has the news on the teaser for the theatrical film release of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… anime. Speaking of which, the official account on X has posted this (possibly spoilery) image of Renako and Ajisai for your enjoyment.

Not Yuri, but of interest. via catsuka on Bluesky, a new Magic Knight Rayearth anime is coming in 2026.

Yuri Live-Action

YNN Sr. Correspondent Frank Hecker wants you to know about the trailer for Broken Of Love หัวใจช้ำรัก. He has this to say about it, “Faye Peraya Malisorn has her own production company now and a trailer out for her 2026 series, the awkwardly titled “Broken of Love”. It’s a revenge drama (with a twist spoiled in the last minute of the trailer, so be warned.”

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Yuri Doujinshi

inori.-sensei has a story in Ru’s Saikyou Buddy Yuri Anthology “Buddy! Buddy! Buddy!!!” (最強バディ百合アンソロジー『Buddy!Buddy!!Buddy!!!』) being sold at the Tokyo Literature Flea Market (文学フリマ東京41) at Big Site on November 23, 2025.

Yuri Visual Novels

Studio Élan says that Please Be Happy, their comfy Yuri visual novel is now available on Switch for 45% off!

 
Other News

I have been insanely busy these days, juggling a number of projects. The upcoming ANN Manga Guide will have a number of reviews by me, and I’m also reviewing a couple of series for them, including Baki The Grappler.

I’m going to be working on several titles for Manga Mavericks as editor. I cannot *wait* to get started on those. FISHGOD, by chlona, Sinbad by Atsuji Yamamoto and Horon of the Closed Country by Sen.

I’ll be doing several panels and book signings coming up at Y/Con, November 15-16 in Paris, France. I hope to see many of you there! I also have other class presentations I’m working on, but I will keep doing my best to give you more Yuri than ever before here on Okazu!

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