Short report today, as I am prepping to present a new thing at Citrus Con in a few hours. I hope I’ll see you there!

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It’s here! Hajimete no Yuri Studies: Queer/Feminist no Shiten Kara (はじめての百合スタディーズ: クィア/フェミニストの視点から) is live and real and pre-orders will be getting an acrylic standee of the cover image by Morishima Akiko! I did not know there was a pre-order bonus. I sure hope I’ll get one of those.  ^_^ This is the first book of its kind in Japanese…I am so humbled to be part of it.

Yuri Hime Cover Art Collection 2011-2025 (百合姫表紙集) tracks the cover art of the first and only monthly Yuri manga magazine. This is a follow-up to Yuri Hime Color Artworks CHRONICLE (百合姫カラーアートワークス CHRONICLE) which covered 2005-2010.

Yuri Short Story Collection wiz 2 (百合小説コレクション wiz 2) has revealed cover art by Kii Kanna on X.

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Anime News

MediaOCD announced the licenses for Aim for the Ace!: The Movie, Aim for the Ace!: Another Match, and Aim for the Ace!: TV Series. While these are not Yuri, the rivalry between Hiromi and Reika is intense. Crystalynn Hodgkins has the details on ANN.

Also not Yuri, but of interest, Hulu has added the Pretty Cure dub to it’s lineup. Anita Tai has the news over at ANN.

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Yuri Manga

Yorita Miyuki is launching a Kickstarter for Volume 3 of the English edition of Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles.

Dokico on X announced a German edition for Haru Yatosaki’s Ami-chan’s Tagebuch, from Galette magazine!

Other News

Via YNN Correspondent KatGrrrl, @majikaryunanoyo on X made a little Yuri Game animation. It’s only 16 seconds, but very satisfying. ^_^

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Yuri Events

I’ll be talking about Queer Manga That Changed Everything at Citrus Con on Saturday, Feb 28 @ 2:30 PM EST. It’s free to attend, you do have to register. I’ll see you on their Discord!

Yuri Manga in English

Viz Media released Not So Shoujo Love Story, Volume 3 this month. Curryuku’s ongoing school rom-com is actually quite funny as it plays with the tropes of rom-com manga.

Yen Press has put their “Do You Know Your Yuri?” crossword puzzle from the Yen Press Cafe online so you can play too! It’s really do you know your Yen Press Yuri, but it’s a really cute thing to play.

Via Sorryteam on X, who noticed that Tokyopop did not announce this new Yuri manga last week, What is Normal Love? Volume 1 by Hana Ikuta. Ikuta is the creator of the series Oni to Yoake, in which the souls of Bakumatsu “patriots” re reborn in high school girls. I’ve reviewed several of those volume here on Okazu. Hang tight, more Ikuta is on the way. ^_^

Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, Volume 9 is up on the Yuricon Store and headed our way in April. We have reviews of Volumes 1-6 here on Okazu.

Inklore Books just announced and English edition of HER TALE OF SHIM CHONG, the popular Korean GL based on a historical Jeoson story.

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die, Volume 10 is up on the Yuricon Store. It’s a big volume as Cham Jam front Reo is retiring.

Yuri Manga in Japanese

I’m trying to catch up with the vast backlog of books to get up on the Yuricon Store, so let’s start with something new by Ikuta Hana, Nise Ai, Hon Ai, Volume 1 (ニセアイホンアイ) is about a romance between an actress and a college student who saves her.

Shin’uchuu] Yori Ai o Komete, Volume 1 (超深宇宙より愛をこめて) by Ashidaka Woz, tells the tale of an ostracized girl and the alien princess who saves her. 

Anemone ga Netsu wo Obiru, Volume 6 (アネモネが熱を帯びる) spreads the Yuri love around this Yuritopia of a school with more couples.

Koi Yori Aoku, Volume 4 (恋より青く) is when the story takes big turn towards love as Takamine and Sakura collaborate on a joint club magazine.

Yuri Manga in English and French and Japanese

Last week Yen announced the license of Chigusa Minori’s Shino and Ren. This week French publisher Meian announced Shino et Ren in French, and in Japan, the sequel, Shino to Ren Future, Volume 1 (志乃と恋Future) is on the Yuricon Store. This follows the two after school, when they are trying to find time together as adults.

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Yuri Anime

The anime for Kimi ga Shinu Made Koi wo Shitai /I Want to Love You Until Your Dying Day, which is premiering in July,  has a new promotional video on their official X account.

Sentai Filmworks is reprinting the Bloom Into You complete anime collection! We were recently disussing how rarely Yuri gets a reprint. It’s nice to see this influential series get one. If you missed it the first time around or want to have a copy that a streaming license loss can’t steal away, preorder it on Blu-Ray now.

Yuri Visual Novels

Studio Élan announced a new Yuri VN – My VTuber Rival is Actually Cute?! Wishlist this rival to lovers streamer romance today on Steam. 

 Via the official account on X,  A Summer’s End – Hong Kong 1986 will be on sale on Steam and Itch.io from February 17 to March 3. We appreciate your support. 

Yuri Audiobook

The audiobook adaptation of Adachi and Shimamura, Volume 3 is up on the Yuricon Store.

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Yuri Light Novels

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady has come to an end with LN volume 13. T celebrate, Karasu Piero’s official X account offers up a lovely voice-drama video retrospective of all of the volumes.

“Hitokiri Shoujo,” Koushaku Reijou no Goei ni Naru, Volume 1 (『人斬り』少女、公爵令嬢の護衛になる) about  a girl who is trained as a bodyguard, but exiled for a crime she didn’t commit and a nobleman’s daughter who is running for her life. 

Yuri Research

Hajimete no Yuri Studies: Queer/Feminist no Shiten Kara (はじめての百合スタディーズ: クィア/フェミニストの視点から) is on sale now in Japan! I cannot wait to read this. ^_^ I am also very honored to have an essay included in this book.

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Because Yuri is now a profitable market and marketing people have the collective creativity of a cracker (speaking as a marketing person, ahem), it feels like every company on the planet is announcing new Yuri licenses this week. Plus a ton of other news, so…buckle in folks. This is a Yuri Love Valentine’s Day extravaganza edition of Yuri Network News! Ready? …. (You’re not ready…)

English Yuri Manga

Yen Press has a load of new books. We have Assorted Entanglements, Vol. 9 cover  debut and it’s up on the Yuricon Store now.  The Demon Bride: “I Love You” Are Frightening Words tells a Yuri tale of paranormal love.

From Tokyopop’s LoveLove imprint, we have How My Cute Girlfriend and I Started a Love Story, Volume 1 by Reon Nomiya.  Tokyopop has confirmed that There, Beneath the Water, Volume 1 is a Yuri horror manga. When these have official covers they’ll go up on the Store.

ANN’s Adriana Hazra has the news that Kadokawa is releasing two Yuri titles in English, Farewell, My Firsts: How My Heartless Childhood Friend Stole All My First Experiences One Bet at a Time and Shino and Ren by Minori Chigusa. I have read one Kadokawa book and was very impressed with the quality, so look forward to these.

Seven Seas is running a Valentine’s Day Yuri contest on X. They also have a a bunch of licenses this week: 

 A Love Yet to Bloom by Kon Fukaumi. This is a chance meeting at school story. 

A Couple Drifting in the Wind by Puebro. I’m reading this right now in Japanese. A nervous young photographer meets a woman with a unique tattoo on campus. 

Sleeping Idiot by Masakazu Ishiguro. I read and reviewed this here on Okazu  a lifetime ago. ^_^  Seven Seas says “Two roommates struggle to make ends meet until an opportunity changes everything—the manga that inspired the hit live-action film Nemurubaka: Hypnic Jerks”.

Yuri Publisher No.9 is running a Yuri Contents Festival through March 6. Yuri series are free or discounted on their platform.

Korean GL

Yen Press has a huge announcement this week – hit Korean GL manhwa, What Does the Fox Say?  by Team Gaji. This is a pretty popular title, so this is huge news. ^_^ I’m glad someone got this.

Japanese Yuri Manga

Yamada to Kase-san, Volume 5 (山田と加瀬さん。) is on JP bookshelves and on the Yuricon Store.

rui obata on X announced a new series, Isso, Koidattara Yokatta (いっそ、恋だったらよかったのに). Check it out on Comic Walker. This is the story of two women who meet years after high school, when one was just thinking about the other.

Baihe News

Crossed Hearts has announced their first Glam Beat imprint license on X, Borrowing Your Textbook (175160) by Taa Ro. This will be  digital-first license. They say more Baihe on the way.

Seven Seas is launching a whole new imprint for Baihe with a rather cheesy video, I have to say. I know we’re getting more, they told me so, but what, I don’t yet know. We’ll look forward to it together. ^_^

Via NongAnnTokyo X.com, who says they “found this one-shot about love and martial arts between two young women in the Ming Dynasty. It’s the author’s graduate project and honestly such a cool read. ” Liǎoliǎo Jiàn Sōngxuě (了了見松雪)  by Chen Yige is on Seika manga. 

LoveLove has announced She Is Still Cute Today by Guo Si Te which features a romance between two very different kinds of people.

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Yuri Light Novel 

J-Novel Club just announced the license for Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey. I have this on my Bookwalker to-read pile. Guess it’s time to get into it. ^_^ Hat tip to OASG for the news.

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 8.5  is up on the Yuricon Store, and a review of this short story collection is forthcoming soon. ^_^ Volume 9 is also coming soon.. This completes the series. Speaking of Piero Karasu, the creator of MagiRevo is debuting a new LN, Mob Shoujo ga Rasubosu Majo o Shiawasenisuru Made (モブ少女がラスボス魔女を幸せにするまで) which is an isekai about a girl who decides to save her beloved friend from becoming the final boss.

Lycoris Recoil: Recovery Days continues the story of those happy-go-lucky schoolgirl assassins, from Yen Press. Yen also announced The Girls’ Last Tour Collector’s Edition. 

Seven Seas has announced the license for I’m In Love With The Villainess: Come On And Notice Me Already, the sequel story following Rae and Claire’s daughters, Mei and Aleah. inori.-sensei has been releasing this on her Pixiv Fanbox, so I’m caught up. It has some very good elements and some that I am less happy with, but I trust the author.

Lipton Sousaku‘s contest-winning light novel Jinsei Zenbu Kakete mo, Gin no Majo ni Kachitai (人生全部賭けても、銀の魔女に勝ちたい) will be out next week on digital platforms. This Yuri story is about two witches who meet again five years after the one defeated the other in a school battle. The author describes it as “A stubborn and talented tsundere  x a secretive and lonely genius who is an emotional rival Yuri.” ^_^

Teren Mikami has a new manga, with art by Moroko Kurasaki and original character designs by Miman, Makemasenkara to Iiharu Kao no Ii Onnanoko o, Zenryoku de Kuppukusaseru Yuri no Ohanashi (負けませんからと言い張る顔のいい女の子を、全力で屈服させる百合のお話).

Seven Seas  announced There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… Spin-off Collection by Teren Mikami and Musshu. They also have the audiobook for Adachi and Shimamura, Volume 9 light novel.

LoveLove has licensed Ugly Girls by Rokakoen. This multi-country paranormal story sounds intriguing. And this is a novel, not a LN. This is a trend I’m seeing among manga publishers. Yen has a number of non-illustrated LNs -y’know, novels – that I have genuinely enjoyed. Maybe I’ll do a quick round up for you all here. 

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Yuri Visual Novels

Studio Élan says that Witch You Want, their cozy Yuri fantasy game is available on Steam! Of course you can get it directly from the publisher, as well.

Takano_wf on X wants you to keep your eyes peeled for Kyuketsuki no Hanayome (吸血鬼の花嫁) a full=voice Yuri VN.

Yuri Short Stories

Yuri Short Story Collection wiz 2 (百合小説コレクション wiz 2) is hitting JP shelves this month. I reviewed Volume 1 briefly along with two other story collections a year ago. 

Animation News

Khianna Khansmith’s Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl has some exciting news at the end of the Episode 2 Animatic on Youtube!

The Rose of Versailles movie came out a year ago and there are all kind of shops and goods and celebrations and music to celebrate. There’s way too much and this news report is huge, so just follow them on X to get all the news.

Live Action News

Shoujo Kageki ☆ Revue Starlight El Dorado will be on stage this spring. The key visual looks good, I have to admit.

Yuri Events

Kinokuniya is doing a worldwide pop-up store for The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All with exclusive merchandise. That’s it. What’s even next? A themed Himalaya ride? ^_^

Anchor rainbow port Tokyo, the Yuri-friendly bar in Shinjuku has created a special Yuri Club for fans! They’ll be doing more special events and even get-togethers to do location pilgrimages and other fun things in and outside the cafe. If you’re in or near Tokyo, follow them on Pixiv to keep up with the Yuri Club activities. 

Morishima Akiko has shared a few photos from the Yuri Kuma Arashi 10th Anniversary Event on her X account.

As I write, today is the last day of Yen Press’s Yuri Cafe. It was a lovely warm spot in the middle of what has been a very cold February in NYC. My article about the cafe on ANN is live, and so is my more personal perspective here in Okazu.

Looks like the Sailor Moon Shining Theater restaurant is back in Tokyo at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel Club eX. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details on ANN. That was so much fun, I highly recommend the experience.

Other News

Jiji Books announced the definitively-titled Light Novel Taizen (ライトノベル大全), A Guide to Light Novels. According to their X.com, this will include “500 Masterpieces Selected by Experts! A definitive, collectible edition showcasing their impact on publishing and society.” inori.-sensei notes that I’m In Love With The Villianess is included, I also see No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless…! on the list.

Melonbooks has a Yuri news focused X account, Melon_yuriuyuri, so you can track all their specials and extras.

Sylvia Jones review of Roll Over and Die, Volume 5 on ANN is worth reading, even if you’re not interested in the anime. CW for discussion of sexual assault and the aftermath.

I took a look at two girls taking a look at the end of the world in Touring After the Apocalypse Volume 6-7 for ANN.

Manta, the K-Comic publisher, is looking for vertical-scroll comic artists to submit work. They want committed artists and are looking for 50 panels to start.

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Yuri Events

Top news this week is that Yen Press is running a one-day Yuri Cafe in New York City on February 7. Seats have already filled, so I will not link to the announcement, BUT! Because the event is timed, due to so many people wanting to join, and some folks not getting a seat, I am taking this opportunity to run an impromptu Yuricon/Okazu get-together.

My wife and I will be at the Yuri Cafe from 12-1 PM, and after that, we will be heading over to Mid-town Kinokuniya. They have a small cafe on the second floor and a Yuri section you can browse, plus loads of Yuri merch.  We’ll be there from about 1:30-4PM.  This is open to anyone, but I am imposing a few ground rules for people who wish to join us: 

 -This is a place of business. Please do not be overly loud, rude, distracting or in people’s way. 

 – Buy *something*. A bottle of water at the cafe, ideally a piece of Yuri merch, a book…something. This is not a public space. We need to make sure that we do not invade their space and use their resources for no return. I know you just came to/ are going to a cafe. That is a different place of business.

– Please be kind and friendly. Say hello to other people who join. Introduce yourself! We are all Yurijin.

– Clean up after yourself. This should be obvious, but just in case, if you unwrap something, or eat something, please make sure you throw away the refuse. 

Thank you.  I look forward to see people and hanging out for a little while. Hope to see you at the cafe and post-cafe meetup. If you are not in or near NYC, and would like to see Yen do this in a place near you, see if they attend a local convention and let them know you’d like something similar. 

Via Takashima-sensei’s X account, Animate Gratte is doing a Yamada and Kase-san cafe event on February 2, 2026 in 9 Animate locations in Japan!

Into the New Lily is a combined Baeghab/GL/Yuri festival happening in Seoul, Korea on May 3, 2026. From my understanding this is combining two events into one. This is a reservation-only event, for people 15 years or older.

Yuru Yuri anime is celebrating a 15th anniversary event, says Comic Natalie. The “Yuriyurararara Yuruyuri Broadcast Room 15th Anniversary Event” will be held at Science Hall in Tokyo on April 19th.

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Yuri Manga

Via Aoto Hibiki’s X account, she has a new manga being serialized in Comic Cune magazine, Kono Koi, Ittan Mochikaerasete Itadakimasu (この恋、一旦持ち帰らせていただきます). She says this is an office romance about a career-driven sempai and a warm and fuzzy kouhai. It appears that Cune is ramping up the Yuri once again.

The Princess Flower of Sylph (Volume 1 of which was reviewed here on Okazu by Patricia Baxter) has gone independent and is being serialized on a number of platforms, all of which are on the Yuricon Store. This fantasy story is a great indie work and can use your support!

Muromaki-sensei reminds you on X that Lilies Blooming in 100 Days is on sale now from Yen Press.

GlamBeat is teasing a new Yuri license – one of 12! – announcement coming soon, on their X account.

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Yuri Anime

Is it even a Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha anime if Mizuki Nana doesn’t sing the opening theme? Well, luckily the new series,  Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance, will fit that bill. Joana Cayanan at ANN has details.

atelier on X has put their Yuri animation No Love 1/2 on archive.org so anyone, anywhere can watch it. This is described as “A cocktail mix of yuri with neo-noir and girls-with-guns.“

Anime Japan’s “Manga We Want To See Animated” Ranking is on and you can vote for a number of Yuri titles! Love Bullet is currently No. 44, Sukeban and Tenkousei (not Yuri, but friendship) is #24, Takane-san and Arashi-chan is #28, and Lonely Girl ni Sakaraenai (I Can’t Say No To The Lonely Girl) is #48!

Other News

Speaking of YNN Correspondent and guest reviewer, Patricia Baxter, check out her new article for Anime Herald! Unmasking Neurodivergence in the Manga World.

I am super excited to share the first three books I am editing for Manga Mavericks! All are up for pre-order now:

FISHGOD by Chlona is a completely wacky story about revenge and corruption and monster fish. Meet Jaytle Nish, a man who lost his parents to those fish as a child and a mysterious woman (?) Kasaco, who appears out of nowhere to help him fight them. This book is crazy fun.

Horon of the Closed Country is my truest love of this batch. This fairytale-like story of three people who have lost something important to them, and are traveling together to find it, is haunting and beautiful. Horon’s cast includes two non-binary characters. It’s outstanding.

Sinbad: This is classic shounen manga based on the Voyages of Sinbad. It’s full of Arabian Nights atmosphere and color, and adventure and Sinbad saving pretty girls. It’s rope-swinging fun. 

I’m working with fantastic translators, Trish Ledoux and Mari Morioito. You didn’t hear it from me, but keep your eyes pealed to Manga Mavericks, because Good. Things. Will. Be. Coming. ^_^

On ANN this week I reviewed Wash It All Away, Volumes 2-5. I liked and did not like this series in equal parts.

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