Yuri Manga

Ohkami-san to Keruberosu (大上さんとケルベロスゥ!) by Naraba is a vaguely mythology-themed take on school life Yuri.

The July issue of Comic Yuri Hime hit shelves this week.

Volume 6 of Kuzushiro’s Kimi no Tamenara Shineru (姫のためなら死ねる) is out and wacky as ever.

Toaru Kekkon (とある結婚) by Kumaba Ruri is a fictionalized story of a German-American woman and a Japanese woman living in California who get married.  This is book is being published by Ohta Publishing – the same folks who put out Sweet Blue Flowers. So maybe there’s an ally on staff there, too.

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Other News

Q-POP Gallery in Los Angeles is wrapping up their Revolutionary Girl Utena tribute art show this weekend, so if you’re in the area, get over there and let us know how it is!

Komatsu-san over at Crunchyroll News has this report on an Aria x Amanchu! collaboration event in honor of the launch of the Amanchu! anime.

Comic Natalie has the news that a new Sailor Moon musical cast has been chosen. ANN gives us the details in English. I have to say, I’m going to miss the former cast.

ANN reports that the new live-action Cutie Honey movie site is live. Cutie Honey Tears opens in Japan on October 1. There is a trailer up on YouTube. It looks a tad dark, sort of Cutie Honey meets Orphan Black. ^_^

Aniplex announces Doukyuusei and Puella Magi Madoka Magica box set plans at ACen, reported by Scott Green of Crunchyroll News.

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Yuri Manga

YNN Senior Correspondent Grisznak writes in to let us know that Polish company Studio JG announced that they’ll be releasing Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo by Milk Morinaga this summer!

A new Card Captor Sakura manga is slated for June 2016, ANN has the report. (Yes, I reported this before I left for Japan, it’s worth a reminder.)

Bookwalker Global has opened up their Manga & Light Novel Request Form, so if there’s a series you want to see translated into English and made available on their platform (which I very much like) let them know! They are making every effort to get a pretty hefty (untranslated) library of Yuri manga from Hirari and Comic Yuri Hime anthologies and are starting to get rolling with translated titles, so do help them out and make suggestions of what you’d be willing to pay to read in English.

LGBTQ Comic Events

Save the date! The fabulous Queer & Comics event is back, this time in San Francisco, April 14-15, 2017 at the California College of the Arts. (The first event, in 2015, was amazing. Don’t miss this, if you can!)

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Yuri Anime

Sentai Filmworks has announced the dub cast for Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace, so that’s moving forward. Check out details on ANN’s report.

Other News

YNN Correspondent zetsuboshi writes in to let us know that the Human Rights Watch has recently issued a report on bullying of LGBTQ+ students in Japan, which contained manga-esque testimonials from students. This is not happy reading, but it is a good reminder that the existence of BL and Yuri manga doesn’t magically translate into acceptance for LGBTQ people, something I’ve seen clearly in the western BL and Yuri communities – when a group is fetishized, the people are still not seen as “people’. This is exactly why I think comic essays by out LGBTQ people are critical. BL and Yuri are not representation, although sometimes individual titles get close.

ANN has a report on German retailer Otto celebrating Rose of Versailles‘ 40th anniversary by imagining the ladies of Versailles in “modern” outfits, and by modern I mean wow, they would have been fashionable in 1968. ^_^;

I can’t be the only one who has wondered how many people have attended the Sailor Moon exhibit in Roppongi. Komatsu-san over at Crunchyroll News, has the answer. In just under a month, more than 100K people have attended. I’m glad to have been among that number.

I’m going to wrap up on what I consider to be pretty amazing news – from Comic Natalie, via YNN Correspondent Simona S, Kishi Torajiro, best known here for MAKA-MAKA and Otome no Teikoku, is working on a BL manga called Ore to.

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Okazu News

Expect some slight weirdness from posts for the next two weeks, as I’ll be in transit. I’ll probably be writing some from my destination, but making no promises. ^_^

So if Okazu seems to be sort of dormant for a few days I assure you I’m just out having fun – hopefully along with some of you! ^_^ And I promise tales of adventures and shopping along the way. ^_^

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Yuri Events

First, I want to thank all the folks that turned out for the Baruch and LaGuardia college talks! Great questions, terrific co-presenters and a lot of fun! Many thanks to CJ Suzuki, George Tsouris and Ann Matsuuchi for making it all possible!

Next up, I’ll be speaking in Shinjuku Ni-Choume, Tokyo on May 3rd as part of the Tokyo Comics Showcase, Vol 1 on queer comics.

Yuri doujinshi festival Girls Love Fest is in the Tokyo metropolitan area on June 5th.

And I’ll be presenting  at AnimeNEXT on Saturday, June 11. So if you missed my NYC presentations, join me there!

If you’re looking for an LGBTQ-inclusive event, you have a number of excellent choices these days. Flamecon will be be held in Brooklyn, NY in August. It was all about being a queer fan of comics and/or being a fan or queer comics.

Nijicon in October in the Greater Philadelphia area. It was charming and friendly and I recommend it.

And for our European readers, there’s Y/Con in Paris in November!

How cool is that? All these great BL/Yuri/gay/lesbian comic events!

Yuri Manga

Folks with Japanese Kindle access, while searching for information for my Tokyo Comics Showcase talk,  I found that the classic Riyoko Ikeda’s early queer manga Claudine…! (クローディーヌ…！) had been re-released by a publisher called Fairbell in 2006 (how on earth did I miss that?) and that is now available on Japanese Kindle! Quick go get it and read this amazing, if not happy, story.

Mountain Pukuichi, the creator of NanaYuri, now has another schoolgirl- in-love story, PukuYuri (hmm, I sense a pattern…) out from Ichijinsha.

Mekimeki’s Yuri love comedy, Only ☆You ~Anata to Watashi no Hitoribocchi Keikaku~  (オンリー☆ユー ~あなたと私の二人ぼっち計画~) is yet another schoolgirl wacky thing.

Sailor Moon News

SailorMoonWorld.it uploaded a monster set of 250 pictures from the Mori Tower Sailor Moon Exhibit. Personally, I am most interested in the large panels of the color art, and the items in the gift shop. ^_^ Check out the photos and be amazed. I wonder whose collection it is?

And for fans of the current Sailor Moon Crystal end theme, Eternal Eternity, ANN reports that the the two musical parts have been parsed out for fun karaoke versions on Youtube!

Other News

Keri Crist-Wagner has put together a short list of Magically Queer Webcomics for Panels.net for your reading pleasure.

While Adam Frey at Popculture Uncovered, looks at the knotty problem of selling diverse comics to the comics-buying audience and why wanting doesn’t guarantee buying with You’ve Got Your Diversity, So Why Don’t You Buy Them?

Feminist Frequency, having wrapped up their work on women in videogames, has just crowdfunded a new, very exciting project – Ordinary Women, a video series on women who challenged the status quo and defied stereotypes.  These will include episodes on Ada Lovelace, Murasaki Shikibu, Emma Goldman, Ching Shi, Ida B. Wells . I’m really looking forward to these.

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Yuri Events

If you are in the NYC area, do check out the Alt Sex Manga Panel  at LaGuardia College on Monday, April 18th, with me and Anne Ishii of Gay Manga and Prof. Ting Man Tsao (English) & Terena Tsao. I’ll be providing history and background, they’ll be talking sex and shipping and fanon. ^_^

Only a few weeks more until  I give a (very) brief history of Yuri as part of the Tokyo Comics Showcase. This is going to be an amazing event, so I hope you all come!

Kotaku has a glimpse inside the Sailor Moon Art exhibit in Roppongi. It looks kinda squee-making. ^_^

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Yuri Game

Soul Jazz Soldier has provided a teaser image on Twitter for the upcoming Yuri Game based on the Ririkuru (Lily Cycle) Yuri Drama CDs, Ririkuru Rainbow Stage! They have a Youtube channel for PVs.

Razz, the creator of Yuri Visual Novel Starlight Vega has been kind enough to let us know that it is now available on Steam and that it has multiple routes. Take a look and let us know what you think!

If you have an Android device, the popular gem-matching game Sailor Moon Drops is available for the first time in an official English version. If you want to friend me, drop me a line and we’ll share IDs. ^_^

Yuri Manga

ANN has the news that the Yuri Kuma Arashi manga will be wrapping up at the end of this month. Thanks to the multiple YNN correspondents that wrote in to let us know!

Kuzushiro’s Heian gag manga Kimi no Tamenara Shineru, Volume 6 (姫のためなら死ねる) is hitting shelves in May. Volume 6, wow.

Yagate Kimi ni Naru Volume 2 (やがて君になる) will make its debut at the end of this month.

Other News

You’ll want to take a look at these Sailor Moon Major Arcana Tarot cards by Sillabub429 on Deviantart. Fun art and some good choices.

LGBTQ News

Tagame Gengoroh’s delightful story of a Canadian visiting his late husband’s brother, Otouto no Otto (弟の夫) second volume went on sale earlier this year.

Know some cool Yuri News you want people to know about? 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.

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Yuri Manga

YNN Correspondent Jocelyn B wants to make sure you know that award-winning writer Mariko Tamaki is teaming up with Lumberjanes‘ artist Rosemary Valero-O’Connell to bring us a after-the-happily-ever-after story of queer teen romance and dysfunctional relationships, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me. The LA Times has a terrific interview with them on the needs for after the coming out/romance story and why teens deserve a story in which love isn’t a many-splendored thing.

Ichijinsha has a pile of new volumes coming out next month:

The July issue of Comic Yuri Hime, (コミック百合姫2016年7月号)

Saboruta’s Citrus, Volume 5

The 2nd volume of Kawai Roh’s horror manga Shoujo Shikaku (少女失格);

Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san Volume 5 (犬神さんと猫山さん)

Kururi’s Momoiro Trance, Volume 1 (桃色トランス)

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Yuri Events

Girls Love Festival will be returning to the Pio Building at Kamata Station, Tokyo on June 5th!

If you missed me at Baruch College this week, you can catch me talking about Queer Manga at LaGuardia College on April 18th.

Yuri Anime

YNN Correspondent Mariko has this surprising news, “Yurikuma Arashi is available as a BD/DVD set for preorder on Funimation’s site.” She (and I) hadn’t seen any news about it, but there it is!

Yuri Webcomic

Senior YNN Correspondent Erin S points out this “sweet, short f/f sci-fi comic,” by Bee.

Other News

GLIMP! is a queer art newsletter from the Netherlands that is available online for free. Check it out on their website, Stichting Quast.

Know some cool Yuri News you want people to know about? 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!