Yuri Anime

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless… is getting an additional 5 episodes, which will be released as a theatrical event. ANN’s Alex Mateo has details. 

ANN’s crew put together their list of the Most-Anticipated Anime of Fall 2025 and in the #1 place is, This Monster Wants To Eat Me, based on the manga by Naekawa Sae. I did not participate in this article, but..well, yes, me too. ^_^

Speaking of this series, Anime Feminist as posted a look at the world premiere of the anime, and interview with the staff in WATATABE: This Monster Wants to Eat Me—World premiere and insights from the creative team.

Girls Band Cry is getting a new anime film – Egan Loo has the details over on ANN.

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Yuri Manga

Muromaki’s collection, Lilies Blooming in 100 Days is coming our way from Yen Press at the end of the year. This was the result of a self-imposed challenge, in which Muromaki-sensei drew a Yuri scenario every day for 100 days.

If you have backed Galette Special English Issues No. 1-3, you will have received a survey from Galette WORKS about the affect of the tariffs on any new Kickstarters.  They are furiously discussing the issue behind the scenes.  I will let you know what I said. I told them that I believe that it is more important than ever to support Yuri/queer comics and that my primary goals in backing Galette is to support the creators of Galette and promote Yuri manga. I enjoy digital and physical media, so if the tariffs make it impossible for a physical copy or goods, I’m happy to get digital. 

Baiheverse has launched another new title, Wolf and Rabbit. “One is a wolf, seemingly aloof, yet gentle and caring deep down. The other is a bubbly, resilient rabbit. Together, they share sweet moments in the calm of everyday life…” This is by Nihaohaohaojun, which a commenter on their platform noted is  same creator as The Wayward Tenant and Her Pretty Landlady, another Baiheverse title. 

I stopped by the closest Kinokuniya where the Love Bullet pop-up is live! Drop by to get some fun Love Bullet merch. I snapped a picture for you. ^_^

The Shortbox Comics Fair is nigh! Read comics for free from October 1-31. Lucky Cavity announced a masc woman comic for their entry on X. Keep your eyes peeled…there’s always good queer stuff at SBF.

Yuri Visual Novels

Studio Élan’s Fall In Love Festival is live on Steam. We’re getting a lot of folks sending us demos and we’ve picked a few to review, so keep your eyes peeled for those. 

Studio Élan will be releasing their newest Yuri VN, Lock and Key on the 30th at the end of the festival.

Not part of the event, but worth knowing about is Her Love, Like Poison, a toxic Yuri VN from Ebi-hime, also on Steam.

Denfaminicogamer has the news that Takano Marika who plays Jill and Ito Kanae who plays Dorothy in VA-11 HALL-A Valhalla will appear in a collaboration with Astral Party, which is a free party game for up to 4 people.

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Yuri Events and Research

I am a Guest at Y/CON in Paris, France on November 15-16, 2025. I hope you will join me there for a weekend of fun Yuri, BL and queer manga, comics and BD antics! I’ll be paneling, signing my book, and if enough of you join me, I’ll arrange for a Yuricon/Okazu meet-up!

Our new Yuri research project is cooking. Frank Hecker and I are looking for folks who watch Yuri/GL dramas on Youtube or on streaming services to take a short survey, and maybe do a foll.w-up interview if you are interested. Surveys are being conducted in English, Spanish and Portugese. We’d love your input! The survey will be open until November 30, so please share around on all your socials. Here is my Bluesky post with all 3 languages to share.

I am taking speaking invitations for Q1 2026 now, so if you’d like me at your organization, school or event, please contact me!

On a personal note, thank you to everyone who congratulated me on working with ANN. They are a fantastic group of people. Today I have some more good news to share. I will be working with the lovely (and gloriously talented) team at Manga Mavericks on their upcoming book, FISHGOD and a few other titles they have not yet announced, as an editor. Among other titles, they publish Yuri/queer work by Alt Hanakage and Aneido. ^_^ I cannot wait to get started. 

So, after decades of working in and around the manga industry, I am officially a full-time freelance writer/editor.  ^_^

Other News

Thank you to Austin, who posted some photos from a Narumi Kakinouchi (creator of Vampire Princess Miyu) exhibit in Japan! 

The Comic Yuri Hime x Eiden collaboration began on September 23, and X user halu shared this picture of a Yuri train car.

Jameson Rohrer, an online pal of mine is starting a new Youtube channel and is hoping folks will help him out by subscribing. Comix 4 All is “a channel where you can learn about upcoming comic book and graphic novel releases, interviews with comic creators, librarians, educators, publishers and more.” So if you love comics, please subscribe. ^_^

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Yuri Manga

SHWD creator sono.N, has a new series on Comic Walker. Hoshi no taion, meguru yume (星の体温、巡る夢) follow the life of a 40 year old woman who has spent years taking care of an elderly relative and now finds herself at loose ends.

Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty, Volume 1 will hit EN shelves this week. I’m looking forward to reading the manga version of this wonderfully ridiculous anime from Yen Press.

Yen is also releasing Lycoris Recoil Official Comic Anthology: Repeat, Volume 1

From Seven Seas, we have Naoko Kodama’s The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Volume 1 heading our way early next month.

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Yuri Novels

Via Sr. YNN Correpondent Ashley reports that game developer Christine Love has a book coming out!  Star Sword Love soon. Love says “you’ll get to read about Eris, Comet Halley, and how one romance in Neptune orbit will change the fate of the Solar System forever!”

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney wants you to know that Watashi o Tabetai Hitodenashi manga by Naekawa Sae is getting a novel adaptation in October.

Sean also reviewed Adachi and Shimamura, Vol. 12 on his blog,  A Case Suitable For Treatment.

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Via YNN Correspondent Burkeley Hermann says that “Sentai Filmworks added new December 2025 preorders, include Flower and Asura ( based on a novel series by Ayano Takeda, who wrote Sound! Euphonium) and Azumanga Daioh.” 

ANN’s Alex Mateo reports on new cast announcements for the upcoming Kamiina Botan, Yoheru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana.

Other News

Personal  update:  While I do not have a full-time job at the moment, I want to thank the wonderful team at Anime News Network for adding me to their team. They are fantastic people and great writers –  fun and funny. You should start seeing some reviews from me soon. I’ve been reading/writing like a maniac for them. ^_^ And I have some other positive news which I hope to be able to announce soon.  ^_^

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Yuri Manga

After 15 years, Otome no Teikoku (オトメの帝国) is ending. The 20th and final volume ships in December. Anita Tai has the news on ANN.

Ikuta Hana (creator of the reborn Bakumatsu souls as high school girls series Oni to Yoake,) has a new series, Niseai Honai, (ニセアイホンアイ) about a college student and a entertainment veteran who are paired as a “Yuri business” couple to avoid any scandal with men as they work, who fall in love.

Comic Natalie reports that Dr. Pepperco (Goodbye, My Rose Garden) has a new comic beginning in Comic Cune magazine – which is celebrating a 10th anniversary! In Aruiwa Watashi no Meitantei (或いは、私の名探偵) two girls team up to solve mysteries.

Chou Fuka Uchuu Yori Ai o Komete, Volume 1 (超深宇宙より愛をこめて)  has hit shelves in Japan. This story about a large-bodied alien princess and an outcast human high school girl is absurdly heartwarming. It’s being serialized in Comic Yuri Hime.

Miyazawa Iori’s novel U ha Uchuu Yabai no U! (ウは宇宙ヤバイのウ！) about a girl whose life is changed by an alien who arrives in a meteorite, is being adapted into a manga by Piyopiyomaru with illustrations by Imai Tetsuya.

Aidetai no Sensei (愛でたいセンセイ) is a personality gap/age gap comedy about a gym teacher and the new teacher at her school, by Takano Haru. 

And one more about aliens! In Project Yuriforming! (プロジェクト・ユリフォーミング！) Lily, a Yuri-loving alien comes to Earth to create a better world for Yuri.

According to Takashima Hiromi-sensei on Bluesky, Yamada to Kase-san, Volume 5 is headed to JP shelves in December. (山田と加瀬さん。)

Yuri Doujinshi

Gomandoru has put their Strawberry Panic! doujinshi, Until Spring Comes up in English for purchase on Booth.pm. Take a look and throw them a few bucks for the fun look backwards.

Yamino is offering a physical edition of their popular Sailor Moon doujinshi Kissing Game.

And Laurz Drawz on Bluesky offers a sneak peek at their upcoming sapphic sports comic One on One. With real sports!

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Autumn is Yuri season on Steam!

Right now on Steam is Citrus Season, presented by Winfield Games. The listing on these are “with Yuri undertones” which is pretty thin, but take a look and see what you find.

Hosted by Studio Élan is the Fall In Love Festival,  coming soon from September 24-October 1. The link is not live until the 24th, but we’ve already had a number of demos posted for this event including Comet Angel and Distant Oceanic Getaway reviewed here on Okazu. Studio Élan also recommends these public demos: 

Yuri Anime

ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news that Kamiina Botan, Yoheru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana (上伊那ぼたん、酔へる姿は百合の花) anime will premiere in April 2026 and has announced some new cast.

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Yuri Live-Action

Comedy travelogue and slacker slic- of-life series Futari Escape by Taguchi Shoichi is being adapted into a live-action series, beginning in October and starring two Nogizaka 46 members Iwamoto Renka and Tomiri Nao.

Via Comic Natalie, Thai GL novel Cranium! is being adapted into a manga in Japanese and Thai simultaneously and is expected to get a live-action adaptation in 2026.The story follows doctoral classmates Pinya and Busaya, who fell out of touch. They meet again to identify the victims of a charter plane crash, but their discovery of a skull that does not match the body draws them into a complex mystery. This sounds good.

We’ve launched a new Yuri research project in three languages! If you like Yuri/GL Live-action series, please take our short survey in English, Spanish or Portugese!

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Yuri Anime

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, we have a release date for A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace based on a manga by Kuzushiro. Joana Cayanan has the news at ANN. I’m waiting on tenterhooks for announcement of the spring debut of The Moon On A Rainy Night anime. ^_^

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Manga Mogura says that Futari Escape will be getting an anime in autumn 2025. The protagonists will be voiced by Nogizaka46 members Iwamoto Renka and Tomisato Nao.

The folks at Empty Movement have posted the first post-series official Revolutionary Girl Utena art by Chiho Saito on Bluesky.

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Yuri Manga

Galette WORKS is delaying the Galette Volume 4 Kickstarter because of the tariffs imposed on all items from overseas, by the idiocracy that current runs our country. Call your representatives and let them know that importing manga and supporting small businesses are both important and these tariffs are absurd.

Via YNN Correspondent Burkely Hermann, Yen is offering a Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty Calendar page for this month! 

Ichijinsa’s Comic Yuri Hime is partnering with the Eizan Electric Train for a collaboration, in two parts, each celebrating different Comic Yuri Hime series.

Yodogawa’s newest manga Neko ni hakuchō, hotaru ni koban (猫に白鳥、蛍に小判) is on Comic Walker.

Via Okazu Staffer and YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Bookwalker is hosting a one-shot set in Tikkili’s Drifting Into Summer universe, Sky Full Of Stars.

LGBTQ Comics

Sr. YNN Correspondent (and as of this week, official Okazu Staff Writer! Wooo~~~!!) Ashley, wants you to know about
Good Morning, Salwa (BUUZA!! Volume 1), an original graphic novel by Shazleen Khan from Abrams. This is a collection of their Ignatz Award–winning  YA webcomic. ” Zach, a down-on-his-luck phone operator, receives a misdialed call from a distressed man named Zhen which sparks an undeniable connection. Zach is thrown into a search for his mystery man that stretches across multiple cities and a tangled web of exes, missed connections, and frenemies.”

The Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced and Navigating with You by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro & Nikki Foxrobot (Maverick/Mad Cave) is a cute little F/F story that i picked up at Anime NYC to read. And The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All  was nominated for the Best Manga category! The awards will be held at the  Small Press Expo on September 13-14 in Bethesday, MD.

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Yuri VNs

This month is a Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival on Steam and we have a couple of groups that have written in to tell you about their titles: 

Red Bean Taiyaki Studios wants you to take a look at the demo for Distant Oceanic Getaway. They say “Play as a heartbroken soul determined to move on from a cheating ex. There are only seven other single sapphics on board the cruise ship—could one possibly be your soulmate? You’ll have 10 days aboard the ship to explore, interact with characters, and have fun. Get drunk at the bar and pass out after having three drinks! Contemplate the meaning of life with a stranger you just met! There are endless choices for you to make and infinite opportunities for you to explore! And… perhaps even a secret hidden storyline for you to uncover?

Our game is choice-heavy, with lots of different options and branches for sailors to explore! You can also customize Maeve’s personality, which affects the choice options. We recommend it for players 16+ who are looking for something light and funny. “

And Cross Couloir is excited to introduce you to the demo of Comet Angel, “a sci-fi yuri visual novel with puzzle elements that tells the story of two teenage girls going through an emotional journey of self-discovery after they make the world’s first alien encounter.” Full game is coming October 28.

Studio Élan wants you to know that Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery releases September 30.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, Crunchyroll is making Black Lily’s Tale available to Premium members. This coming-of-age story is by Fukahire.

Other News

For those of us at Anime NYC, Seven Seas reports on the results of the Best Girl Character Poll they did for There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless….! The winner is Koto Satsuki! I voted on behalf of the Staff for Ajisai. ^_^

On ANN’s This Week in Manga, Coop and Chris think the best comic in Kodansha’s English-language Young Magazine was Gaku Keito’s sequel, Boys Run the Riot – IN TRANSITION. As a reminder you can read this whole issue *for free* on Azuki. Or drop in to a local Kinokuniya and grab a physical copy if there are any left.

I still haven’t had a chance to write my Anime NYC report for Okazu, but here is a look at this year’s festivities by me for The Comics Beat in Anime NYC 2025 Is The Room Where Everything Happens, For Manga and Anime.

If you’d like to support Yuri journalism and research, Patreon and Ko-Fi are where we currently accept subscriptions and tips.  Our goal now, into 2025, is to raise our guest writers’ wages to above industry standard, which are too low!

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