Yuri Manga

Today’s top news comes from Seven Seas and represents the very wrongest I have ever been about a Yuri title in my whole life. ^_^ Seven Seas has licensed Nagata Kabi’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. I haven’t had a chance to read it, yet, but I’ll bump it up on the review pile. The news is a double-fisted bit of good news, because our friend Jocelyne Allen is working on the translation!  The English edition has a June 2017 release date.

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LGBTQ Comics

Lauren Bullock over at Black Nerd Problems has offered up the Five Queer AF Comics Starring Black and Brown Women and I’m just standing behind her nodding enthusiastically. I’m a huge fan of Agents of the Realm (and fangirled all over Mildred at Flamecon!) and Ari North’s Always Human.

And via YNN Correspondent Elizabeth F, James Whitbrook’s passionate request that Marvel do better at LGBTQ representation on io9.

Other News

Grand Stage Live is…live! Check out this picture of the ladies of the Grand Stage on stage.

The live action Saki cast has full cast visuals, according to Komatsu-san over at Crunchyroll News.

The Economist looks at the power of comics journalism.

We’re heading into the final week of Dangerous Women: Tales of Queer Villainy and we still have some stretch goals to reach! If you read this blog regularly, I know you love good lesbian fiction and I’m not joking when I tell you this is some of the best I’ve ever read. So please get in there and back this project! I and 12 others have given it my blood, sweat and tears and we want it to get as much love as possible!

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Yuri Manga

Ichijinsha’s got a pile of stuff coming out, including collection like  Tsutsui’s Jackpot ni Hohoende (ジャックポットに微笑んで) Mimoto’s Yutasan ha Mamanaranai!, (ゆたさんはままならない!), Sunao Kasuga’s Sumedo Jigoku no Inferno, Volume 2, popular Pixiv artist Tokuwotsumu’s Shuuden de Kaesanai, Tatta Hitotsu no Houhou (終電で帰さない、たった1つの方法) and Kodama Naoko’s Zankou Noise Perfect Volume (残光ノイズ).

From Kodansha, the second volume of HaruYuri (ハルユリ) by Nanatsu Tsubaki hit shelves this week.

There’s a new Yuri mook which has a fairly questionable title, Yuri no Sekai Nyuumon (百合の世界入門). It has content by Yuri creators, such as Canno and Kuzushiro, at least. It includes has an interview with Morinaga Milk and art by many of your faves. Check out the gallery of art from the book over on Comic Natalie.

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Yuri Games

Christine Love, creator of popular indie game don’t take it personally babe, it just ain’t your story, has a new game, the BDSM-focused Ladykiller in a Bind. This is an actual erotic story about BDSM and consent, by and for adults. Gamasutra has a good overview of Ladykiller, and Ana Valens takes a look at the hypocrisy of the game ecosystem on Steam that allows games with school girls having sex, but not consensual queer adult BDSM games.

Maria-sama ga Miteru News

Global Bookwalker has added all of the Maria-sama ga Miteru novels and manga in Japanese!  So if the idea of carrying all those volumes around, or making space on your shelves is daunting, you can get them all for a few bucks a piece (the novels cost only 330 yen, that’s $3.17) and have them on your phone or tablet or desktop and read them anytime. Want them in English? TELL BOOKWALKER. They send out surveys all the time asking people what they want to see.

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Kickstarter News

Dangerous Women: Tales of Queer Villiany is at just about 2/3 the initial funding goal in our first week! I encourage you all to take advantage of the excellent backer pricing and rewards available to you and help us reach our initial goal quickly. You can also support us by sharing the campaign on your own groups and lists.

Stretch goals will give more money to the writers and we have a really cool stretch goal planned, so please help us out and back this awesome prose anthology of queer women and their quests for power.

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Industry News

I came home last night to find this news – Kodansha has acquired Ichijinsha. The publisher of Comic Yuri Hime will now be a wholly-owned subsidiary of one of the three largest publishers in Japan. What that will mean for Comic Yuri Hime is as yet unknown, but consider that negotiations must have been going on for many months and Ichijinsha has planned for Comic Yuri Hime to go monthly in 2017. It may mean something and it may mean nothing for us. We’ll have to wait and see.  I found the article on Comic Natalie, but here is ANN’s writeup in English.

Yuri Manga

ANN has the scoop on the newest chapters heading our way of Rose of Versailles, which is moving quickly towards a 45th anniversary. The two new chapters will follow Marie Antoinette.

ANN also tells us that the Akuma no Riddle manga is coming to an end this winter. It is available in English in print from Seven Seas and in digital format on Global Bookwalker.

Events

LGBTQ Comics Consortium Prism Comics will be bringing great LGBTQ comics to  Stan Lee’s Comikaze in Los Angeles on October 28-30 and New Jersey Comic Expo in Edison, NJ on November, 19-20. Contact Prism if you want to volunteer some time!

Yuri Anime

Crunchyroll will be streaming Sound! Euphonium 2, according to Crunchyroll News.

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Yuri Manga and Comics

 Ana Valens takes a look at the changing nature of Yuri Manga over at The Mary Sue.

YNN Correspondent Shannon L wants us all to know that Batwoman has been given a second chance (or is this the third?) at an ongoing series, this time written by Marguerite Bennett. The new series is slated to debut in February 2017.

YNN Correspondent Elizabeth F is excited to let you all know about the upcoming Legend of Korra Graphic Novel series, which is coming in summer 2017. The GN series picks up after the cartoon ended and will, we’re told, explore Korra and Asami’s relationship, as well as a new threat.

Viz announced that they’ve picked up another Yuri manga title, After Hours by Nishio Yuta. I’m not at all familiar with this title, or HiBaNa magazine, in which it runs. It’s a Big Comics title, which means it’s seinen, for adult men, the art looks moe, and the story synopsis is difficult to parse. It’s about “a young lesbian finding herself after meeting an older woman at a club.” So…could be good, could be not. I guess we’ll see! Thanks YNN Correspondent Shannon L for the pointer!

And, from the folks who brought you Lily Love, the Three Musqueerteers, Volume 1 of Pulse, a new Yuri manga by Ratana Satis is available for pre-order on their website!

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Yuri Game

YNN Correspondent Elizabeth F shares the news of the 2016 Yuri Game Jam, which welcomes game developers  to complete a Yuri-themed game in one month. Here is a link to previously developed Yuri Games from the 2015 Yuri Game Jam!

Sailor Moon & Card Captor Sakura News

The Official Sailor Moon Fan Club has opened it’s door to overseas fans. You can become a member at Tokyo Otaku Mode, where membership will get you a card, a limited-release lip gloss accessory and access to the Japanese membership website where they will give you access to other exclusive shit you don’t need. ^_^

And while you’re at it, check out ANN”s report on the 20th anniversary official Sailor Moon Guidebook, with a retrospective of 20 (almost 25 now….) years of the Senshi.

Card Captor Sakura is getting new news in November. We’ve already got a new manga, and a new anime…what could be next? ANN has the report.

Other News

Back in the day, before there was LGBTQ YA literature, young lesbians like myself (or Satou Sei) would trawl the libraries looking for things to read in which we could find ourselves represented…often we found little enough. But some names floated to the to;, names like Radclyffe Hall, Una Troubridge and Romaine Brooks. Romaine Brooks was a painter and an exhibition of her paintings of her lesbian contemporaries is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

While this election is far more likely to elicit terms of disgust than joy, in an historic moment, Hillary Clinton has become the first Presidential candidate to write an op-ed for a LGBTQ newspaper! Here is her discussion of LGBT rights in the Philadeliphia Gay News.

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