Yuri Anime

A few weeks ago, I mentioned new free, legal streaming anime site Viewster. They have a really nice variety of Yuri anime. I mentioned series like Aoi Hana/Sweet Blue Flowers and Strawberry Panic! and YNN Correspondent Day wants you to know that all of Maria-sama Ga Miteru/Maria Watches Over Us is there too! There’s a bunch more, as well, including series that aren’t Yuri, per se, but are favorites among our readers, like Aria. Viewster is providing a great service, picking up series that had become hard to find and new titles, as well.

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LGBTQ Comic

I just had a chance to read and will shortly review The Invisible Lesbian by
Oceanerosemarie and Murielle Magelin, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin and I’m going to have to recommend it. It was a pleasant, slightly ridiculous (in  a real-life ridiculous kind of way) story of a woman coming out and getting used to herself. But what really sold me was the comedic timing. I didn’t just laugh…I guffawed. You can get this digitally on Comixology or in French in physical copy.

Other News

Buzzfeed takes a look at the paucity of queer superheros.

Ironically when considered in tandem with the above, Comic Book Resources discusses a cover of Marvel’s New Avengers, showing Captain America and Thor kissing as they soar above the city. I know it’s not our usual focus, but hey, it’s a nice picture.

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Live-Action News

A new live-action TV series is slated for this winter on Fuji TV that purports to be a “lesbian” story, but is really just a typical unrealistic Yuri trope – sister by marriage fall for each other. Snooze. LGBTQ activists in Japan are about as thrilled as I am. You know what I say about this – how lazy do you have to be to not even leave your living room to fall in love.

Comic Natalie reports that a new stage production of Tezuka’s classic girl prince saga, Ribon no Kishi/Princess Knight is planned in Tokyo for November 2015. The production stars Nogiazaka 48 performer Ikuta Erika as Sapphire. I gotta say, she suits the role!

ANN has the details on a Re-Kan! stage play cast.

Also from ANN, the news is that Criterion is releasing the live-action Lady Snowblood movie collection. That’s going to be worth getting.

And again from ANN, There is a ton of news from the Ghost in the Shell stage adaptation.

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Manga News

According to ANN, a new Ikkitousen manga series is being launched in November. We know what we’ll get with this. Upskirt shots, exploding clothes and just the vaguest hints of Yuri. But I’ll probably watch it anyway. ^_^

YNN Correspondent Vivi is excited to tell you that Tokyopop Germany is going to release Kodama Naoko’s Renai Manga in November. This is excellent news for German-language reading fans.

The third volume of Hayate x Blade Nyan is out and the tension is high as the Tenkuu and Daichi dorms get ready to go champion to champion in the ultimate Hoshidori!

LGBTQ News

This February will see the debut of BL anime film Doukyuusei, (同級生) based on Nakamura Asumiko’s manga, according to ANN. Unlike most BL-themed animation, this one appears to actually look at two classmates who fall in love.

Tagame Gengoroh’s Otouto no Otto, (弟の夫), My Brother’s Husband has hit shelves and is next on my to-read pile. This is a look at a gay couple, one Japanese, one Canadian and their child from the point of view of a brother who still lives in Japan.

Nakamura Ching, writing as Nakamura Kiyo, has a new comic essay about their lives together, a comic artist and a woman who is a single mother, Okaasan Futari itemoii kana?  (お母さん二人いてもいいかな! ?)

Comics Alliance takes a look at queer supervillians.

Anime News

ANN has the list of Sailor Moon S villian dub voices for you. Eudial will always be my favorite. ^_^

Other News

YNN Correspondent Eric P. wants you to know that the The Legend of Korra: The Art of the Animated Series – Book Four: Balance, with the lovely “Turtle Duck Date” image is now available.

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Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!

Are you interested in Yuri studies? Check out this press release from the Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY.

CLAGS is pleased to offer the following fellowships and awards for students, scholars, and artists, with deadlines this November.

Yuri Events

I will be making a whirlwind appearance at Nijicon, in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 24 (next week, so get off your butt and register!) Nijicon is ostensibly a LGBTQ-focused con, with an unsurprising lean toward BL, as it has more name recognition. I’m bring as much Yuri to their panels as I can squeeze in in one day. ^_^

11AM – Queers in the Future. After New York Comic Con, I’m really excited about this one.

4PM – The Secret History of Yaoi and Yuri. Which is to say, the history. It’s only secret if you don’t know it. ^_^

6PM – Must See/Read Yuri – What’s streaming, what published, what they are reading in Japan, what’s out there and what’s coming in our future! I haven’t run a “Yuri” panel in years, and I’m pretty excited about this one.

My genuine thanks to Lyndsey and the Nijicon Panels staff for making this happen and I can’t wait to see you there!

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Animation News

The Mary Sue is excited to have new episodes of DC Superhero Girls, which I have to say, looks kind of delightful.

Fans of Aria, rejoice! Crunchyroll News reports that Amano Kozue’s series Amanchu! is getting an anime adaption. It is guaranteed to be beautiful.

A few weeks ago, I reported on the “lost” psychedelic anime by Tezuka,  Belladonna of Sadness having been remastered. It’s now making it’s way around the film festival circuit. From Twitter, we have awesome news that they are holding an art contest in conjunction with this film release. Thanks to YNN Correspondent Yashabackarova for the tip! The high-res stills on the contest page are lovely.

Other News

The Heartcatch Precure novel is available on Amazon JP and, as hoped, it follows Tsukikage Yuri, Cure Moonlight. Whee!

Bandai is still pushing Sailor Moon goods and I couldn’t be happier. ^_^ They’ve got Outer Senshi henshin wand ballpoint pens for order now. (How many henshin wand goods do I need? I guess we’ll find out. ^_^)

The Diversity in Comics Panel from New York Comic Con is up in full on Youtube for you to watch.

If you’re trying to catch up on your reading of the classics, (now that you’re an adult and don’t have to write papers on them) here’s a couple of options:

Udon Press is doing a line of classic western literature as manga: Pride & Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen;  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and Natahaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, are all a great place to finally get an idea of what the heck those books are about. ^_^

There is also an entire Manga Shakespeare line by Amulet books… and how much cooler is reading it as a manga than in Cliff Note form. ^_^ Here’s Midsummer’s Night Dream; The Tempest; Romeo and Juliet; and Macbeth to get you started.

For folks looking to round out their college curriculum, One Peace Books has another line of manga versions of western literature, including James Joyces’ Ulysses (which I am reading and my have to review, because yowza); Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes;  Moby Dick by Herman Melville and War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

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!

Yuri Anime

If you’re an American anime fan from the 2000s, you may remember the close miss we all had when we learned that children’s TV company Saban was looking to license Sailor Moon and turn it into a live-action/animation hybrid.

ANN reports that Saban has just announced a license for Smile! Precure, which they are repackaging as Glitter Force. Saban is best known in North America for being the licensor of the multiple Power Ranger series. It remains to be seen if they can manage this into another successful franchise here. Netflix is now listing the series for 2016.

We turn to ANN again for the Yuru Yuri San Hai series preview commercial. The third series will begin this week on Japanese TV.

And again, ANN has the scoop on Funimation’s English dub cast for Riddle Story of a Devil (announcement one and two.) Funimation announced a home video license for the series this summer.

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Yuri Manga

Yuri Hime comics have a number of releases lined up for this month: The November issue of Comic Yuri Hime (コミック百合姫 2015年 11 月号) leads the pack.

Kawai Roh’s horror action manga Shoujo Shikaku  (少女失格 ) has made it to a first volume.

Yoshitomi Akihito ‘s (best known for Blue Drop) series from defunct Yuri magazine Tsubomi, following two sisters in lust with each other’s younger sister, Futari Futari (ふたりとふたり) is getting a re-release from Yuri Hime Comics.

Birz Comics is collecting up their slice-of-life Yuri tale Futaribeya (ふたりべや) and a story that originally ran in Comic Yuri Hime S Konohanatei Kitan, (此花亭奇譚) about fox-eared girls running around for drama, but not plot.

And Kadokawa’s Yagate Kimi ni Naru, (やがて君になる) that YNN Correspondent Chris D. told us about last report, has already made it to Volume 1 – what a great chance to try the relaunched Global Book Walker for Yuri!

Another Yuri doujinshi has popped up on Amazon JP –  Kanojo no Kuchizuke Kansen Libido – ~Sanninme no Libido  (彼女のくちづけ 感染するリビドー~3人目のリビドー~).

And finally, this questionably titled Yuri mook,  Danshi Kinsei! Yuri no Hanazono Manual (男子禁制! 百合の花園マニュアル ), which doesn’t seem to include anyone we’re familiar with.

Yuri Game

A new Yuri VN title has been announced – this time an American creation and set in the American west. Highway Blossoms is tale of a meeting on the road. There is a trailer on Youtube.

You can “pre-register” for school-based Girl’s Love game Hanaemi ni Kuchizuke wo (花笑みにくちづけを) on their Ameba site. Whether you can actually get it overseas is still unknown.

YNN Correspondent Ted the Awesome wants everyone to know about the Yuri Curator on Steam. He writes in to say, “STEAM has a curator system in place where users do all sorts of stuff on Valve’s Steam store. Most use it for basic reviews… but this curator’s sole purpose is to identify games that contain Yuri elements, big or small.” Take a look at it here: Hella Yuri

LGBTQ Events

If you’re in NYC for New York Comic Con, consider hitting up Queercopia on Friday night for queer comic readings! It’ll be a great place to meet comics enthusiasts and creators.

Other News

Foreign Policy has a fascinating article on Shimura Takako’s Wandering Son and trans-friendly manga.

On About.com, author Georgia Beers takes a looks at some of the most common lesbian literary tropes.

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!