Yuri Manga

At last, the second volume of Collectors by Nishi UKO is up for pre-order!  Yahoo!

Also headed our way is Renai Log (恋愛ログ) by Takemiya Jin and Momono Moto’s Akaneiro no Kiss ha Okujou de (茜色のキスは屋上で).

Ichijinsha has several collections on the way – Sekihar’, Akumu no Rakuen (悪夢の楽園) and Numachi’s Kakinzumi Girlfriend (課金済ガールフレンド).

Online,  Cycomi presents a new Yuri manga by Nou Natsumi, Futari Monologue. You can read chapters for free online, in Japanese.

ANN has the news that this year’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! listing for female readers included My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, by Nagata Kabi, which was licensed for release next year by Seven Seas, so you too can see if this manga is amazing!

From YNN Correspondent Ary,  comes the news that Complex Age has been licensed by Kodansha. Ary says it is “a nice, unexpectedly accurate look at nerd girls on the cosplay and lolita scene as they approach those dreaded mid-late twenties and thirties.” 

Not Yuri, but super fun, from YNN Correspondent Brendan B, the French edition of  Otouto no Otto (which has been licensed by Gay Manga as My Brother’s Husband), Le Mari de mon frère has been nominated for an award at Angouleme, the French comics awards event.

According to Komatsu-san over at Crunchyroll News, manga artist Matsumoto Hidekichi drew a serial announcement of the ending of the Sabagebu! manga  on Twitter.

Yuri Anime

I’m told there’s some service-y Yuri in the manga A Centaur’s Life, and now an anime for the series has been announced.

Viz is hosting a Sailor Moon R Movie Event on January 13th in Los Angeles, according to ANN. If anyone can make that, do let us know how it is!

Live Action News

ANN also has the news that the Live-action Saki movie has released a 60-second trailer for your viewing pleasure. 

Yuri Games

Today we’ll wrap up with news that was both surprising and pleasing. A while back I reported on a Japanese Yuri game that was being worked on called Hanaemi ni Kuchizuke (花笑みにくちづけを), set at an all girls’ school. The company releasing it made a big deal of recruiting character designs, then we didn’t hear anything again for some time. In fact, just a few months ago I took the link off my “to check” links, as it hadn’t been updated since 2015. Well, Yurinavi reports that the game has launched at last, as a cell phone game in Japan. Yurinavi has some screenshots for us, I’m reading it right now on my cel, so it looks like you’ll be able to play it (in Japanese) on western phones. Click here to play. I’m playing this as I write. It’s unintentionally hilarious (to me.)

And from YNN correspondent Elizabeth F, we have the game Fight or Flirt, a dating sim originally developed for the Yuri Game Jam, which is clearly Utena inspired. Check it out and let us know what you think of it!

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Anime News

It’s an all-anime edition of YNN!

We’ve reported before that Card Captor Sakura, which has a new manga series, is getting an anime. The Clear Card arc, in which Sakura, Li and Tomoyo are now in middle school together, will debut on Japanese TV in 2018. Anime Now has a nice write up about it, including the news that the original voice cast will be reprising their roles. I’ll write up something about the manga relatively soon. ^_^

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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is getting a new anime as well. Set after A’s, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection, will include both Fate and Hayate, as well as characters from the game, the Florian Sisters. ANN reports that Reflection will be released in the form of two films, and that the original VAs will be reprising their voice roles.

Komatsu-san at Crunchyroll has the news that Toei has officially launched the upcoming Kirakira☆Precure ala Mode. 

Once again from ANN, Crunchyroll has added Funimation and Nozomi titles, (after Hulu killed most of it’s animation catalog) including Riddle Story of a Devil. Riddle is now available for viewing in more countries than previously, with this new deal.

Miles Thomas at Crunchyroll News has some thoughts on messages about queerness in Flip Flappers.

Crunchyroll News has the story that Tokyo MX is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hidamari Sketch by rebroadcasting the final season of this 4-koma anime. Maybe this is a good time to celebrate with a rewatch ourselves!

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Yuri Manga

From Dengeki Comics comes Eclair – Anata ni Hibiku Yuri Anthology (エクレア あなたに響く百合アンソロジー), a Yagate Kimi ni Naru (Bloom into You) anthology, with works by Hirao Auri, Kitao Taki, Kanno, Mekimeki  and other Yuri creators.

NTR: Netsuzou Trap and Citrus creators Kodama Naoko and Saburouta have a round table discussion about their works and Yuri generally, on Comic Natalie. (In Japanese.)

Comic Natalie also  reports that Kimi ni Yagate Naru and Happy Sugar Life are banding together for a special 16-page collaboration to be sold with Volume 3 and 4 of each series, respectively.

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Yuri Anime

Just in time for your gift wish lists, we’ve added a couple of Funimation titles to the Yuricon Store:

 Yurikuma Arashi Complete Series (BD/DVD)

Riddle Story of a Devil Complete Series and OVA Limited Edition.

Not anime, but definitely Animation,  YNN Correspondent astrojensen suggests this animated sci-fi short, Orbitas. It’s worth a watch. ^_^

Manga/Comics News

Crunchyroll News has the scoop on the Twitter-comic announcement by Aoki Ume of the 9th volume of Hidamari Sketch (ひだまりスケッチ).

ANN reports that creator of Jormungand and Destro 246, Takashi Keitarou, is starting up a new manga series. Just as a guess, it’ll have some fetishy Yuri, because his work usually does. ^_^

Refinery29 has a first look at America, Marvel’s new title starring a queer Latina superhero, America Chavez.

Light Novel News

Yen Press has announced they will be publishing the Sound! Euphonium light novel. ANN has the news.

LGBTQ News

Alison Bechdel last drew a Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip when Bush was president. In the intervening 8 years, she hasn’t had a lot of reason to worry about her characters. But like so many in the post-election pall, she found herself looking towards them.  And so, on November 23, 2016, Alison Bechdel drew a new Dykes to Watch Out For strip. It says so much about the need the LGBTQ community has for this and her place in our artistic community that her site was crashed by the sheer number of visitors she received.  

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I’d like to editorialize here for just a second. I’ve received a number of kindly-meant emails from the straight, white, men of the Okazu family, most of which express calm reproach for my tone of late. I love you all, but I respectfully ask you to listen with sincerity to the fact that we, your LGBTQ, non-white, non-male, non-Christian friends and family are terrified. Not irrationally so, as the incoming government will be informed by and run by actual white Christian nationalists. It is already, not all right. 

Thank you for understanding.

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From Japan, we have two PSA poster campaigns that offers up hope for a better world.

Yodogawa Ward in Osaka has a launched a LGBTQ issue awareness campaign, which speaks to issues like bullying over sexuality and gender presentation. 

And, in Aichi prefecture, the “We’re All Normal” poster series, teaches folks about the toxicity of presumed gender roles, and prejudisce around sexual and gender identity. 

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 Manga

Let’s distract ourselves with something weird. ZZZnoZ ~Nemuri-chan to Oyasumi~ (ZZZのZ ~ねむりちゃんとおやすみ~) is a new manga series focusing on how to get a good sleep. ^_^ A hardworking, poor sleeper woman meets another woman who falls asleep easily. Comic Natalie tells us it has a little light Yuri. Okay~~~

Yagate Kimi ni Naru, Volume 3 (やがて君になる) has a release date in Japan at the end of this month.

Eclair,  Anata no Hibiku Yuri Anthology (エクレア あなたに響く百合アンソロジー) is another new Yuri anthology collection of note, along with Yuri no Sekai Nyuumon (百合の世界入門).

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Yuri Anime

At last night’s Moonlight Party by Viz (which was exactly as excruciating as I expected,) we finally got dub clips of the Sailor Moon S season. I’m pleased to say that the voices for Haruka and Michiru sounded great. Erica Mendez will be a fine Haruka. (I still wish that after 20 years, American VAs would figure out how to pronounce things.) 

Viz also announced the release of Sailor Moon R Movie  – check out the ANN report for details. While Sailor Moon R isn’t Yuri at all, it did give us “Moon Revenge,” which is a great song. ^_^

I also shared a bunch of pictures of my Sailor Moon goods collection on Twitter, which you can see here.  ^_^ It was nice to revisit some of the items.

Live-Action News

Live-action Saki is actually a thing. ^_^ I keep thinking it’s a joke, somehow.  Here’s some early visuals, via ANN.

Other News

I’m not going to lie, this week has been hard for many of us.  So many of us are abjectly terrified and not just for ourselves, but for others we know, and the planet itself.

A friend, Claire Monserrat Jackson,  developed a concept that will be a key component of me remaining sane in the upcoming year – Keepsgiving. Keepsgiving takes Thanksgiving beyond just giving thanks to giving what we can to actively help one another. I began by setting up recurring donations to Planned Parenthood, since the threat to women’s health has never been so high. I’m going to give to groups like GLSEN, Lambda Legal, NAACP, and to local food banks. You can let folks know you support your local library, or how they can enjoy national parks…anything. It doesn’t have to be anything major. No commitment needed. Here is a list of pro-women, pro-immigrant, pro-earth organizations for you to consider donating to or volunteering with

If you’d like to participate in Keepsgiving,  just pop over to the Keepsgiving page on Facebook and share your act of kindness. Let’s Keep Giving. We need each other more than ever.

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!