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.

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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