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Yuri News This Week – April 25, 2008

April 26th, 2008

The top story this weekend – ALC Publishing is teaming up with award-winning lesbian novelist J.D. Glass for a special American Goth side story in Yuri Monogatari 6! We’re very excited to have J.D. joining Eriko Tadeno, Rica Takashima and Circle UKOZ as part of our next 100% Yuri anthology.

New titles to watch out for – Sasamekikoto, Volume 2 (review of Volume 1 coming shortly, promise!) and the third Hayate x Blade Drama CD – along with a host of other great Yuri – are now available on the Yuricon Shop.

We’ve also got some new Yuri Events up! Although it’s not Yuri, I will be doing a lecture at the Brooklyn Museum of Art on June 14, as part of their Japanese art programming. Along with their heavily promoted Murakami and Utagawa exhibits, they’ll be showing Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell: Innoncence, and I’ll be talking about, erm, something related to that. LOL Should be interesting, anyway. :-)

Speaking of related events, Afterellen.com has asked their NYC-area lesbian readership to hold May 18 for a get-together. I’m going to try and be there, so if any of you women need a reason to get off the couch and meet people, this seems like a darn good one.

And in the “series to keep an eye out for” file, Okazu reader Gareas reminds us that Young Gun Carnaval aka YGC, the Light Novel, Drama CD and manga series, has lesbians in it. :-) I know a few folks have pointed me in the direction of this series, so i promise to take a look and report back. :-)

As always, if you know of any Yuri-related news, please feel free to drop me a line at anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com. It’s always appreciated!





RSOM Voting and Yuri Monogatari Project Reminders

March 13th, 2008

Just two quick reminders today.

The People’s Choice vote for Tokyopop’s Rising Stars of Manga closes tomorrow. So if you haven’t already, pop over and support Yuri Monogatari 5 contributor Niki Smith, by voting for her Yuri-themed “Crabapple Crush”!

And *speaking* of Yuri Monogatari, the Yuri Monogatari Project will be taking submissions through Saturday, March 15, and then it is closed. We’ve got some fantastic new creators in the project and we’ll be welcoming back several of our previous artists, as well. If you’d like to be part of the 2008 Yuri Monogatari project, please read the Submission Guidelines first. We look forward to your submissions!





Yuri Hime News and ALC Publishing News

January 12th, 2008

Two quick things of note:

I will be doing a book signing of 100% Yuri from ALC Publishing on Wednesday January 16th at 6:30 PM at Jim Hanley’s Universe in Manhattan, as part of a Prism Comics night. I’ll be joined by authors JD Glass and Abby Denson.

JHU is located at 4 West 33rd St. on 5th Avenue, just across from the Empire State Building.

If you are in the NYC area or can get there for the event, I’d love to see you there!

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Ichijinsha has announced that Comic Yuri Hime is being made an independent entity from Ichijinsha’s popular comic magazine Zero Sum. Akiba blog reports that to celebrate, the 11th volume, on sale on Jan. 18th, will include the Petit Yuri Hime extra, which is a collaboration of artists from Yuri Hime, Yuri Hime S and Yuri Hime: Wildrose. (If you read the announcement on Comipress, they misreported YH as an add-on to Zero Sum – it wasn’t. It was financially dependent upon it and now it’s paying for itself. Also, since this isn’t their area, they didn’t realize that the “Petit” extra was the collaborative effort. FYI, in case you were going to write in ask why the discrepancies.)

This is excellent news, but I can’t help still being worried about the salaciousness of the magazine. More and more of the stories are moe/loli and the “Petit” extra has traditionally been pretty high on the service scale, based on the authors. (The first two volumes were offered as Comiket extras. I do not have either, but have seen Vol. 2.) I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and offer my congratulations to Ichijinsha for making “Yuri” a profitable category!





Yuricon Shop updated with new Anime, Manga and Drama CDs!

December 16th, 2007

The Yuricon Site update is complete, with the addition of terrific
new anime, manga and Drama CDs on the Yuricon Shop just in time for your holiday wishlist!

Anime:

Iczer-One and Iczer Reborn – relive this classic of early anime – and
early Yuri!

My Otome (Hime-Z/Zhime) – get more great Meister action with Natuski’s Gaderobe Academy

Red Garden – Dead girls, violent battles and a lesbian Student Council President

Manga:

Family Complex – Mikiyo Tsuda’s study of a very complex family

Kannazuki no Miko – Preorder the Tokyopop relase of Kaishaku’s popular story!

Strawberry Panic – pre-order the manga version of love and loss at Astoria.

Also available from Amazon – Yuri Monogatari 3,4 and 5!


Drama CDs:

Hayate x Blade 2 – mayhem at the Tenchi Gakuen school festival

Maria-sama ga Miteru: Cherry Blossom – Shimako meets Noriko

El Cazador – Ellis and Nadie hit the road

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Of course there’s much more on the Yuricon Shop – great Yuricon and “I Love Yuri” items on the gift page and more. And don’t forget the sales on all 100% Yuri from ALC Publishing! One more week to go to save up to %50!


Yuricon – “For real women who love their women…animated.





Event: ALC Publishing at New York Anime Festival, Comic Planet

December 3rd, 2007

ALC Publishing will be sharing Table 353 with our friends at Drama Queen on Saturday and Sunday, December 8 and 9 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City! Drop by for great deals on our Yuri Monogatari anthology!

Join Rica Takashima on Saturday, December 22, 2007 at Comic Planet, an original doujinshi show in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. For more information on Comic Planet, please visit their website!

ALC Publishing – where the girl always gets the girl