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Yuri Kickstarter News

March 2nd, 2026

Two women embrace with a white cat between them, in a palette of pastels pink, lavender and gold. Art by Morinaga Milk.Today dawned with news on two Yuri Kickstarters! 

Yesterday, GaletteWORKS announced the upcoming Kickstarter for Vol.5 Yuri Comic Magazine Galette- Special English Edition which will go live on March 15.  Previous issues have been 300-400% funded, with tons of extras, even despite batshit US tariffs and inflated shipping charges.   Keep your eyes peeled for this!

This volume will continue series by Yatosaki Haru, Nekohariko 22, Milk Morinaga, MiyukiYorita, Izumi Kitta and Moto Momono, Ringo Hamano, and Mera Hakamada. If you missed previous issues, back issues are available as add-ons if there are available supplies. Extras for Galette are also pretty sweet, with an acrylic standee and postcards as well as a “Special” douinshi-style book, available at sever backer levels.

 

Two girls wearing little black dresses touch each other's faces while smiling brightly at each other. Art by Miyuki Yorita.

Miyuki Yorita’s 【vol.3】yuri manga「Her kiss, my libido twinkles」 Kickstarter campaign is live and it is already about 350% funded as I write! In fact, I expect that by the time I finish this post, it’ll have hit 400%.  This continues the story of two girls who met in the hospital. The introduction the KS is this delightful line: 

Wouldn’t you like to see more of this wonderful love story between the two girls?

I have mad respect for that. ^_^

I’ll be saying this a LOT in days to come. Your support of queer media and queer creators is more important than ever. Put your money where you want to see growth. 





Comic Yuri Hime, March 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年3月号)

February 22nd, 2026

In an orange palette, a young woman sits with multiple outfits thrown on her head by an older woman whose face we cannot see, as she holds out yet another outfit for approval. Art by Chiriko.Comic Yuri Hime, March 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年3月号) cover is another colorful piece by Chiriko. This time a girl is being playfully buried in different clothes by a woman behind her. I still don’t know if these  cover hair, lips and fits will also include blades, but we can hope . ^_^

A new series about a earnest, naive young lady being hunted by the school “wolf”,  “Dareka Ookami-san no Shitsuke-kata Shirimasenka!!?” by Anmi Tsuki has begun. I am not entirely sure how I feel about it and will give it time.

Touma’s “Kimi no Sei dakara, Sekinin totte yo ne” is heating up as both rental girlfriend and her client are thinking it could be more. If the series is going to wrap up swiftly, they’ll be fine. If this is supposed to continue…expect drama. ^_^

In “Hareta Hi no Dress Code” our protagonist is thinking about how the scars on her legs have shaped her life and shes really not okay with that anymore, while Natsuki wishes she could just wear pants and doesn’t really know why she won’t.

Inori. and Aonoshimo are absolutely killing it in “Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou.” as Rei has to face the complete failure of her plan to save Claire. Misha is there to slap her out of it (and send her to her death, but…)

Hirao Auri joins the magazine with a one-shot about a girl who obsesses about aliens who learns that her club kouhai has been an alien all along. This is a silly as it sounds.

A quick note to note that “Genjitsu Sekai (Real) Demo Shiawase ni Shite Kudasai ne?” by Shiborikasuko, in which a young woman built a harem as the protagonist of a otome game, now has become a harem in our world as all the game characters have tracked her down in her reality. It is as exhausting as it sounds. ^_^

SheepD’s “Kanaria wa Kiraboshi no Yume o Miru” comes to an end, although I would have loved to see an extended after-happily ever after, as Ayano and “Tsubaki” make a life together overseas. (We haven’t seen that trope in years!)
 

As always there are other stories I read and enjoyed and others I did not or never read, which is exactly why a magazine is so useful! I am always interested in a theoretical way, for instance at the “other Yuri” recommendations by the staff. Obviously I don’t always agree, but seeing what they are reading and watching is interesting. I’m really hoping someone there will pick up Hajimete no Yuri Studies: Queer/Feminist no Shiten Kara ( はじめての百合スタディーズ: クィア/フェミニストの視点から) and mention it…but I can definitely see why there might be reasons why they would not, as well.

Ratings: 

Overall – 8

As always a good volume that would be perfect if we just had a little action and sports to balance out the school and adult life stuff. The April issue is on sale now in Japan!

 





Comic Yuri Hime, February 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年2月号)

January 29th, 2026

On a bright blue polygon in a darker blue background, a pink-haired girl sits on stairs, her long locks being brushed by hands from off-scene, while she sis comfortably, one hand resting on a fist, her arm resting on her crossed knee.Chiriko’s cover for Comic Yuri Hime, February 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年2月号) is, yet again, a brightly colored study. This time we have a portrait of  pink-haired girl in a blue world, her hair being brushed from behind. After last year’s white covers, this is a refreshing look. More importantly – who is this mysterious hair and makeup person?

“Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu!” by Miman is not just looking forward, it has Hime still thinking about the future. What does “marrying rich” even look like, as a plan. Both Kanako and Mitsuki are very not sure what they should do with themselves as a result.

In “Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou.” by inori. and Aonoshimo, Claire makes her decision and it is not the one Rae has been working towards. The climax of the Revolution arc draws ever closer.

“Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau” by Takeshima Eku includes a new problem…fame. Lorelei is going viral and Shiho has to figure out what that means to them, and whther her and the bad are really going to shoot for being professional musicians. Yori-sempai makes the same decision for herself. She’s going to follow in her father’s footsteps.

As the pages of “Chouuchyuu Yori Ai wo Komete,” by Ashidaka Woz open us, Lulu’s predatory fiance threatens earth, but Ten finally realizes that she wants to protect Lulu and fights back. The story finally gets to the bottom of Ten’s unhappiness, so she can embrace the love Lulu offers.

SheepD’s “Kanaria ha Kiraboshi no Yume o Miru” chooses the path of chaos as Fumino runs from an unwanted marriage, with Tsubaki (not her real name) in hand, as the pleasure district burns behind them.

 

As always there are more stories I read and others I didn’t, and overall, Comic Yuri Hime is keeping a steady stride into 2026. 

Ratings: 

Overall – 8

The March issue has already hit JP bookshelves and will be on mine shortly. ^_^





Galette Magazine 04, Special English Edition

January 19th, 2026

Galette 04 Special English Edition cover. A woman with dark hair , wearing glasses, hides behind a woman with long, blonde hair in a beret, playing a game of hide-and-seek with her, as the blonde looks to one side to see her, she is on the other.It was a long, difficult road for everyone, but this week folks began to receive their Kickstarter rewards for Galette Magazine 04, Special English Edition and, as usual, everything is truly lovely.

To begin with the dustcover on the magazine is a full image by pen, with silver accent in the title (that scanned as black here). The magazine cover proper is also by pen, with more color illustrations in the magazine, as part of the stretch goals. Stories by Miyuki Yorita, Mera Hakamada, Haru Yatosaki, Nekohariko 22, Milk Morinaga, Ringo Hamano, and the joint work by Izumi Kitta and Moto Momono fill these pages with Yuri stories about school and adult life.

As you may know from my reviews of the magazine in Japanese, I love Kitta and Moto’s “Liberty” very much. It’s a tale about trauma and passion which really suits Moto-sensei’s art. Nekohariko 22-sensei’s “I want you to show it only to me” is deeper than it appears, and I just love Hamano-sensei’s “Sky Blue Melancholic.” I wanted to take a moment to explain a small thing about the main character of this last one. The character is named Fumino, but her friends call her Bun-chan. This is because the first character of her name in Japanese is 文, the same character used in bunko 文庫, paperback. ^_^

Miyuki Yorita’s “That Woman in the Infirmary” has just finished in the Japanese issues and I already miss it, so it’s really nice to read it in big chunks in English. Milk Morinaga  has give us a one-shot that might make us think twice about rash choices.

My backer level gave me a cute standee, art postcards and Galette Special Booklet, a doujinshi of short stories, much like Galette Meets.

I know times are tough and life is uncertain, but I believe that queer and Yuri manga are important, and I will always do everything I can to make sure that these stories are told and available to as many people as possible. I really want to thank everyone at Galette for the effort they put into this for the English-reading audience. It’s so nice to see so many backer’s names in the credits and know that so many of us enabled this to exist.

Good new for folks that missed this or previous Kickstarters – the next Kickstarter for Volume 5 is in March! You can usually get back issues when you back the current one, if there are extras. Until then, enjoy another beautiful Galette magazine!

Ratings:

Overall – 9





Galette No. 36 (ガレットNo.36)

January 12th, 2026

Turned 90 degrees, a woman in a beret style cap looks at us, another woman hiding behind a piece of paper look sideways at the first. Colorful, but blurry red and yellow apples make up the foreground air.As Galette prepares to step into a tenth year, we are here celebrating the completion of their 9th successful year. In an industry which is very much subject to editorial whims, reader fads, distribution breakdown, declining self space and a host of other disruptions, to see a Yuri magazine committed to consistently to creators telling the stories they want to tell, the way they want to tell them, is extraordinary. Galette is that magazine.

Galette No. 36 (ガレットNo.36) opens with an ending this volume. Morinaga Milk’s “Watashi no Kawaii Neko-chan” comes to an end, as Yuna and Rena take a short trip just before Yuna finally opens her own salon. This feels like an end of an era. It’s also really nice to see a Morinaga Milk story that is left alone right to the *very end* where the characters can actually address the issues and come together as a partnership.  Theclearfile that came with this volume celebrates the end of this story, with Yuna and Rena in wedding gowns on one side and Chibi wearing a ribbon on the other.

“Otome no Shinden” by Nakako Nui, which has been a not-creepy doll story takes an interesting turn as Rikako joins the handicrafts club at school and makes a friend…a friend who wants to see her doll. The doll is all for it, but for some reason Rikako is not. 

“Koi ni Shitakunaina” by Inui Ayu is the second female client falls for a hired escort story already this month. This series takes Momoa and Karen a step closer as they share their real names…but is that really okay in a paid relationship? Momo is thinking that she’s falling too deep.

There are a lot more stories that I genuinely enjoyed in this volume including some new work by artists I  am not familiar with, like Sagami’s swet “Cosmos no Saku Tokoro” and the end of the two-part short story that began in the previous volume, as well as all the 140-character entries including the illustrated one. 

Galette hits more than 200 pages once again in this volume, something I always want to celebrate. I hope more indie artists and writers submit to Galette and we get to see their unique view of Yuri, as well. 

Ratings: 

Overall – 9

2026 is going to be trying for all of us, so it’s really lovely to know that Galetter is here, bringing us more great independent Yuri!

 

 

 

 

 

2026 is going to be challenging for many of us,