Yuri Anime

The top news this week is the announcement of an anime adaptation for Kuzushiro’s The Moon on a Rainy Night/ Amayo no Tsuki (雨夜の月)! This series about disability and queer life has been one of my favorites since I read the first volume in Japanese. I look forward to seeing Kuzushiro’s work animated.

Whisper Me A Love Song / Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau (ささやくように恋を唄う) episodes 11 & 12 have been scheduled for broadcast in Japan on December 28. I’m very glad the production company is able to complete the series. I know we were all getting a little worried.

ANNs Alex Mateo reports on Amazon Prime streaming Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back anime film. This Week in Anime has Steve and Lucas discussing the film, with the lens of their own recent loss of Nick, and Jairus Taylor provides a glowing review for the film. I have still not watched it, as I am not in an appropriate emotional state to cope just yet.

I’m In Love With The Villainess / Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) anime has slipped to third place on the Tokyo Anime Awards. Still respectable, but inori.-sensei has asked that if you want to, please consider voting by December 2. Bandai Channel is showing the whole series, which I hope helps.

GKids has obtained N. American right to Liz and the Blue Bird. Alex Mateo has the news on ANN.

ANN’s Rafel Antonio Pineda has the news and trailer for Witchy Precure!!: Mirai Days sequel anime.

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Yuri Events

Comic Academy 25 will be held at Tokyo University and the Tokyo University Yuri Club will be selling their magazine Liliest, Volume 8!

Comitia is going to be at Tokyo Big Sight on November 17th in the East Halls 3, 4, 5, 6,and 7.

I’ll be moderating a talk on December 10 at The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn, NY! Authors JD Glass, Mala Kumar and I will be discussing the Gift of Love and queer joy! There is a small charge, but you’ll get it back in store credit. Hope to see you there. ^_^

Winter Comiket will be at Tokyo Big Sight on December 29 & 30.

Yuriten will be in Tokyo from January 25- February 2, and in Osaka from February 8- 16.

Yuri Manga

Éditions Akata has formally announced several new licenses, including schwinn’s senior Yuri series, Hana Monogatari for French readers.

Aoto Hibiki has a series being translated and serialized on Manga Planet: First Love Story: Shino x Asuka Story.“Ever since Shino saw Asuka take the stage to lead the freshman pledge, she knew they were in completely different worlds. Intelligent, endlessly talented Asuka is the type who’d only be friends with fellow preppy girls – never ordinary girls like her! The correct plan of action for Shino to take for her high school debut is to fit in by sticking close to her old friends, getting through academics somehow, and snagging herself a boyfriend – but when Asuka herself asks Shino to be her friend, does fitting in even matter?”

Aneido-sensei posted a short comic about a woman who sells her soul to the devil on Bluesky in English, and asks us the question – what is the soul after all?

Galette No. 32 (ガレットNo.32) is going on sale officially for Comitia 150. You can buy it digitally or in print from the different options on the Yuricon Store.

Akiyama Haru, creator of Octave, has a new series, Watashi no Blue Garnet (私のブルーガーネット) which is getting an acrylic figurine on MangaOh. This series follow Ai and Kon. Kon is looking for a former lover when their lives become intertwined.

U-temo has a new series beginning this month at Manga-Action, Okawari Itadake Darouka? This is a horror story about a girl who can summon spirits by eating and a classmate who eats spirits. Honestly, this looks kind of fun in a dark way.

Yatosaki Haru has an new online comic on Comic-Days called Akuma made Amai Watashi no Kanojo (あくまであまい私の彼女) about a girl whose heart is broken after her girlfriend breaks up with her. She meets a beautiful girl who she falls for, only to learn that the beautiful girl is a succubus. Thanks David for the corrected title!

Via Yuri Navi, Fujimoto Remochi has a new “cool boyish” Ikemen x Ikemen Yuri manga, Makoto-sempai no mae de ha Kakko  Tsukerarenai!(真先輩の前ではかっこつけられない！) on Web Ace.

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J-Novel Club has announced a new Yuri LN, The Hero-Killing Bride written by Aoikou with art by Enji. ANN’s Crystalyn Hodgkins has the details. Sure it’s lascivious crap, but I dunno, I might read it. ^_^

Yuri Visual Novel

Ebi-hime has another Yuri VN for you! Shut-In Vampire, is about a secret Vampire who is behind on the rent and only has two weeks to pay up

Quill Yuri offers up Death Becomes You: Yuri Onsen Vacation on Steam. “Alice and Sophie finally have the time to go on an onsen retreat. However, their trip gets inturrupted [sic] by mysterious magic. The last straw: “MY FOOD!!!” Will the couple be able to find the culprit and finally enjoy their vacation? “

Other News

I’ve moved the Yuri Manga Bot to Bluesky. This is where I make up plots for Yuri manga as the mood takes me. ^_^

Melon Books will no longer be accepting Mastercard or Visa from December 19. This appears to be something they are trying to fix, but for now, you’ll need Amex, JCB or another card on file. Joana Cayanan has the details on ANN.

Lycoris Recoil has an aquarium-themed museum shop in Tokyo Skytree from November 22 to December 8. And Crunchyroll now has the ClariS music video of the series OP,  Alive.

Please enjoy this video pow put to music by Miyo for inee’s manga LOVE BULLET! on X.

Crunchyroll now has translated Newtype magazine Crunchyroll edition online for free – check out the flipbook.

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Because this week wasn’t bad enough, I have lost my job once more and can face the uncertainty of the future with that to stress about as well. Whee. So to take my brain away, I have spent all week catching up on all the dozens of items that were backlogged to be added to the Yuricon Store. As a result, this week’s news report is going to be very long. The good news is that I am caught up on Yuri manga and Light Novels for the moment! ^_^ (A statement that did not last a full 12 hours as accurate. There is just so much Yuri these days!

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Yuri Events

Yuriten has begun announcing the participating artists for the 2025 event. I was initially considering going to one or both, but that’s not happening now unless someone sponsors me. ^_^ Many of the artists have been part of the previous Yuriten exhibitions, but there are some new names as well. You can track the announcements on the Yuriten official X account. I have written them to ask that they consider moving to Bluesky, as X is not safe now for queer folks at all and will get appreciably worse in 2025.

Comitia is going to be at Tokyo Big Sight on November 17th in the East Halls 3, 4, 5, 6,and 7. A bunch of Yuri manga artists will be there AND Winter Comiket table announcements are coming through, so look for Yuri on Sunday, December 30 in the West Halls. Follow your favorite artists on X and Twitter to keep up with who will be where.

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Yuri Anime News

Sugoi Lite shared a rumor that Kuzushiro’s The Moon On A Rainy Night will be getting an anime. If true that would be very big news – they are very accurate, so we should prepare. ^_^

Also from Sugoi Lite, Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is getting an anime adaptation.

Hidekuni Shida provides a translation of the Newtype exclusive interview: Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night Ryōhei Takeshita and Composition Writer/Screenwriter Yūki Yaku on ANN.

Dear Brother Complete Blu-ray Series is back in stock from Diskotek! Get the best remaster of the Dazai Osamu’s shoujo masterpiece.

Via YNN Correspondent Cryssoberyl, Rock ha Shukujo no Tashinamideshite, aka Rock Lady ( ロックは淑女の嗜みでして) combines “S” Aesthetic private school for girls and rock & roll rebellion for what looks like a fun niche crossover that is likely to appeal to our audience. ^_^ Check out that trailer on Youtube, it’s a banger.

As I detailed yesterday here on Okazu, I’m In Love With The Villainess is now in the #2 position for Best 100 Anime from the Tokyo Anime Award. It has fierce competition, so read Can “I’m In Love With The Villainess” Win The Tokyo Anime Award Festival? and get your vote in. ^_^

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Now buckle in, because I added a few dozen volumes of manga on the Yuricon Store – including getting a few series fully caught up and updating the earlier issues. To make it easier to digest, I’ll split it up by languages.

English Yuri Manga

Hitting English-language shelves just in time for holiday gifts, Viz is promoting Rainbows After Storms, Volume 1. I have been reading and reviewing this incredibly slow-burn, sweet story of two girls in love in Japanese as Hana ni Arashi (はなにあらし) since 2019.  ^_^ Now I’m motivated to finish it up!

The final volume of Yuama’s tragic love story, The Summer You Were There, Volume 6 is available for pre-orders for a new year release.

Assorted Entanglements, Volume 6 by Mikanuji continues this series of various Yuri couples and their various complicated situations.

I’m in Love with the Villainess, Volume 7  of the manga is out in English. Cardinal Lily joins the cast just as Claire is grasping how important Rae is to her.

All of Tsukiko’s Futaribeya is now up! Some of the earlier volumes are digital only now: Volume 6 | Volume 7 | Volume 8 | Volume 9 | Volume 10

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…, Volume 5 and Volume 6 a are up, brings us up-to-date with the manga for Teren Mikami’s series, illustrated by Musshu, based on character designs by Takeshima Eku.

Next month we’re getting The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 6 of the manga!

When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine, Vol. 1 is a silly, raunchy, manga about a heroine whose heart is stolen by the villainess…and she couldn’t be happier. I reviewed the JP volume in 2023 here on Okazu. Review of Yen Press’s EN edition is on the way.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, Volume 1 is about an immortal child set to battle for  an orphanage which trains children as weapons. This has very moe art on the cover and is full of very guro art on the inside.

And, finally, we’re all caught up with Shio Usui’s I Married My Female Friend, with Volume 3 | Volume 4.

Japanese Yuri Manga

Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 9 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし ) follows what happens to Miko when Tsubaki destroys the juzu that keeps her kitsune self in check. Check this series out as This Monster Wants to Eat Me in English!

For those of you following Hana ni Arashi in Japanese, the final volume of is out! Hana ni Arashi, Volume 13  (はなにあらし) bring Chidori and Nanoha’s story to a close, but we’ll be getting Rainbows After Storms in English soon, as I mentioned above.

Out this month is Shimura Takako’s Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 10 (おとなになっても). This series is available in English from Volume 1 through Volume 9 as Even Though We’re Adults.

I am super excited to be able to list Heimin No Watashi Desu Ga Koushaku Reijou-sama o Taburakashite Ikite Imasu, Volume 1 (平民の私ですが公爵令嬢様をたぶらかして生きています) by Kitao Taki, as a collected volume. A commoner finds her place with a Duke’s daughter who is besotted with her.

The second volume of Usotsuki Hanayome to Dousei Kekkon-ron, (嘘つき花嫁と同性結婚論) completes this story of a married woman and the lesbian who saves her from a shitty marriage.

Gal Maid to Akuyaku Reijou ~ Ojou-sama no Happy End Shika Katan!, Volume 1  (ギャルメイドと悪役令嬢 ～おじょーさまのハッピーエンドしか勝たん！) is an isekai about a gal reincarnated into a game her friend lent her where she becomes maid to pay off her family debts.

Kimi no Tamenara Shineru, Kuzushiro’s (creator of The Moon on a Rainy Night,) Heian period comedy about Sei Shonagon and Murasaki Shikibu in the Imperial palace with their respective empresses, is finally on the store as a complete series: Volume 13 | Volume 14 complete the set.

I really like Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!, Volume 1 ( 崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせたい) almost despite myself. ^_^

Nauchi’s Yukidoke to Agapanthus, Volume 3 (雪解けとアガパンサス)  is live on the Store!

We also have Inkya Gal Demo Ikigaritai!, Volume 2 (陰キャギャルでもイキがりたい！) by Kashiwagi Tsukiko.

Kanno Fumi’s Osananajimi BIG LOVE (幼馴染BIG LOVE (KITORA)) is the story of childhood friends who meet later and find they have wildly different personalities.

Sono Uruwashiki Hito to ha (そのうるわしきひとは) is the first Yuri manga to run in Hana to Yume magazine in years. This Yuri mystery is available in one collected volume.

Genkai OL To Joshidaigakusei Ga OO Suru, (限界OLと女子大生が〇〇する) tells the story of a hopeless OL and the high school student next door who changes her life for the better. Volume 1 | Volume 2 are up.

Check out interspecies Yuri anthology, Umare ha Chigaedo – Koi Takushou Ishuzoku × Yuri Anthology ( 生まれは違えど一恋托生 異種族×百合アンソロジー).

The final volume of Yodokawa’s Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 5 (毎月庭つき大家つき) hit JP shelves last month.

Another cheerful school girl series, Watashi no Megami ga Kyou mo Oseru ~ Kore Kara Mo, Itsu Made Mo is up. Volume 1 & Volume 2 is a complete set.

Only married couples are allowed to fish among the stars. Two women, Terra and Diode, choose to challenge the culture, in the manga adaptation Twinstar Cyclone Runaway, Volume 2  (ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ)

Fujio’s lovelorn comic essays about her life continue in Onna x Onna Umakuikanai Renai Essay parlor, Volume 2 (女×女のうまくいかない恋愛エッセイ parlor).

Yuri Manga artist Seta Seta announced on X that their comic  Wakeari Jiken (ワケあり案件) won the Young Jump Yuri Category Grand Prize! Read it online now in Japanese!

hakei, on X, says they have a new masc x masc GL comic called A Refreshing Summer.

And Tiklil took to X to announce their comic with Viz Originals Drifting Into Summer, which is a swim team drama, you can real online. It was pretty good for a one-shot.

Galette Illustration Book 03 is a collection of Galette magazine covers and color illustrations that is available digitally on US or JP Kindle. Book 04 is just out now  from Galette WORKS and I’ll get that up as soon as links become available.

French Yuri Manga

YNN Correspondent Mang’Albine tells us that Taifu has licensed Murata’s Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete as Coup de foudre dans ta face !which, she tells us can be read as “Love at first sight IN YA FACE !”

Vietnamese Yuri Manga

Sumiko Arai announced that her series Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta has been released in Vitenamese, as Người Tôi Để Ý Không Phải Con Trai.

Yuri Light Novels

Via Yuri Daily on Facebook, Reverse with me: Across Millions of Orbits is a Thai GL novel by Zezeho Zezeho, which is available now in English digitally.

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… (Light Novel), Volume 4  & Volume 5  are up on the Yuricon Store,  which bring us  to “Season 2” of this series.

The novel series for Twinstar Cyclone Runaway  ( ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ) Volume 2 and Volume 3 are on the store. On ANN, Rafael Antonio Pineda tells us that the series will end with Volume 4.

Ao To Kaibane No Rakuen Shoujo (蒼と壊羽の楽園少女) is a science fiction novel about a water world where two girls undertake a journey to “paradise.”

Other News

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Yuri Manga

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1 is just out of the gate, but Yen isn’t waiting on this – The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 2 is already up for pre-order.  Because they were kind enough to give me a review copy of Volume 1, I picked up a copy of the Kinokuniya exclusive with the variant cover and signed image board. I haven’t even had a chance to open it yet. ^_^;  I’ll get V2 up on the Store when it has a EN cover. ^_^

Catching up on the manga for the series, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 5 is up on the Yuricon Store, with Volume 6 headed our way in December. I’ll get that up as soon as it has a EN cover, as well.

Kuzushiro’s Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 8 ( 雨夜の月) is headed to JP bookshelves this month! I always look forward to this manga so much.

Ikuta Hana, creator of the Bakumatsu high school girls series Oni to Yoake, that I quite randomly reviewed this past week, has a new Yuri series Ryuu to Ryuu no Kekkon (竜と龍の結婚), starting on webcomic site Shiori. This follows two Dragon Princesses from  different Dragon Kingdoms who marry to bring peace to their lands.

Creator of Octave, Akiyama Haru’s new series Watashi no Blue Garnet (私のブルーガーネット) will be hitting shelves in Japan at the beginning of December. Interestingly, this does not appear at the moment to have a digital option.

The next to last volume of Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 13 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな) hit shelves last month in Japan. Miwa and Saeko go on a trip together.

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Yuri Anime

The Gundam franchise has announced the next series on their official X account. Mobile Suit Gundam ALC ENCOUNTER (機動戦士ガンダム ALC ENCOUNTER) appears to be starring two female leads once again…and, as some of you may remember, ALC Publishing was the very first Yuri manga publisher in the world! I ran ALC – which was short for AniLesboCon – from 2003-2010. So I’m giggling, imagining that they named the next Yuri Gundam after my ALC…which, they most likely did not. ^_^ Fun coincidence, though.

And for fans who can’t get enough Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury, check out Mecha Girl of the Day’s account on X for these fab matching jackets for Suletta and Miorine from Bandai! I would get one, but nearly $400 a piece is a bit above my budget for my obsessions for anime and jackets.

I know I mentioned this last week, but it bears repeating, Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi, will be getting an anime in 2025. Check out the beautiful trailer on Youtube. I absolutely love this manga and have high hopes for the anime. Reviews of the manga are here on Okazu, through Volume 8 in Japanese, and Volume 1 and Volume 2 of This Monster Wants To Eat Me, out now in English from Yen Press.

 The Rose of Versailles anime movie has paired up with a florist in Japan to present themed flower arrangements. Check out the official account on X to see the Oscar, the Marie Antoinette, the Fersen and the Andre. ^_^

The official X account for the Puella Magi Madoka Magica franchise has announced a trailer for Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Walpurgis no Kaiten Part 2: SIDE Homura.

Yuri Visual Novel

Studio Élan has launched a demo to their upcoming Yuri VN, Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery.

Ebi-hime has also released a new game this week for Halloween, The end of an obsession is “a short yandere yuri horror vn where you play as a princess trapped in a tower. Your only company is your kidnapper: a witch who seeks to torment you. Will she ever let you escape?“

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Yuri Light Novel

Also headed our way this month is The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 8, in which Anis and Euphie continue to build their city of dreams, only to run in to obstacles.

Kadokawa is mining the step-sister Yuri mines with new novel Atarashiku Dekita Onee-san ha, Yuri Toiu no Suki Mitai, (新しくできたお姉さんは、百合というのが好きみたい). You can pick it up on Amazon JP or Bookwalker – and if you do and want to review it, let me know.

Other News

Dark Horse announced on Bluesky that STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ADVENTURES PHASE III–THE WEDDING SPECTACULAR, will feature a wedding between Lula Talisola and Zeen Marla. IGN has an article about the pair.

The Tokyo University of Science Yuri Lovers Club is participating in the Ritsumeikan University Festival with snacks, mocktails and their new publication, mock tale. Check out the cover and announcement on their X account. And can we have a moment of pure joy that the Tokyo University of Science has a Yuri Club?!

Kyodo News reports that a Tokyo High Court has (once again) decided that the lack of same-sex recognition in Japan is unconstitutional and the Diet really ought to do something about. Recent elections has gutted the LDP stranglehold on power, so maybe we might see some change in our lifetime.

For those of us in the US, here’s an awesome event you can be prat of – everylibrary is celebrating Manga Day 2024, tomorrow on November 3 at 7PM Eastern US time on Facebook and Youtube, featuring speakers from Viz, Kodansha, Fantagraphics and Yen Press! Great people talking about great manga. Register for free!

Castlevania is getting a Takarazuka adaptation! If they go with the Netflix anime for inspiration, we might even get some lesbian vampires out of it. Probabaly not, but it would be nice.

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Thanks so much to everyone who was kind about my health the past few weeks. Turns out I was cosplaying as a dying Victorian infant for the season. I’m doing better and we’re back on track!

Yuri Events

Yuriten is back! The all-Yuri exhibition and pop-up store has launched a new promo video for 2025 on their account on X with  January 25- February 2 dates for Tokyo and February 8-16 in Osaka. More details as they become available.

The official Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau X account shared an image of Takeshima Eku’s art exhibition.

Yuri Manga

Last week New York Comic Con brought us the news of some new licenses.

Yen licensed what they have translated as The Anemone Feels The Heat, a school life romance and Desperate March For Love, another school romance that looks Yuri. I’m not familiar with the latter at all.

I somehow missed this announcement, but Yen has released When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine, which I reviewed in Japanese back in 2023. (And I do apologize, I am hugely behind on the Store, since I was so ill for so long. I’ll catch up as I have a moment, which is definitely not this weekend.) I picked it up this week in English…we’ll see if the jokes work. ^_^

Seven Seas announced IDOL X IDOL which looks at the very least like an intense emotional relationship between two young women.

ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news that How Do We Relationship? will end in Volume 14.

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Kodama Naoko’s Usotsuki Hanayome to Dousei Kekkon-ron, Volume 2 is now on JP shelves.  (嘘つき花嫁と同性結婚論).

Manga Mogura on X has announced that, due to the energized fandom for inee’s Love Bullet, the manga will be reprinted.  The problem I foresee here is the publishing company relying on fandom to scream loudly, instead of investing in decent promotion to connect with the fandom in the first place. It’s a hard thing to balance. Take Yen, for instance – they do their very best to get news out by multiple social networks and on their own site and news sites, panels, press releases and announcements, and still even things get by me.

Via YNN Correspondent Katgrrl, and Mangatime Kirara on X, there will be at least one Yuri entry in the Bocchi The Rock Comic Anthology.

I encountered a new digital publisher online this week, Number 9 has some Yuri titles that they have listed under the Creative Yuri Festa title.  Check them out!

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Yuri Anime

Via Manga Mogura, This Monster Wants To Eat Me will be adapted into an anime! I am super excited about that, as I love the manga. Check out the trailer on Youtube. If it looks half this good, it’ll be great. Joanna Cayanan has details on ANN.

Crunchyroll has announced that they are streaming Girls Band Cry starting November 6. Our pal Cryssoberyl reviewed it for Okazu and made some excellent points. It’s worth a watch, if you haven’t seen it.

Look Back (link to trailer on Youtube) will be streaming on Amazon Prime as of November 7. I am so looking forward to it and dreading it. I don’t enjoy crying very much. ^_^;

The animation studio Cloud Hearts that worked on the ill-fated Whisper Me A Love Song anime is no more according to ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda. There were a lot of somethings wrong with the production of that anime and I think we may never know the whole story.

Rafael Antonio Pineda also has the news about new additions to the cast for the upcoming The Rose of Versailles anime film.

Other News

2 Tokyo Wards, Nakano and Setagaya, will be listing same-sex couples on a family registry, just as they do heterosexual couples. Another step forward in the face of a government unwilling to move on an issue that has an over 70% approval rating with the public.

Kodansha is looking to publish a special issue of Young Magazine in the US, according to Joanna Cayanan at ANN. I wonder if this is a test issue, since Shonen Jump has thus far remained the sole JP manga magazine in English, until Galette magazine joins it in 2025.

For folks who found this series Yuri enough for them, The Demon Girl Next Door will be getting a stage play in the new year. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the details.

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