Bear with me, as we play catch up for a few weeks on all the Yuri news that happened while I was out of action. 

Yuri Live Action

The live-action How Do We Relationship? has launched on GaGaOOLaLa and is already receiving favorable reviews! Our own Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus will be giving us a review (or two, or three ^_^).

Uprising Entertainment is looking for support for Dragon House, a live-action Thai GL series. Check out the video on X for cast and staff perspectives or check out the trailer on Youtube.

Yuri Anime

Via Matt Marcus, injoo-kuma presents their graduation project [Between Us] on YouTube. Of this short animation, they say, “It started with a pure love for lilies, and was diligently created over the course of a year with my team members. As the director, there were many shortcomings, but I’d be thrilled if you take the time to watch it.”

Yuri Manga and GL Manhwa

Inklore Books announced the  license for Korean GL HER TALE OF SHIM CHONG, Volume 1 with a late winter 2027 release date.

Comic Yuri Hime have released a series of Youtube commercials in which Mimi and Sheena from I Want To Love You Til Your Dying Day discuss many of the continuing series in the magazine. It’s a little wacky as they stay in character, while discussing things like My Girlfriend Isn’t Here Today or I’m In Love With the Villainess.

Akatsukinoluna wants you to know that if you’re looking to learn English through Yuri, Navia Yoshiro has you covered with YURI ENGLISH on Booth.pm

Yen Press announced the cover debut for Two A.M. at the Dining Table, Vol. 1. “Maria is a gyaru haunted by her mother’s ghost, but the spirit who appears before her one night is… a surprisingly cute, young girl who looks like a doll!?“

Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume 5 (気になってる人が男じゃなかった) is up for Pre-order on Amazon JP Japanese, while The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 4 is up for Pre-order in English!

Yuri Events

I will be participating in a “Green Yuri” panel as part of the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026!

Thurs, September 17 – 7:00 AM JST / Wed, September 16 – 6:00 PM EDT – Session 9
Green Yuri Panel by Audrey Leonard (Universitas Indonesia), Ashley Remminga (University of Tasmania) and Erica Friedman (Yuricon) moderated by Megan Catherine Rose

The event runs from Mon, Sep 14, 12am – Thu, Sep 17, 12am EDT online. Tickets are free, so you can join any sessions that interest you, but you must register to be able to attend.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Frank Hecker, there are plans for a spring 2027 GL Fanfest in Anaheim, California. Sign up on their mailing list for news!

Galette Magazine is holding a 10th Anniversary event on October 2-4 at the Machida Palio 3F Gallery Palio
1-15-13 Morino, Machida City, Tokyo. Click the link to get tickets!

Yuri Visual Novel News

My VTuber Rival is Actually Cute?! from Studio Élan has a new trailer, and demos have been released on Steam and Itch.io!

Japanese Yuri game developer Takii Noame reported that right-wing (“religious”) pressure on payment systems forced them to delay their new Yuri title. This is the same bullshit RW groups have pulled here in the US and UK multiple times over sex work, queer lives and porn panics. 

Via Carlos Zotomayor on Automaton Media, Monophobia is a 2.5D urban legend-solving game depicting the bond between two girls, written by yuri author Teren Mikami.

Yuri News

Reporter Yáng Zhìrén talked to Kadokawa about the changing nature of the manga audience in Taiwan, Isekai fatigue and the growth of Baihe/GL series on ETtoday in Bǎihé Chéng dà Hēimǎ / Baihe Emerges as a Major Dark Horse.

Over on Anime News Network Lynzee Loveridge spoke with The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All creator Sumiko Arai, about her characters, the upcoming anime and, of course, music, in Rockin’ Out With Sumiko Arai.

Via Frank Hecker, on Thai GL Hub, Amy Strassner criticized a panel held in Bali which was supposed to have been about “queer” Thai media that only discussed BL. The story is an inteesting one, in which an organization that was supposedly trying to become official and was reported as official, but was not, overlooked GL entirely. Still worth reading and, of course, holding organizations and individuals accountable: What Do You Mean They Didn’t Showcase Thai GL?

Via YNN Sr. Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Christopher and  Sylvia on This Week in Anime looks at Are These Yuri Anime Poisonous?

ANN’s Bamboo Dong has an interview with Ena Hamabe, producer of This Monster Wants To Eat Me anime in Beauty and Monsters: A Chat with Anime Producer Ena Hamabe.

Audrey Im at Anitrendz.net also spoke with Hamabe for I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day Producer On Capturing the Quiet Beauty in Supernatural Yuri Anime.

Matt Ryu shared his Green Yuri custom guitar on X and…it’s fabulous.

Other News

Ogata Megumi has made a public statement about the theft of her voice by AI in “I can’t forgive it” on the Mainichi Times.

Rebecca Silverman says that magical girl anime fans ought to give Magical Sisters Lulutto Lilly a try in her initial review.

Your support for Yuri journalism and research has never been more important than right now. Patreon and Ko-Fi are where we currently accept subscriptions and tips.  Our goal is to raise our guest writers’ wages to above industry standard, which are too low!

Your support goes straight to paying for Guest Reviews, folks helping with videos, site maintenance, managing the Yuricon Store and directly supporting other Yuri creators. Just $5/month makes a huge impact! Become part of the Okazu family!

Become a part of the Yuri Network, by being a YNN Correspondent: Contact Us with any Yuri-related news you want to share with us.

Okazu News

This week, Okazu celebrates a 24th anniversary! We hope that if you enjoy these news report,  our event reports, reviews or the communities we’ve built online, you’ll become a supporting member!

Thank you for your generosity and support! Every cent you give to Okazu goes to supporting the writers and Yuri creators that you love.

Yuri Events

Rica Takashima is combining two of her interests and running a Yuri Drawing Salon in Brooklyn, NYC with Touhou x Figure Drawing at Yumebk. ^_^ This is a paid event to help defray costs of hiring the studio, and will feature Yuri couple poses! The standard fee is $20 for 2 full hours, student fee is $10. Reserve a spot today, space is limited.

This week I am on vacation and then Anime NYC is upon us! ANYC is my favorite event, even if getting to or staying in NYC is so expensive (T_T) but I love seeing everyone. I’ll be at the Manga Mavericks / Independent Manga Alliance, Table 2028 table, to sell and sign my By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga from 11:30-1 on Friday, 11:00-1:00 and 2:30-4 on Saturday and 12:00 – 1:30 on Sunday! And I’ll be hosting the Manga Mavericks Panel on Friday at 3:30! Drop by, meet creator of Horon of the Closed Country, Sen – she’ll be signing special posters and books at the table as well!

The same weekend as ANYC, Japanese Yuri fans will be flocking to Comitia in Big Sight, in Tokyo to grab their favorite circle’s Yuri! Galette WORKS announced a release at Comitia, Sakuraya Yukino’s Kimi to Aoi to Haru no Kakera (君と青と春の欠片).

Yuri Manga

On Bluesky, Seven Seas says that Volume 3 of I Won’t Let Mistress Suck My Blood is out now.

Seven Seas also announced the license for It’s a Secret, Shirotae-sama by YUKIKO, about a human at a Vampire academy.

Sr. YNN Correspondent Sasori found us an indie anthology Yuri Kekkon Anthology White Rose (百合結婚アンソロジー ホワイトローズ), which is  is running a promo campaign right now. Fill out the survey for a chance at a free copy!

Via Comic Natalie, we have news of Afternoon Tea ha Ikagadesu ka? Watashi to senpai no, Fujunde Ichizuna Futarikurashi (アフタヌーンティーはいかがですか？ 私と先輩の、不純で一途なふたり暮らし). Kanata is rooming with a randy lesbian when she starts to question her own sexuality.

LGBTQ+ Manga

Peow2 has announced the release of  classic trans rom-com,  Stop! Hibari-kun, Volume 2. 

Pre-orders for the classic shoujo deluxe edition of  Sword of Paros will get a lovely shikishi with Igarashi Yumiko’s signature!

Yuri/GL Light Novel

Via Manga Mogura on X,  we’re getting Goodbye, Lara Official Light Novel. There is some controversy about the author – the complaints are that that they have written comphet. I don’t see that as problematic, just “not what we want.” Disney had every right to not make Elsa a lesbian in Frozen 2, even if they had to twist the story into knots to do it. That’s what fanfic is for, anyway.

Via GirlsLoveHub on X, Juliet and Juliet live action GL series is getting a light novel from Lily House.  

Yuri Merchandise and Pop-Ups

I Want To Love You Until Your Dying Day is doing a pop-up at the Akihabara Atre store through 8/20.  Check out the stylish fits for the characters on the official X account.

Fans of her fanwork and original art might be interested in Ticcy’s new online store. 

Yuri Cafe Atelier Lilium has launched merchandise for their new mascots!

Yuri Anime

Kennedy is taking a look at Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games on ANN.  This Yuri gaymer anime is streaming on Crunchyroll. I’m going to do my best to catch up on that this week.

Queer Anime

Just Like Mona Lisa, (which I am 1000% sure I read the first volume of, unless it was something similar ^_^;) anime has cast, staff announcement and a trailer from Anita Tai on ANN.

Yuri Audiobook

Seven Seas announced ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! Audiobook Vol. 5.

Via Iruma Hitoma Wiki on X, we have news of a Adachi and Shimamura Short Story collection 3 and according to the account “The Story of a Married Woman from a Happy Family Who Becomes Utterly Obsessed with Her Daughter’s Friend.” Okay then.

Yuri Music Video

Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus notes that SUMMERSONG (Miyolophone), a How Do We Relationship? music video is worth watching.

Other News

Via YNN Correspondent Patricia B, Lady Emily’s The Yuri Anime That Got Me Into Mecha is an entertaining Youtube video about Mobile Suit Gundam – The Witch From Mercury!

The National Art Center of Japan is hosting a gathering of giants with Shoujo Manga Infinity, a talk event with Moto Hagio, Ryoko Yamagishi, and Kazunori Yamato.  According to the intro, this is the “first large-scale girls’ manga exhibition to be held at a national art museum.”

Your support for Yuri journalism and research has never been more important than right now. Patreon and Ko-Fi are where we currently accept subscriptions and tips.  Our goal is to raise our guest writers’ wages to above industry standard, which are too low!

Your support goes straight to paying for Guest Reviews, folks helping with videos, site maintenance, managing the Yuricon Store and directly supporting other Yuri creators. Just $5/month makes a huge impact! Become part of the Okazu family!

Become a part of the Yuri Network, by being a YNN Correspondent: Contact Us with any Yuri-related news you want to share with us.

Okazu News

This month Okazu turns 23 years old! And like many 23 year olds, it has grown up, gone to school, learned about itself and is off on its own. I have spent 23 years shepherding Yuri into the world and now it’s doing all kinds of stuff without me!  I love it.  ^_^ Thank you to all the Yuri fans out there!

I am going to launch a new fundraising campaign this month. We are within spitting distance from our fundraising goal for the year. If we get 25 new $5/month  sustaining members, or just 12 new $10/month sustaining members, we’ll hit that goal. I’m working on a sweetener for that $10 deal on the horizon. As always if you prepay a year on Patreon, you get one month free, as well. Your support on Patreon and Ko-fi helps us give raises to our writers and makes it possible for us to do event reports and support Yuri creators directly and indirectly!

If you love Yuri news and reviews, I hope you’ll support all of us here at Okazu!

Yuri Manga

Pretty exciting news this weekend already from Otakon. Omoi has announced the digital license for Sukeban Deka, the classic girl delinquent manga. I’ve written about it here on Okazu a few times, it has its own category for the anime, live action show and movies, manga and spin-offs.  If you’re not familiar with it, begin here, with my overview of the anime and the manga. There is some Yuri, often in ways that made me shriek in laughter. This is such a benchmark series, you absolutely have to read it.

Speaking of classics. Manga Mavericks revealed an incredibly stylish signed shikishi for every pre-order of The Sword of Paros. I’m not joking, every time we touch this, it gets better. Original color pages from the magazine,  gorgeous cover and sprayed edges…and now a signed image!  Definitely worth pre-ordering this gorgeous book.

Galette WORKS announced that the Galette Special EN Edition, No. 6 Kickstarter will being on August 19! This is the penultimate issue of this project.

Kodansha announced the license for I Love You, Please Dump Me, a Comic Yuri Hime rom-com manga about a girl who has always been told to avoid love, it’ll stop you you from achieving your dreams. Hikaru is determined to do well in school, but when Kairi becomes her girlfriend, everything falls apart.

Via Comic Natalie, we have news of  Ijimete Ijirarete (イジめてイジられて) being serialized on Nico Nico, about a yanki that tries to bully an otaku, only to find the otaku girl more than able to stand up for herself. This “ecchi” comedy Yuri is by Chida Daisuke.

Last week I noted that Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury Seishun Frontier  (機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 青春フロンティア) is up to a Volume 2, but this week, we got a Youtube Promo video with slight animation, voiced by Suletta and Miorine’ VA’s. Check out this AU of our favorite Gundam characters. ^_^ Aerial is now a motorcycle, upping Suletta’s butch cred another notch.

Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney notes that Yuri-adjacent over-a-decade-old series Gabriel Dropout is ending. Anita Tai has the details at ANN.

Via YNN Correspondent Ambi, ihe director of the There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… has posted on X to say the manga adaptation ended this week, and he has some thoughts about it on the Dash Ex official account.

Yuri Events

The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026 has announced a Call For Papers. I love this event, but won’t be able to present this year, sadly. If you have some queer and/or feminist research you’d like to present, definitely apply. This is an amazing, welcoming group of people. Join them for some fun papers!

Anime NYC is around the corner. I will be there with Manga Mavericks, and creator of Horon of the Closed Country, Sen-sensei.  Sen-sensei is lovely and Horon is so wonderful. You’ll definitely want to pick up a copy and get it signed. ^_^

Live-Action

The Look Back movie is doing the film festival circuit and Alex Mateo has some updates on ANN. TIFF is screening it as a North American Premier, says Alex.

Thai GL

Our Sr. Thai GL Correspondent, Frank Hecker, highly recommends the content on Thai GL Hub, which covers series, has interviews, essays and more on Thai GL.

Yuri Anime 

ANN’s Joanna Cayanan has news about the upcoming Star Detective Preure! anime. Looks like we’ll get an opposing squad of equally magical girls. That’s a bit different.

ANN’s Alex Mateo wants us to know that Ocean Veil has picked up Yuru Yuri! I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. OV’s stuff is mostly T&A.

Bolts reviews the opening episodes of I Want To Love You Til Your Dying Day on ANN.

Also on ANN, Kevin Cormack takes a look at the opening eps of the new Ghost In The Shell, which is my next watch, for sure.

One more ANN review, the always worth-reading Rebecca Silverman looks at Goodbye, Lara, which our own Eleanor Walker reviewed yesterday. Coop and Sylvia take a look at Goodbye, Lara in Playing Chess with a Dog on ANN.

Yuri Visual Novels

The folks at Yuri Eureka want you to know that they have released a free demo for Exhibition of the Heart on Steam. They want you to know that this 18,000 words and 3 pieces of CG art demo are very explicit.The full release is heading our way this October. 

Blue Reflection Quartet is out and George Yang reviews it over on ANN.

Other News

Over at ANN I reviewed the  Though I Am An Inept Villainess light novels, in for folks about to watch the anime. I love the LN series, but absolutely cannot bring myself to watch the anime. ^_^;

I quite enjoy doing the READ IT FIRST! series, where I read a gazillion volumes of something before the anime comes out. So here’s a few more I did: 

Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky is about a blind woman finding her way through life with the enthusiastic help of her friends, her mom, and her boyfriend.

I also binged Tomb Raider King, Volumes 1-14 and actually enjoyed this “reincarnated to get revenge” manhwa about a terrible person and the idiosyncratic relics he plunders.

I also did a ton fr reviews for the Summer Manga Guide. Some amazing stuff on offer this year! Holy crow, we have Billy Bat! And don’t miss some of the Yuri titles, like The Delinquent and the Transfer Student.

Avery Kaplan of The Comics Beat gives us a write-up on the LGBTQIA+ Activism in Comics panel from San Diego Comic Con.

Your support for Yuri journalism and research has never been more important than right now. Patreon and Ko-Fi are where we currently accept subscriptions and tips.  Our goal is to raise our guest writers’ wages to above industry standard, which are too low!

Your support goes straight to paying for Guest Reviews, folks helping with videos, site maintenance, managing the Yuricon Store and directly supporting other Yuri creators. Just $5/month makes a huge impact! Become part of the Okazu family!

Become a part of the Yuri Network, by being a YNN Correspondent: Contact Us with any Yuri-related news you want to share with us.

Yuri/GL/Queer Manga & Comics

New Yuri License from Yen Press this week! Watching the Angel Sleep, Drowning in Bed Together. A woman assigned to a room finds it occupied by another woman. They move in together…and find they are attracted to one another.

I am a bit behind on this, but there is a GWitch “parallel spin-off” (cough/fanfic) Called Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury Frontier (機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 青春フロンティア) that features Suletta and Miorine at a Japanese Technical College. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are out now in Japan. I am going to have to get this series, obviously. ^_^

I’m reading this for ANN and frankly, think it’s pretty good. Let Loose on Lezhin is a bit of a suspense story about a woman in enemy territory who encounters an old…friend. Human/beastkin characters and lots of painful emotional stuff in this post-war setting. 

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Frank Hecker, schwinn has a new doujinshi up on her Patreon. A preview is available for Our Hope, Twenty Years After We Lost The Right To Marry.

This kind of went under the radar, but Fantagraphics is re-releasing Wandering Son in a new paperback edition! Hopefully this time they will be able to complete it. This story about two trans teens was foundational (and problematic) for many readers  in the ’00s! YNN Correspondent Ivan just let us know that Fantagraphics just sent out email indicating 25% off everything on their site. The code is SDCC, so if you want V1-2 of the new edition, the time is now. ^_^

Yuri Anime

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, The Executioner and Her Way of Life Season 1 anime is now available in a complete Blu-Ray set  from Sentai Filmworks.

Yuri Events

The Art Locker in NYC is holding a Yuri Comic Panel, where we’ll be having the incredible Adeline Kon, Kimberly Wang, and Kelly Ficarra on August 30th, from 2-4:30PM, at 38 West 32nst St, in New York City. The event is currently sold out, but keep your eyes out for openings.

I will be at Anime NYC with Manga Mavericks, and I’ll be signing copies of my books for you at their booth! I’ll also be helping out with some fun stuff that is top secret as of yet. Keep your eyes peeled. In the meantime, go pre-order the Sword of Paros Deluxe edition. It is gonna be so pretty and petty and fabulous. I promise you, it will be worth every penny. Also pick up Horon of the Closed Country, which has more than on genderqueer character. It is just such a fantastic story, if I do say so myself, because this is 100% my editing darling right now.

Yuri/ Baihe/LGBTQ Live Action

Amber Glenn, the figure skater who is out as an openly queer woman, decided she liked Heated Rivalry and lesbian ice skating comic Just Between Us so much, she made a queer women’s ice skating music video, featuring herself and Lena Lemon as skaters to a remade “All The Things She Said”, a song that hits hard for Millennial lesbians and is now a new hit for Gen Z. (As Nirvana is becoming Everything old is new again.)

via live &love on X, Cage of Shadows, a”dual women lead, gl-coded, master-disciple, women-centred, wuxia revenge, chinese survival thriller series” is available on You Tube for free right now with English subtitles. 

Light Novel

Via Sr. YNN Corrspondent Ashley 1000 Lotuses is a “lesbian tale of passion and vengeance inspired by China in the 10th century.” Available by the chapter on itchi.io

Other News

Mathematician Yu Deng has won the Fields Medal for his work on Randomnness and order. Deng  specifically cited Yuri as an inspiration in this article at Quanta magazine. Sr. YNN Corrspondent Matt Marcus found this further discussion on differentials being Yuri, via haystack on X. 

I often feel these days that Yuri as a genre has hit it’s adulthood, and is out there in the world doing very cool stuff that I am no longer involved in, but can be proud of, as a parent. ^_^

On FiftyShadesofGayOfficial account on Instagram, a swip-through article on the disappearance of dag king culture in Korea in Drag, Defiance and Disappearance: Inside Korea’s Vanished Female Drag Culture.

You may remember my interview with Dr. Stanley Love, the NASA astronaut who repped Sailor Moon at the Artermis II mission control. Well Stan is not done repping! He’s written an article for Reactor, Why Sailor Moon Belongs in Mission Control:  The lead CAPCOM for the Artemis II mission explains how magical girls embody NASA’s core values. This is a great article that came out of part of our conversation, and some comments that Stan made on ANN. Absolutely worth reading!

Via YNN Correspondent akatsukinoluna, here is a 2019 interview with Last and First Idol writer Gengen Kusano and Otherside Picnic writer Iori Miyazawa, called Yuri Made Me Human.

Lastly, not Yuri, but so pretty, Udon Entertainment just announced a license for Hiromi Matsuo’s Department Store Waltz, Rondo Manga. Crystalynn Hodgkins has the news over at ANN. I adore Matsuo-sensei’s work. I have a postcard of their take on a Takabatake Kasho painting I also adore sitting right here where I can see it as I work. ^_^

Your support goes straight to paying for Guest Reviews, folks helping with videos, site maintenance, managing the Yuricon Store and directly supporting other Yuri creators. Just $5/month makes a huge impact! Become part of the Okazu family!

Become a part of the Yuri Network, by being a YNN Correspondent: Contact Us with any Yuri-related news you want to share with us.