Yuri Manga

The second volume of Hanakage Alt’s romance between a Korean pop idol and her # fan moves over to a Korea arc in Unnie ‘tte Yondemo Ii Desuka?, Volume 2 (オンニって呼んでもいいですか?)

Via the series’ official X account, Tsukiritai Onna to Tabetai Onna, Volume 7 (作りたい女と食べたい女) will be released in Japan mid-December. She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat, Volumes 1-5 are available in English. I have reviewed them all here on Okazu.

Not Yuri, but definitely queer interest, CandleA announced “Shinai Warera ha Zetsumetsu Shinai“ (シない我らは絶滅しない), by Shinmaki Issa, about “woman confronting life as an asexual, and a gal.” Read it now in Japanese on Comic Walker.

Our friends at PEOW2 have announced the license for Alien 9! In the early days of Yuricon’s first ML, that series had a lot of fans.

Yuri Anime

The official teaser for the upcoming “Violence Yuri” series anime, MURCIELAGO , is on Youtube, with subtitles from NBC/Universal. 

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- is coming to US theaters January 16-19th, 2027 in both dub and sub. Click the link to get an email when tickets are available.

Yuri Visual Novel

Yukimisoft has launched a demo for their PC-98-inspired Yuri VN, if you stay. Demos are available on itch.io and Steam. “Winter 1999. Kicked out of your house after being outed by your closest friend, you plan to leave your hometown. Your girlfriend, Mika, wants to see you one more time. Decide whether or not you’ll stay together. “

Via Babs on Bluesky, The Sea is Our Stage demo is on Steam. “..a noblewoman uncovers her father’s evil plot and, along with her lowborn friends, takes to the seas to flee from high society. Her plan to right her family’s wrongs and return home are disrupted by the untimely arrival of an enigmatic and flirtatious pirate.” 

The Witch’s Bakery is an adorable VN, with a Yuri route, out on Steam, Playstaion 5, Xbox, and  Switch. H/T to yunaluvgames on IG for this.

Yuri Light Novel

Unsung Epics of the Heros’ Journey, Volume 2 is up on Bookwalker Global! I found Volume 1 to be a really decent read when I reviewed it here on Okazu. I’m looking forward to reading V2. 

Not really Yuri (although there is a overblown desire for intimacy as a repeat gag), but if you’re a bloodthirsty person like me, I really do recommend the Nia Liston: Merciless Maiden light novels. I’m reviewing them for ANN. They’ve been fantastic.

Other News

Via Comic Natalie, Sukeban Deka, the oldest of the three popular delinquent/girl gang series of the 70s (and 80s and 90s and 000s…etc), is celebrating a 50th anniversary with an exhibition in Osaka! Omoi has licensed this manga for English release as a digital publication. I love how over the top it is and yes, there is some Yuri, especially at the beginning.

Yumebk in Brooklyn, NYC, is hosting a lesbian-themed Halloween market named… Lavender Scare. 100/100 points for naming!

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Yuri Manga

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Kodansha has licensed Muryoku Seijo to Munou Oujo ~ Maryoku Zero de Shoukansareta Seijo no Isekai Kyuukokuki  by Tamasaki Tama as Powerless Without You. I enjoy this manga in Comic Yuri Hime and think you might too.

New license Kodansha, as well. We’re getting Belladonna’s Lover, a collection with by Ruu1mm, that includes some lovely moody Yuri stories, says Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus. I reviewed this collection last year here on Okazu.

Yuri Visual Novels

Yuri Eureka want you to know that their Yuri VN Exhibition of the Heart has an official release date of October 27. They describe this as a “cute and lewd” Yuri visual novel.

Christine Love has announced a console release for her hit lesbian VN Get In The Car, Loser!, which she notes is available on Steam, Itch.io and on the Nintendo Switch.

Studio Élan’s Highway Blossoms: Gold Rush release is also on Switch and Playstation.

I’m not a game industry analyst, but IMHO, VNs are very much both the cause and effect in Sony’s choice to end physical media: People are more used to DLing games, so why have disks? DLed content is easier to control (i.e, change/remove).  No disk drive means devices are smaller and cheaper, etc, etc… And VNs are why Sony is eating XBox for lunch. 

Yuri Light Novels

inori.’s new LN, Poison for the Moon, Medicine for the Night – Volume 1: An Assassin Who Longs for Death and a Vampire Marked for Death will be hitting shelves in December. Pre-order it now! 

inori’s Homunculus Tears: Alchemy For The Broken-Hearted is getting a manga adaptation, drawn by Ayster. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details over at ANN. I review the light novel here on Okazu last year.

Yuri Event

Exciting news for Polish Yuri fans! Polski Komiks Lesbijski is crowdfunding to get their exhibition to more cities. The book is in print and you can get it by donating to their effort or speaking to a local event coordinator. Thanks to YNN Correspondent Lou for the news.

Yuri Mart is running an event in Paris! Central Cos café, 120 Boulevard Auriol, 75013 Paris, 24 & 25 octobre 2026. Check out their IG for more details.

Other News

IG user dragkingdazangman brings us this video about Korean GL OG Min Anny, a woman who created GL underneath the censors’ watchful eyes. Min Anny is still alive and you can follow her on IG as well at annymin.

Super excited for Rai Kanada whose article Arming the Heart with Steel: How Sakura Wars Explores Structural Queer Survival is up on Anime Herald!

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Yuri Manga in English

nekobungi announced that five selected titles of her manga have been released in print on Amazon . She notes that “You can buy them at Amazon in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Japan, and they are manufactured in each region, so no more shipping costs over oceans!”

Gal x Gal Yuri has a new free chapter out on Viz.com, and it has made many of us gasp in wonder (complimentary). Check it out, then YNN Sr. Correspondent Frank Hecker says, go read translator Mei Amaki’s thread on X about translating it. It’s a great comic, you should definitely be reading it!

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Shueisha’s Manga Plus is debuting Slap Shot Girls, a story of Hockey and Yuri! Can it be that we may actually have some real Yuri sports manga this season? Jacqueline Fung is translating.

Yuri Manga in Japanese

Exciting news! Morishima Akiko’s Hitorimi Desu., a series about a 60 year old single lesbian and the people in her life is getting a print release! 

Also very exciting, Hanakage Alt’s Unnie’tte Yonde mo Ii Desuka? (オンニって呼んでもいいですか？) has a second volume available now in Japanese. Volume 1 is free on CMOA right now to celebrate – also in Japanese. I reviewed Volume 1 here on Okazu and found it delightful.

Ashidaka Woz’s Chou Uchuujin Yori Ao o Komete, Volume 2 (超深宇宙より愛をこめて) is up on the Yuricon Store! This story about love from beyond the stars is poignant and sweet.

Via Yuri Navi, Amazaki Suika has as new Yuri manga about a lesbian sex worker and an insomniac teacher in Mayonaka ni Aishite yo (真夜中に愛してよ), serialized on Comic Walker!

Oohachi’s Torikono Tameiki, Volume 1 (とりこのため息), a story about Yuzu and Momo, two friends who decide to try dating each other, is hitting shelves in October in Japan.

Korean GL 

Likes Are Private, a new Korean GL webtoon that has launched on Korean site Bomtoon has, apparently soared to the top of the rankings, which is awesome.

Yuri Events

I know it’s short notice, but today in Atlanta Georgia, there is a  Yuri Garden Cupsleeve Event
from 12-6pm at Queen Tea Midtown, 770 Juniper St NE, Atlanta GA! They’ve got some great guests and goods lined up. It looks like a fantastic time, so  if you’re in the area, RSVP here!

Galette on X shared some imaged from their Yuri Matsuri 3. Lots of congratulatory flowers from admirers as they celebrate ten years of independent Yuri manga! Congrats to everyone at Galette!

GL Live-Action

She and Hers, a new Taiwanese GL drama based on the novel by Xi Cheng, is premiering at the Kaohsuing Film Festival. Their IG is in Chinese, but you have a translation tool on your phone, don’t you?

LGBTQ Cartoons

I don’t remember if I mentioned this, but HBOMax is, apparently working on a Bubblegum and Marceline series. The project was announced in June and has a trailer thus far!  ^_^

Other News

The Animate HQ in Ikebukuro is advertising hard for Volume 5 of Ki ni Natteru Hito ha Otoko Janakatta, with banners on the first and second floor walls. If you have never been there, you may not understand how *much* real estate that is for the store, I’ve never seen any series take up more than one floor’s walls.

Via YNN Sr. Correspondent Sean Gaffney, ANN’s This Week in Anime takes on anime endings that left viewers feeling unsatisfied, with Goodbye, Lara being the inspiration, in Unhappy with Endings.

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Playing catch-up would be easier if there wasn’t so much Yuri news every week! ^_^ But finally, we are all caught up.

Yuri Manga in English

Out soon in English and an absolute must-read, is Love Bullet, Volume 2!, by inee.

Hitting bookshelves earlier this week was Yuri Espoir, Volume 5.

And Seven Seas has released Yuri Yuri Panic: A Case of Extreme Cuteness Has Occurred!, Volume 1. This looks like a wacky school rom-com.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, we have two Yen Press announcements this week: Summer Love Begins with a Lie -squall-, the manga based on the SukeraSparo VN, and Muromaki’s next collection of Yuri scenes and shorts, Lilies in Love for 101 Days.

I wrote a review of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, Volumes 1-9 for ANN! I see what people say when they say “Yuri,” but I see girls bonding over shared experiences in an intense and intimate way. ^_^

YNN Correspondent Jeyl has news that Sunstone creator Stjepan Šejić has a new illustrated novel. He and Rocketship Entertainment have created an animatronic segment called Letters to the Vampire Queen: The Pitch.

Yuri Manga in Japanese

ANN’s Anita Tai has the news that Goodbye, Lara will be getting a manga! By Citrus creator Saborouta! I don’t know how I feel about that!

Via Comic Natalie, Otsukare Gohan ~ Chiyo to Ikuko no Konbini Kakeawase Ryōri Jou~ (お憑かれごはん ～千代といくこのコンビニかけあわせ料理帖～) is about a tired office worker and the ghost of a waitress she lives with, who possesses her and cooks for her. Read the first chapter in Japanese for free on Comic Walker!

Also via Comic Natalie Mangatime Kirara Max is seralizing Rusabi’s AMOR – Koi Suru Cupid Amor (AMOR-恋するキューピッドアモル-). Reo is bitter about her lost love, and living with a tsundere Cupid is not helping.

Galette No. 39  (ガレットNo.39) is available on the Galette WORKS Booth.Pm shop, in digital format so no shipping needed. 

Via YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, sono.N‘s one-shot, Watashi no Kanojo ha Bodybuilder (私の彼女はボディビルダー) is getting a full series – read the one-shot in Japanese today on Comic Walker!

ANN’s Anita Tai wants you to know that the Lycoris Recoil manga will be ending shortly.

GL Manhwa

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Mukgaru on X announced that their GL comic Drowning In Your Ocean has begun serialization in English on Tappyoon. You can read the first chapter for free now! 

Anime News

We have a number of final episode reviews worth reading this week onANN.

Rebecca Silverman (thenks Pink Daisy for catching this) takes a solid look at Goodbye, Lara and Kennedy weighs in with her review of the final episode of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games.

Not Yuri, but Bless anime follows two women who are rejected as models, who team up to “define themselves in an inspirational fashion manga that asks cutting questions about what it really means to be beautiful—and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seems to respect talent over hard work.” Joanna Cayanan has the details on ANN. I am looking forward to another story of women forming intimate friendships through shared experiences.

Also not Yuri, but definitely intimate friendship, a second season of Though I Am An Inept Villainess anime has been announced.  ANN’s Anita Tai has the details.

Yuri Light Novel

Coming this winter from Tokyopop is UGLY GIRLS,  which follows a transfer student from Japan to Taiwain, with “atmospheric horror and eerie mystery around every corner set across Taiwan and Japan.“

Another Yuri anthology, Yuri Short Story Collection wiz 2 (百合小説コレクション wiz 2) is out with 8 short stories. I mention the first volume of wiz, in my review Three Yuri Short Story Collections from 2025 here on Okazu.

Yuri Visual Novels

Maarika announced on Bluesky that the Introduction to her VN That Bitch Stabbed Me is on her Patreon. Read and dl for free.

Yuri Kissaten is pleased to announce that Toxic Yuri has launched on Steam! You can download the demo for free and meet an overworked office lady who discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins!

Yuri Merch and Pop-ups

There is a Watanare Pop-Up Shop from October 23- November 8 at Volks Akihabara Hobby Heaven 2, 6th Floor in Akihabara, Tokyo.

Yuri Live-Action 

Buzz Tyler, a film director in Japan wants you all to know about Virgin Kiss, a YouTube series of live-action GL / Yuri short films from Japan. They look fairly male-gaze between the segment titles and images to me, but YMMV.

Yuri Research

New friend Emilia HoarFrost would like you to know about her article Animating Queer Phenomenology: Henshin in Yuri Kuma Arashi and Madoka Magica.

Other News

Totally something different. Via Comic Natalie, Hana no Asuka-gumi creator Takaguchi Satosumi has begun a new series, this time centered on members of a K-POP boys group, in Bokura ha Mada Sora no Yume o Minai (ぼくらはまだ空の夢を見ない). Click the link for sample pages in Japanese. This series is published by Futabasha.

Itstheheyman on IG has a really amusing schtick, where he makes up manga, anime and LN titles that are incredibly silly and plausibleish, but this video in which he discovers a real-life 18+ Yuri title made me laugh.

I wrote a review for The World’s Strongest Witch LN, Volumes 1-2, for ANN. It was a thing I read. Maybe the anime will be more fun? 

More entertaining for me was Tomb Raider King, Volumes 1-14, which I read before the anime came out.

All over the JP socials last night, Pixiv Fanbox has suspended a load of creators, for a variety of reasons, mostly for “existing.” Queer creators were hit hard, because RW idiots attack through payment processors and banks, over and over.

Cobalt Magazine (Home of Maria-sama ga Miteru) posted on X that “Over 2,000 Cobalt Bunko books from the personal collection of the late science fiction researcher, Kei Hoshi, have been donated to Shirayuri Women’s University. ”  There has been renewed interest in Shoujo and Jousei culture at that university.

Via YNN Sr. Correspondent Eleanor Walker, this reddit  post by alconnow that Pink Candy Kiss creator Ami Uozume “drew the poster illustration for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Breast Cancer Society…”

…and with this, I am caught up! Thank you for your patience while I was ill. ^_^

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