I had every intention of doing a YNN this week, but decided that my first week off in months was more important. ^_^
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 18, 2026
Yuri Manga in English
Seven Seas released Koharu and Minato: Happy Life with My Girlfriend, Volume 1 this week. According to a post on Bluesky, this went to #1 in the Yuri Manga category on Amazon! And, that means, somewhere along the line, Amazon *finally* created a category for Yuri manga…huzzah. I reviewed this in Japanese here on Okazu in 2024 and will be reviewing the EN edition soon. ^_^
Yen Press announced the license for Two A.M. at the Dining Table, about a girl haunted by her dead mother, and a small doll-like child.
Rainbows After Storms, Volume 8 is up on the Yuricon Store and so is Volume 9, which is headed our way this week!
BluPetal has announced that Let Me Fix You, their first Yuri license, has reached the final stretch goal on Kickstarter! Congrats to them.
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Yuri Manga in Japanese
New from Fushimi Daiki and Shogakukan, Technopanic Universe (テクノパニックユニバース) is a wacky Yuri manga about an inventor and the android assistant who loves her.
While we’re on sciency Scifi Yuri, here is a series by KU Banmachi on Pixiv, Shinainaru Inseki E about a young astronaut and an astronomer, the first chapter is up on Pixiv in Japanese.
Yuama’s Tayutau Koi no Chirisai ni (たゆたう恋の散り際に) is getting it’s first collected volume. This story of two heartbroken girls who play the roles they are assigned by their fellow students and their agreement to help each other, is being serialized in Comic Yuri Hime right now.
Via Yuri Navi, Joshi Kyuuketsuki no Nika ha Oishii Chi ga Suitai!(女子吸血鬼のニカはおいしい血が吸いたい！) by Takatsugu Haruma is a one-shot about a vampire who, as the title says, wants to suck yummy blood…the specific blood being that of her female friend. Read it in Japanese on on Sunday Webry.
Yuri Visual Novel
Via LezLiz on Mastodon, Haru no Oto ha Marude Kimi ni Nitete (春の音はまるで君に似てて) on Steam “is a kinetic novel set in a Japanese girls’ school that depicts the process of growth and love in which two girls meet, find the path they want to take through each other, and take one step at a time.” Liz a great source for games and VNs, you should follow her!
Via YNN Sr. Correspondent Ashley, Yukimisoft posted a promo video on TikTok for If You Stay (Steam or Itch.io) “A short free yuri visual novel I’m creating with my friend and composer @williamgomezcomposer. Decide whether you’ll stay with your girlfriend, Mika, after being outed and kicked out of your home. You have one choice: with or without her. “
The Toxic Yuri VN Jam on Itch.io begins next month, so if Toxic Yuri is your thing, bookmark this link!
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Yuri Anime
This week on Anime Feminist, Cy Catwell looks at the new Yuri anime in Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk — Episode 1. The series is streaming now on Crunchyroll. I’ll be watching that this weekend and will undoubtedly have some thoughts as well. ^_^ Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, OG Man on X has news of Kamiina Botan collab exhibition with Karatez.
Yuri Light Novel
Yen also announced the license for the Buying a Classmate Once a Week series of light novels. “Once a week, high schooler Shiori Miyagi pays her classmate Hazuki Sendai five thousand yen for the right to make the girl follow her orders for the afternoon. ” To be honest, I’ve basically avoided that series, but I’m told that it’s greatly anticipated by other people. ^_^
Yuri Live Action
YNN Sr. Correspondent Frank Hecker wants you to know that a new Yuri live-action series, Fruit, is up on GagaOOLala. CW this is a student/teacher tale.
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Yuri News Network – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 11, 2026
Yuri Anime
Bota Kamina Fully Blossoms When Drunk is up on Crunchyroll. The premise is that she gets “Yuri” with her female friends and colleagues when she gets drunk, I believe. I haven’t read or watched it yet, but initial report is that it is “cute,” which is surprising. ^_^
A Hundred Scenes From Awajima, based on the Shimura Takako manga, is a collection of stories from a fictitious all-women musical revue troupe school. There is one Yuri storyline among the many dramas and generations. Ohta Books and the Shinjuku Kinokuniya have a display in honor of the anime.
The Rose of Versailles Anime Movie Concert to be held in Tokyo in September has put tickets up for pre-order.
ToonHive on X noted that Noir celebrated a 25th anniversary this week. Let’s all go rewatch it on Crunchyroll!
Amayo no Tsuki (雨夜の月) / The Moon On A Rainy Night anime has an official website. Info is sparse, but I will keep an eye on it. ^_^
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Yuri Manga
Young Jump has a Yuri Fuutsu no Atashi-tachi one-shot. Read it for free in Japanese on their web reader at Yanjan. I have no idea how to transliterate the author’s name, but it is by 臓内Nigatsu.
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus Yuni announced on X that her serial Anata Mitai ni is being serialized on JP Kindle and CMOA and will be available on other digital platforms.
Seven Seas has released The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Volume 2, which is up on the Yuricon Store.
Via YNN Correspondent Mang’Albine, Vega has picked up Sal Jiang’s Wicked Spot for a French-language release. That has been licensed by Kodansha in English, and I’ll be reviewing it soon! ^_^
Baihe News
Baiheverse has released Long As We Have Loved, by Nihaohaohaojun. “Years later, after another call from her mother about getting married, Zhou Ruoheng couldn’t help but think back on her school days—how, once upon a time, there had been someone she loved.”
LBGTQ Comics
Tillie Walden is doing a book tour for the upcoming Charity and Sylvia graphic novel. I am so looking forward to this! I reviewed Rachel Hope Cleeves book about these two women in 2015.
Yuri Events
The Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature is holding a Special Exhibition: 130th Birth Anniversary — The Nobuko Yoshiya Exhibition: The Origins of Sisterhood from April 4th through May 31. This exhibition will include love letters between her and her lifelong partner Monma Chiyo. This sounds amazing. I will gladly take donations to send me to see this in person! ^_^
Shoujo ☆ Kageki Revue Starlight 9th Anniversary EXHIBITION ～Revue of over the Starlight～ ( 少女☆歌劇 レヴュースタァライト) will be held in Tokyo and Kyoto, in May and June respectively. You can follow the official X account for news.
Yuri Merch
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Tamifull revealed on X that How Do We Relationship is getting a line of merchandise at Village Vanguard!
Yuri VN News
Via Yuri Kissaten, Toxic Yuri is now on Steam. “An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box in an alleyway and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Experience the most toxic love story the world has ever seen.”
Yuri Audiobook News
Seven Seas says that the Adachi and Shimamura, Volume 11 audiobook is available.
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Yuri Resources
Our Resources page for Yuri research has been updated with a few new items!
Baited: A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow and the Anglophone Reception of Japanese Yuri Romance Manga by J Crawford. This an article about exactly what the tiile says.
Proposed Revisions to the Yuri Triangle – by Stella Li. An AO3-inspired look at organizing Yuri. thematically.
VTuber Legend: Exploring the Tense Relationship between Business Yuri, Friendship and Queerness – from The Trans-Yuri Express: A Journey Through Queer Aesthetics.
Other News
Last autumn I was interviewed by The Anime View. That interview is up on their site and on Youtube. Thanks Peggy, it was great fun speaking with you!
I reviewed Drops of God – Marriage, Volumes 11-13 for ANN. Now we have to wait for 3 more volumes to come out before I can find out what happens. ^_^
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Yuri News Network – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 4, 2026
Yuri Events
I’m going to start off this week with some blatant self-promotion. If you are at Anime Boston this weekend, drop by the Manga Mavericks Booth at C-120 and grab some amazing Yuri manga from Hanakage Alt, Aneido and Natsuo Mutsumi…and check out their licensing panel at 3. Hint, hint ^_^
There are a couple of Yuri panels in the schedule, so keep a look out for those, as well! I hope to be there next year once again.
Yuri Manga
Yuri Navi has the news of a new Yuri romance between a career woman and a hostess in Inu mo Arukeba Hime ni Ataru (犬も歩けば姫に当たる) by Kano Fumi, which is currently a digital manga serialized on Pixiv or CMOA.
Via the official TsukuTabe Bluesky account, She Loves To Cook and She Loves To Eat is resuming serialization! I’m happy for Yuzaki-sensei that she’ feeling up to that again. Also exciting, we have a cover reveal for Volume 6 of Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna (作りたい女と食べたい女 ), which is headed our way in June.
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Yuri Anime
Let Me Fix You, based on the story by Sakura Kurihara, the manga of which is being kickstarted by new publisher BluPetal, is getting an anime. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the details.
ANN’s Anita Tai has the news that Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance, the 20th anniversary project for the franchise will debut in an hour-long premier in July. I just finished watching Iczer Iczelion, and thought about Nanoha with every nudie transformation sequence. ^_^ Tradition!
On the Okazu Discord, YNN Correspondent Ambi suggested we should watch the promo video for Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (and Proud of it!) on Youtube. ANN’s Crystalynn Hodgkins has details on the anime..
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Light Novels and Novels
Inori.-sensei has put together a list of all of her works on her Pixiv Fanbox, for folks that are looking past I‘m In Love With The Villainess for more. Links are included for everything, although some works are only available at events. Most are available online and a number include EN licenses.
You remember the movie Thelma and Louise, yes? Starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, it was a story of two woman so tied into a system of patriarchy and oppression that death became their only way out. Many people saw the sapphic potential in it and certainly many women resonated with the way they refused to give in. Well, NHK in Japan has a drama about two 70 year-old women, Teruko and Rui (照子と瑠衣) that is inspired by the movie. In this series, Teruko learns her friend has nowhere to live, and as she is very done with her marriage they set off on a “girl’s trip” which ends up with Teruko and Rui living together under new names. I discovered that this existed through Yuri Novel Bot on X, and have subsequently found that this is also a novel, with a very recognizable cover. ^_^
Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean G we have news of Bloody Mary Rules (ブラッディ・メアリは支配する) a novel about “Mary Wales, 15 years old. A beautiful, intelligent, and horribly cruel girl.” This is via Yuri Navi, so I have to assume there is, y’know, Yuri. ^_^
Of all the silly April Fool’s announcements, I want to highlight this extremely silly announcement from Seven Seas, and the even sillier one from Yen Press. ^_^
Other News
Spreading all over the Internet amazingly fast, many people spotted Sailor Moon‘s Artemis the cat overseeing the Artemis II rocket launch this week. We all qvelled. ^_^ Ken Iikura-Gross has the report on ANN.
Anita Tai has the details of Global Bookwalker‘s relaunch on ANN, now that it has been split off from Bookwalker JP (and thus, removing its greatest utility.) They launched with some significant problems…including having marked all Yuri, no matter the reading age, as “mature.” Go and transfer your account, but hold their feet to the fire on this. It very much looks like they did no testing before launch. If you can’t see your purchases, look in the “mature tab” then let them know it is not acceptable. For once in my life I wrote an angry email….there was no reason for that “mistake” except laziness . It’s 2026 manga companies, get with the times.
Not Yuri, but gay comedy anime Go For It, Nakamura-kun! will be on Crunchyroll and ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news that it will be getting a simuldub.
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2026 Yuri Publisher Roundup
2026 has come out of the starting block full blast in terms of Yuri and I thought it would be cool to do a roundup of all the many Yuri, Baihe and GL publishers putting works out in English right now, so we can all see exactly who is in the space and what they are doing. ^_^
These are in alphabetical order off the top of my head. If you have other suggestions, leave them in the comments.
Yuri fans are so long in the habit of assuming that no one cares about Yuri, that often they simply forget to *look* and see what Yuri is out there. Many of these companies have licensing request forms, but they can’t license from companies they have no connection to. I will try and give a broad overview of the licensing relationships each publisher has if I know about it or can parse it from the site, so you have a sense of who is talking to whom and who you can ask for what.
There is a ton of Yuri and GL out there and more Baihe everyday. Yuri is a hot market right now, so don’t miss any chance to support the series you like with all these publishers!
Baiheverse is doing official translations of serialized Chinese Baihe manhua, novels and audio dramas. They have one video serial, as well.
BluPetal is a brand new publishing company with plans to bring out “Boys’ Love, Shojo, Yuri, Josei, Teens’ Love, & Gay Comics.” They’ve started with a Kickstarter campaign for doujinshi Let Me Fix You.
Crossed Hearts publishes manga, manhwa and light novels. They recently announced a GL imprint Glam Beat, with a number of licenses of Yuri doujinshi. “Crossed Hearts is a global publishing house specializing in the English localization and international distribution of Japanese manga, Korean webcomics, and Asian novels.” They appear to be working with creators directly.
An imprint of Penguin Random House, Inklore started licensing GL manhwa from Tapas (see below) including Her Tale of Shim Chong and Sora & Haena! They are still new, so we can look forward to their work.
J-Novel Club is a light novel focused publisher. They have licensed several Yuri titles in the past (Girls’ Kingdom was much better than it deserved to be) and have Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey coming out soon. Chapters can be read separately on their site if you sign up for their club, or purchased in volume format.
Kodansha is the US division of the Japanese publisher and is, therefore, able to access a great number of Yuri manga published by Kodansha. They also license works from Ichijinsha, the publisher for Comic Yuri Hime magazine. They are deeply committed to bringing out not just Yuri and BL, but also LGBTQ+ manga and have done some great work with openly queer titles.
Mad Cave and the Maverick imprint has quietly been adding a couple of sapphic titles, like Navigating With You and Blüdwire.
Quick Disclaimer: I work for Manga Mavericks, just to be transparent. Manga Mavericks is an independent publisher that is working with multiple smaller Japanese publishers, like Two Virgins and directly with artists. They have a distribution agreement with Red Strings, who has worked on Boyish² Butch x Butch Yuri Anthology and Aneido Anthology. They currently are publishing Horon of the Closed Country, which features an agender and nonbinary characters. Manga Mavericks has some exciting Yuri license announcements coming soon!
Manta is a Korean webcomic platform that is “connecting with creators globally.” They have a number of GL manhwa titles and a category for them on their site.
(Monogatari)
Monogatari had licensed a bunch of Baihe titles in English, but has announced that all their books are delayed. The site appears to currntly be “suspended”.
Seven Seas has always a had a pretty clear interest in publishing Yuri manga. They are licensing fairly widely these days and even stepping into Baihe and GL manhwa. I’m In Love With The Villainess continues to be a big seller for them. They have licensing connections with Futabasha, Hobunsha, East Press, and Ichijinsha, probably other companies.
Square Enix Manga and Books is the US division of JP company Square Enix , They don’t have a lot of Yuri, but they do have Otherside Picnic and they are doing a very good job of it. A few of their other titles are “queer-ish”. I wouldn’t say they are a major player, and they tend to license Square Enix works, for obvious reasons.
This webtoon platform has a GL category and has licensed at least one of their series for print publication to Inklore Books.
Tokyopop’s Love is Love imprint is adding Korean GL manhwa, Japanese Yuri manga and Global sapphic comics. They have some genuinely excellent titles, so don’t skip them. They license from Shonen Gahosha, European and Korean publishers, Line Direct and Futabasha.
Webtoons has been pretty consistent about supporting popular GL cartoons. Several of their most popular have become print volumes through indie publishing or Viz Originals, including Always Human and Not So Shoujo Love Story. They don’t have a separate category for GL/Yuri.
Viz has licensing connections with a number of the biggest publishers, including company ownership by Shogagkukan and Shueisha, and licensing with Hakusensha. They have Rainbows After Storms, and Gal x Gal Yuri among other.
The Viz Originals imprint is killing it with stuff like The Girl Who Can’t Get A Girlfriend and Not So Shoujo Love Story. The folks there are very committed to bring out good queer stuff.
Yen Press has a strong licensing relationship with Kadokawa, and some of Ichijinsha’s titles as well as a few other publishers. The success of titles like The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, and Love Bullet all but guarantees they will continue investing in hit Yuri series.
Ize Press is a separate imprint for Yen, focusing specifically on Korean comic and novels. Their first (and only at time of writing) GL comic is I Love Amy, but they feature it on their page, so perhaps look for more?
