Yuri Event News

On May 28, Yume in Brooklyn, NYC will hold a Yuri Mart. I’m really hoping to make this just to see what art folks are making. ^_^

May 30 at Shirayuri Women’s College in Chōfu, Tokyo, Cobalt Bunko is holding a 50th Anniversary Commemorative Symposium “Cobalt Bunko 50 Years and Girl Culture“.  How cool is that! Maria-sama  ga Miteru creator Konno Oyuki is one of the speakers.

On May 29-June 2, Manga International Network (MINT) is running a Japanese Manga in NYC series of events that will include Battan, creator of Run Away With Me, Girl. This is a fantastic looking series.

COMITIA 156 is taking place on June 7, at Tokyo Big Sight, and plenty of Yuri circles will be there. Galette WORKS will be premiering Galette No. 38!

On June 8-15 Comic Yuri Hime is running a 20th anniversary art exhibition at the Namba Marui in Osaka.

The next Girls Love Fest is on June 21. It’s back in Keikyu Kamata/Ota Ward Industrial Plaza PiO, Ota Ward, Tokyo. They’ve shared their specific themes and future dates on X.

The 2nd Annual Queer Feminist Zine Fest will be held Sunday, October 4, at A’ Work Sōzō-kan in Osaka Japan. That sounds awesome.

Atelier LILIUM shared a short video of an initial look at this permanent Yuri cafe/reading room in Ikebukuro. They are hosting an inaugural event featuring art by Hirao Auri. They also shared some photos of Inui Ayu dropping by with some signed books at their opening. 

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Yuri Manga

New work in English from Thai creator Ratana Satis, Yuri creator X An Assistant with Zero Experience Vol.1 is up for pre-order. The site says that the book will begin printing when they hit 200 orders.

In English we have a new license from Yen: Contract Sisters, “Kasane Hayafuji cannot live without making trips to a certain eatery in order to see Aoyama, a waitress working there. But the next thing she knows, Aoyama comes to her with a “sister contract”…?!” 

Via Yuri Navi, we have “Cafe Lily no Madobe Nite” (カフェーリリーの窓辺にて) a stylish one-shot by Tsuma Bokuto that has run in the July issue of Asuka magazine. You can read it in Japanese on Comic Walker.

Akiyama Haru’s Watashi no Blue Garnet, Volume 3 (私のブルーガーネット) is available on Bookwalker JP.

Comic Cune has a new Yuri romantic comedy about a female college student in a photography club, Zankou Saisatsu (残光再撮), according to Comic Natalie.

Yuri Anime

Revolutionary Girl Utena is getting a theatrical release in the US! I first saw it on the big screen at the Japan Foundation in NYC. It’s worth seeing that way.

Manga Mogura on X offers up this trailer for the upcoming Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games anime.

Cho Kagura-hime is coming out on Blu-Ray in Japan, according to Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus. No news yet on an EN release.

The anime for Let Me Fix You is going forward with production, but without FAR, or ButaPro, after accusations of sexual harassment by FAR were made publicly, then retracted. Crystalynn Hodgkins has the detail on ANN.  The subtext of that situation is extremely loud. 

Merchandise News

Good Smile has a really nice The Rose of Versailles – POP UP PARADE Oscar François de Jarjayes Figure for pre-order. I don’t have they money right now, but I might end up getting it anyway. ^_^ It’s not *that* expensive….

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Yuri Light Novel News

Once again GL Bunko is offering a Light Novel by inori on US Kindle! Furimukinasai, Watakushi ni! Volume 1 (振り向きなさい、わたくしに) has Japanese text, but the translation tool on Kindle makes it a snap to read. This is the first volume of the sequel to I’m In Love With The Villainess, starring twin Aleah. This is up on the Yuricon Store.

Other News

AnimeFeminist offer us some reading from Lateria Scott with Agency, consent, and queer monstrosity in This Monster Wants to Eat Me.

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This week’s news is looking mighty global!

English Yuri News

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Tokyopop has licensed Hiraeth Remained by Nitamoto. “Sanayama Kazura, a girl who just wants to be loved, discovers that the girl she had been spending all of her money on to look her way has betrayed her. In her moment of despair, she is approached by Yoshibe Kinka, who asks if she would like to die with her.”

Chinese Baihe News

Baiheverse has two announcements this week!  Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!, is”a xianxia transmigration story created by the independent manhua creator CantNameThings.” The first 10 chapters, along with all future extra chapters, will be completely free to read.  I’ll try to make time for this.

They also have announced the long-awaited collaborative work with nihaohaohaojun, Long as We Have Loved. The synopsis for this reads, “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.”

Yuri novelist 九夏／Irene309 says on X that they were interviewed by Litmus  magazine about Idol Yuri and several of their novels. They go on to say that they are glad that there can be this kind of exchange across oceans. This interview is in Chinese, but hopefully I’ll be able to find and read it one day. 

Korean GL News

Via GirlsLoveInfo on X, Korean GL comic, The Wingless White Angel (하얀 천사에게 날개는 없다: 타락 소녀) “follows a bullied girl who meets someone who feels like an angel… but is she salvation or something darker?” This will premiere this month on Lezhin Snack. I’m guesssing that this is shorter form comics.

Thai GL News

Thai GL novel, 4 Elements: The Earth by Salmon, which was made into a live-action drama starring AppleMim, is getting a Japanese translation as 4 Elements: The Earth（フォーエレメンツ：アース）.

Japanese Yuri News

Urusekai Picnic (裏世界ピクニック) manga, Volume 16 is getting a May 12 release in Japan and Square Enix holding a release commemoration fair, with extras at every retailer.

Galette WORKS is releasing GALETTE ILLUSTRATION BOOK 06 on 6/6! Fun with numbers. ^_^ Check their website for purchasing links. 

Here’s a classic lesbian pulp-style Yuri novel on Bookwalker JP – Hannari Yuri-iro Onsenkyou (はんなり百合色温泉郷). Mio loses her job and home and ends up working at an onsen…where she and the landlady start a steamy affair. The description warns that there are “lesbian scenes between women.” I actually grinned reading this description.

Via Yuri Navi on X, we have  Koushaku Reijō No Rouraku Misshon ~ Maou To No Seiryaku Kekkon Ga , Jinrui Saigo No Kirifuda Desu ! … ~Tsu Te , Maou Ga Onnanoko No Baai Wa Dousureba Ii No Desu Ka ! ? (公爵令嬢籠絡ミッション～魔王との政略結婚が、人類最後の切り札です！…って、魔王が女の子の場合はどうすればいいのですか！？) is a ridiculously titled story about a young noble sent to seduce the Demon King to save humanity, only find her target to be is a Demon Queen. I’m definitely going to read that nonsense. ^_^

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Yuri Visual Novel News

Via YNN Correspondent Roxie, Dance of the Butterflies is “a WLW psychological thriller visual novel with 4 yurious love interests… and no choice that comes without a cost.” This was created by a Vietnamese studio, Parapuro. Wishlist it on Steam!

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus English and Japanese localization for Citrus Summer – A Visual Novel is being worked on! Follow developer team Lime Studio on X for updates.

Studio Lightbulb on X is working on Tsurugaoka no Nanafushigi (鶴ヶ丘の七不思議) “a science fiction x yuri feature-length free ADV”  about a beautiful girl who saves beautiful girls. This is in production, an we’ll keep an eye on it. ^_^

Yuri Events

The new permanent Yuri cafe space in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Atelier LILIUM is hosting an art exhibition on June 5-June 17, 平尾アウリの描く女の子展～Girls, by Auri Hirao.

Via Rica Takashima on Instagram, Yume, the pre-Pride Yuri market in Brooklyn, NYC is taking applications! This event is happening on May 31, 2026 in Flatbush. I am going to try to attend.

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Other News

Congrats to Anime Herald, for going into production on the second issue of Anime Herald Magazine! The first issue was fantastic (if I do say so myself, as I contributed an article.) ^_^

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One of the most amazing things about doing the weekly report these days is that we almost never have no Yuri news anymore.  Since I took last week off, get ready for a multi-week deluge of Yuri News! ^_^

Yuri Anime

This season has -thus far- given us two top-tier Yuri anime.

A Hundred Scenes From Awajima, based on creator Shimura Takako’s manga about  girls at a famous all-female musical revue troupe school, will take us in and out of several generations’ drama.

Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk has made a splash with Yuri fans. This travelogue, product endorsing alcohol advertisement with college age lesbians is way popular.  Apparently, there was some kerfuffle with some viewers making straight ships for characters online, and the creator, Hey, came on to X to confirm that they consider this a GL series. This fills me with a happy glow, and sadness for all those series in the past that were clearly Yuri, but the creators were like, “you can see it if you want, I guess.” Times sure have changed for the better!

HIDIVE is bringing back Blue Drop! For fans who were not here in the 00s, let me give you a quick rundown. Blue Drop anime is a pretty good anime set in the past of the Blue Drop manga, which was weird and decent, then got awful enough that I didn’t even bother reviewing Volume 2, then had a decent Drama CD Lovers Side and a very good Drama CD, Enemies Side. ^_^  Because this is a series by Yoshitomi Akihito there are many uncomfortable-making features. Age gaps are gappy, teachers are literally alien, consent is canonically non-existent, and other potential icks. But the anime is not the manga and is full of intensity and longing and a VERY SYMBOLIC ship breaching out of the water. Just…go watch it.

Young Ladies Don’t Like Fighting Games anime has a second trailer, more cast and OP, says ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda.

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Yuri Manga

Seven Seas wants you to know that The Delinquent and the Transfer Student, Volume 1 is up for Pre-order now! I started to read that years ago and forgot to continue, so I’m excited about reading it in English. ^_^

Crossed Hearts says all three of their Glam Beat Yuri titles will be releasing in May. Follow them to get updates!

Global Comix has added manga from Yuri Hub, so now you can get works by Ayu Inui and Rion Nomiya in English on Global Comix or Bookwalker! Alex Mateo has the news on ANN.

Kadokawa’s CandleA Yuri imprint is out there banging the Yuri drum. sono.N’s new series Hoshi no Taion, Meguru Yume(星の体温、巡る夢) is an adult age gap romance between a woman in her 20s and a woman in her 40s. (It can’t work – she won’t get your music references. ^_^;) Read it free in Japanese on Comic-Walker.

Yodokawa has a new series on Comic Walker as well, Neko ni Hakuchou, Hotaru ni Koban (猫に白鳥、蛍に小判). According to the author, this is a story about “a runaway girl in love and the adult who is swayed by her.”

KadoComi on X has…are you ready?… an actual sports Yuri manga! I am so happy, I could scream.  Slow Step (スロー・ステップ！) is about a baseball pitcher who is recruited to her new school’s handball team. I scanned the first chapter and I’m ready for more. Check out KadoComi’s Yuri rankings page for other great Yuri manga. 

Via ThaiHyper on X, Thailand’s smash-hit GL novel *Cranium クレイニアム* manga adaptation now available for early release on Renta!” Episode 1 is free, with 4 chapters available now. “A small plane crashes in the countryside of central Thailand, killing all 15 people on board. A young doctor, Bua, is dispatched to the scene to identify the body. However, it was there that she met Dr. Pinya, her colleague with whom she had parted ways. A forensic investigation begins in a dangerous atmosphere. One day, “another skull” that does not match the accident victim is found.
The discovery was the beginning of a disturbing mystery behind the crash. The two pursue the truth despite their repulsion, and eventually come face to face with each other’s pasts – will the bones reveal the truth about the accident or their fate?”

Japanese store Surugu-ya has created a Yuri page, with suggestions for games, manga, novels, a short history of Yuri and books with “Yuri-ish elements.”  Melonbooks also has a new Yuri Recommendations Feature on their socials. This…is a new trend I like. ^_^

Yuri Light Novels

Found on BookWalker JP, Kimi no Kyoushitsu ga Eien no Nemurinitsuku made (君の教室が永遠の眠りにつくまで). This is a school horror Yuri romance that sound super intense. Last time I found a cool Yuri LN on Bookwalker JP, J-Novel Club went and licensed it. Let’s see what magic will happen this time. ^_^

Yuri Visual Novels and Games

Studio Élan and Ebi-hime announce that Our Home, My Keeper is out now, on Steam and Itch.io. “This is a fairytale-inspired yuri visual novel full of magic. Follow Paige, a struggling writer, as she moves into a spacious home in the English countryside, where she meets the mysterious Faye.”

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Ashley, Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting, is a “yuri mystery and puzzle game inside a retro computer. Log on night after night to uncover a story of internet exploits, unexpected friendships, and a chaotic crew of 80s hackers. Solve 2D grid-based puzzles to piece together the mystery. ” has been listed on Steam. Add it your watchlist.

Yuri Live-Action

OUTChina, an LA-based organization that tells the stories of Queer Chinese people, is crowdfunding a Chinese lesbian reality show called LaLaLes: Fluid Love. The trailer is on Youtube and…you know, I’m rooting for this to succeed. 

Sapphic Film Updates has news of several (potentially) upcoming live-action film adaptations of queer books. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me caught my attention, for sure. I don’t know how many will make it to fruition. A lot of these die in process. 

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Yuri Events

Yuri Cafe and event space, Atelier Lilium is opening for their trial event, May 16-20 in Ikebukuro, right by the Animate Flagship store. That is a perfect place. I think it’s so interesting that where Ikebukuro began it’s growth with BL on Otome Road, it’s renewal and expansion is coming from Yuri. I cannot wait to visit.

Melonbooks is having a Yuri event/exhibition/pop-up called Prism Garden, May 2-6,2026, with multiple Yuri artists contributing works and merch.  Here’s an example of goods for Takeshima Eku’s Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau / Whisper Me A Love Song.

Not a “Yuri” event, but guaranteed great queer artists, the exhibitor list for Toronto Comics Art Festival is live. Manga Maverick Books will be there with great Yuri manga!

 CandleA  on X shared some pictures from the PIAMYFest in April that featured art from Morishima Akiko’s The Single Life,  Yuzaki Sakaomi’s Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna and Hanakage Alt’s Unnie ‘tte Demo Ii Desuka? 

Yuri Merchandise and Pop-up Shops

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All and Muzzle are doing a merch collab through Sugoi Shop France. 

Kadokawa, which is an anime and manga merchandising powerhouse in Japan, is moving hard on the US with MangaSpot stores in major cities. Heidi MacDonald over at The Comics Beat has the details.

Kinokuniya NYC has a limited amount of signboards from inee, when you buy the Kino edition of Love Bullet. 

Other News

The Spring Manga and Light Novel Guides are up on ANN and you will find me all over them. There are a lot of good things coming out this season and some not so good. ^_^

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See you next week!

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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