It’s Anime Expo weekend, let’s celebrate all the amaziiiiiing licenses thus far!

Yuri Anime

Our top story this week is the The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All promotional video is real and up on Youtube.  In a stunning indication of a Yuri anime getting real money invested, Nirvana’s “Breed” is the OP animation by Cloverworks

The announcement came paired with a video of Arai-sensei handing over the anime playlist to Dave Grohl and getting his feedback.  This will be streaming on Crunchyroll in January 2027. 

As Sr. YNN Corespondent Sean Gaffney so cogently put it:  

2001: “Those two girls sometimes stand next to each other. Yuri? I should write a fic.” 
2026: “Yeah, the new yuri anime based on a bestselling manga has Breed by Nirvana as its OP and it was introduced at the con by Dave Grohl.”

We are entering a whole new era. Let us pray that no Yuri anime is ever poorly funded again. Amen.

MediaOCD is releasing a Lady Oscar: The Rose of Versailles Complete Collection Blu-ray set. This is the entire 40-episode television series for under $50. Unbelievable.

Via YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, here is a link to Mitwa, a short sapphic animation that was shown at the Annecy Festival. Set in In Southern India in the 60s, two lovers find time with each other among the hubub of festival preparations.

ANN’s Joanna Cayanan has news that the Maebashi Witches Emoemories: Blooming Witches Compilation Film Opens in Japan on October 23.

Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney  AnimeAnime reports the results of their Favorite Yuri poll. Giant Robots for the win. ^_^

Yuri Manga In English 

Huge news out of Anime Expo for manga!

Manga Mavericks is working on a beautiful deluxe print edition of The Sword of Paros!  This queer fantasy is epic and personal and gorgeous. I am editing the book and could not be happier. Pre-order direct from Manga Mavericks for North America and UK.

Inklore has entered the ring with Ikoku Nikki by Yamashita Tomoko! Yay! I started reading that ages ago but never finished. I love Yamashita’s work and thought the anime adaptation, Journal With Witch was fantastic.

Kodansha announced the license for Battan’s Fatale Game. I reviewed Volume 1 of that recently here on Okazu.

Meian announced a French edition of The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Work for the Villainess to be released in September

BluPetal announced The Black World is Dyed in White Chalk. This story brings two girls who have suffered trauma together to find healing.

And Yen Press announced Takane-san and Arashi-chan, a school life Yuri.

The Death-Dying Princess Creates a Yuri Harem to Survive is up for pre-order. This Yuri spin on the Villainess subgenre looks fun.

Anita Tai on ANN notes that Stardust Telepath manga will be ending with 7 volumes.

A little late on my part, sorry, but Glam Beat sent Pride Month off with a post that all their Yuri manga is now available on MangaPlaza (which is subscription-only,) and Bookwalker!

Yuri Manga In Japanese

Yuni’s Anata Mitai ni, Volume 1 (あなたみたいに) adult life romance is up on Bookwalker!

And Boyishna Kanojo ni Numatteku! ? Yuri Anthology  (ボーイッシュな彼女に沼ってく!? 百合アンソロジー) is  as advertised on the tin. ^_^ This is out from Comic Growl, which is a new name to me.  ^_^

Aoto Hibiki’s office romance Kono Koi, Ittan Mochikaerasete Itadakimasu! Volume 1 (この恋、一旦持ち帰らせていただきます!) is out!  Link to Bookwalker JP.

Volume 1 of Kuzushiro’s  30 Made Hhitoridattara Isshonikurasōoutte Itta Yo ne? (30まで独りだったら一緒に暮らそうって言ったよね? ) is out. Two women make a drunken promise that if they don’t have a lover by 30, they’ll move in together. Link goes to Amazon JP, but it is serialized on Bookwalker.

Yuri Merch and Pop-Ups

Via Sr. Correspondent Matt Marcus wing is releasing figurines for Gujo and Chin-lan from Kamiina Botan.

Yuri Podcast

This Week In Fandom History celebrated Yuri Day with me! Check out our conversation on June 25: Yuri Day (百合の日) with Erica Friedman. We had a lovely conversation.

Yuri Visual Novels

via YNN Correspondent Akatsukinoluna, Carmilla: Crimson Moon now has a demo up on Steam. ” A dark yuri horror visual novel inspired by a classic gothic novella. When the enigmatic Carmilla arrives, Laura is swept into a fever dream of obsession. Is this stranger the cure for her loneliness or a herald of corruption? And what caused the mysterious deaths of two girls in the nearby village?” So, it’s straight up Carmilla. ^_^

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Yuri/Baihe Reading

Baiheverse offers up this short disussion of Baihe vs Yuri: What Is the Difference? where they make a very solid argument that when readers call Chinese WLW media Baihe, reader keep the cultural context of the work. I absolutely agree, honestly. I’m not for policing you, personally, but knowing and using the words used by a community shows respect and understanding of that community…something we know to be true in the queer community as well. ^_^

Sean Gaffney gives us his thoughts on Kamiina Botan Fully Blossoms When Drunk on his own blog. Sean’s posts are always worth reading.  

We added two articles to the Yuri Resources Page under the Fan Studies section, by Burkeley Hermann and Mayo Chiki. If you have Yuri research or essays, let us know and we’ll get them up on our Resources page.

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Yuri Day Week

To celebrate Yuri Day, we’ve collaborated with Bookwalker Global to offer up a Yuri Trivia Contest on their Instagram. Answer the questions, comment on their page, and be in running for coins to spend on their Yuri Day Sale! The context runs through June 29, the sale goes through July 8!

The Toronto Japan Foundation is doing a Hybrid Yuri Manga Book Club! To start off, they are celebrating Battan’s recent visit to Toronto for TCAF with her Run Away With Me, Girl.

The Yuri Hime Editorial Desk is participating in Hoshi ni Onegai wo Day 1 [星に願いを 2026 -day 1-] for portfolio review.

For folks at Anime Expo, Yen Press is celebrating Yuri cosplay with exclusive pins!

Yuri Manga

Via Comic Natalie, from Yoshitomi Akihito, creator of Blue Drop,  Volume 1 of Nazo no Eureka (謎のユリイカ) is out now from the orSIS imprint. Two girls, one a writer, one an artist find each other’s fantasies, are the same.

Henai Shijou Shugi Iwami Kiyoko Sakuhin-shuu (偏愛至上主義 岩見樹代子作品集) is a collection of short stories by the creator of My Girlfriend’s Not Here Today.

Ikuta Hana’s Comic Yuri Hime series has been collected into a volume, Hone ni Negai o, Hoshi ni Noroi o, Volume 1, (骨に願いを、星に呪いを). Twin sisters with different personalities. One day, one of them goes missing….

Schwinn posted a few panels of her new senior Yuri series on X, with a link to more on her Patreon.

Via YNN Correspondent akatsukinoluna,  we have news of the Tsumi ni Oboreru Crime Yuri Anthology (罪に溺れるクライム百合アンソロジー) from Takeshobo, who traditionally did not market things as Yuri. This anthology looks at dirty deeds done in the name of Yuri. Obviously, I’m going to have to read this.

Yuri Anime

The Kimi wo Tsumugu (君を紡ぐ) short anime trailer is up on Youtube ahead of the manga Let Me Fix You from Blu Petal.

The new Ghost In The Shell trailer on Youtube looks pretty darn good. It will be interesting to get a look at the manga, animated at last and Science Saru has shown themselves to be the right team for the project.

Amazon is selling an exclusive Strawberry Panic: The Complete Series Blu-Ray set, says YNN Sr. Correspondent Sean Gaffney. Get all 26 episodes of this influential, yet also derivative in a million ways, fanfic of an anime. ^_^

And speaking of old and beloved Yuri anime, on This Week in Anime, Christopher and Sylvia say Happy 20th Birthday, Simoun! Apparently, it is streaming on Darkroom.

Adventure Time: Bubblegum and Marceline is getting an HBO Exclusive. Check out this promo on Instagram, because squee!

Friends in the UK,  a Sailor Moon Season 1 Steelbook is headed your way from Disc-connected.

Via green body realness on X, an Ur-text for fans of Utena, Pastoral to Die, directed by Terayama Shuuji. Check out the post for  aha! moments.

Another news item for fans of the the Utena movie, vas YNN Correspondent Thomasina Pontier – GKIDS has released the graphic for the movie poster so you can download and print one for yourself!

Thai GL Novels

Via YNN Correspondent Patricia B, The Beguiling in Toronto has begun carrying Thai GL Novels in English! Sr. Thai GL Correspondent Frank Hecker notes that the translations for these can be uneven, so just be forewarned.

Yuri Light Novels

To celebrate Yuri Day, German publisher Dokico announced a new work from inori.-sensei, Dem Mond das Gift, der Nacht die Medizin. This is Dokico’s first  of their “original novel” line.

Yen Press debuted the cover for Buying a Classmate Once a Week, Vol. 1.

LGBTQ+ Comics

Respected comics researcher Paul Gravett has written up a look at the Queer As Comics Exhibition in London on  Graphic Memoir Blog.

Yuri Merch and Pop-ups

Angless.ig posted this video retrospective of The Green Yuri Market in LA on instagram.

Melonbooks is doing a standee of Koharu and Minato for Volume 4(!) of Koharu to Minato – Watashi no Partner ha Onna no ko (小春と湊 わたしのパートナーは女の子). Here’s a link to the series on Bookwalker JP. No standee, but still a nice series.

Atelier Lilium teased two original mascot characters on X for the cafe. Panels for photos will be up at the cafe (and I bet there will be goods for sale.)

Gamers is holding a Sakura Trick (桜Trick) Fair where special goods for the series will be available. Everything old is new again, now that Yuri is so much more popular!

MangaOh is doing a Kimi ga Hoeru Tame no Uta wo  (キミが吠えるための歌を) Volume 4 showcase with acrylic standee.

Atre Akihabara is doing a collaboration with Kimi ga Shinu Made Koi wo Shitai (きみが死ぬまで恋をしたい) ahead of the series’ anime debut.

Yuri Live Action News

Via YNN Sr. Correspondent Matt Marcus, there are calls for extras for an upcoming Japanese live-action GL series, that takes place at a college. The production team gave us Ayaka Loves Hiroko…and the vibes very much sound like a How Do We Relationship drama is on the horizon.

Sailor Moon Super Live is heading out on a new tour of North America and London! This was a lot of fun. Go see it, if you can.

Other News

Yuri couple VTuber HanaLiLial will begin streaming shortly. Follow their channel on Youtube.

Via 90’sanimefashion on Instagram, a look at Worldbuilding in Revolutionary Girl Utena.

The New York Public Library put together a IG slider with queer comics for adults that includes some Yuri manga!

Fun news via YNN Correspondent wall on X, a retrospective of Taiwanese lesbian literature is being published. You can get Dào Huǒ Jí: Yī Bù Cóng Jìyì Chūfā De Táiwān Nǚ Tóngzhì Wénxué Shǐ (盜火集: 一部從記憶出發的臺灣女同志文學史) on any site that sells Taiwanese books, but I have linked to the same site wall used.

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Yuri Anime

Tomorrow! Revolutionary Girl Utena Movie: The Adolescence of Utena in theaters across North America! Don’t miss this opportunity to see this on a big screen.

Yuri Manga

Via The OASG on X, A Couple Drifting In The Wind, Volume 1, by Puebro, pre-orders are live. I reviewed this in Japanese this past winter here on Okazu.

Also via OASG, Yamada and Kase-san ,Volume 5 pre-orders are live.  I reviewed that this past April in Japanese on Okazu. ^_^

By Asahina Shou, Kawaii ha, Tokidoki Kurushii is a manga about a woman who is trying to find herself and the gender presentation that suits her. Unusually a makeover allows her to be more butch, rather than femme. You can read sample chapters on Gangan Online, and Volume 1 and Volume 2 are available on Bookwalker JP. 

The American Manga Awards 2026 nominees have been announced! Stop! Hibari-kun has a nod for Best New Edition of a Classic Manga and inee’s Love Bullet for Best New Manga. Sean Gaffney and I will be reporting from the AMA’s this August for Anime Herald, once again. ^_^

Speaking of Love Bullet, inee drew an image of the Cupids enjoying phở, to thank her Vietnamese fans, and the image and the news made mainstream Vietnamese media, according to himejoshiris on X.

Taifu Comics is regretfully allowing some of their titles to go out of print. Many of these are older titles, and a few are Yuri.

Via Comic Natalie, Musume ga Kanojo o Tsuretekita Hanashi (娘が彼女を連れてきた話), Volume 1, by Kurasaki King, out from orSIS tells the story of a girl who brings her girlfriend home, not sure how her single dad is going to take it, only Dad is a huge Yuri fan (Yuri pig, is how he is described.) It’s on Bookwalker if this sounds like you’d think it’s funny. ^_^

Also via Comic Natalie, Shimura Takako will be contributing a story to Comic Yuri Hime for the July issue. 

Pride Month Sales

Along with Tokyopop and Yen Press Pride month sales and Kodansha’s Humble Bundle…
Baiheverse is running a June Sale!

By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga is on sale through June 30!

Yuri Events & Cafes

This past week, Morishima Akiko and Rica Takashima had a talk event at Loneliness Books in Nakano. Our JP Corespondent Sasori was there and will have a write-up about it, but in the meantime, Morishima-sensei shared some pictures of Rica’s art exhibit at the store on X. Rica showed all of the Yuri Monogatari books, and our edition of Rica ‘tte Kanji!?, the first Yuri work in English, as well as By Your Side, for which she did the cover art! Check out the pictures. I couldn’t be there, but I felt well-represented. ^_^

Via their official X account, Raspberry Heaven is set to open as a GL manga cafe in Seoul, Korea.

Yuri Novel

Via YNN Staff Matt Marcus, syasendou announced on X that their story, Kaijuu (回樹) from the 2023 collection of the same name is free to read on Hayakawa Books! The entire collection can be found on Bookwalker JP.

This is from 2023:  Kono Ginban o Kimi to Tobu  (この銀盤を君と跳ぶ) is a Yuri novel about two ice skaters, by Ayazaki Jun, available on Bookwalker.

Looking for some beach reads? The 2026 Lambda Literary Awards Winners have been announced. That’ll get you some new perspectives.

Yuri Visual Novel

From the folks over at YuriEureka we have a trailer for NSFW  Exhibition of the Heart is “a nsfw yuri visual novel about love, exhibitionism, and being true to your heart. It follows the story of Alice, a shy university student who never got over her first crush from high-school: the upright and diligent Sylvia. She was regarded by their school as a gifted student, destined for success, a shining star that Alice felt she could never hope to reach. Even three years after graduating, she still can’t stop herself from thinking about her first crush.” The trailer is not explicit, but the VN is.

Studio Élan is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Highway Blossoms, the breakout hit Yuri VN that lead to their creation. Check out their free Patreon post to learn all the news of their celebration. Congrats to everyone at Studio Élan!

Live-Action News

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Frank Hecker, Fairway of Love, a Thai Drama bout two golfers is on the horizon. Also via Frank is an article from Bloomberg about the popularity of Thai GL and Bl Dramas: Why Millions Are Falling for Thailand’s Same-Sex Romance Dramas. (This link is imperfect, but will get you most of the article.)

Other News

Via YNN Correspondent Sheila Webber, the lecture Kyoto International Manga Museum as a Hub of Knowledge and Community is up on Youtube.

Via YNN Correspondent Manga’albine, check out littleblossomdarling on Instagram talking about gay Victorian fashion plates. ^_^

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Yuri Manga

Viz has licensed Gal x Gal Yuri manga for print, with an expected release of Spring 2027! I love these gals so much, they are just so charming. 

Woot! Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna, Volume 6 (作りたい女と食べたい女) is hitting Japanese shelves this week.

Kodansha has re-released Osamu Tezuka’s two-hearted girl prince classic in one collection, the Princess Knight Omnibus Edition. Read the original manga before you watch the upcoming anime loosely based on it, The Ribbon Hero, on Netflix this summer.

Galette No. 38  (ガレット) is up on the Yuricon Store and so is a new collection of cover and color art from the magazine, Galette Illustration Book No.6. Someone at GaletteWORKS has been busy, because issues No. 35, No.36, and No.37 have been added to more purchase options after quite a long while. 

Tsumetakute Yawaraka, Volume 5  (冷たくて 柔らか) is on the Yuricon Store.  Takara has to face her feelings about Emma.

YNN Correspondent A Talking Bush From Vietnam wants you to know about Boita Boine, a series about boyish girls who love women, Volume 1 has just been released, but you can read a sample chapter in Japanese on, well a lot of platforms, but I chose Bookwalker JP for the link. ^_^

Yuri Navi has a full on PR piece  for a music x time leap school life series in  Kimi to Deatte, Watashi wa ‘Jibun no Koe’ o mitsuketanda―― Ongaku × Seishun × Time Leap Kimitonara, Ashita o Utaeru no (君と出会って、私は「自分の声」を見つけたんだ”――音楽×青春×タイムリープ「君となら、明日を歌えるの」). Sample chapter is up on Comic Walker!

Via YNN Correspondent Lena Tama, Morishima Akiko has a new manga on her note.mu site,  Even Though I’m Bisexual, I’m Not Twice As Popular (バイなのに倍モテないッ).

The July issue of  Comic Cune has Atashi-tachi ‘tte Tsukiatteru yo ne!? (あたし達って付き合ってるよね!?) which  is a Yuri romantic comedy that depicts the battle between two complicated girls. 

Yuri Anime

After some delays, Kimi wo Tsumugu is getting a short anime adaptation, after all. A promotional trailer is up on Youtube.

Viz Media has announced Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Seasons 1-3 in a collected set.  

The upcoming Kimi ga Shinu Made Koi wo Shitai anime has a Promotional Video on Youtube and Key Visuals.

DO NOT MISS Revolutionary Girl Utena in North American theaters on June 21-22!

LGBTQ Comics

Via The Comics Beat, we learn that Melanie Gilman has a new sapphic horror comic, The Goblin Queen. “When a young woman cornered and out of options makes a pact with the Goblin Queen for peace and safety, she initially thinks herself prepared to pay any price. But when confronted with the true cost of her contract, she breaks her word and flees to start a new life far from the strange old creature. What she doesn’t realize is that all roads lead to the Goblin Kingdom—and its Queen will always find you. One way or another.”

Via The Comics Beat’s Samantha Puc, a review of Charity and Sylvia, Tillie Waldens’ GN adaptation of the Rachel Hope Cleeve’s  book. My copy is on the way! Woot.

Yuri Light Novels

Yen has announced a license for Ren and Shino (Future), the sequel to their previous license. Ren and Shino are living together now as adults.

Yuri Sales and Merch

My book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga is on sale for 20% off until the end of the month!

Humble Bundle has 2 Yuri sales running right now: 

Yuri in Luck: Waifus for Laifus Bundle—a colorful collection of LGBTQ+-themed Yuri visual novels 

Kodansha is offering 61 books as a bundle for Pride in their Kodansha Presents: BL, Yuri & More from Ichijinsha

Tokyopop offers 20% off their Pride Collection with the code Pride20.

Yen Press is offering 40% off selected titles for Pride.

Via Jae on X.com 50 free sapphic books you can download right now!

And Queen of Swords wants us to know about a Tabletop Gaymer Humble Bumble with tons of fun stuff, including Thirsty Sword Lesbians. ^_^

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, PRS Guitars has launched the RockLady, a Rock is a Lady’s Modesty-inspired Custom 24-08. Limited models are selling out fast. The video about the creation of the guitar is fab.

Essays on Yuri

wall has a terrific essay “Gender” issues in the yuri genre (I): Controversies surrounding the reader’s position and the perspective of aromanticism” (百合ジャンルにおける「ジェンダー」問題（Ⅰ）――読者の立場をめぐる論争とアロマンティシズムの視座) on their note.mu. This is in Japanese, but you can always use a translation tool. wall is also a fantastic commenter on X and is worth following, if you are still there.

Also in Japanese, Actresses “Shiho Kato, Kanna Mori, and director Yuuka Eda talk about the charm of “Ayahiro 2”! My desire to deliver a GL drama now” (“加藤史帆×森カンナ×監督・枝優花が「あやひろ2」の魅力を語り尽くし！いま、GLドラマを届ける思い”) has the leads and director talking about their goals for Ayaka Loves Hiroko Season 2 live-action on So-En Online.

Other News

Battan posted a few pieces of art on X celebrating being at TCAF.

Via YNN Correspondent pepsi, Tsukimizu is serializing a prequel to Girls Last Tour, called Kaisoutoshi Danpen-shuu (階層都市断片集) to run in Kurage Bunch magazine.

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My book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga is on sale across all formats and platforms!  Get 20% through the month of June. ^_^

Yuri Events

I’ve honestly never seen so many Pride events in my life. And the vibe this year is definitely “Resistance” and Fuck the Haters” more than I have seen in years! Remember, Pride began as an uprising against corruption and hate, and kept going as a way to be seen and heard when the forces around us want us silent and gone. This year stand, up and stand out!

Continuing my scan of IG for Yuri events, if you are in the Chicago area, there is a Yuri cafe at OMI cafe on June 13th! Can’t find a Yuri cafe near you? Run one and let me know!

Toronto Comic Arts Festival is this weekend in Toronto, Canada. Admission is free. Battan, creator of Run Away With Me, Girl,  is one of the guests!

Comic Yuri Hime’s 20th Anniversary art exhibit is open now in Osaka! Check out their promotional video on Youtube. (I think it comes off as kind of creepy, honestly.)

COMITIA 156 is taking place on June 7, at Tokyo Big Sight, and plenty of Yuri circles will be there. 

Revolutionary Girl Utena Movie: The Adolescence of Utena is in theaters on June 21. This is must-see anime. ^_^

Rica Takashima and Morishima Akiko will be talking about Yuri in the 90s and Yuri in America at loneliness books on June 18, in Nakano.

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.

Atelier LILIUM, is hosting an inaugural art  exhibition by Hirao Auri. Loads of Yuri creators and fans have been visiting this first permanent Yuri cafe in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Check out their X feed for comments and pictures. 

At ANCHOR rainbow port Tokyo, in Shinjuku, they are doing a Pride month menu. ^_^

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Yuri Manga in English

Via  Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus Yen Press is doing a Pride sale of their BL, Yuri, LGBTQ(ish) books.

Kodansha is doing a Humble Bundle Pride sale of their BL, Yuri, LGBTQ(ish) books, too. ^_^

Via OASG on X, Fanfare/Ponent Mon is reprinting a number of their books, including Kiriko Nananan’s  1997 Yuri work, Blue. 

Toronto’s The Beguiling comic and manga store is leaping in to doujinshi publishing with Battan’s The Golden Fly (Kinbae). The Kickstarter has already exceeded its goal and has 15 days to go.

Lucky Cavity would like you to pay what you want for their Yuri comic Leftovers,”a one-shot yuri/GL comic about running into your ex but she’s being possessed by a freaky alien.”

Yuri Manga in Japanese

Big news, Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna / She Loves To Cook and She Loves to Eat, has reached 1 million copies in print…with only 5 volumes. How about them lilies? Kadokawa has put together a special celebration page.  CandleA is making the manga free to read in Japanese to celebrate and as part of their pride month event. And Volume 6 is hitting Japanese bookshelves on June 15!

Via Matt, COMIC OGYAAA!! has a new comic about two women who become roomates in order to bet on the horses. Sure, why not? ^_^ Sample chapters of Kimi to Mitai Race ga Aru (きみと観たいレースがある,) Original work: Rei Watanabe, Kyo Shumachi and manga by Tamotsu Kuwabara  can be read online in Japanese.

Speaking of CandleA, they nod to Yuri Navi for mentioning Rival Arrival (ライバルアライバル) a new manga  about former idols, who broke up after a fight. Now that they are in their 60s, they team up once again. Obviously, I am going to have to read this. ^_^

Hanakage Alt’s Sempai to Kohai (先輩の後輩) is 505 off in Japanese, English and Spanish!

Yuri VNs

Via Sr YNN Correspondent Sasori, The Toxic Yuri Game Jam 2 is on! Sasori is participating, how about you? 

Yuri Novels

Tokyopop’s LoveLove imprint is making a foray into novels with Rokakoen’s psychological horror Yuri, Ugly Girls.

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Yuri Webcomics

Last Beat by Hawker is up on Tapas.  “Akira Hirano is a mysterious ronin who, after losing everything, seeks to find a new purpose to her blade. However, ‘Aki’ carries a curse with every heartbeat”

Yuri Merch and Pop-Ups

Obviously the Comic Yuri Hime 20th Anniversary Exhibit has all kinds of goods. 

Geestore has items from the Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau pop-up for the 20th anniversary, as well

Watashi o Tabetai Hito de Nashi / This Monster Wants To Eat Me has a pop-up store in Akihabara Gamers.

Yuri & LGBTQ Articles

Battan has been in the US for MINT Manga series and TCAF. Yatta-Tachi’s Adam Wescott caught up with Battan and Sumire Nobuhiro for a MINTERVIEW. 

Via YNN Correspondent Haryu, here is an article from The Diplomat: The Politics Behind Taiwan’s Soft Power: “Taiwan Travelogue” and its Booker Prize win highlight the nuances – and controversies – of contemporary culture in Taiwan. 

Anise and Phryne magazines publisher Hagiwara Mami has an article about her motivation for publishing those first lesbian magazines in Japan in ETC, Volume 13. 

Other News

A brand new book on the history of the Japanese LGBTQ+ community is coming out in Japan. LGBT History Book Nihon-hen Byoudou o Motomete Koe o Ageta Hitobito no Tatakai (LGBTヒストリーブック日本編 平等を求めて声を上げた人々の闘い).  I’m totally going to get a copy.

A Yamagishi Ryouko Tribute Book is being released by Kawade Shobo. Essay authors will include shoujo superstar Moto Hagio, Yamagishi-sensei is revered not only as a brilliant shoujo manga artist, but also a fine art painter. I consider her work Shiroi Heya no Futari the first Yuri manga.

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