Yuri Events

The Girls Love Fest doujinshi market will be held in the Tokyo Asakusa/Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center, Taitokan, once again on October 6th.

ANCHOR rainbow port tokyo is running a Thai GL collaboration from September 27 through October 7 with special food, drinks and limited edition goods. Follow their Pixiv fanbox for event news!

Okazu Staff Writer Frank Hecker wants you to know about the live readings of Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright, “this millennium’s best giant robot yuri space epic,” in verse. Author Thaliarchus is doing live readings on Twitch starting today! You can also download the poem on Itch.io…and clearly…you should. We need more epic Yuri poetry. ^_^

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Kadokawa and NicoNico announced the Next Manga Awards 2024 and the English-language edition of Kiyoko Iwami’s My Girlfriend’s Not Here Today from Seven Seas won the Global Special Prize English Edition! Congratulations to everyone at Seven Seas!

Mejirobana Saku, Volume 4 (メジロバナの咲く), the continuation of Nakamura Asumiko’s first serial Yuri story hit JP shelves in August and I’m dying to know what happens. It’s up on the Yuricon Store!

Via Comic Natalie, beginning at the end of August in コミプレ-Comiplex- magazine is Shinni Modori Ojou ha Ikinobiru tame ni Yuri Harem o Tsukurukoto ni Shita (死に戻り王女は生き延びるために百合ハーレムを作ることにした), about a selfish princess who is executed. When she returns to life, builds a Yuri harem to survive.

Also via Comic Natalie, the September issue of Comic Cune includes a new Yuri comedy, 7-Kakan Gentei Kanojo (7日間限定彼女) about a gal and an honor student “trying out” dating for a week.

Via X, Shonen Jump magazine has announced Ichi the Witch by Osamu Nishi and Shiro Usazaki starting this Sunday in Shonen Jump! In this world magic is alive, but only women have the aptitude to wield it. Until one fateful day…  If you love “the one guy in a world of women” fantasies, this may be for you.

Headed to shelves in Japan in November is Kawaikutte Tottoi! Yuri-ple no Kaki-kata (可愛いくって尊い! 百合ップルの描き方) an anthology of how-to draw Yuri Couples by a number of Yuri artists.

Yuri Games

The Yuri Game Jam is upon us! From September 30 through December 2, get your Yuri game dev hat on and submit those Yuri VNs and games! We all win when we get more Yuri work. ^_^

Studio Élan is also running an internal game Jam with Bellhouse to develop YuriVns. Check out their post on Studio Élan  Garden Variety: Dandelion Set to learn more.

A year late and probably never, Birdie Wing -Golf Girls’ Story- Golf Venus app’s production has been “put on hold.” Anita Tai has the news on ANN.

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Anime News

Crunchyroll has opened the flood gates! PreCure Max Heart will be added to their library, and a number of other PreCure series are on the way. Still no Heartcatch though…. ^_^; Anita Tai has this report on ANN, too.

Other News

Kodansha is trying something new with Kodansha House, an interactive cafe/meeting space focusing on manga, with a manga library, manga artist talks and more. Opening on October 4 in SOHO in NYC, it will be very interesting to see where this experiment goes!

This Week In Anime on ANN looks at the book banning landscape now that it has found BL manga to demonize in Banned Together. In that article, Steve mentions the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and I’ll just mention that I wrote an article for the CBLDF some time ago about the legality of reading drawn characters. That was more than a decade ago…

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It’s been a long two weeks since the last report and there’s a bunch of great stuff to talk about. The top story at AnimeNYC has got to be the surprise license of Stop! Hibari-kun by PEOW2. This license came as a complete surprise to most of us. I spoke with PEOW2 a bit and will get back to you with that as soon as I have a second. Anita Tai at ANN has details.

But…seriously, wow. Eguchi Hisashi’s 1980s shounen romantic comedy manga about a trans girl is absolutely a welcome license! I reviewed Volume 1 of the Complete Edition here on Okazu in 2020.

Yuri Manga

At AnimeNYC, Seven Seas announced omnibus collections for sono.N’s SHWD and Black & White by Sal Jiang. Honestly think those are good choices and will do better as collections than as separate volumes.

Yen was pushing pre-orders for The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All with a huge display at their booth. I’ve said this before, and will continue to say – this title is being set up for success.

Yen also announced three Yuri licenses, Anemone wa Netsu wo Obiru by Sakuragi Ren as The Anemone Feels the Heat and light novel Watashi no Yuri mo, Eigyou da to Omotta? by Asakura Neru as Did You Think My Yuri Was a Sales Pitch?. They also licensed Merryhachi’s Zenbu Kimi no Sei da as It’s All Your Fault. (Thanks to Katgrrl for reminding me of the third.)

Sales of Yuri manga was a topic of much discussion the convention. Ultimately, it seems like Yuri fans are more discriminate than BL fans – which is not to slam BL fans at all. There more of them and their genre has been around longer, so they have more to choose from. But, my experience in Yuri leads me to believe that Yuri fans – especially queer fans, who are looking for stories with representation – are more likely to ignore stories that don’t speak to them, directly.

Which brings me to the other side of that. This month we have had (and still have a a few hours left of two) several amazingly successful Yuri Kickstarters!

Galette Magazine in English has a little more than a day as I type this, and has significantly surpassed its final stretch goal and is heading towards making 400% of the initial goal. More than 500 backers have made this possible.

Aneido’s No One Lurks Beneath The Snow, an 18+ erotic horror also nearly hit 3x the initial goal, with almost 500 backers.

Yorita Miyuki’s Her kiss,my libido twinkles has passed 4x the initial goal with nearly 400 backers.

So, where is the gap? How can Yuri kickstarters do so well when sales of Yuri manga is so variable? The answer is in the nature of crowdfunding itself. I think this might be a topic for an essay, but Tl;dr – fewer people can make a bigger impact by backing/supporting at higher levels with crowdfunding, where sales of manga are…sales of manga. The same 500 people buying a manga is low sales numbers. When I was publishing I had a break-even point for making a manga profitable. Crowdfunding doesn’t have that limitation.  Definitely a topic to digest later.

Azuki the manga reading app, has announced the addition of Kotonoha by Kisugae about a lost love reclaimed. I read and reviewed the first volume of this back in 2018 and now you can get it on Azuki!

Notably Hana to Yume magazine in Japan promoted the series Sono Urawashiki Hito ha, (そのうるわしきひとは、) as their first Yuri series in many years! This one-shot school life mystery sounds intriguing.

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Yen has released My First Love’s Kiss by Hitoma Iruma, illustrated by Fly. I love Fly’s art, but historically have a very hard time with Iruma’s writing. We’ve got a reviewer who is looking at this volume for Okazu, but if you want a quick overview, check out Sean Gaffney’s review. He expertly notes the weaknesses in this Yuri light novel.

 
Yuri Visual Novels

Incredible news from Studio Élan – Japanese visual novel company SukeraSparo has licensed their VN Please Be Happy! for Japanese  language release!

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Anime News

Whisper Me A Love Song is still getting the short end of the stick, with new delays announced for the Blu-ray and no word at all on the last two episodes. Rafael Antonio Pineda has details on ANN.

There’s a ton of PreCure news: Rafael Antonio Pineda wants you to know that Crunchyroll has added Futari wa PreCure Splash Star, and that Witchy Pretty Cure!!: Mirai Days has added visuals, staff and announced the musical artist for the theme. Joanna Cayanan has news about new cast additions to Wonderful Precure! The Movie.

ANN’s Anita Tai has the news that Girls Band Cry is getting a game.

Other News

Via YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, Why Is Shoujo So Gay (Even when it isn’t?) is a YouTube video by Colleen’s Manga Rec’s that explains a lot about the genre. Colleen is always worth a watch.

Bela on X has a nice little thesis on The Evolution of Safe Spaces in Yuri: From Greenhouses to Aquariums. I’ve asked them to flesh it out to an essay for us here!

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Okazu turned 22 years old this past week! Given the fact that 38% of websites from 2013 no longer exist, to have 22 years of Yuri reviews and news is miraculous. ^_^

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Yuri Events

AnimeNYC is upon us! Friday, August 23 – Sunday, August 25 at Javits Center in New York City, I will be at Table E01 in the Artist Alley with Rica Takashima, where we will be signing By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga. We also will have a fun little display of Yuri Anime History, that you can photo yourself with! Drop by, pick up a signed copy of our book and say hi!

I’ll be moderating a panel on Friday, August 23 – The Rise of Queer Manga, featuring editor TJ “Tiff” Ferentini, Letterer Nicole Roderick and Translator Jacqueline Fung! Join us at 3PM in Panel Room 3, A121. It’s gonna be a fantastic conversation.

Author Zack Davisson and I will be moderated by the awesome author and librarian Jillian Rudes on Sunday, at 12:30 for Manga By The Decade: Manga’s History Two Books At A Time in Panel Room 2, 1A12. I had a LOT of fun choosing my choices for this. All three of us will be talking about our books, including Zack’s and my upcoming work with Frederik Schodt, Rachel Thorn and Jonathan Clements, Manga: A Visual History.

As a result, there will be no YNN next week, but I hope to see you all at AnimeNYC!

For those of you who cannot make it, I’ll be doing a presentation of The Rise of Queer Manga for CitrusCon online on Sunday, August 25 at 9AM. Join us on Discord. It’s free to attend, but you do have to register.

There are two other interesting queer content panels, too at ANYC I want to should out: It’s a Serve! Queer Themes in Haikyuu!! and Transgender Representation in Anime. Drop in and see what they have to offer.

The inaugural North American Manga Awards will be held on Thursday, August 22. A couple of queer books have been nominated, including both She Loves To Cook and She Loves To Eat and The Summer Hikaru Died for Best Continuing Manga Series and My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, Special Edition for Best Publication Design. These awards are very long in the making and I’m going to be covering them for Anime Herald, so here’s hoping for an amazing first event!

Comiket is past, and a lot of Yuri circles rolled out for that! If you have FOMO about that, and can deal with wading through a lot of stuff that is porny, check out Melonbooks Comic Market 104 section. Comitia begins tonight my time, on the 18th in Japan. Two amazing comic shows back to back!

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There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…, Volume 3 is up on the Yuricon Store!

The audiobook for I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner, Volume 2 is out and absolutely worth listening to!

From Yen Press, My First Love’s Kiss, Vol. 1 by Adachi and Shimamura creator Hitoma Iruma, illustrated by Fly, tells the story of two girls whose lives are forced together and who, despite promising not to interfere with one another, end up becoming involved in one another’s life.

Yuri Manga

Comic Yuri Hime and Pixiv are holding the first Original Literary Yuri Manga Contest! Beginning in July through the end of September, they are accepting submissions for the contest. The Literary Fiction Contest has netted us some great stuff, I’m looking forward to the submissions for this.

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Via YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, The Songbird Guild Demo is on Steam. This Yuri RPG/VN is about the secrets of a corrupt fantasy world and fighting creepy (yet somehow adorable?) monsters in turn-based battles, all to pay the bills in this world where being a magical girl is a regular 9-5 job and where magical girls fall in love.

Kitsune Tails is available on Steam and Itch.io! “Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.” I know Eniko from way back – support their work!

Other News

Not sure if I have mentioned the Comic Yuri Hime online shop before, but hey, now you know that you can get goods from many of your favorite series from Comic Yuri Hime!

Star Fruit Books is launching a new manga magazine called Comic Bright! Star Fruit picks up really interesting non-mainstream manga, so this might be a rare chance to follow a number of unusual indie series at once!

ANN’s Lynzee Loveridge has a great interview on the creation of the Look Back anime movie, in How A Small Team Created a Huge Hit: Look Back Anime Film Director Kiyotaka Oshiyama.

I am completely down with the naming of a new crustacean species that is both male and female after Takashima Rumiko’s character Ranma. ^_^ Ken Iikura-Gross has the details at ANN.

Very sad news for Utena fans this week – we’ve lost our second Utena, with the passing of Rachel Lillis, who, like her Japanese counterpart, Kawakami Tomoko, died far too young. Jean-Karlo Lemus has a nice eulogy on ANN.

Via Megan Catherine Rose, some fabulous reading as she and Patrick Galbraith interview animator Colin Armistead and voice actress Phoebe Chan in the Journal of Femininities. Megan says on her FB post, “In this interview we explore why anime cuteness, in particular the bishōjo figure, is significant for transfemmes. We discuss concepts of hyperfemininity in anime, its excess and boundless potential and what this can mean for those negotiating trans-feminine identities.” Read Animated Femininities, Queer Discontent for free on Brill.com.

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New items up on the Yuricon Store!

Chasing Spica, Volume 1, by Chihiro Orihi, follows the tried and true formula of a popular girl who is targeted by the head of the morals committee at school. Volume 1 is available now from Seven Seas.

Also from Seven Seas is the final volume of my beloved end-of-the-world series, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Deluxe Edition, Volume 5. I’m so glad to have been able to get this in English. It is just so beautiful.

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…, Volume 4 continues this love triangle / polyamory story by Teren Mikami.

Via her post on X, Mira Ong Chua’s ROADQUEEN: ETERNAL ROADTRIP TO LOVE ~afterglow edition~ “is an 288pg 18+ romcom graphic novel about love, revenge, and getting your bike back. This new PDF edition includes everything from the original, plus a new preface and bonus story. Also, it’s free!”

Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月) is up on the store.  I cannot WAIT to tell you about this volume of Kuzushiro’s story. It was perfection. Volumes 1-5 of The Moon On A Rainy Night are available in English from Kodansha!

Two girls who are a little introverted try grabbing their springtime of their youths in Inkya Gal Demo Ikigaritai!, Volume 1 (陰キャギャルでもイキがりたい！)

Yuri manga artist Aneido has launched a kickstarter for Now No One Lurks Beneath the Snow: A Queer Fantasy Romance.

Hanakage Alt’s ALL BE PLUS Yuri manga about a heavy woman is available for preorder on DLSite. Check out some sample pages.

The Galette magazine kickstarter has passed it’s third stretch goal with 3 weeks left to go. I’d like to see it get to the 5 million yen stretch goal. To encourage folks to pick up the top reward level, they are adding more rewards to it! I’d love to, but $1000 is a little steep for me right now. They are going great guns, though and are only a few hundred away from fundraising 2x what they wanted for the initial goal.

In a conversation on the Okazu Discord, I noted that supporters for the Japanese edition are credited inside every issue of the magazine, so I counted how many people support that edition. As of Issue 30 (the one before the most recent issue) there are 210 supporters.  As an interesting point of comparison the English edition has 279 supporters as of this morning. So probably about what the JP edition began with. I’m too lazy to dig out the first issue and count. ^_^

The magazine crowdfunding has gone through a couple of platform changes  – and Fantia just stopped accepting overseas credit cards, which has caused support drop-offs.  Comic events are back in Japan, so some of their sales may have shifted back to those as well as on online bookstores and digital platforms – so the low number of supporters may be deceptive, but the fact supporters give them guaranteed income they can go into the creation of each issue before they sell issues through other venues. On this Kickstarter, they intelligently accounted for 6 issues, so about one volume’s worth each of the ongoing stories.

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Yuri Anime

Toei announced on X that Girls Band Cry has been licensed for a digital-only North American release. Alex Mateo has the news on ANN.

Discotek’s remastered Dear Brother is back in stock on Amazon. Don’t miss this gorgeous edition of Osamu Dezaki’s masterwork of shoujo anime.

Discotek’s new release of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s Complete Collection on Blu-ray is now available on the Yuricon Store! I want to commend Discotek for writing a superb synopsis for this, the best I have ever seen from an anime company.

 
Yuri/Baihe Novels

In extremely exciting news, via YNN Correspondent Patricia Baxter, Yáng Shuang-zi’s novel Taiwan Travelogue is being released in English by Graywolf Press, with a November release date. You may recognize Yang’s name as the co-author of Girls’ Love: The Development History of Lily Fan Culture in Taiwan’s ACG Industry 2023 Revised Edition (少女之愛：台灣ACG界百合迷文化發展史 2023增修版), which I reviewed here on on Okazu in May. She is a famous lesbian novelist – I’m thrilled to have one of her books headed our way.

Via YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, Yen Press announced the license of the novel Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days. I reviewed it back in 2023. It was very like the anime, which makes sense, as the writer is the same. There is a little Yuri at the end in a dream sequence.

New friend zhufree on X has these pics from an ice cream shop in China that is also a Baihe novelist qxhs goods shop! We agreed that we are both jealous. ^_^

Now that it has a manga, I finally added the first novel of Twinstar Cyclone Runaway, Volume 1 (ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ) to the Store. In a world where only married straight couples can fish the skies, two young women decide to believe in one another.

Yuri Events

Japanese manga artists are gearing up for Comiket 104, so don’t forget to keep your eye on the #C104 hashtag to discover artists like Chigusa Minori, or find out that Takemiya Jin’s circle Junk-Lab is back!

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Mieri Hiranashi, creator of The Girl That Can’t Get A Girlfriend is releasing a new series of manga how-tos. The first part, Making of a Manga (pt 1) – Storyboards is up now on Youtube!

Clearly inspired by Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu/ If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It To The Budokan, I Would Die (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ ) , an “Oshi Meguri” in Okayama has been announced for October. See popular spots featured in the series, led around by founder of the Yuri Times, Fujishiro Ayumi!

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Happy Okazu Birthday month! August is always such an amazing time of year with tons of stuff going on and this year is no different. So let’s get into it. ^_^

Yuri Manga

The Galette Magazine in English kickstarter launched today and has already cleared it’s first goal! As I am typing, it is very close to clearing the first stretch goal in less than 24 hours. I’m very excited that you’ll all get to see what I have been talking about for 5+ years!

We have some new items up on the Yuricon Store!

I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, Volume 3 just came out this past month and I’ve got it here on the to-review pile. ^_^ This series has a rocky start, but ends up quite sweet.

The fourth volume of Cheerful Amnesia will be hitting shelves in September.

Futaribeya: A Room for Two, Volume 5 is up on the Store. This series has very limited numbers of early volumes left, I find.

Pre-orders are being accepted for Kase-san and Yamada, Volume 4 now, with an April 2025 release date.

We have Comic Yuri Hime, September 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年9月号) on the store and I’m reading it now, trying to stay caught up. ^_^

Catching up on one other series on the Store, we have Kuzushiro’s Heian historical comedy Kimi no Tamenara Shineru, Volume 12 (姫のためなら死ねる)

A-shi to Watashi 2 Gal x Yuri Anthology (あーしとわたし。2 ギャル×百合アンソロジー) is the second Gal Yuri Anthology from Kadokawa which they promise is a “little more sexual” than the first.

For folks looking for something heartwarming, try Salvia no Bouquet, Part 1 (サルビアのブーケ（上）) the story of a young orphan being raised by an also young magic master.

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In a world where idol competitions have replaced warfare, idols carry the fate of the world on their shoulders.  Stellar Step, Volume 2 (ステラ・ステップ) is up on the Yuricon Store.

Anime News

Via YNN Correspondent Patricia B Toei is teasing Girls Band Cry on their English X account. Get the details from Crystalynn Hogdkins on ANN.

Diskotek has announced the release of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s – Complete Collection on Blu-Ray.

Quick reminder that Sailor Moon Cosmos premieres on Netflix on August 22 (which kind of sucks for those of us at AnimeNYC, but whatcha gonna do.)

Ojamajo Doremi Anime Releases New 25th Anniversary Video – Komatsu-san has the scoop on Crunchyroll News.

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Yuri Events

I am excited to announce that I will be tabling with Rica Takashima at AnimeNYC this year! We’ll be at Table E01 at the front of the Artist’s Alley. Drop by and grab a copy of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga signed by both of us! She’ll have art prints, I’m bringing some ALC manga and some postcards and stickers as give-aways, and it’ll be a blast for all of us.

Don’t miss my two panels! The Rise of Queer Manga, with TJ “Tiff” Ferentini, Jacqueline Fung and Nicole Roderick.  We’ll be talking about queerness in manga and being queer in manga!

On Sunday, Zack Davisson and I will be talking about A History of Manga By Decade: Manga’s History Two Books At A Time. We were hoping to promote our upcoming book Manga: A Visual History, coming this autumn from DK, but we couldn’t get permission to share pages. ^_^; Jillian Rudes of Manga in Libraries will be our moderator, so it’ll definitely be a party.

One last super exciting AnimeNYC note – this year is the first North American Manga Awards ceremony. Deb Aoki and pals have been working their butts off to get this established. Two Lesbian books are up for awards, She Loves To Cook And She Loves To Eat and the My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, Special Edition. ^_^

Other News

Miles Thomas Atherton  does amazing work in Comparing Japanese and US Anime Viewership: Spring 2024. Isekai is here to stay.

From Eniko, whom we have known for a long time, the game Kitsune Tails is now out! The creative team is majority-queer, and the game is incredibly cute. Give it a look and throw them some money. ^_^

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