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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 30, 2024

November 30th, 2024

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Yuriten is ramping up with the opening of their Yuriten Store online. All orders are pre-orders, which will be filled after the exhibition has concluded in February. Even knowing I’ll get burned on shipping in the new year, there were a few items I just had to have, so my order is in. 

Yuriten is also planning an event awards ceremony – rules for voting are posted at Yuriten2024cherish.com. You’ll need to have an active X account. Last week I asked them to consider moving to Bluesky and they responded by blocking me, so I won’t be voting. ^_^;

If you are in the NYC area on December 10, please join authors JD Glass, Mala Kumar and myself at The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn, NY for a discussion of “The Gift of Love” and queer joy. This is going to be a powerful discussion and I’d love to see you there! Registration is $15, but you get a $15 discount on any book in the store – and we’ll be signing our books, of course.

Via Shoujo Crave on X, Sailor Moon Super Live will be returning to London in February 2025. This is highly recommended by me and my wife, who says “Go! Go! Go!”  We attended the 2019 NYC show and it was fabulous! Do see it if you have a chance.

 

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Yuri Anime

The new Precure series has been announced and it seems to be the inevitable evolution of the franchise, as You and Idol Precure, will be the 22nd series. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details on ANN.

ANN’s Alex Mateo wants to warn you that NIS has stated they will no longer be printing physical media for it’s anime titles, which includes Card Captor Sakura, among others

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise has announced a 25th anniversary project, including a new manga, new merch and an television edit of the Nanoha movies. Egan Loo has the details on ANN.

 

Yuri Manga

Yen has debuted the cover and release date for She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Volume 5 which is headed our way in January!

Yuina Chiri’s Okiku-san ha Icha Tsukitai  (お菊さんはいちゃ憑きたい) has sample chapters on Comic Walker. An Edo-period demon in our time is less interested in demoning than in kissing a pretty girl. It’s pretty servicey, just so you’re warned.

A story about two warring factions in a girls’ school, Kimi Meku Yoru no Kogarete (君めく夜に焦がれて) seems overwrought and fun. Check it out on Bookwalker JP!

Nomiya Rion has a new series, Watashi to Kanojo no Kawaii Koi no Hajimekata (私と彼女のかわいい恋のはじめ方) which you can read for free on Pixiv, is about a cute receptionist and the apparently cold and unfriendly sales rep who unexpectedly invites her to dinner.

Check out this 5-second animation on X by Kamejiro from their Yuri series, The Princess of Sylph (シルフの花姫) which you can read on Pixiv.

Ayumi Shinozaki wants you to know that her English translation of Yuri series My Magical Girl is available on DL Site and it is not 18+, even though the site requires you to affirm that you are over 18 because a lot of content there is very adult.

 

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Yuri Merch

Bookshop.org is offering free shipping and the chance to support your local independent bookstore while enjoying the convenience of shopping online. Grab a copy of my book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga for yourself or a friend!

Melonbooks is running a Yuri special for Fuzuroi no Renri, Volume 9 by Mikanuji, with a Saori x Shizuka acrylic standee. Melonbooks will stop taking Visa and Mastercard on December 18, and this goes on sale the 17th, so you might be able to squeak in!

Takeshima Hiromi-sensei wants you to know about this lovely Kase-san and Yamada acrylic standee on the Yuriten store!

Sweets co-op Anisugar announced a collab with Whisper Me A Love Song on X for various adorable sweets as part of a multi-faceted “matching outfits” series of merch tie-ins, including a pop-up shop in the Shinjuku Marui annex.

Studio Élan is doing a massive Black Friday sale for merch and VNs on their store.

 

Other News

Galette magazine has just radically changed it’s supporter levels as of today (Dec. 1 in Japan.) Pixiv Fanbox support is now down to two choices – 500¥ or 5000¥. For more options, go to their Galette Fanclub, which still has a simplified 4 levels of sponsorship.

Comic Yuri Hime magazine is posting job openings. This could be a good opportunity to get in on the ground floor if you are looking for work in Japan.

Not Yuri, but of interest, Seven Seas licensed The Twelve Kingdoms light novels. This blast from the past was one the most enraging anime I have ever liked. ^_^ I’m interested to read what happened after the anime ended.

Kabi Nagata’s newest comic series focuses on her troubled relationship with food, You can read Kore ha Yuganda Shoku Report Desu  (これはゆがんだ食レポです) in JP on Comic Action.

CW for imperialism, war crimes, Japanese nationalism: I found an English translation of one of Yoshiya Nobuko’s articles written in Manchuria about the Japanese invasion into China. This translation is from 2014, but the site it is on is very much a right-wing revisionist org with a clear propagandist bent. If you still want to read, here is Yoshiya Nobuko’s Bearing Witness To The Ravages Of War In Northern China from 1937.

With help from our Senior Asian Live Action Drama staff writer and supporter of Okazu, Frank Hecker, the Okazu account is verified on Bluesky, yay! Thank you Frank! Follow and chat with me at @okazu.yuricon.com on Bluesky. I’ve moved off of X completely, except for following JP accounts still there.

 

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 23, 2024

November 23rd, 2024

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Short report today, I’m typing this from  a waiting room at a hospital. (I’m fine, but it’s been a tough week, tbh.)

Yuri Audiobooks

Seven Seas has announced the release of several new Yuri Light Novel audiobooks:

Qualia the Purple audiobook will be available at the end of this month, and ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! will drop next month.

 

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Yuri Manga

Morishima Akiko announced on X  that chapter 3 of her senior Yuri manga Hitorimi desu. (ひとりみです) will be released in December, with a preview of the cover image.

Kinokuniya NYC has decorated for the season with a bright green The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t A Guy At All window display…and they are  offering a membership card with their exclusive cover image!

While we’re talking promos, the Ichijinsha shop is offering a limited Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) holiday print.

And one more from MangaOh – an acrylic figurine for Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru.

The new Girls’s Line manga imprint has started with the key thing – getting their mascots sorted. They have announced on X that the art will be by Kisaragi Yuri, illustrator for The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and The Genius Young Lady light novel series. The first serialized story for Girls’ Line will appear in the January Issue of Dragon magazine.

 

Yuri Visual Novels & Games

Our friends over at Aikasa Collective are proud to announce that their Yuri VN Mizuchi is getting a release on Nintendo Switch in Japan! How exciting!

Studio Élanis celebrating the second birthday of their Yuri VN Please Be Happyand a new release ofNational Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition.

Lily Valeen wants you to know that Boss Game: The Final Boss is My Heart is a lesbian romance boss rush and is on sale on Steam.

 

 

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Yuri Anime 

The Rose of Versailles movie is holding a lottery for a special screening in December in Japan. Check the details on  their account on X.

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless… anime has a trailer up on Youtube.

 

Other News

Taiwan Travelogue, the contemporary Baihe novel won the National Book Award for translated title. Congratulations to Yáng Shuāngzǐ,

Picrea is hosting a 4-page online doujinshi event. Check out the site for some fun, short original works.

 

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 16, 2024

November 16th, 2024

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The top news this week is the announcement of an anime adaptation for Kuzushiro’s The Moon on a Rainy Night/ Amayo no Tsuki (雨夜の月)! This series about disability and queer life has been one of my favorites since I read the first volume in Japanese. I look forward to seeing Kuzushiro’s work animated.

Whisper Me A Love Song / Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau (ささやくように恋を唄う) episodes 11 & 12 have been scheduled for broadcast in Japan on December 28. I’m very glad the production company is able to complete the series. I know we were all getting a little worried.

ANNs Alex Mateo reports on Amazon Prime streaming Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back anime film. This Week in Anime has Steve and Lucas discussing the film, with the lens of their own recent loss of Nick, and Jairus Taylor provides a glowing review for the film. I have still not watched it, as I am not in an appropriate emotional state to cope just yet.

I’m In Love With The Villainess / Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) anime has slipped to third place on the Tokyo Anime Awards. Still respectable, but inori.-sensei has asked that if you want to, please consider voting by December 2. Bandai Channel is showing the whole series, which I hope helps.

GKids has obtained N. American right to Liz and the Blue Bird. Alex Mateo has the news on ANN.

ANN’s Rafel Antonio Pineda has the news and trailer for Witchy Precure!!: Mirai Days sequel anime.

 

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Yuri Events

Comic Academy 25 will be held at Tokyo University and the Tokyo University Yuri Club will be selling their magazine Liliest, Volume 8!

Comitia is going to be at Tokyo Big Sight on November 17th in the East Halls 3, 4, 5, 6,and 7.

I’ll be moderating a talk on December 10 at The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn, NY! Authors JD Glass, Mala Kumar and I will be discussing the Gift of Love and queer joy! There is a small charge, but you’ll get it back in store credit. Hope to see you there. ^_^

Winter Comiket will be at Tokyo Big Sight on December 29 & 30.

Yuriten will be in Tokyo from January 25- February 2, and in Osaka from February 8- 16.

 

Yuri Manga

Éditions Akata has formally announced several new licenses, including schwinn’s senior Yuri series, Hana Monogatari for French readers.

Aoto Hibiki has a series being translated and serialized on Manga Planet: First Love Story: Shino x Asuka Story.“Ever since Shino saw Asuka take the stage to lead the freshman pledge, she knew they were in completely different worlds. Intelligent, endlessly talented Asuka is the type who’d only be friends with fellow preppy girls – never ordinary girls like her! The correct plan of action for Shino to take for her high school debut is to fit in by sticking close to her old friends, getting through academics somehow, and snagging herself a boyfriend – but when Asuka herself asks Shino to be her friend, does fitting in even matter?”

Aneido-sensei posted a short comic about a woman who sells her soul to the devil on Bluesky in English, and asks us the question – what is the soul after all?

Galette No. 32 (ガレットNo.32) is going on sale officially for Comitia 150. You can buy it digitally or in print from the different options on the Yuricon Store.

Akiyama Haru, creator of Octave, has a new series, Watashi no Blue Garnet (私のブルーガーネット) which is getting an acrylic figurine on MangaOh. This series follow Ai and Kon. Kon is looking for a former lover when their lives become intertwined.

U-temo has a new series beginning this month at Manga-Action, Okawari Itadake Darouka? This is a horror story about a girl who can summon spirits by eating and a classmate who eats spirits. Honestly, this looks kind of fun in a dark way.

Yatosaki Haru has an new online comic on Comic-Days called Akuma made Amai Watashi no Kanojo (あくまであまい私の彼女) about a girl whose heart is broken after her girlfriend breaks up with her. She meets a beautiful girl who she falls for, only to learn that the beautiful girl is a succubus. Thanks David for the corrected title!

Via Yuri Navi, Fujimoto Remochi has a new “cool boyish” Ikemen x Ikemen Yuri manga, Makoto-sempai no mae de ha Kakko  Tsukerarenai!(真先輩の前ではかっこつけられない!) on Web Ace.

 

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Yuri Light Novel

J-Novel Club has announced a new Yuri LN, The Hero-Killing Bride written by Aoikou with art by Enji. ANN’s Crystalyn Hodgkins has the details. Sure it’s lascivious crap, but I dunno, I might read it. ^_^

 

Yuri Visual Novel

Ebi-hime has another Yuri VN for you! Shut-In Vampire, is about a secret Vampire who is behind on the rent and only has two weeks to pay up

Quill Yuri offers up Death Becomes You: Yuri Onsen Vacation on Steam. “Alice and Sophie finally have the time to go on an onsen retreat. However, their trip gets inturrupted [sic] by mysterious magic. The last straw: “MY FOOD!!!” Will the couple be able to find the culprit and finally enjoy their vacation? “

 

Other News

I’ve moved the Yuri Manga Bot to Bluesky. This is where I make up plots for Yuri manga as the mood takes me. ^_^

Melon Books will no longer be accepting Mastercard or Visa from December 19. This appears to be something they are trying to fix, but for now, you’ll need Amex, JCB or another card on file. Joana Cayanan has the details on ANN.

Lycoris Recoil has an aquarium-themed museum shop in Tokyo Skytree from November 22 to December 8. And Crunchyroll now has the ClariS music video of the series OP,  Alive.

Please enjoy this video pow put to music by Miyo for inee’s manga LOVE BULLET! on X.

Crunchyroll now has translated Newtype magazine Crunchyroll edition online for free – check out the flipbook.

 

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 9, 2024

November 9th, 2024

In black block letters, YNN Yuri Network News. On the left, in black silhouette, a woman with a broad brim hat and dress stands, a woman in a tight outfit sits against the Y. Art by Mari Kurisato for OkazuBecause this week wasn’t bad enough, I have lost my job once more and can face the uncertainty of the future with that to stress about as well. Whee. So to take my brain away, I have spent all week catching up on all the dozens of items that were backlogged to be added to the Yuricon Store. As a result, this week’s news report is going to be very long. The good news is that I am caught up on Yuri manga and Light Novels for the moment! ^_^ (A statement that did not last a full 12 hours as accurate. There is just so much Yuri these days!

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Yuri Events

Yuriten has begun announcing the participating artists for the 2025 event. I was initially considering going to one or both, but that’s not happening now unless someone sponsors me. ^_^ Many of the artists have been part of the previous Yuriten exhibitions, but there are some new names as well. You can track the announcements on the Yuriten official X account. I have written them to ask that they consider moving to Bluesky, as X is not safe now for queer folks at all and will get appreciably worse in 2025.

Comitia is going to be at Tokyo Big Sight on November 17th in the East Halls 3, 4, 5, 6,and 7. A bunch of Yuri manga artists will be there AND Winter Comiket table announcements are coming through, so look for Yuri on Sunday, December 30 in the West Halls. Follow your favorite artists on X and Twitter to keep up with who will be where.

 

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Yuri Anime News

Sugoi Lite shared a rumor that Kuzushiro’s The Moon On A Rainy Night will be getting an anime. If true that would be very big news – they are very accurate, so we should prepare. ^_^

Also from Sugoi Lite, Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is getting an anime adaptation.

Hidekuni Shida provides a translation of the Newtype exclusive interview: Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night Ryōhei Takeshita and Composition Writer/Screenwriter Yūki Yaku on ANN.

Dear Brother Complete Blu-ray Series is back in stock from Diskotek! Get the best remaster of the Dazai Osamu’s shoujo masterpiece.

Via YNN Correspondent Cryssoberyl, Rock ha Shukujo no Tashinamideshite, aka Rock Lady ( ロックは淑女の嗜みでして) combines “S” Aesthetic private school for girls and rock & roll rebellion for what looks like a fun niche crossover that is likely to appeal to our audience. ^_^ Check out that trailer on Youtube, it’s a banger.

As I detailed yesterday here on Okazu, I’m In Love With The Villainess is now in the #2 position for Best 100 Anime from the Tokyo Anime Award. It has fierce competition, so read Can “I’m In Love With The Villainess” Win The Tokyo Anime Award Festival? and get your vote in. ^_^

Anime Feminist Patreon members can listen to a bonus podcast on LOOK BACK, Grief, and Creating Art.

 

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Now buckle in, because I added a few dozen volumes of manga on the Yuricon Store – including getting a few series fully caught up and updating the earlier issues. To make it easier to digest, I’ll split it up by languages.

 

English Yuri Manga

Hitting English-language shelves just in time for holiday gifts, Viz is promoting Rainbows After Storms, Volume 1. I have been reading and reviewing this incredibly slow-burn, sweet story of two girls in love in Japanese as Hana ni Arashi (はなにあらし) since 2019.  ^_^ Now I’m motivated to finish it up!

The final volume of Yuama’s tragic love story, The Summer You Were There, Volume 6 is available for pre-orders for a new year release.

Assorted Entanglements, Volume 6 by Mikanuji continues this series of various Yuri couples and their various complicated situations.

I’m in Love with the Villainess, Volume 7  of the manga is out in English. Cardinal Lily joins the cast just as Claire is grasping how important Rae is to her.

All of Tsukiko’s Futaribeya is now up! Some of the earlier volumes are digital only now: Volume 6 | Volume 7 | Volume 8 | Volume 9 | Volume 10

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…Volume 5 and Volume 6 a are up, brings us up-to-date with the manga for Teren Mikami’s series, illustrated by Musshu, based on character designs by Takeshima Eku.

Next month we’re getting The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 6 of the manga!

When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine, Vol. 1 is a silly, raunchy, manga about a heroine whose heart is stolen by the villainess…and she couldn’t be happier. I reviewed the JP volume in 2023 here on Okazu. Review of Yen Press’s EN edition is on the way.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, Volume 1 is about an immortal child set to battle for  an orphanage which trains children as weapons. This has very moe art on the cover and is full of very guro art on the inside.

And, finally, we’re all caught up with Shio Usui’s I Married My Female Friend, with Volume 3 | Volume 4.

 

Japanese Yuri Manga

Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 9 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし ) follows what happens to Miko when Tsubaki destroys the juzu that keeps her kitsune self in check. Check this series out as This Monster Wants to Eat Me in English!

For those of you following Hana ni Arashi in Japanese, the final volume of is out! Hana ni Arashi, Volume 13  (はなにあらし) bring Chidori and Nanoha’s story to a close, but we’ll be getting Rainbows After Storms in English soon, as I mentioned above.

Out this month is Shimura Takako’s Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 10 (おとなになっても). This series is available in English from Volume 1 through Volume 9 as Even Though We’re Adults.

I am super excited to be able to list Heimin No Watashi Desu Ga Koushaku Reijou-sama o Taburakashite Ikite Imasu, Volume 1 (平民の私ですが公爵令嬢様をたぶらかして生きています) by Kitao Taki, as a collected volume. A commoner finds her place with a Duke’s daughter who is besotted with her.

The second volume of Usotsuki Hanayome to Dousei Kekkon-ron, (嘘つき花嫁と同性結婚論) completes this story of a married woman and the lesbian who saves her from a shitty marriage.

Gal Maid to Akuyaku Reijou ~ Ojou-sama no Happy End Shika Katan!, Volume 1  (ギャルメイドと悪役令嬢 ~おじょーさまのハッピーエンドしか勝たん!) is an isekai about a gal reincarnated into a game her friend lent her where she becomes maid to pay off her family debts.

Kimi no Tamenara Shineru, Kuzushiro’s (creator of The Moon on a Rainy Night,) Heian period comedy about Sei Shonagon and Murasaki Shikibu in the Imperial palace with their respective empresses, is finally on the store as a complete series: Volume 13 | Volume 14 complete the set.

I really like Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!, Volume 1 ( 崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせたい) almost despite myself. ^_^

Nauchi’s Yukidoke to Agapanthus, Volume 3 (雪解けとアガパンサス)  is live on the Store!

We also have Inkya Gal Demo Ikigaritai!, Volume 2 (陰キャギャルでもイキがりたい!) by Kashiwagi Tsukiko.

Kanno Fumi’s Osananajimi BIG LOVE (幼馴染BIG LOVE (KITORA)) is the story of childhood friends who meet later and find they have wildly different personalities.

Sono Uruwashiki Hito to ha (そのうるわしきひとは) is the first Yuri manga to run in Hana to Yume magazine in years. This Yuri mystery is available in one collected volume.

Genkai OL To Joshidaigakusei Ga OO Suru, (限界OLと女子大生が〇〇する) tells the story of a hopeless OL and the high school student next door who changes her life for the better. Volume 1 | Volume 2 are up.

Check out interspecies Yuri anthology, Umare ha Chigaedo – Koi Takushou Ishuzoku × Yuri Anthology ( 生まれは違えど一恋托生 異種族×百合アンソロジー).

The final volume of Yodokawa’s Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 5 (毎月庭つき大家つき) hit JP shelves last month.

Another cheerful school girl series, Watashi no Megami ga Kyou mo Oseru ~ Kore Kara Mo, Itsu Made Mo is up. Volume 1 & Volume 2 is a complete set.

Only married couples are allowed to fish among the stars. Two women, Terra and Diode, choose to challenge the culture, in the manga adaptation Twinstar Cyclone Runaway, Volume 2  (ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ)

Fujio’s lovelorn comic essays about her life continue in Onna x Onna Umakuikanai Renai Essay parlor, Volume 2 (女×女のうまくいかない恋愛エッセイ parlor).

Yuri Manga artist Seta Seta announced on X that their comic  Wakeari Jiken (ワケあり案件) won the Young Jump Yuri Category Grand Prize! Read it online now in Japanese!

hakei, on X, says they have a new masc x masc GL comic called A Refreshing Summer.

And Tiklil took to X to announce their comic with Viz Originals Drifting Into Summer, which is a swim team drama, you can real online. It was pretty good for a one-shot.

Galette Illustration Book 03 is a collection of Galette magazine covers and color illustrations that is available digitally on US or JP Kindle. Book 04 is just out now  from Galette WORKS and I’ll get that up as soon as links become available.

 

French Yuri Manga

YNN Correspondent Mang’Albine tells us that Taifu has licensed Murata’s Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete as Coup de foudre dans ta face !which, she tells us can be read as “Love at first sight IN YA FACE !”

 

Vietnamese Yuri Manga

Sumiko Arai announced that her series Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta has been released in Vitenamese, as Người Tôi Để Ý Không Phải Con Trai.

 

 

Yuri Light Novels

Via Yuri Daily on Facebook, Reverse with me: Across Millions of Orbits is a Thai GL novel by Zezeho Zezeho, which is available now in English digitally.

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… (Light Novel), Volume 4  & Volume 5  are up on the Yuricon Store,  which bring us  to “Season 2” of this series.

The novel series for Twinstar Cyclone Runaway  ( ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ) Volume 2 and Volume 3 are on the store. On ANN, Rafael Antonio Pineda tells us that the series will end with Volume 4.

Ao To Kaibane No Rakuen Shoujo (蒼と壊羽の楽園少女) is a science fiction novel about a water world where two girls undertake a journey to “paradise.”

 

Other News

Global Bookwalker is doing a survey on pricing, their ranking system and other features. Take the survey and let them know what you think, as well. If you have an affiliate account, you’ll nab some extra points.

 

 

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Can “I’m In Love With The Villainess” Win The Tokyo Anime Award Festival?

November 7th, 2024

In autumn 2023, we got our very first look at the I’m In Love With The Villainess anime. Based on the first two novels of the same name by inori., the anime told an apparently scattered isekai story about Rae Taylor, the reincarnated former employee of an exploitative company, Oohashi Rei, into the world of her favorite game where she is free to woo the game’s villainess, Claire François. The end of the anime came at the climactic moment when Rae makes her love for Claire too clear to be ignored and Claire in turn finally admits that she has a vested interest in Rae. In other words, just as the story was getting good. As fans of the series know, the apparent “scattered” storytelling was always heading towards a very serious conclusion.

Fans of the light novel series and manga adaptation drawn brilliantly by Aonoshimo, (available in English from Seven Seas, and almost a dozen other languages across the globe,) were openly disappointed with the low-budget for the anime itself, but still enjoyed the voice acting from both the Japanese and English casts, and the fascinating multi-part Opening and Ending songs. WataOshi/ ILTV fandom is still going strong…and in recent weeks there has been a campaign to push for a second season of the anime, which would *at least* take the story into, and possibly through, the Revolution arc of the story.

Stepping into this conversation, inori.-sensei just happened to mention that the Tokyo Anime Award Best 100 was open for voting. She gave step by step instructions to assist her overseas fans to vote if they wanted to. By November 3, Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) had made it into the top 20. It faced some serious competition, like Frieren (葬送のフリーレン) and Delicious in Dungeon (ダンジョン飯), but WataOshi passed both and is now sitting at a strong #2 position behind the amazingly popular #1, Brave Bang Bravern! (勇気爆発バーンブレイバーン) and in front of the Sanrio collaboration with boy band JO1, Jochum.

Can WataOshi push past Bravern to win the top position? It’s not likely given the highly sexualized nature of Bravern and the fact that it is a BL mecha series, so it has cross-genre appeal. As one of our esteemed Okazu Discord members, Rugose noted, “Bang Bravern has the gays and robotfuckers supporting it,” and I can’t disagree with that summation. That said, Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou has so far made a strong stand. Even a #2 finish might convince the powers that be to develop a second season. Like all popularity-driven “best” contests, this contest is absolutely vulnerable to ballot stuffing by using multiple emails. That said, it does indicate the passion of a fandom and WataOshi fans are keeping up the pressure.
 
Voting is open until December 2 and all you need is an email and a few moments so if you too wish to see (an appropriately funded this time) second season to one of our favorite Yuri isekai, let the Tokyo Anime Awards know what you think!