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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Yuri Manga in English

Seven Seas released Koharu and Minato: Happy Life with My Girlfriend, Volume 1 this week. According to a post on Bluesky, this went to #1 in the Yuri Manga category on Amazon! And, that means, somewhere along the line, Amazon *finally* created a category for Yuri manga…huzzah. I reviewed this in Japanese here on Okazu in 2024 and will be reviewing the EN edition soon. ^_^

Yen Press announced the license for Two A.M. at the Dining Table, about a girl haunted by her dead mother, and a small doll-like child.

Rainbows After Storms, Volume 8 is up on the Yuricon Store and so is Volume 9, which is headed our way this week!

BluPetal has announced that Let Me Fix You, their first Yuri license, has reached the final stretch goal on Kickstarter! Congrats to them. 

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Yuri Manga in Japanese

New from Fushimi Daiki and Shogakukan, Technopanic Universe (テクノパニックユニバース) is a wacky Yuri manga about an inventor and the android assistant who loves her.

While we’re on sciency Scifi Yuri, here is a series by KU Banmachi on Pixiv, Shinainaru Inseki E about a young astronaut and an astronomer, the first chapter is up on Pixiv in Japanese.

Yuama’s Tayutau Koi no Chirisai ni (たゆたう恋の散り際に) is getting it’s first collected volume. This story of two heartbroken girls who play the roles they are assigned by their fellow students and their agreement to help each other, is being serialized in Comic Yuri Hime right now.

Via Yuri Navi, Joshi Kyuuketsuki no Nika ha Oishii Chi ga Suitai!(女子吸血鬼のニカはおいしい血が吸いたい！) by Takatsugu Haruma is a one-shot about a vampire who, as the title says, wants to suck yummy blood…the specific blood being that of her female friend. Read it in Japanese on on Sunday Webry.

Yuri Visual Novel 

Via LezLiz on Mastodon, Haru no Oto ha Marude Kimi ni Nitete (春の音はまるで君に似てて) on Steam “is a kinetic novel set in a Japanese girls’ school that depicts the process of growth and love in which two girls meet, find the path they want to take through each other, and take one step at a time.” Liz a great source for games and VNs, you should follow her!

Via YNN  Sr. Correspondent Ashley, Yukimisoft posted a promo video on TikTok for If You Stay (Steam or Itch.io) “A short free yuri visual novel I’m creating with my friend and composer @williamgomezcomposer. Decide whether you’ll stay with your girlfriend, Mika, after being outed and kicked out of your home. You have one choice: with or without her. “

The Toxic Yuri VN Jam on Itch.io begins next month, so if Toxic Yuri is your thing, bookmark this link!

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Yuri Anime 

This week on Anime Feminist, Cy Catwell looks at the new Yuri anime in Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk — Episode 1. The series is streaming now on Crunchyroll. I’ll be watching that this weekend and will undoubtedly have some thoughts as well. ^_^ Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, OG Man on X has news of  Kamiina Botan collab exhibition with Karatez.

Yuri Light Novel 

Yen also announced the license for the Buying a Classmate Once a Week series of light novels. “Once a week, high schooler Shiori Miyagi pays her classmate Hazuki Sendai five thousand yen for the right to make the girl follow her orders for the afternoon. ” To be honest, I’ve basically avoided that series, but I’m told that it’s greatly anticipated by other people.  ^_^

Yuri Live Action

YNN Sr. Correspondent Frank Hecker wants you to know that a new Yuri live-action series, Fruit, is up on GagaOOLala. CW this is a student/teacher tale.

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Yuri Anime

Bota Kamina Fully Blossoms When Drunk is up on Crunchyroll. The premise is that she gets “Yuri” with her female friends and colleagues when she gets drunk, I believe. I haven’t read or  watched it yet, but initial report is that it is “cute,” which is surprising. ^_^

A Hundred Scenes From Awajima, based on the Shimura Takako manga, is a collection of stories from a fictitious all-women musical revue troupe school. There is one Yuri storyline among the many dramas and generations.  Ohta Books and the Shinjuku Kinokuniya have a display in honor of the anime.

The Rose of Versailles Anime Movie Concert to be held in Tokyo in September has put tickets up for pre-order.

ToonHive on X noted that Noir celebrated a 25th anniversary this week. Let’s all go rewatch it on Crunchyroll!

Amayo no Tsuki (雨夜の月) / The Moon On A Rainy Night anime has an official website. Info is sparse, but I will keep an eye on it. ^_^

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Yuri Manga

Young Jump has a Yuri Fuutsu no Atashi-tachi one-shot. Read it for free in Japanese on their web reader at Yanjan. I have no idea how to transliterate the author’s name, but it is by 臓内Nigatsu.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus Yuni announced on X that her serial Anata Mitai ni is being serialized on JP Kindle and CMOA and will be available on other digital platforms.

Seven Seas has released The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Volume 2, which is up on the Yuricon Store.

Via YNN Correspondent Mang’Albine, Vega has picked up Sal Jiang’s Wicked Spot for a French-language release. That has been licensed by Kodansha in English, and I’ll be reviewing it soon! ^_^

Baihe News

Baiheverse has released  Long As We Have Loved, by Nihaohaohaojun. “Years later, after another call from her mother about getting married, Zhou Ruoheng couldn’t help but think back on her school days—how, once upon a time, there had been someone she loved.”

LBGTQ  Comics

Tillie Walden is doing a book tour for the upcoming  Charity and Sylvia graphic novel. I am so looking forward to this! I reviewed Rachel Hope Cleeves book about these two women in 2015.

Yuri Events

The Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature is holding a Special Exhibition: 130th Birth Anniversary — The Nobuko Yoshiya Exhibition: The Origins of Sisterhood from April 4th through May 31. This exhibition will include love letters between her and her lifelong partner Monma Chiyo.  This sounds amazing. I will gladly take donations to send me to see this in person! ^_^

Shoujo ☆ Kageki Revue Starlight 9th Anniversary EXHIBITION ～Revue of over the Starlight～  ( 少女☆歌劇 レヴュースタァライト)  will be held in Tokyo and Kyoto, in May and June respectively. You can follow the official X account for news.

Yuri Merch

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Tamifull revealed on X that How Do We Relationship is getting a line of merchandise at Village Vanguard!

Yuri VN News

Via Yuri Kissaten, Toxic Yuri is now on Steam. “An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box in an alleyway and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Experience the most toxic love story the world has ever seen.”

Seven Seas says that the Adachi and Shimamura, Volume 11 audiobook  is available.

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Yuri Resources

Our Resources page for Yuri research has been updated with a few new items!

Baited: A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow and the Anglophone Reception of Japanese Yuri Romance Manga by J Crawford. This an article about exactly what the tiile says.

Proposed Revisions to the Yuri Triangle – by Stella Li. An AO3-inspired look at organizing Yuri. thematically.

VTuber Legend: Exploring the Tense Relationship between Business Yuri, Friendship and Queerness – from The Trans-Yuri Express: A Journey Through Queer Aesthetics.

Other News

Last autumn I was interviewed by The Anime View. That interview is up on their site and on Youtube. Thanks Peggy, it was great fun speaking with you!

I reviewed Drops of God – Marriage, Volumes 11-13 for ANN. Now we have to wait for 3 more volumes to come out before I can find out what happens. ^_^

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Yuri Events 

I’m going to start off this week with some blatant self-promotion. If you are at Anime Boston this weekend, drop by the Manga Mavericks Booth at C-120 and grab some amazing Yuri manga from Hanakage Alt, Aneido and Natsuo Mutsumi…and check out their licensing panel at 3. Hint, hint ^_^

There are a couple of Yuri panels in the schedule, so keep a look out for those, as well! I hope to be there next year once again.

Yuri Manga

Yuri Navi has the news of a new Yuri romance  between a career woman and a hostess in Inu mo Arukeba Hime ni Ataru (犬も歩けば姫に当たる)  by Kano Fumi, which is currently a digital manga serialized on Pixiv or CMOA.

Via the official TsukuTabe Bluesky account, She Loves To Cook and She Loves To Eat is resuming serialization! I’m happy for Yuzaki-sensei that she’ feeling up to that again. Also exciting, we have a cover reveal for Volume 6 of Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna (作りたい女と食べたい女 ), which is headed our way in June.

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Yuri Anime 

Let Me Fix You, based on the story by Sakura Kurihara,  the manga of which is being kickstarted by new publisher BluPetal, is getting an anime. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the details.

ANN’s Anita Tai has the news that  Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance, the 20th anniversary project for the franchise will debut in an hour-long premier in July. I just finished watching Iczer Iczelion, and thought about Nanoha with every nudie transformation sequence. ^_^ Tradition!

On the Okazu Discord, YNN Correspondent Ambi suggested we should watch the promo video for Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (and Proud of it!) on Youtube. ANN’s Crystalynn Hodgkins has details on the anime..

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Light Novels and Novels

Inori.-sensei has put together a list of all of her works on her Pixiv Fanbox, for folks that are looking past I‘m In Love With The Villainess for more. Links are included for everything, although some works are only available at events. Most are available online and a number include EN licenses.

You remember the movie Thelma and Louise, yes? Starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, it was a story of two woman so tied into a system of patriarchy and oppression that death became their only way out. Many people saw the sapphic potential in it and certainly many women resonated with the way they refused to give in. Well, NHK in Japan has a drama about two 70 year-old women, Teruko and Rui (照子と瑠衣) that is inspired by the movie. In this series, Teruko learns her friend has nowhere to live, and as she is very done with her marriage they set off on a “girl’s trip” which ends up with Teruko and Rui living together under new names. I discovered that this existed through Yuri Novel Bot on X, and have subsequently found that this is also a novel, with a very recognizable cover. ^_^ 

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Sean G we have news of Bloody Mary Rules (ブラッディ・メアリは支配する) a novel about “Mary Wales, 15 years old. A beautiful, intelligent, and horribly cruel girl.” This is via Yuri Navi, so I have to assume there is, y’know, Yuri. ^_^

Of all the silly April Fool’s announcements, I want to highlight this extremely silly announcement from Seven Seas, and the even sillier one from Yen Press. ^_^

Other News

Spreading all over the Internet amazingly fast, many people spotted Sailor Moon‘s Artemis the cat overseeing the Artemis II rocket launch this week. We all qvelled. ^_^ Ken Iikura-Gross has the report on ANN. 

Anita Tai has the details of Global Bookwalker‘s relaunch on ANN, now that it has been split off from Bookwalker JP (and thus, removing its greatest utility.) They launched with some significant problems…including having marked all Yuri, no matter the reading age, as “mature.” Go and transfer your account, but hold their feet to the fire on this. It very much looks like they did no testing before launch. If you can’t see your purchases, look in the “mature tab” then let them know it is not acceptable. For once in my life I wrote an angry email….there was no reason for that “mistake” except laziness . It’s 2026 manga companies, get with the times.

Not Yuri, but gay comedy anime Go For It, Nakamura-kun! will be on Crunchyroll and ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news that it will be getting a simuldub.

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