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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2026 has come out of the starting block full blast in terms of Yuri and I thought it would be cool to do a roundup of all the many Yuri, Baihe and GL publishers putting works out in English right now, so we can all see exactly who is in the space and what they are doing. ^_^

These are in alphabetical order off the top of my head. If you have other suggestions, leave them in the comments.

Yuri fans are so long in the habit of assuming that no one cares about Yuri, that often they simply forget to *look* and see what Yuri is out there. Many of these companies have licensing request forms, but  they can’t license from companies they have no connection to. I will try and give a broad overview of the licensing relationships each publisher has if I know about it or can parse it from the site, so you have a sense of who is talking to whom and who you can ask for what.

There is a ton of Yuri and GL out there and more Baihe everyday. Yuri is a hot market right now, so don’t miss any chance to support the series you like with all these publishers!

Baiheverse

Baiheverse is doing official translations of serialized Chinese Baihe manhua, novels and audio dramas. They have one video serial, as well.

BluPetal

BluPetal is a brand new publishing company with plans to bring out “Boys’ Love, Shojo, Yuri, Josei, Teens’ Love, & Gay Comics.” They’ve started with a Kickstarter campaign for doujinshi Let Me Fix You.

Crossed Hearts/Glam Beat

Crossed Hearts publishes manga, manhwa and light novels. They recently announced a GL imprint Glam Beat, with a number of licenses of Yuri doujinshi. “Crossed Hearts is a global publishing house specializing in the English localization and international distribution of Japanese manga, Korean webcomics, and Asian novels.” They appear to be working with creators directly.

Inklore Books

An imprint of Penguin Random House, Inklore started licensing GL manhwa from Tapas (see below) including Her Tale of Shim Chong and Sora & Haena! They are still new, so we can look forward to their work.

J-Novel Club

J-Novel Club is a light novel focused publisher. They have licensed several Yuri titles in the past (Girls’ Kingdom was much better than it deserved to be) and have Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey coming out soon. Chapters can be read separately on their site if you sign up for their club, or purchased in volume format.

Kodansha 

Kodansha is the US division of the Japanese publisher and is, therefore, able to access a great number of Yuri manga published by Kodansha. They also license works from Ichijinsha, the publisher for Comic Yuri Hime magazine. They are deeply committed to bringing out not just Yuri and BL, but also LGBTQ+ manga and have done some great work with openly queer titles.

Mad Cave Studios/Maverick

Mad Cave and the Maverick imprint has quietly been adding a couple of  sapphic titles, like Navigating With You  and Blüdwire.

Manga Mavericks

Quick Disclaimer: I work for Manga Mavericks, just to be transparent. Manga Mavericks is an independent publisher that is working with multiple smaller Japanese publishers, like Two Virgins and directly with artists. They have a distribution agreement with Red Strings, who has worked on Boyish² Butch x Butch Yuri Anthology and Aneido Anthology. They currently are publishing Horon of the Closed Country, which features an agender and nonbinary characters. Manga Mavericks has some exciting Yuri license announcements coming soon!

Manta

Manta is a Korean webcomic platform that is “connecting with creators globally.” They have a number of GL manhwa titles and a category for them on their site.

(Monogatari)

Monogatari had licensed a bunch of Baihe titles in English, but has announced that all their books are delayed. The site appears to currntly be “suspended”.

Seven Seas Entertainment

Seven Seas has always a had a pretty clear interest in publishing Yuri manga. They are licensing fairly widely these days and even stepping into Baihe and  GL manhwa. I’m In Love With The Villainess continues to be a big seller for them. They have licensing connections with Futabasha, Hobunsha, East Press, and Ichijinsha, probably other companies.

Square Enix

Square Enix Manga and Books is the US division of JP company Square Enix , They don’t have a lot of Yuri, but they do have Otherside Picnic and they are doing a very good job of it. A few of their other titles are “queer-ish”. I wouldn’t say they are a major player, and they tend to license Square Enix works, for obvious reasons.

Tapas

This webtoon platform has a GL category and has licensed at least one of their series for print publication to Inklore Books. 

Tokyopop/Love is Love

Tokyopop’s Love is Love imprint is adding Korean GL manhwa, Japanese Yuri manga and Global sapphic comics.  They have some genuinely excellent titles, so don’t skip them. They license from Shonen Gahosha, European and Korean publishers, Line Direct and Futabasha.

Webtoons

Webtoons has been pretty consistent about supporting popular GL cartoons. Several of their most popular have become print volumes through indie publishing or Viz Originals, including Always Human and Not So Shoujo Love Story. They don’t have a separate category for GL/Yuri.

Viz Media

Viz has licensing connections with a number of the biggest publishers, including company ownership by Shogagkukan and Shueisha, and licensing with Hakusensha. They have Rainbows After Storms, and Gal x Gal Yuri among other. 

Viz/ Viz Originals

The Viz Originals imprint is killing it with stuff like The Girl Who Can’t Get A Girlfriend and Not So Shoujo Love Story. The folks there are very committed to bring out good queer stuff.

Yen Press

Yen Press has a strong licensing relationship with Kadokawa, and some of Ichijinsha’s titles as well as a few other publishers. The success of titles like The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, and Love Bullet all but guarantees they will continue investing in hit Yuri series.

Yen Press/Ize Press

Ize Press is a separate imprint for Yen, focusing specifically on Korean comic and novels. Their first (and only at time of writing) GL comic is I Love Amy, but they feature it on their page, so perhaps look for more?

Yuri Manga

Galette Vol.5  Special English Edition Kickstarter has cleared the final stretch goal with 3 days left to go. Selected back issues of the booklets have been made available, as well. These are selling out and, as they have said in updates, there are no plans to reprint them. So nab what you can while you can.

I believe this is the first of the issues to reach the final stretch goal, so congratulations to Galette, and to us!^_^

Kinokuniya is offering a special edition of Girls x Vampire Doujinshi by Mikami Teren (No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover, Unless…!) and Minori Chigusa (Shino and Ren).  I admit, I would never have expected to see something like this advertised, ever, at a Kino, much less published by them. ^_^ (Also…is Kino entering the publishing space? Remind me to do a round up of all the publishers we’re seeing in Yuri and Baihe in English right now.)

Via Seven Seas, Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel Vol. 5, the final volume of the series, is out now.

Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 11 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし) is up on the Yuricon Store.

Haru no Hikari ni Nomarete mo (春の光に呑まれても) by Nishina is story about two girls who find themselves and each other through photography club. This Comic Yuri Hime series is out now as a collected volume from Ichijinsha.

Via Manga Mogura on X, non-binary Yuri Pale Blue-Green Colored Saudade has been licensed in French. You can check out the original Japanese on Comic Walker.

Via The Comics Beat‘s Christopher Chiu-Tabet, we have news of Blüdwire from Mad Cave Studios. This dystopian queer comic is a story about two female sex robots who go rogue. Sound right up my alley. ^_^

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Yuri Anime

Via ANN’s Joanna Cayanan we have cast news and a premiere date for the upcoming Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games anime!

In my travels around X this morning I came across a few Yuri anime celebrating their booths at Anime Japan. This Monster Wants to Eat Me, There’s No Freakin Way I’ll Be Your Lover…Unless! and I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day all have a presence at this event! I attended this event at Big Sight once – it was overwhelming and amazing.

Joanna Cayanan also reports a cast announcement for Episode 12 of the Roll Over and Die anime.

I know it’s not Yuri, but the Major always has a place here: The new Ghost in the Shell anime key visuals and promotional videos are on ANN, with Alex Mateo reporting in. I’m actually quite interested in how Science Saru is animating the manga.

Yuri Events

Girls Love Fest is on tomorrow, March 29 at Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho-Kan. If you miss this one, GLF will be back at the Ota-ku Sangyou Plaza PiO in June.

The authors of Hajimete no Yuri Studies: Queer/Feminist no Shiten Kara (はじめての百合スタディーズ: クィア/フェミニストの視点から), Nakamura Kasumi, Kondoh Ginga, Mizukami Aya and cover artist Morishima Akiko will be doing a Yuri talk on April 3rd from 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM JST. They are streaming the event for folks that cannot make it to Honya B & B to be there in person. You can be sure I’ll be watching! The streaming ticket costs ¥1,650 (a bit over $10USD) and you’ll be able to watch after the event for 3 months, according to the information on the ticket page.  Get your ticket today on Peatix!

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Yuri Visual Novel  & Games

Via YNN Correspondent Roxie, Takano’s The Vampire’s Bride, “a visual novel game featuring a pure love girls’ love story bound by blood, with the concept of “Vampires x Military Uniforms x girls’ love (yuri) ” is available on Steam.

Congratulations are in order – Roxie has been nominated for Advocates for Representation at the*gamehers Awards for her work with Aikasa Collective!   There are still three days left to vote if you are part of that community. Congrats to our friend Roxie!

Fans of the Blue Reflection games will be excited to know about BLUE REFLECTION Quartet release from Koei Temco, featuring all four titles in the series!

Yuri Pop-Ups & Merch

The Kinokuniya Global pop-up event for The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy at All, is still running and via Matt Marcus, Muzzle announced on X a new pop-up for Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta in six locations in Japan.

Other News 

Adam Wesott at The Comics Beat offers up a short piece on how SAILOR MOON changed superheroes.

And while I have been killing myself reading and writing for the upcoming Spring Manga Guide at ANN, my review of Wandance, Volume 8-10, is up now. I cannot express to you how much manga, K-comics, LNs and other print media is out this spring. ^_^;

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Yuri Manga

Crossed Hearts announced another GLAM BEAT Yuri license this week – Afternoon Tea For Two.

Tokyopop has licensed The Shadow and the Flower by Hana Ikuta about two teenaged ninjas. ^_^ I keep telling you, this is the year of Ikuta. 

To celebrate the release of the 12th volume of Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou., Melonbooks is offering up an acrylic standee extra that will make every Rae x Claire fan applaud. Volume 11 is up on the Yuricon Store, and 12 will go up as soon as I have all the links.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Ashley, NSFW comic Strings Attached by hattersarts about an older boss and nepo baby employee, is out on itch.io.

Via Sr. YNN Correspondent Matt Marcus, Drifting Into Summer, Volume 3 is coming soon from Viz Media. Catch it for free on Viz.com or the Viz app next week. This is setting up to be a solid sapphic swim team drama.

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Yuri Kickstarters

Galette Vol. 5 EN Special Edition Kickstarter has blown through the 6 million yen goal and with 10 days to go and looks like it’s likely to hit that final goal. 

Yorita Miyuki’s Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles, Volume 3 has surpassed its final stretch goal and is heading into the last few days of the campaign.

BluPetal’s Let Me Fix You by Kurihara Sakura Kickstarter has also passed the final stretch goal with 20 days left to go.

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Yuri Anime

YNN Correspondent Burkeley Hermann wants you to know that Sentai Filmworks has listed Rock is a Lady’s Modesty Complete Blu-Ray Collection to be released in June.

On This Week in Anime Sylvia and Chris take a look at Cream Lemon in Porn From Before We Were Born. Ha, no I was totally alive then. And I did a cough-medicine flavored review of all the Yuri parts of Cream Lemon, including the Cream Lemon: Escalation Novels (Volume 1 and Volume 2) here on Okazu. 

Yuri Event

April 3rd at Honya B&B in Setagaya, Tokyo, authors Ginga Kondoh, Kasumi Nakamura, Fumi Mizukami and cover artist Akiko Morishima, will be doing a “Yuri and Queer Talk with Akiko Morishima” commemorating the publication of Hajimete no Yuri Studies: Queer/Feminist no Shiten Kara (はじめての百合スタディーズ: クィア/フェミニストの視点から)! I hope someone can be part of the live event and tell us how it went, but for those of us unable to make it, we can sign up for a streaming ticket online. 

Via Kaysteahouseyuri on Instagram, a Yuri Cafe event is being planned in Chicago at Omi Cafe on June 13. Keep your eyes on their account for details.

Not just Yuri  – Shinjuku Ni-choume is holding a month-long Pride event in June 2026. I think that’s pretty cool.

Live Action News   

Via Letterboxd on Facebook, the live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back, will be getting a theatrical release in the UK.

Other News

Fantagraphics is trying once more with a Wandering Son Volume 1 & 2 omnibus. I hope this release is successful enough to make it through the end of the series. While I’m at it, congratulations to Fantagraphics on their 50th anniversary!

Via YNN Correspondent A Hidden Waffle from the Okazu Discord,  Yuama announced on X that the Medicos Shop in Shibuya will be holding a Yuama pop-up shop, featuring goods from her new series Tayutau Koi no Chirisai ni and Kimi to Tsudzuru Utakata / The Summer You Were There.

Not Yuri, but definitely a bildungsroman featuring two young women, Paris ni Saku Etoile, is a film that premiered in Japan last week, about two Japanese girls striving for their dreams in early 20th century Paris. Click the link to catch the trailer on YT. Thanks to Catsuka on X for the news.

For some fun historical reading, Elizabeth Bushouse’s Explorations in Translation celebrates Localization Lore: Women’s History Month 2026 with some early names in the game localization industry. I found this fascinating and hope you will as well.

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