Yuri Events

There are a double handful of spaces left for the 20th Anniversary Yuricon Community Event. I hope you will join James Welker, Verena Maser and myself for an event celebrating you, the global Yuri fandom – in one week, on August 14, at 8AM Eastern US time on zoom.

Yuri Studio

We have a new video up on Yuri Studio. Following S02 E03 Gateway Yuri Anime Part 1: The 1990s, in which we looked at anime that had a powerful impact on developing what we now think of as the Yuri fandom, in Yuri Studio S02 E04 Gateway Yuri Anime, Part 2: The 2000s  we talk about the anime that helped a new Yuri fandom grow and evolve! Please do not forget to like this video on Youtube and subscribe to the channel. It is a huge help.

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Yuri Manga

Out now from Seven Seas, we have the conclusion of Days of Love at Seagull Villa, Volume 3 and Doughnuts Under A Crescent Moon, Volume 2!

Coming next winter from Seven Seas, we are getting Monologue Woven For You, a full-color Yuri manga that has been on my to-read pile for months. I’d better get to it!

Shizuku is directly involved in Kaori’s trauma, but wants sincerely make it up to Kaori in Volume 1 of Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata, (君と綴るうたかた). Complicating matters, Kaori is Shizuku’s favorite author!

In Doukyuusei no Oshi Sakka ni Yuri Mousou ga Bareta Kekka (同級生の推し作家に百合妄想がバレた結果) a classmate finds her classmate is the writer of her favorite Yuri novel! Which is like the same plot as above without trauma.

The Manga Park app has sample pages of a new occult Yuri comedy up for free in Japanese. Occultken ha Sonzashinai!! (オカルト研は存在しない!!) is also coming to Japanese shelves as a collected Volume 1 later this month.

Yuri Anime

The historical fantasy Yuri manga Uchi no Shishou ha Shippo ga Nai, about a Tanuki who learns Rakugo from a Kitsune woman is getting an anime adaptation! ANN’s Egan Loo has casting details and Alex Mateo has the rest of the story. I reviewed volume 1 of the manga here last winter.

Adrian Hazra on ANN has the news that Retrocrush has picked up Revolutionary Girl Utena Movie – The Adolescence of Utena for streaming.

Yuri Doujinshi

This news item was a whole story in 4 panels: Lilyka has licensed a new doujinshi (Yay!) call Hakuba Run. It’s an action adventure story! (YAY!) I’ll just go over and read that synopsis….(What the ever-loving fuck? What did I just even read?) I won’t spoil…go read that synopsis for yourself. It’s an adventure, for sure.

Yuri Light Novels

Seven Seas tweeted that Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight For An Ordinary Life With My Love and My Cursed Sword, Volume 4 is on shelves. It’s been a pretty violent series, even so, let me suggest you read Sean Gaffney’s review before picking this one up. 

Other News

Hayate x Blade Fans! Hayashiya-sensei has put together another round of limited shirts on her webstore. Some of the Black Group characters are available and Nagi and her shinyuu.

AkiYanagi on Twitter wants us to know that Yahoo News JP announced that  Takarazuka will be making an appearance at the Olympics closing ceremony, with a Rose of Versailles performance.

Among a number of other anime/manga homages at the Pandemic Games, the Uzbekistan rhythmic gymnastics team performed their routine to Sailor Moon theme Moonlight Densetsu.

Princess Weekes has news on The Mary Sue that Renee O’Connor and Lucy Lawless will be teaming up for some episodes in Lawless’ new series. It’s heart-warming to know that they are still out there, enjoying their fandom enjoying them. ^_^

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a relatively new open-access peer-reviewed academic journal about anime and manga studies. This journal is hungry for your submissions and is a fantastic resource for independent scholars. You can find them on Twitter, where they retweeted this discussion by Billy Tringali on the Importance of LGBTQ+ Representation in Anime.

JAMS also shared ANN CEO and Publisher Christopher MacDonald’s editorial about How Much Does It Cost to License Anime? This was a direct response to the AnimeTube debacle of a Kickstarter that expected to license anime for bout $4 an episode, so was probably only 100000x off projection.

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Yuri Events

Anime Lockdown was a lot of fun and you can still watch my panel on Youtube (and lol at my wife’s interjection.) Yuri: How It Began, How It’s Going. ^_^ Honestly, Anime Lockdown was 9/10. I’d participate with them and Casacon again any time!

On July 26, join me at HYPER JAPAN for a “LGBT+ in Japan” panel on which I will likely to have nothing to say, as it’s about LGBTQ life in, y’know Japan. ^_^

Keep August 14th, 8AM Eastern US time clear, because I’m being joined by James Welker and Verena Maser for our Yuricon 20th anniversary event! We’ll be talking Global Yuri fandom. Registration is currently open to Okazu Patrons only, and there are limited spots, so please register asap!

August 20-26, you can watch the 2019 Nogizaka 46 Sailor Moon Musical online on Japan 2.5 Stage World. I already have my ticket, of course. Sure, let’s rehash that same story one more time from the top! ^_^

Make a note for November 2022, when German Yaoi and Yuri focused event, YaYuCo will return. With luck – and the ongoing efforts of our own Okazu Hero Karin – you’ll see some edifying Yuri content!

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Yuri Manga

Bookwalker is running a 30% back coin event. Grab some of your favorite manga and light novels in English today!

We’ll start off with a pile of new titles on the Yuricon Store! We’re still working through updating everything, almost all the English translated anime and manga have been updated, with expanded purchasing links.

Hara Yukiko’s, Cocoon, Entwined, Volume 3 hits shelves later this month from the folks at Yen Press. I’ve got V4 next up in Japanese and I’m pretty sure it’s going to end just right. ^_^

Nakatani Nio’s Farewell, My Alter, also from Yen Press, is out now. This is her short story collection from the Éclair anthologies and some originals.

Kodama Naoko’s Day of Love At Seagull Villa, Volume 3, wraps up the series in early August.

Via Comic Natalie, Galette WORKS has released a new collection, Anoko no Hana ga Hoshi (あのこの花が欲しい), by Asuba Yui. As I mentioned yesterday, every collected volume that come out of Galette is a mark of perseverance and effort in trying times!  Galette No. 19 (ガレット No.19) in paper has gone up for order on Galette’s Fantia site.

Also from Comic Natalie an android x human story is staring up in Comic Yuri Hime, Android ha Keiken Ninzuu ni Hairimasuka?? (アンドロイドは経験人数に入りますか？？)

Wada Shinji is spinning in his grave, as Sukeban Deka is getting a spin-off manga. He killed Saki off at the end of the manga, but cannot kill off corporate greed. ^_^; Rafael Antonia Pineda at ANN gives us the news of who and what the new manga will be.

Yuri Webcomics  & Doujinshi

In Yuri online comic news, YNN Correspondent Evie Starcross wants you to know that “Ratana Satis’s “Soul Drifters” has only 2 chapters left & they just released info about their next upcoming webcomic titled “Beast Knights” & the 3 new main characters are Lunar (Bunny Woman), Akela (Wolf Woman), & Synne (?). ” Thanks, Evie!

Lilyka has a new Yuri doujinshi for sale, The Story of Inhuman Girls, by Siu Yosiujima. “From fairies and mermaids to witches and zombies, The Story of Inhuman Girls, is sure to have a little of something for everyone.”

Yuri Light Novels

Otherside Picnic, Volume 5 is headed our way next month! Since Bookwalker’s running a sale, I’ve linked to it there. ^_^

The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Volume 2 is on Global Bookwalker, with coin boost this week!

I’m reading End Blue (エンドブルー) by Iruma Hitoma with illustrations by Nakatani Nio and stumbled across this voiced ad for it on Youtube!

Inori-sensei noted in a recent Pixiv fanbox post that there are now two free indy-developed browser scenario games for I’m in Love With the Villainess:
Revolution Lily!? ~Claire-sama’s Birthday Party~  and Revolution Lily!? ~Desert Island where can’t escape without ??~.  I started the first one and was awed by it’s wholesomeness. I hope to finish it up this week. ^_^

Yuri Anime

While we’re talking Executioner and Her Way of Life, let’s not forget that an anime of this grim, yet interestingly built world, is headed our way in 2022. YNN’s Rafael Antonia Pineda has the details and trailer. Thanks to everyone who kept me abreast of this news! (Yeah, pun intended.)

CR New’s Paul Chapman invites us to watch the Blue Reflection Ray creditless ED for some quiet time between the characters.

Komatsu-san has a trailer for the Tropical Rouge Precure movie that brings back some old friends from Heartcatch Precure! Amazingly, I am still watching Tropical Rouge Precure…. ^_^

Other News

I want to shout out to Kaelan Ramos on Twitter who deftly noted that memes about Takeuchi Naoko being a starving, lonely artist when she drew Sailor Moon is incorrect, and that “celebrating” women by not actually crediting them for their and work is a bullshitty and demeaning thing to do.

And, to that end, why not listen to the recorded session for No Friend to Girls: Kawabata Yasunari, Shōjo no tomo and the Appropriation of Girls’ Culture, to see how Kawabata Yasunari took Nakazato Tsuneko’s work and put his name on it.

In happier news, Zombieland Saga Revenge is getting an exhibit (and pop-up shop, of course) in Harajuku. Choo Sum Lee has the scoop on ANN!

Last, but not least, Takarazuka’s never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. ^_^

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Yuri Events

Today at 3:30 PM Eastern US time, I will be talking about Yuri at Anime Lockdown!  Join me for “How It Began – How It’s Going: 100 Years of Yuri.” And don’t miss, when it’s posted, Emma Wolfe’s panel on Rose of Versailles and the French Revolution

On July 26, HYPER JAPAN is doing LGBT+Japan, on Monday July 26 at 16:00 BST (please check your local time) Broadcast via YouTube/Twitch or join us live on Zoom! I’ll be mostly listening to the other panelists, since they have experience of, y’know, LGBT life in Japan. ^_^;

And, get ready for the Yuricon 20th Anniversary event. Registration will go live in the next week, so keep your eyes on the Okazu Patreon and Yuricon for announcements. Put August 14th, 8AM Eastern US Time, 9PM Japan Time on your calendar!

Flamecon is back as a Virtual Event on August 21-22. Get your queer fandom on!

Sailor Moon Original Anime dub Cast Reunion Panel happened last night and you can watch the video on Geektainment TV on YouTube.

Yuri Manga

JK to Tomodachi no Okan (JKとともだちのオカン) is clearly a comedy, about young woman who is in love with her male friend’s mother. But here’s something fun – you can get it in hardcover. Why? I have no idea, so I might just….. ^_^

Via Comic Natalie, Yuri ni Hasamarete, Esper!, Volume 1, (百合に挟まれて、エスパー！) is another comedy manga, this one about a girl who can read the Yuri-ful thoughts of her classmates.

Via Yurimother, Aquatope of White Sand manga will be drawn by Sakuragi Ren. The anime has already premiered on Crunchyroll.

Via Comic Natalie, Spica wo Tsukumaete (スピカをつかまえて) has begun in Comic Yuri Hime. It’s a disciplinary committee president x gal story drawn by Iwami Kyouko. I really like Iwami’s work and hold hope that this will exceed its opener.

Just gonna busk – again for Odoriba ni Skirt ga Naru (踊り場にスカートが鳴る) because this is an outstandingly lovely story about dancing and body shame.

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Yuri Visual Novels

Studio Élan has announced that Heart of the Woods is now available, fully voiced, on Nintendo Switch. How exciting for them!

Anime News

Crunchyroll New’s Humberto Sabeedra has the OP and ED videos and news for Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S.

Blue Reflection Ray anime will continue with a second cour, Blue Reflection Ray/Mio this week. Joseph Luster has the details over at CR News. Check out the new ED, as well! On ANN, Crystalynn Hodges reports that a Blue Reflection Ray/Tie game  for Playstation 4 and Switch is on the way

The Re:Cycle of Penguindrum compilation project will be 2 movies. Egan Loo has the details on ANN.

Other News

Komatsu-san over at CR News tells us about KADOKAWA’s Manga & Light Novel Library in Saitama Prefecture, which has reopened with 35,000 Books, making it the largest light novel collection in the world.

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Yuri Manga

We had a bunch of new license this week from Seven Seas!

Monologue Woven for You by Syu Yasaka, is “a full-color manga series about two young women falling in love despite their conflicting experiences with the stage.” This was a fast license, I hadn’t even had a chance to read this yet! I’ll bump it up on the to-read pile. ^_^

Gunbured x Sisters about a vampire and warrior nun, by Wataru Mitogawa, creator of  Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.

I had a look at this in Japanese last year, but now you’ll be able to read the My Next Life As A Villainess Side Story: Girl’s Patch. This came out from Ichijinsha and while the Yuri doesn’t burn the pages or anything, it was still a really nice book. ^_^

From Comic Yuri Hime comes this one-shot, 5 Seconds Before a Witch Falls in Love by Zeniko Sumiya about enemies who make a nice couple. ^_^

And my favorite license of the bunch, Hello, Melancholic! by Ohsawa Yayoi. I loved this series and am thrilled we’re getting some of Ohsawa-sensei’s work.

Late yesterday they licensed Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It by Miyahara Miyako, about a landlady trading rent for favors, and the relationship that develops between her tenant.

Kodansha is re-releasing Princess Knight by Osamu Tezuka on Kindle. A new chance to get the first manga Girl Prince!

ANN’s Crystalyn Hodgkin’s wants you to know that FLOWERCHILD’s Warikitta Kankei Desu kara (割り切った関係ですから。) is coming to an end in Comic Yuri Hime.

We’ve added Yen Press’s The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except For Me to the Yuricon Store. This alternate-world scifi hits shelves later this month.

Some folks expressed interest, so I added the Galette Illustration Book 01 to the digital listings on the Yuricon Store, with links to it on Amazon and Amazon JP.

Whisper Me A Love Song, Volume 3 hit shelves this week. Give me all the girl band Yuri!

Yuri Doujinshi

Lilika is running a July 4th weekend event. 20% off selected items with the code US21. And they’ve uploaded the video of the Mintaro live event, so catch that at your leisure for $4.95. ^_^

Anime News

Funimation has picked up Kageki Shoujo, Alex Mateo on ANN has the scoop on this Takarazuka-inspired anime. Crunchyroll is streaming The Aquatope on the White Sand and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S, says CR’s Kyle Cardine.

Crunchyroll will be also streaming My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X.

There’s a diminishing chance of Yuri, but Rafael Antonio Pineda at ANN has news that Shin Ikki Tousen will be getting an anime next year.

Paul Chapman at CR News wants you to know that the anime spin-off of a game spin-off of a line of dolls has a new short form web anime spin-off, Assault Lily FRUITS.

Yuri Visual Novel

Letters From a Rainy Day -Oceans and Lace- a “bittersweet sapphic story of a romance that begins with blackmail” has launched and is on sale this week on Steam.

Other News

Molly Ostertag looked at the value queer readings of stories offer in Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents for Polygon.

Leslie Feinberg’s ground-breaking queer book Stone Butch Blues is available for free on her website as a pdf, or in print from Lulu at cost.

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