Yuri Manga

The OASG reports that free previews for the 20th Anniversary Revolutionary Girl Utena manga, After the Revolution, is available on Viz.com. Here’s something to pay attention to…letterer Sara Linsley notes that she “did all the sound effects by hand, trying to recreate the original style as closely as possible.” Let her (and VIz!) know you appreciate her efforts!

Our Teachers are Dating, by Pikachi Ohi is out from Seven Seas! (Review to come shortly.) I hope you will find this version of Hayama-sensei to Terano-sensei ha Tsukiatteru, Volume 1 (羽山先生と寺野先生は付き合っている ) as delightful as I do.

Days of Love at Seagull Villa Vol. 1 by Naoko Kodama is now available for pre-order, as well.

Yuri Visual Novels

Studio Élan announced the release of Highway Blossoms: Next Exit, a new chapter for for the Highway Blossoms characters. Right now you can get it for 15% off on Steam or Itchi.io. Highway Blossoms had the honor of being only the second VN I’ve ever made it all the way through, and I hope to have a guest review of it, soonish. ^_^

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Yuri Anime

TBS offers up Adachi to Shimamura anime promotional videos from Shimamura’s point of view, voiced by Ito Miku and from Adachi’s point of view, voiced by Kito Akari.

Digital Queer Comics

Via YNN Senior Correspondent Louise, take a look at Open Mats, a comic about queers and Karate. ^_^

Lilyka is selling a limited number of signed original artworks by one of their creators, Ruri Hazuki, so if you’re a fan of her Shakaijin Yuri series, take a look. Some customization is available, but Hazuki-sensei will be choosing the characters she’ll draw.

Here’s a fun idea! Galette Online is offering up work by various creators for free, and making it possible for you to purchase an Amazon JP gift card to send them in thanks. It’s a pretty concrete way to show your support for your favorite artists!

I don’t know when I’ve ever going to get around to this, but I’m going to *have* to read Hoshjii Nanaoku’ Girls Love of the Dead  (ガールズラブ・オブ・ザ・デッド) “comic novel” series, with illustrations by Morishima Akiko. I mean, really. It’s available on Bookwalker Global and Amazon JP Kindle.

Free on BookWalker Global right now (in Japanese) is issue 1 of U-temo’s Yuri-ota ni Yuri ha Gohattou Desu!? {百合オタに百合はご法度です!? 分冊版) about a Yuri Otaku who finds herself at private girls’ school! Goofy fun.

Comic-Days has chapter one of  Tsujiichi’s  Dramatic Doll (ドラマティック・ドール) up online for free in Japanese.

Other News

Nicki “Yurimother” Bauman has written a fantastic opinion piece for ANN on How Bloom Into You Defies and Reinforces Yuri Tropes. It’s worth a read. I agree completely with her points, of course. ^_^ Since Volume 1, I’d been cautioning people from identifying Yuu as aromantic, when clearly this *was a Yuri romance.* And I also so strongly agree that its strength is in Sayaka’s story and the fact that a positive, established adult lesbian couple exists as a role model for not only Sayaka, but eventually Yuu and Touko. Take a look and giver her some support and feedback.

Creative team CLAMP is doing a collaboration and lottery to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Choo Sum Lee has the details on ANN.

From our friends at Unseen Japan, “The Takarazuka Music School is working to abolish a set of unwritten and abusive “traditions” after discovering several years ago that juniors were losing sleep b/c seniors were forcing them to keep voluminous notes on cleaning & other school activities.” This comes after decades of harsh hazing-like behavior towards junior students, as reported in pretty much everything ever written about the school.

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Yuri Manga

We have some new items on the Yuricon Store!

Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu! Volume 7 (私の百合はお仕事です!) Miman’s Yuri-themed cafe drama is still moving along, as Hime and Mitsuki struggle to understand one another and, probably, themselves.

Yurizukushi no Kyoushitsu, Volume 1 (ゆりづくしの教室) by Shiime is an exploration of Yuri couples tropes, all together in one rowdy classroom.

Haruki Hiroki’s Watashi Igai Jinrui Zennin Yuri, Volume 2 (私以外人類全員百合 ) wraps up this science fiction story in which a straight girl ends up in a world where everyone is in a Yuri coupling. Here’s where you can find Volume 1.

Via Comic Natalie we have word of  a Yuri school comedy which sounds like it might actually be funny, Yuri ni Hasamarete, Esper (百合に挟まれて、エスパー) by Suruga Kiryuu in Ultra Jump magazine. It’s about a girl who can read minds, who can’t not be aware of her friends’ secret relationship and passionate feelings for one another. I have always thought that ESP would be a horrid burden. ^_^

ANN’s Crystalynn Hodgkin reports the news that tMnR’s Tatoe Todokanu Ito da toshitemo, licensed by Kodansha as If I Could Reach You, will come to a climax in the December issue of Comic Yuri Hime, on sale in October.

Galette Meets 12 has gone out by PDF to all backers at their crowdfunding page, ガレット＠Fantia (ガレットワークス).

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Yuri Anime

Massive news from Diskotek as they pick up the license for a bunch of Yuri fandom faves, including Rose of Versailles, Project A-ko (making them the first company since CPM/U.S. Manga Corps to put that out in a physical format), Battle Athletes, and happiest of all, Devilman Lady. Rafael Antonio Pineda gives you the scoop on ANN.

All of these titles have been reviewed here on Okazu in our first 20 years of existence and all are exceptional for one reason or another. But, I cannot stress this enough – Go Nagai’s Devilman Lady is an extraordinary Yuri anime, with a star voice Japanese cast. It is one of my favorite anime of all time. I’m very excited to see it come out again in time for it’s 20th anniversary. I’m only a little sad that they aren’t waiting for the 20th anniversary remastered set next year, but this is still going to be worth having. 

My thanks to YNN Correspondent Shannon and a pile of other folks for sharing this news with us!

Brian Ruh has written up a great early review of Takako Shimura’s Happy Go Lucky Days anime for ANN which he streamed on Asian Pop-Up Cinema.

Otherside Picnic has a new, extended trailer. Crystalyn Hodgkins has details on ANN. I think it’s going to make a good visual media. We’ll be seeing it for ourselves in the new year.

Fragtime Blu-Ray is out now from Section 23 at pretty bargain price.

LGBTQ Comics

UK publisher ShortBox on Twitter announces a slate of new comics that include “lesbian space adventures and lesbian earth adventures.” ^_^

Other News

Megan on Twitter is stoked to noted that the upcoming anime Requiem for the Rose King, is “ the 2nd anime with a trans protagonist (after Wandering Son)? And the first with an intersex protag.” I know nothing about this series, and while a BL-adjacent harem isn’t going to be for me, some of you might enjoy it!

We were pretty stoked to hear that Naomi Watanabe will be voicing Zirconia in the new Sailor Moon Eternal movies. Daryl Harding has the story on Crunchyroll News.

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Yuri Manga

Volume 1 of Canno’s new throuple series, Goukaku Tame no! Yasashi Sankaku Kakei Nyuumon (合格のための！ やさしい三角関係入門) is now  available on Japanese shelves.

We’ve got Volume 3 of Takako Shimura’s new adult life Yuri drama Otona ni Nattemo (おとなになっても) on Yuricon Store!

The recently-licensed by Seven Seas School Zone manga will be going on hiatus until October. Happily, the reason is a good one, reports Jennifer Sherman on ANN.

Yen Press official Twitter account shows off their new Puella Magi Madoka Magica Omnibus.

Via Comic Natalie, Yuri Comedy Ohime-san no Ohime-sama (お姫様のお姫様), which takes place in Cho-Yuri Gakuen, Looks goofy rather than ghastly…even if it is a Champion comic.

Kanojo to Himitsu to Koi mo you (カノジョと秘密と恋もよう) is a secret love Yuri comedy from ToMoe and Ichijinsha’s 4-koma Kings Palette magazine. I’m sure we’ve seen the artist’s name in an anthology or three, so I might give this a chance. ^_^

From another 4-koma magazine, this time Magatime KR Comics, we have Hoshikuzu Telepath about an alien who can understand people’s feeling when she touches her forehead to theirs, and Kaika,who cannot speak well, because of her extreme illness.

Yuri Webcomic

YuriMother brings us the news that comedy Yuri webcomic Not So Shoujo Love Story by Curryuku is being serialized on Webtoon Originals this month. From the webtoons page: “A delinquent girl that hopes to find romance in her high-school, pursuing a love story just like her Shoujo mangas, but what happens when her unexpected “Antagonist” rival falls in love with her?” – sounds like it could be fun.

Yuri Anime

Section 23’s release of the Fragtime anime movie is now available on Blu-Ray. If you enjoyed Seven Seas’ omnibus of the Fragtime manga, you ought to enjoy this as well.

The official Twitter account for Otherside Picnic anime has announced a January 2021 debut for the scifi horror series, based on the novels by Miyazawa Iori, available from J-Novel Club with an action-filled trailer. (I only just noticed that one of the tags for this series on J-Novel Club’s website is “creepypasta.” That’s some fine taxonomy right there. ^_^)

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Yuri Light Novel

J-Novel Club is pleased to announce the arrival of Otherside Picnic, Volume, Part 1 on their website!

Translator Jenny McKeon  is super excited to let us know that she’s worked on Yen Press’s new release Virgin Road, which she described on Twitter as “an isekai yuri story about an executioner and her would-be target, with great characters and lots of twists and turns“.

Via Yuri Mother, Sexiled, Volume 2 is now available in print from J-Novel Club.

Other News

Anime Feminist has a chat with a bunch of cool folks on Shoujo Manga Part 1, and Shoujo Manga Part 2, now with transcript!

Hazel Newlevant has a wonderful tweet in which she illustrates what is one of the first written uses of “gay” to represent a homosexual relationship, in Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr & Miss Skeene.”

Comitia is once again going online for the November even. Kim Morrisey has the details on ANN.

I’m actually kinda stoked that Watanabe Naomi has been cast as Zirconia for the upcoming Sailor Moon Eternal movies. ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has the scoop.

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Yuri Event

I’m absolutely ecstatic to announce that the Yuriten Yuri Exhibition, which was canceled due to the pandemic last spring has announced a new online event! I’m so delighted that the organizers have decided to do this online…which means with luck, we’ll all be able to “attend” and view the various artworks on display. Depending on how complicated or simple ordering will be, I will consider taking event goods orders for folks and doing some North American distribution. Let’s wait and see what the details are. So far no dates, but the official announcement includes a nice thanks for the efforts of healthcare workers. ^_^

Yuri Anime

The anime adaptation of Adachi and Shimamura is slated for an October 3 debut, reports ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda. Check out the trailer on Youtube from Funimation.

Canadian fans will be able to watch Sailor Moon streaming on Crave, reports Jennifer Sherman on ANN.

Variably Yuri, Healin’ Good Pretty Cure and the much Yuri-ier KIRA KIRA☆PRETTY CURE A LA MODE are streaming on Crunchyroll. I have my hands pressed together that we get Heartcatch Precure, which is still my favorite. ^_^

Yuri Visual Novel

Via Yuri Mother,  “Korean game company Cinamon Games released its first English Yuri story to its otome game platform Maybe: Interactive Stories. The story, called Flower Lane: A Record of Romance is a one season long story consisting of 19 episodes.”

Yuri Manga

Let’s start with some new license announcements from this week.

Seven Seas announced School Zone, a gonzo Yuri school comedy by Ningiyau.

Tokyopop has announced Alter Ego, “a new addition to both  International Women of Manga and LOVE x LOVE imprints. The Girls Love title from Spanish creator Ana C. Sánchez deals with unrequited love and the difficulties of confessing a gay crush to a friend who appears to be straight.” Honestly…you can imagine that this plot made me roll my eyes pretty hard.

Yen Press announced the Adachi and Shimamura manga for a winter 2021 release.

Sasamekikoto/Whispered Words creator Ikeda Takeshi has a new Yuri series, about a voice actress and a scriptwriter living together as roommates, but who become more to one another in Futari ha Daitai konna Kanji (ふたりはだいたいこんなかんじ). I’m super excited to read this.

We have some new titles on the Yuricon Store!

Lonely Girl ni Sakaraenai, Volume 1 (ロンリーガールに逆らえない) is back in print! Ayaka is a great student who hates tests. Her teacher makes her an offer she can’t refuse – “Get Honda Sora to come to school and I’ll give you a good recommendation.”

Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau, Volume  3 (ささやくように恋を唄う) continues the charming romance of Yori-sempai and her underclassman Himari.

Fuzoroi no Renri, Volume 3 (不揃いの連理), Heke and Lala get to know one another better online, while they say nothing to each other face to face in the workplace.

Canno Tanhenshuu Mushoku to JK  (缶乃短編集 無職とJK) is a short story collection by Kiss & White Lily for My Dearest Girl creator, consisting of her Éclair anthology stories.

The Canelé Souer Yuri Anthology (カヌレ スール百合アンソロジー) is, as it sounds , an anthology of older students and younger at school, bonds that go beyond sisterhood or friendship, a Yuri anthology of “souer” romance.

Crunchyroll Expo and Bookwalker Global are offering 50% on all manga and light novels released by August 4th.

Yuri Light Novel

ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! digital release from Seven Seas hits this week on Kindle and Bookwalker.

Yuri Doujinshi

It’s sale season for those of you looking to fill up your doujinshi collection. Melonbooks is doing a 20% sale, for those of you who want Comitia and Comiket releases from Japan, while Lilyka is also offering 20% off for their translated doujinshi, which includes some new titles. Irodori Sakura didn’t get the sale memo, but does have a new title on offer.

Other News

File this under “Serendipity”: In our most recent Yuri Studio video, “What Makes A Story Yuri?” I discuss manga as Art, and talk about how manga actually stands at a crossroads of “Art” and “Literature,” but is rarely thought of as either by fans. Amazingly this week, the International Society for Education through Art Quinta da Cruz. Estrada de São  (InSEA) has release, for free as a PDF, Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education, edited by Masami Toku & Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase. This is an amazing resource you should all grab a copy and give it a read!

This week, the Goodle Doodle in the USA honored cartoonist Jackie Ormes. She is known as the first African-American woman cartoonist and creator of the Torchy Brown comic strip and the Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger panel.

Via any number of sources Jezebel‘s Angelica Frey has a lovely article on the The Haute Couture History of Sailor Moon.

Austin Asian American Film Festival is presenting a celebration of queer cinema in its virtual six-film series, Prismatic Taiwan.

Yuri Light Novel

Seven Seas wants us to know that it’s almost time for the release of “reincarnated into an otome game” school comedy I’m in Love with the Villainess, by inori and hanagata.

They also wanted to remind us that Adachi and Shimamura, Volume 3 is on sale and will be hitting your mailbox in early 2021.

Via Yuri Mother, the upcoming Seven Seas release of Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight For an Ordinary Life With My Love and Cursed Sword!, will be delayed slightly.

Yuri Manga

Yen has nabbed the Adachi and Shimamura manga license, and Alex Mateo at ANN has the details.

Seven Seas hits this month’s licensing announcement with several Yuri titles. First up, School Zone, a school comedy by Ningiyau.

Seven Seas has also licensed Hero-san to Moto Onna Kanbu-san, Volume 1 (ヒーローさんと元女幹部さん) as Superwomen in Love! I sympathize with this title change as the other might play well in Japan, but yeah, The Hero and the former Middle Management Villainess would die on the shelves here. ^_^ I have reviewed both volumes here on Okazu. Volume 1 | Volume 2.

ANN’s Alex Mateo reports that A Witch’s Love at the End of the World, which has also been licensed by Yen Press will end this autumn with a third volume in Japan. I have not yet read this series, so you and I are on equal footing here. ^_^

Yuri Studio

We’re finishing up a new video for Yuri Studio that we’ll be launching this week. I decided to make this one way too complicated and our video editor Louise worked triple time to make it look good. ^_^ We’re hoping to get a few more Patrons before September to help us support this work and keep us on track for 2020. If you enjoy the weekly news report or the manga and anime reviews or our Yuri Studio videos, please support us on Patreon!

LGBTQ Manga

Via Megan on Twitter, we have news of Boys Run the Riot, a manga with a trans male lead, written by a trans man. I’m looking forward to reading that. Megan’s also offered up this interview with Gaku Keito and why he decided to come out. It’s in Japanese, but you have Google Translate.

Yuri Podcasts

Laethas and Mamma Luvs Manga talk about Viz Media’s How Do We Relationship on Yuricast, Episode 1.

I am doing a podcast, along with with Kit and Sarah from the Tomochoco Podcast today on Manga Maverick’s podcast about the Kase-san series!

Yuri Visual Novel

A spin-off of the Visual Novel Twofold, Yuri VN First Snow is free on Steam right now!

Other News

This is in no way Yuri, but the news that Sentai Filmworks has licensed Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit anime is very good. For many reasons, this anime is one of the very best I have ever watched and it stands as one of the few series I’ve seen that is significantly better as an anime than the original novel (the entire series of which I have reviewed here.) If you have not seen it, I can only make this the strongest recommendation I’ve ever made. It is really that good.

Via real-world journalist Jake Adelstein, comes this reminder that Takarazuka has recently done a production of Once Upon A Time in America.

The Yagate Kimi ni Naru / Bloom Into You encore stage production has been delayed due to the pandemic, but they are planning a live dramatic reading of a Sayaka story instead, according to the Yagate Kimi ni Naru Official Twitter account.

Let’s wrap up with this piece of news, via Mari Kurisato, Marvel celebrates Indigenous history with a landmark special, Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 that features native artists and writers taking on indigenous Marvel characters.

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