Yuri Manga

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1 is just out of the gate, but Yen isn’t waiting on this – The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 2 is already up for pre-order.  Because they were kind enough to give me a review copy of Volume 1, I picked up a copy of the Kinokuniya exclusive with the variant cover and signed image board. I haven’t even had a chance to open it yet. ^_^;  I’ll get V2 up on the Store when it has a EN cover. ^_^

Catching up on the manga for the series, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 5 is up on the Yuricon Store, with Volume 6 headed our way in December. I’ll get that up as soon as it has a EN cover, as well.

Kuzushiro’s Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 8 ( 雨夜の月) is headed to JP bookshelves this month! I always look forward to this manga so much.

Ikuta Hana, creator of the Bakumatsu high school girls series Oni to Yoake, that I quite randomly reviewed this past week, has a new Yuri series Ryuu to Ryuu no Kekkon (竜と龍の結婚), starting on webcomic site Shiori. This follows two Dragon Princesses from  different Dragon Kingdoms who marry to bring peace to their lands.

Creator of Octave, Akiyama Haru’s new series Watashi no Blue Garnet (私のブルーガーネット) will be hitting shelves in Japan at the beginning of December. Interestingly, this does not appear at the moment to have a digital option.

The next to last volume of Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 13 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな) hit shelves last month in Japan. Miwa and Saeko go on a trip together.

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The Gundam franchise has announced the next series on their official X account. Mobile Suit Gundam ALC ENCOUNTER (機動戦士ガンダム ALC ENCOUNTER) appears to be starring two female leads once again…and, as some of you may remember, ALC Publishing was the very first Yuri manga publisher in the world! I ran ALC – which was short for AniLesboCon – from 2003-2010. So I’m giggling, imagining that they named the next Yuri Gundam after my ALC…which, they most likely did not. ^_^ Fun coincidence, though.

And for fans who can’t get enough Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury, check out Mecha Girl of the Day’s account on X for these fab matching jackets for Suletta and Miorine from Bandai! I would get one, but nearly $400 a piece is a bit above my budget for my obsessions for anime and jackets.

I know I mentioned this last week, but it bears repeating, Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi, will be getting an anime in 2025. Check out the beautiful trailer on Youtube. I absolutely love this manga and have high hopes for the anime. Reviews of the manga are here on Okazu, through Volume 8 in Japanese, and Volume 1 and Volume 2 of This Monster Wants To Eat Me, out now in English from Yen Press.

 The Rose of Versailles anime movie has paired up with a florist in Japan to present themed flower arrangements. Check out the official account on X to see the Oscar, the Marie Antoinette, the Fersen and the Andre. ^_^

The official X account for the Puella Magi Madoka Magica franchise has announced a trailer for Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Walpurgis no Kaiten Part 2: SIDE Homura.

Yuri Visual Novel

Studio Élan has launched a demo to their upcoming Yuri VN, Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery.

Ebi-hime has also released a new game this week for Halloween, The end of an obsession is “a short yandere yuri horror vn where you play as a princess trapped in a tower. Your only company is your kidnapper: a witch who seeks to torment you. Will she ever let you escape?“

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Yuri Light Novel

Also headed our way this month is The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 8, in which Anis and Euphie continue to build their city of dreams, only to run in to obstacles.

Kadokawa is mining the step-sister Yuri mines with new novel Atarashiku Dekita Onee-san ha, Yuri Toiu no Suki Mitai, (新しくできたお姉さんは、百合というのが好きみたい). You can pick it up on Amazon JP or Bookwalker – and if you do and want to review it, let me know.

Other News

Dark Horse announced on Bluesky that STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ADVENTURES PHASE III–THE WEDDING SPECTACULAR, will feature a wedding between Lula Talisola and Zeen Marla. IGN has an article about the pair.

The Tokyo University of Science Yuri Lovers Club is participating in the Ritsumeikan University Festival with snacks, mocktails and their new publication, mock tale. Check out the cover and announcement on their X account. And can we have a moment of pure joy that the Tokyo University of Science has a Yuri Club?!

Kyodo News reports that a Tokyo High Court has (once again) decided that the lack of same-sex recognition in Japan is unconstitutional and the Diet really ought to do something about. Recent elections has gutted the LDP stranglehold on power, so maybe we might see some change in our lifetime.

For those of us in the US, here’s an awesome event you can be prat of – everylibrary is celebrating Manga Day 2024, tomorrow on November 3 at 7PM Eastern US time on Facebook and Youtube, featuring speakers from Viz, Kodansha, Fantagraphics and Yen Press! Great people talking about great manga. Register for free!

Castlevania is getting a Takarazuka adaptation! If they go with the Netflix anime for inspiration, we might even get some lesbian vampires out of it. Probabaly not, but it would be nice.

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Thanks so much to everyone who was kind about my health the past few weeks. Turns out I was cosplaying as a dying Victorian infant for the season. I’m doing better and we’re back on track!

Yuri Events

Yuriten is back! The all-Yuri exhibition and pop-up store has launched a new promo video for 2025 on their account on X with  January 25- February 2 dates for Tokyo and February 8-16 in Osaka. More details as they become available.

The official Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau X account shared an image of Takeshima Eku’s art exhibition.

Yuri Manga

Last week New York Comic Con brought us the news of some new licenses.

Yen licensed what they have translated as The Anemone Feels The Heat, a school life romance and Desperate March For Love, another school romance that looks Yuri. I’m not familiar with the latter at all.

I somehow missed this announcement, but Yen has released When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine, which I reviewed in Japanese back in 2023. (And I do apologize, I am hugely behind on the Store, since I was so ill for so long. I’ll catch up as I have a moment, which is definitely not this weekend.) I picked it up this week in English…we’ll see if the jokes work. ^_^

Seven Seas announced IDOL X IDOL which looks at the very least like an intense emotional relationship between two young women.

ANN’s Alex Mateo has the news that How Do We Relationship? will end in Volume 14.

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Kodama Naoko’s Usotsuki Hanayome to Dousei Kekkon-ron, Volume 2 is now on JP shelves.  (嘘つき花嫁と同性結婚論).

Manga Mogura on X has announced that, due to the energized fandom for inee’s Love Bullet, the manga will be reprinted.  The problem I foresee here is the publishing company relying on fandom to scream loudly, instead of investing in decent promotion to connect with the fandom in the first place. It’s a hard thing to balance. Take Yen, for instance – they do their very best to get news out by multiple social networks and on their own site and news sites, panels, press releases and announcements, and still even things get by me.

Via YNN Correspondent Katgrrl, and Mangatime Kirara on X, there will be at least one Yuri entry in the Bocchi The Rock Comic Anthology.

I encountered a new digital publisher online this week, Number 9 has some Yuri titles that they have listed under the Creative Yuri Festa title.  Check them out!

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Via Manga Mogura, This Monster Wants To Eat Me will be adapted into an anime! I am super excited about that, as I love the manga. Check out the trailer on Youtube. If it looks half this good, it’ll be great. Joanna Cayanan has details on ANN.

Crunchyroll has announced that they are streaming Girls Band Cry starting November 6. Our pal Cryssoberyl reviewed it for Okazu and made some excellent points. It’s worth a watch, if you haven’t seen it.

Look Back (link to trailer on Youtube) will be streaming on Amazon Prime as of November 7. I am so looking forward to it and dreading it. I don’t enjoy crying very much. ^_^;

The animation studio Cloud Hearts that worked on the ill-fated Whisper Me A Love Song anime is no more according to ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda. There were a lot of somethings wrong with the production of that anime and I think we may never know the whole story.

Rafael Antonio Pineda also has the news about new additions to the cast for the upcoming The Rose of Versailles anime film.

Other News

2 Tokyo Wards, Nakano and Setagaya, will be listing same-sex couples on a family registry, just as they do heterosexual couples. Another step forward in the face of a government unwilling to move on an issue that has an over 70% approval rating with the public.

Kodansha is looking to publish a special issue of Young Magazine in the US, according to Joanna Cayanan at ANN. I wonder if this is a test issue, since Shonen Jump has thus far remained the sole JP manga magazine in English, until Galette magazine joins it in 2025.

For folks who found this series Yuri enough for them, The Demon Girl Next Door will be getting a stage play in the new year. ANN’s Alex Mateo has the details.

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Sal Jiang has announced a new series,  Wicked Spot (ウィキッドスポット), as part of the Candle A imprint from Kadokawa. “Sada is a modern-day witch who is tired of living quietly in the mountains and wants to get more attention. Why shouldn’t human beings know about witches? A story of modern-day “witches” who break the curse and live freely!” It’s a departure from her last few series, and looks very fun. Candle-A is also launching with Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna/She Loves To Cook She Loves to Eat, and Hime Miko to Hime Kishi (姫巫子と姫騎士), an isekai about two female friends transported to another world in which one is a powerful princess and the other a powerful knight (Okay, I’m in. Thank you, yes.)

Hayashiya Shizuru has a short 18+ comic and promo images from her raunchy series, ULTIMATE-MAMA available on her Booth.pm. Grab a copy of ULTIMATE MAMA EX today!

This news post gives me a chance to show off the newly framed art I have in my office. Hayashiya-sensei was clearing out her original Hayate x Blade manuscript pages and had the brilliant idea of cutting them into clips and selling them to obsessive fans like me. She included a few sketches and I had them all framed. They now hang in my office where I can see them at my desk. Here is an not-quite adequate picture. The framer did a fantastic job.

I am very pleased to announce that the first collected volume of Heimin No Watashi Desu Ga Kōshaku Reijō-sama Wo Taburakashite Ikite Imasu, (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 is now available in print. This is a story of a commoner who is sold to a duke’s daughter who was actually her friend when they were younger. She takes on the role of bodyguard  – and seducer – to the duke’s daughter. I am a long-time fan of Kitao-sensei’s work, and very glad to see this in print!

Tsukiko, creator of Futaribeya, has drawn a Yuri vampire story for Comic Boost, Hakutae-sama, Himitsu Desu yo (白妙様、秘密ですよ). “Shio Hananoi is a high school girl who attends a vampire school. In fact, Shio hides the fact that she is human, but one day she happens to meet Hakutae, the founder of vampires, and her true identity is revealed. In a world where humans are food, Shio and Shiratae are mysteriously growing closer…? “

Via Comic Natalie, three middle school students, Koto, Aya, and Eirika, are secretly in love with each other. Koto’s feelings become clear to Aya and the two begin dating, but soon after that, Aya disappears as if she had been spirited away. Seven years later, Aya, who had been missing, appears before Koto and Eirika, who are now university students, in Sankakkei no Kowashi-kata, Volume 1 (三角形の壊し方).

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Bandai is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the My-HiME franchise with new videos and illustrations. 20 years? Wow. I have “Shining Days” on my mp3 player, so was just listening to it the other day. Joana Cayanan has the details at ANN.

Look Back anime movie premiered in the US  – ANN’s Anita Tai tells us it made almost $700,000 in it’s opening weekend in theaters. The ANN Aftershow warns you – as I have, every time I mention this story – you will cry. You should see this. You should read the manga. It will make you cry.

The Rose of Versailles anime movie has announced a January 31 opening. Joana Cayanan once again has the news and key visuals on ANN.

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Crystalynn Hodgkins has the news that Netflix will be removing Glitter Force and Glitter Force Doki Doki on November 9. I hope this will free Crunchyroll to pick up the original Doki Doki PreCure and add it to their roster.In my opinion, this is the last relic of media companies taking a shoujo anime, carving it it up, gluing it back together and pretending it’s not an anime. Hopefully, we’ve seen the end of that.

While I’m on my PreCure bullshit, I need to tell you that current season Wonderful PreCure! is actually really not-terrible. ^_^ When I read the synopsis, I gave myself 3 weeks, but here I am still watching. The main couple is straight, but I wouldn’t fight you if you ‘shipped Yuki and Mayu. ^_^

Other News

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This week was a veritable cornucopia of licenses and cover reveals, but before we get in to this week’s news, I want to say this – Okazu will not be reporting on, supporting, or listing on the Yuricon Store, any AI-created or localized anything. All AI in actual existence is “trained” on the work of humans, often without their consent, AI companies have been clear that without stealing content they are not profitable. Equally, the environmental cost of AI is devastating and this planet is already teetering on the edge of no return for climate change.  Every AI prompt consumes 20 bottles of water on an already-warming Earth. Lastly, and most importantly – no one is guaranteed success in any creative endeavor, but one is especially undeserving of success when one cannot even be bothered to do the actual work.  Okazu is about the celebration of human creation; the art, the stories, the media we make for each other so our stories are told. 

That all said, let’s jump into things – there’s a lot of human creative effort to talk about today. ^_^

Yuri Manga

Viz Media took to X to announce the extremely fun license of webtoon Not So Shoujo Love Story, by Curryuku. I guess I haven’t managed to review this, but it is a fun little shoujo Yuri story that I still read when I have time to catch up. I’m pleased that it will be coming out as in collected volumes.

Also from Viz, we’re getting Girl Crush, by Midori Tayama, which Senior YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney assures us has some non-binary and LGBT content, even if it isn’t a Yuri title.

Kodansha announced the cover reveal for Volume 1 of I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, by Nachi Aono. This orphanage/school story is pretty violent. Look, I’m just gonna say it – CW: it’s about an immortal little girl who gets her body chewed up in battle, over and over. For Important Reasons. This manga  ran in Comic Yuri Hime for a volume or two, then was moved over to their Pixiv Yuri Hime account, I presume because of the loli guro.

We’ll be getting I’m In Love With The Villainess, Volume 7 of the manga from Seven Seas this month. Fans of Cardinal Lily are in for a treat as we move into Lily-centric territory. Woops, it looks Like I never reviewed volume 7 in Japanese. It was fun with some filler that serves a purpose later.

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Baihe News

Seven Seas has licensed some Baihe!

We’re getting The Beauty’s Blade: Mei Ren Jian by Feng Ren Zuo Shu. According to my Baihe colleague, Douqi, this is an older title. I hope that this leads to a LOT more. And maybe some of the Thai GL novels. …I really want to really all of this stuff, okay? ^_^

Which brings me to my second editorial opinion of this report. Some folks online were crowing that they had “bullied” Seven Seas into licensing Baihe and when I pointed out that “bullying” is a shit idea to get anything, they claimed they were using the term as a joke.

The way to get companies to license stuff is to share it, support it, and ask nicely for it. Tell them you want it – don’t be a jerk about stuff you don’t want. “Companies” are made of individual people working very hard to get us what we want and to make money. Buy the stuff you like, ask politely for more. Fill out surveys. Be positively engaged and trust me – companies are doing everything they can to get what they can, if it will sell. I swear to you.

Also, seriously, my beloved Okazu readers, “jokes” that are mean are not jokes and we all know this. Please do not. As I said on X, “remember to support the Yuri love, suggest more to companies, be kind to other fans and don’t make “jokes.”” I would absolutely hate to see a small group of malcontents make Yuri toxic, when I have been working for decades to keep Yuri accessible, welcoming and kind. Yuri is for everyone, let’s keep it that way.

Also in exciting Baihe news, Taiwan Travelogue, the upcoming English translation by contemporary Baihe author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (the same Yáng Shuāng-zǐ who wrote Girls’ Love: The Development History of Lily Fan Culture in Taiwan’s ACG Industry 2023 Revised Edition (少女之愛：台灣ACG界百合迷文化發展史 2023增修版), which I reviewed here on Okazu in May of this year,) is nominated for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature! Translated by Lin King, this story sounds absolutely fantastic. I’ve already pre-ordered a copy, because this book hits every damned button I have and I cannot wait to read it!

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I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner, Volume 3 by inori-sensei is out now from Seven Seas. Review as soon as I have a moment, but once again, it was absolutely worth reading, as there is a ton of new material. It’s not just a reverse point of view of content you already know.

ANN’s Joanna Cayanan & Rafael Antonio Pineda team up to tell us that Gen Urobuchi’s Fate/Zero Novels are getting a musical stage play in 2025. Since that is the story that gave us suit-wearing Saber and Irisviel as a couple we’d like to see more of, I thought this was worth mentioning. Also because I have spent all day singing the Fate/Zero anime opening theme, To The Beginning, for Important Reasons, none of which have anything to do with the fact that Kalafina is getting back together for a January concert. (But it didn’t help to get the song out of my head, for sure.) Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details of that on ANN.

Other News

Animo on X has announced a new pop-up shop for  Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau anime, which given the lack of completion of the anime, seems even more like a cash grab than usual. But the goods are pretty cute. If you find yourself in Akihabara from October 11-20, drop by.

ANN’s Alex Mateo has the very interesting news that Kadokawa is running a global “wordless” manga contest. Interesting idea and a chance to get your work out to a broader audience.

We’ll wrap up the week with this article from Comics Beat by Samantha Puc about MISMATCHED, by  a graphic novel that “successfully queers” Jane Austen’s Emma. Written by Anne Camlin and art by Isadora Zeferino, Samantha calls this “a delightful rom-com that reads like a movie, with fast, quippy dialogue.”

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First of all, my very sincere thanks to Luce, who covered YNN last week. It’s always a lot of work and she did a great job!

Yuri Manga

We’ll pick up right where Luce left off, with the fascinating saga of Love Bullet by creator inee (pronounced eye-ni).  I’ve gone ahead and added it to the Yuricon Store. You can also read sample chapters in Japanese directly on Comic Walker.  Via Unseen Japan (a terrific resource I highly recommend,) journalist Kyama Ryuji has interviewed inee-sensei about the work’s cancellation and the overseas fandom-driven campaign to save it.

Kinokuniya has announced an exclusive variant cover for the upcoming release of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All. I have a lot of thoughts about this, as you may imagine. ^_^ On the one hand, I really like that the largest Japanese bookstore chain in America  is so highly engaged with this title.  This also is an interesting shift in the way manga is being marketed here. In Japan, different outlets often have different extras – booklets, original sketches, even acrylic standees. So a JP bookseller having a unique item rather than going through a generic online store seems like a reasonable marketing campaign for the US. On the other hand, it is easy to see variant covers as a cash grab, as they can be in Western comics sometimes…but, they also are great for anthologies and multi-creator titles, so you can support the artist you like best. It will be very interesting to see how this pans out.  For those going the digital route, Bookwalker Global is doing a point boost on pre-orders.

I was in France last week and saw a copy of the French edition – it was raining very hard and I did not have  coat or an umbrella so I didn’t buy it as I had a long, wet slog back to the hotel. ^_^; Interestingly, it was released with an English title that was only half of the whole title. That prompted some discussion on the Yuricon Discord as to why that choice was made.

Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl: The Complete Manga Collection from Seven Seas is on EN shelves now. This story of “mistaken identity” takes the joke a little too far, but has a nice enough end, as I found when I read Volume 1 and Volume 2 in Japanese. You’ll get to read the whole story at once in this complete manga collection.

Kiyoko Iwami’s raunchy high school drama continues in My Girlfriend’s Not Here Today, Volume 2, out now from Seven Seas.

Via Ashley, Osananajimi BIG LOVE (幼馴染) is a rom-com about a girl who had a friend who was a perfect angel and when they meet up again in high school, she finds her angel has turned into a gal.

Via YNN Correspondent Sister Carmilla, the official X account for Watashi o Tabetai, Hitodenashi says that the series will be featured on the cover of the December issue of Dengeki Maou.

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Bloom Into You manga’s completion, Kadokawa has announced that they will be releasing new merchandise on their Kadokawa Store.

Takeshima Eku is getting a solo art show which includes work from Sasayakuyouni Koi Wo Utau /Whisper Me A Love Song!  From the announcement on X: Approximately 50 digital original drawings from Takeshima’s series will be on display at the Kibi Kawakami Fureai Manga Museum in Takeshima Sensei’s hometown in Okayama.

Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou, Volume 9, is headed towards JP bookshelves next week and Ichijinsha has announced extras for the bookstores and their own shop, while Melonbooks has announced an acrylic standee of Cardinal Lily and Rae. As son as we get an official cover, I’ll add this to the Store.

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Via YNN Correspondent Cryssoberyl and Comic Natalie, for the 25th anniversary of the Shoujo Kakumei Utena anime, The Adolescence of Utena movie will be get a theatrical showing in Tachikawa Cinema City in Tokyo from October 11th to 17th. A special talk show event is scheduled for October 12 with Director Ikuhara Kunihiko and manga creator Saitou Chiho. That event is supposed to include a special “superb sound screening.” I hope someone writes up a report of that! All I can think of is that Castle Car scene and how great it looked on a big screen.

Yuri Live Action

Via sad tuna on X, GL manhwa Request to Resign is getting a short drama series featuring TWICE Jihyo’s sister Lee Ha Eum. Something to keep an eye out for.

The Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koishiteru TV Drama will be getting a Blu-ray Box set this winter.

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Yuri VN

Ebi-hime is at it again, this time with the upcoming Yuri VN Cage of Roses, which they describe as “A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret. “

Looking for more Yuri games and VNs? Don’t forget that the Yuri Game Jam is on now – keep an eye out for the amazing new stuff that will come out of that.

I hadn’t seen this when it came out, but “Life After Magic is a queer, retro visual novel that follows jaded ex-magical girls as they reconnect, deal with young adulthood, and face off against one last threat before Y2K hits.” It honestly looks adorable.

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