Yuri Manga

Top story this week is the big win for Sumiko Arai’s contemporary romance Yuri The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t Guy At All won the Best New Manga Series award at the 2o25 American Manga Awards!  Congrats to Arai-sensei and everyone at Yen Press.

Also featured at Anime NYC today is Love Bullet creator Inee, who will be doing a signing at Kinokuniya booth 321 at 1pm. I couldn’t be there for this, but if someone does make it, please let us know how it went! I did get over to the Love Bullet Pop-up shop yesterday and got a bunch of stuff for Lucky Boxes. ^_^ Love Bullet is headed our way this November from Yen, as well.

Seven Seas announced a new Yuri license for The Deliquent And The Transfer Student by Fujichika, about a… good girl with a fascination for the school sukeban.

Listed as LGBTQ, Square Enix’s Manga UP! Platform has listed  Rikitake’s Have a Great Trip After the End Credits. ANN’s Anita Tai has details about this post-apocalyptic travel tale.

Queer Manga

Also premiering at AnimeNYC this weekend in the new English-language edition of Young Magazine, is Keito Gaku’s sequel Boys Run The Riot – IN TRANSITION.

Peow reminds us that Stop! Hibari-kun! is available for pre-order. All pre-orders come with a bonus post card, but more importantly this effervescent trans manga comes complete in softcover. 

Join a fantastic panel of queer manga enthusiasts and professionals at GEEKS OUT x AnimeNYC panel Finding Your Story: Manga Recommendations for Queer Readers, Sunday, August 24 at 3:30 PM in room 1A23 at Javits Center. It’ll be great, so I hope to see you there.

Also today, multiple manga publishers are going to be talking about The Future is Queer for Manga in Libraries!

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Yuri Light Novels

GirlsLine on X has the news of a new Yuri light novel  “Eh? Wataghi ga Socchinano!?” Koinu-kei Kouhai Kanojo ni Taberareru Kakkoii Watashi  (「え、私がそっちなの！？」子犬系後輩彼女に食べられるカッコいい私)  from the synopsis on Kayomu, “If you attend a girls’ school, one student has a reputation for being “cool.” That’s me, Amenone Sakoto. In that position, I am often confessed to by the same sex. Today’s confession was from Hanaka Meguru, a new student who gives “puppy that has recently started watching me.” Her eyes were different from other students, and I felt excitement for the first time…”

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Yuricon News

Yuricon.com launched a new look this week to celebrate our 25th anniversary, our first redesign in almost 10 years! I hope you’ll pop over and take and look…and let us know what you think!

Yuri Anime

HIDIVE announced the dub for Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty for a September debut. I’m sure we’re all interested to see how that is handled. ^_^

AnimEigo has announced a license for Vampire Princess Miyu OVA at ANYC.

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Yuri Events

Flamecon is this weekend in New York City, NY, and I will be there today! I’m not doing any panels or selling anything, just taking a nice relaxing stroll through the event. Hit me up if you’re there and say hello. ^_^

AnimeNYC is at Javits Center on August 21-24, 2025. Once again I’ll be there, covering the American Manga Awards (The Guy She Liked Wasn’t A Guy At All is nominated for an award this year!) on Thursday night, hanging out with manga industry folks on Friday – hitting up the Yen Press Love Bullet pop-up store and trawling Kinokuniya for The Guy She Liked Wasn’t A Guy At All merch. I’ll be back on Sunday for the Geeks Out x ANYC panel: Finding Your Story: Manga Recommendations for Queer Readers at the ridiculous time of 3:30 PM on Sunday, August 24. We would love to have you join us!

Comiket 106 is happening this weekend as well. Check out their Facebook and Twitter feeds for pictures.

I am a guest at Y/Con this November in Paris. My panel schedule is not set yet, but I will have copies of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga to sign and I am very much looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones, so do drop by!

Yuri VNs

Studio Élan announces the soundtrack and ending theme song for A Tithe in Blood are now available for purchase on Steam! You can find all of the DLC for it on Steam. You can also get the soundtrack on Bandcamp.

Also from Studio Élan, National Park Girls is now available in Chinese. They note that the translation update also comes with a few accessibility updates.

Via Yuri Navi, we have key visuals for a cheerful post-apocalyptic story, Chill Planet (散るプラネット), where “chill” is the verb chiru of scattering flower petals. This is a end of the world adventure game featuring four young woman from developer team aozorite, which is slated for a 2026 Steam debut. 

Via YNN Correspondent Patricia B, Iwakura Aria is now available on Steam and Nintendo Switch.
 

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Yuri Manga

Galette English Issue No.3 is complete and on the way to backers, according to Galette WORKS’ most recent update on Kickstarter. Based on previous campaigns, we should expect Issue No. 4 campaign to begin shortly. I’ve been seeing folks asking about getting back issues. At this point, the new Kickstarters do have add-ons for previous issues, but there is no standalone way to purchase the EN editions. 

In Japan,  Galette No. 35 cover art has been revealed, on Galette’s official Bluesky.

Via Comic Natalie, Citrus+ is celebrating an anniversary with some Mei and Yuzu merch.

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Yuri Anime

Discotek has announced the classic shoujo sports (and intensely emotional rivalry) anime, Aim For The Ace!

This Monster Wants To Eat Me new trailer teases the opening theme and gives us an October debut date. Crystalynn Hodgkins has the details on ANN.

Curryku announced the 3rd volume of Not So Shoujo Love Story on X. We have Volume 1 up on the Yuricon Store if you haven’t already started this goofy Yuri manga.

Live Action

Japanese Girls at the Harbor (港の日本娘) a 1933 silent film, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu that was cited by the Complete Guide to “Yuri” Films, is now on Youtube!

Other News

The long-awaited classic trans manga, Stop! Hibari-kun!, is available for pre-order from Peow.

Sean Gaffney reviews The Executioner and Her Way of Life: Wish Upon a Star, Pray to a Flower, Volume 9 of the series, over on his blog, A Case Suitable For Treatment.

Quick personal update, I am once again free of the bondage of employment. I am looking for a position with leadership that sets their team up for success. If you’re looking for a marketing/communications person with experience in any number of industries, please reach out. 

And Yuricon is currently in a maintenance mode, as we clean up behind the scenes for our move to a new look! Your support of Yuricon and Okazu makes this possible, so thank you to our Patrons and Supporters!

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Yuricon News

We are gearing up for the new website launch this month. I will be doing cleanup for about a week and then freezing adding anything, so if you see anything that needs to be updated, contact me and we’ll try to get to it before switchover. 

The new site looks amazing. Can’t wait for you to see it!

Yuri Manga

Yen Press has announced Common-Sense Monster, about a girl who finds her friend is actually a monsterwho blens in with humans, so she asks her to teach her to act “normal.”

Via YNN Staffer Matt Marcus, CandleA, the Kadokawa Imprint that currently carries Tsukuritai Onna to Tabetai Onna, Wicked Spot and Hime Miko to Hime Kishi, now is getting Onni ‘tte Yonde mo Iimasuka? (オンニって呼んでもいいですか？) by Hanakage Alt! Watch for this story about an idol and her fan later this month.

Via Comic Natalie, we have a tantalizing sample in Japanese of Watanuki Hiroya’s Scifi Yuri about a terrible alien and useless robot, Aliens (エイリアンズ), with the provocative tagline: “We are not alone in the universe. But we are alone in this world.” Volume 1 is available now, in Japan.

Just a reminder that No.9 has a line of Yuri works, many of them available on Bookwalker. Check out their site and click “Other stores” on any book that looks good to get the full listing of where they can be found.

While flitting around No. 9’s Bookwalker listing, I found this anthology – Sousaku Yuri Fesuta Anthology Shiro-gun no Sora ni Kimi o Kaite iru. (創作百合フェスタアンソロジー 白群の空に君を描いている。) This includes a number of names we’re familiar with here, like Kodama Naoko, as contributors.

From Yuri Navi, we have Rakuen No Kisetsu (楽園の季節) a sweaty hot popsicle-eating summer Yuri. This one-shot can be read in Japanese on Comic Days.

Via Sr. YNN Corespondent Sean Gaffney, Joanna Cayanan has the news that Yodogawa, creator of Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord, has a new manga on Kadocomi,  Neko ni Hakuchō, Hotaru ni Koban (猫に白鳥、蛍に小判). The first chapter introduces us to a teacher and a student.

Via Sr. Correspondent Ashley, the Kickstarter for STARWARD LOVERS, a “tokusatsu-inspired f/f action romance comic about longing and space aliens” has already made it’s initial goal and has 27 days to go! They got me at “all-lesbian team of secret agents.” ^_^

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Anime News

Lauren Orsini reviews the world premiere of This Monster Wants to Eat Me anime on ANN. It’s such a great series and the trailer and this review have me stoked for the series.

Via Animate Times, we have character designs for the upcoming workplace comedy Egao no Taenai Bassho desu., (笑顔のたえない職場です。) known as A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wondeful Workplace in in English, based on the manga by Kuzushiro.

Via YNN Correspondent KatGrrrl, The UK is getting The Executioner and Her Way of Life Collection on Blu-Ray.

ANN’s Ken IIkura-Gross reports on  20th anniversary of the My-Otome series, the sequel to My HiME. Those have both been extensively reviewed here on Okazu, along with the adjacent OVAs, manga and CDs.

Yuri Visual Novels & Games

One more from KatGrrrl, Special Forces is a butch x butch Yuri visual novel, From  developer Eclipse‘s description, “MEN WENT EXTINCT. ONLY WOMEN REMAIN. Step into Eclipse—a bold, choice-driven YURI VN where Butch x Butch takes the spotlight. Play as Haesu of the Special Forces and shape not only her fate, but the future of this UTOPIA. Can you face the truth—amid love, desire, and bloodshed? “

Via YNN Sr. Correspondent Patricia Baxter, check out Rebecca Silverman’s review of Yuri VN Iwakura Aria. It is an excellent review of a game that sounds very intriguing.

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Live-Action News

Via Disc-connected on Bluesky, Maedchen in Uniform, one of the oldest lesbian movies extant, is getting a release on Blu Ray from KinoLorber, as part of their KinoClassics line. I know I have watched it, but apparently never reviewed it here.

We’ll finish up with the US team for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Super Live streaming free on Youtube! Even if Sailor Moon is not your Jam, check it out. It’s sparkly fun.

Other News 

We have a lot of good reading on tap this week!

Via YNN Corresponent Adam J, we have Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty Perfectly Captures Music As An Act Of Rebellion by Elijah Gonzalez on Endless Mode.

Our frequent guest reviewer and all around fantastic writer Patricia Baxter has a new article on Anime Feminist, Queer Self-Acceptance in Guilty Gear Strive.

This Week in Anime features Chris and Steve, discussing queer anime in TWIA: Rainbow Days.

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A very happy birthday month to all of you! Yuricon and Okazu were both born in August and this year, the 24th anniversary of Yuricon, we are going to be launching a brand new look!  All of the designs have been approved, Okazu Patrons and Supporters got to see some previews, feedback has been really positive. This will be the 5th design for Yuricon, 7th overall if we include it’s predecessor AniLesboCon. I hand coded the first three iterations, had the next three built for me and now am entrusting this full rebuild to the incredibly talented team of Katy and Chris at Hand Design Co..  It’s gonna be a big birthday gift to Yuricon for it’s 25th year. ^_^

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Yuri Anime

Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight For An Ordinary Life With My Love And My Cursed Sword anime has announced staff, cast and posted a trail, says ANN’s Alex Mateo.

Creator of This Monster Wants To Eat You, Naekawa Sai, is a guest of Otakon this year and will be promoting the upcoming anime for the series. 

Otakon also has cast and staff from Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty as guests this year, so it’ll be a good year for Yuri fans. Adrian Hazra has the details.

Yuri Manga

Manga Mavericks presents Hanakage Alt’s Sempai no Kouhai in English, as one complete volume!

Ikuta Hana, whose Bakumatsu souls reborn into modern high school girls manga have fascinated me, has a new volume out, Bakumatsu Mesukousei Hana to Ookami  (幕末女子高生 花と狼). Check out my reviews of previous volumes, Bakumatsu Joshikousei – Oni to Yoake ((幕末女子高生 鬼と夜明け) Volume 1, Volume 2, and Oni to Yoake Yuzikiyo (鬼と夜明け 夕月夜), which I read in the wrong order. ^_^

Weekly Champion (blecch) has a new Yuri manga, Obaka wo Mederu, (お葉花（バカ）を愛でる」) about Kunika, a doofusy Student Council President and her VP, a childhood friend, via Comic Natalie.

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Yuri Light Novel

Via Sr, YNN Correspondent Sean Gaffney, the 6th novel in the Roll Over and Die series, ‘Omaegotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omouna’ to Yuusha paati o Tsuihousaretanode, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai 6 (お前ごときが魔王に勝てると思うな」と勇者パーティを追放されたので、王都で気ままに暮らしたい ) has a late August release in Japan.

Via Sean once again, the Girls Line imprint of Fantasia Bunko, Shino to Ren Future (志乃と恋Future) is the novelization of their Yuri series Shino to Ren. This is an adult life novel series based on a 4-volume manga of the same name, about a model and a math teacher.

Via YNN Correspondent akatsukinoluna, “Hitokiri” Shoujo, Koushaku Reijou no Goei ni Naru (人斬り』少女、公爵令嬢の護衛になる) by Sasato Goro, was an “enjoyable, fantasy yuri – bodyguard for hire & the countess she’s protecting.” Not deep, but fun.

 
Other News

Kalai Chik writes about the band NOMELON who did music for Gundam GQuuuuux, is hoping to take their music global.

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