Top news this week is the relaunch of Yuricon.com! We originally started just around 20 years ago as an online mailing list for fans of a genre that didn’t have a name. We fought for recognition for our genre and spent many hours talking about Yuri anime and manga. Now Yuricon members are taking it on the road running Yuri lectures, writing articles and promoting Yuri all over the world. Drop by and see the new, streamlined Yuricon site!

Yuri Manga

Azumakawa Miso’s Pixiv Yuri comics have been collected into a single volume of 40 shorts, covering the good, the bad, the bitter and the sweet of Yuri couples in Totsuzen Yuri (突然の百合).

The newest of the Eclair collection, Eclair rouge Anata no Hibiku Yuri Anthology (エクレア rouge あなたに響く百合アンソロジー) hits Japanese shelves at the end of this month.

Via YNN Correspondent Alextasha , Volume 4 of Pulse by Ratana Satis is available for Pre-order!

YNN Correspondent Mariko S wants you to know about a “series called Lily Marble by Kisugae that I like – it’s about a gym called “Fitness Club Lily” and the Yuri hijinks the various staff members get up to.” You can read it on the publisher’s site (in Japanese) for free.

Yuri Anime

Via YNN Correspondent robin from cyberia, the Asagao to Kase-san Flower Edition Blu-Ray with desktop calendar (あさがおと加瀬さん。」Blu-ray Flower Edition(初回限定生産)(オリジナル卓上カレンダー付き) is up for pre-order available from Amazon JP! It’s slated for a November release. There is also a DVD version available, but…for possibly the first time ever, I actually recommend the BD.  The Blu-Ray set includes extra disks with audio dramas and cast talks. I have not yet confirmed whether it has English subtitles. 

Yuri Events

Via YNN Correspondent Serena, the Yuri/GL Phillipines group will have an exhibitor’s table at Cosplay Mania in Manila on September 29-30. Drop by to meet a great group of Yuri fans!

From Yuiko on Twitter, the office-romance focused Yuri doujinshi event 20OL is happening once again on September 16 in Nagoya, Japan.

Other News

YNN Correspondent Serena also noted that webcomic site Lezhin has apologized to creators after an earlier scandal regarding blacklists and unfair payments which affected the GL section of the site very heavily.

Queer-friendly, female-focused magazine Sparkler Monthly is running their 6th annual Kickstarter campaign. 

One of my favorite comics series for kids, Hilda, is getting a cartoon on Netflix. Check out the trailer on Cartoon Brew and this guide to the graphic novels.

I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but it seems to me that if you don’t want your online group to be understood as a campaign of harassment and intolerance, then maybe you ought not to name it after a previous campaign of harassment and intolerance. JA Micheline discusses Comcsgate in, what is in my opinion, the definitive article on this particular incarnation of angry men angry at women, people of color and LGBTQ folks existing, in Comicsgate is the latest front in the ongoing culture wars for The Guardian.

No podcast this week, I seem to have run myself ragged. ^_^ But do feel free to send me questions you’d like me to address on the next YNN Podcast!

Become a YNN Correspondent by reporting any Yuri-related news to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com with your name and an email I can reply to! Our YNN podcast is now available, in which I take a look at some key news items this week..

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Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!

Today we’re discussing problematic themes in Yuri. ^_^; on the Okazu YNN Podcast! 
Fess up and let us know what are some of your favorite problematic Yuri series?

Let us know in the comments on Patreon, here on Okazu or chat with us on the Okazu Discord channel!

Yuri Anime

The Asagao to Kase-san (あさがおと加瀬さん。) OVA has finally moved out of theaters completely, but it hasn’t disappeared. Senior YNN Correspondent Verso S. notes they’ve added the series to several Video on Demand platforms, including Amazon JP and iTunes. Verso says that the iTunes version is not Japan-only – I can’t confirm this, so of anyone wants to jump in and let me know if they can watch it outside Japan, that’d be swell. I’ll cough up a few bucks as soon as I have a chance and test the Amazon Video version. It appears that the three-episode format at $2-3/episode is how they are marketing this on all platforms. 

And now we turn towards an incoming anime, Yagate Kimi ni Naru/Bloom Into You. Slated for an October 5th premier in Japan, we’ve got new visuals. More interesting to me, however, is the news that Sayaka will be getting her own side-story in a novel! Please excuse me for caring about the lesbian a little bit more than the others. ^_^ Check out ANN’s report for details and then join me in being displeased with the choice of author. Sigh. Volume 6 of Yagate Kimi ni Naru (やがて君になる) hits shelves later this month in Japan, and Volume 5 was released last month in English! 

This series is the kick-off point for this week’s podcast, so keep an eye out for that to be posted later today! ^_^

Kickstarter News

From Yuri Visual Novel creative team Aikasa Collective, the Kickstarter for the Mizuchi 白蛇心傳 – Visual Novel has launched. From the KS site: “Mizuchi is a fantasy romance visual novel, inspired by the Legend of the White Serpent with a yuri twist and other folklores mixed in.” 

Yuri Manga 

Watashi no Kobushi o Tsuketetomete! (私の拳をうけとめて!) is a slice-of-life comedy(ish) story about two adult women who fight, a lot. ^_^ You can read a sample (in Japanese ) on Web-ace.

From Comic Natalie, we have news that Complex Age artist Sakuma Yui has a Yuri story, Warui Onna no ko (わるいおんなのこ) beginning in Comic Days magazine. It takes place in “boy’s not allowed” all-girls’ school, so you know it’s going to be amazing. (-_-);

Yoru to Umi ((夜と海) may or may not be Yuri, but it seems like it might be an interesting look at two girls’ relationship and the other kids buying Yuri stuff on Amazon have bought it, so… 

Senior YNN Correspondent Mariko S. writes about Sal Jiang, “a Chinese lesbian living and working in Japan who draws manga as a hobby. I don’t think she’s ever put out a full book before, just short comics on her Twitter feed. What’s nice about her work is that it all features adult women, and has a bit more variety in the body types than you usually see in manga (she favors a curvy aesthetic). Anyway, she posted recently that she’s being included in an upcoming anthology, “ゲス×百合”.”  Mariko notes that, since Gusu can mean “sleazy”this may not be to everyone’s taste, but continues, “all her stories that I’ve read to this point have been very smart and fun. So I thought I’d mention it.” 

YNN Correspondent Eric P reminds us that the third and final volume of Legend of Korra: Turf Wars is shipping. Are we worried that Korra won’t save the day and get the girl (again)? No, but I still want to read it!

Other News

Rai submitted this overview of Yuri, The Journey and History of Yuri, Part 1, as part of a movable blogging feast with their Otaku blog circle, OWLS. It’s been added to our Yuricon Essays page where you can find all of the current scholarship on Yuri and related topics listed for your own research needs!

We’ve got an Okazu Discord channel and we’re not afraid to use it! I’m not always there, but this past week we did an informal hangout, talking about great stuff we were reading in novels and manga! Put us on your list and look for the next time we’re running a chat!

We’re working on  Yuricon.com reboot and a lot of other things including a new Patreon campaign. If you’re enjoying all of our Yuri News and reviews and the podcast and the communities and paid Guest Reviews,  subscribe to us on Patreon and help us reach an even bigger Yuri Network!

Become a YNN Correspondent by reporting any Yuri-related news to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com with your name and an email I can reply to! Our YNN podcast is now available, in which I take a look at some key news items this week..

Got questions about Yuri? Write in and ask and I’ll do my best to address them on the Okazu YNN Podcast!

Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!

We have a very light week this week, as the summer wraps up and we’re past the major license announcements of SDCC, Anime Expo and Otakon, so it’s time to get ready for the next wave of events!

Events News

Start by checking out Heidi MacDonald’s Comicsbeat report on Flamecon. 

Girls Love Fest is fast approaching in the Tokyo area on September 9, 2018

New York Comic Con is in New York City on October 4-7.

Anime NYC is coming to New York on November 16-18.

And get those panel ideas in for Queers & Comics 2019 at NYU in NYC. Panel submissions are open until September 30!

Yuri Anime

Zac Bertschy has an Interview with  Kase-san and Morning Glories Director Takuya Sato and Producer Yusuke Terada on ANN.  

Egan Loo on ANN covers the new Bloom Into You anime cast and music announcements.

Yuri Manga

Via Alextasha, Yuri manga Pulse, Volume 4 is available for pre-order on Ratana Satis’ facebook page!

Two girls, one very high school girlish and one totally not, meet in Futaridashi ni Ochiru (ふりだしにおちる!) by Mushu.

Other News

For those of you looking for good research material – via James Welker, his chapter “From Women’s Liberation to Lesbian Feminism in Japan: Rezubian Feminizumu within and beyond the Ūman Ribu Movement in the 1970s and 1980s” in Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (2018) is now open access…”

YNN Podcast

This week since the news is so light I take a moment to talk about weddings in Yuri. Check out the YNN Podcast on Patreon. If you enjoy it, please consider subscribing to Okazu on Patreon. We can really use the help!

Become a YNN Correspondent by reporting any Yuri-related news to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com with your name and an email I can reply to! Our YNN podcast is now available, in which I take a look at some key news items this week..

Got questions about Yuri? Write in and ask and I’ll do my best to address them on the Okazu YNN Podcast!

Thanks to all of you – you make this a great Yuri Network!