Light week this week, I think we need some distraction from the real world….

Yuri Anime

Couple of news items on the upcoming Bloom Into You anime – ANN reports that Sentai Filmworks has licensed it, which means you’ll never hear when or if they actually release it, until you remember to look next year, since Sentai is great at licensing announcements, but has no followup. ANN also says that it will be streaming on the HIDIVE network. The stream will start with a sub, then add in a dub, Jennifer Sherman reports.

Yuri VN

Fans of the Flowers VN series will be happy to hear that Flowers 4 Seasons (FLOWERS 四季) is getting a PS4 release, according to the YuriNavi blog.

Okazu News

No podcast this week. Instead, because I had my video recording equipment set up for a Secret Project^TM, I recorded a short video, inviting you all to become an Okazu Patron and be invited to an online Okazu Patron Holiday Party/Yuri Panel Extravaganza! Because I want to do something special for Patrons, to thank you all for your generosity and kindness. If you’re not yet an Okazu Patron, you still have time to become one and join us!

Other News
Someone on the Okazu Discord asked if getting the Uranus/Neptune character pair made the game more Yuri. Take a look at them holding hands in the Victory pose and tell me what you think! ^_^

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Yuri Manga

Exciting news for Yuri fans this week! Seven Seas has licensed two new Yuri titles. First up, EVE x EVE by Nagashiro Rouge, as part of their manga for mature audiences line – as I pointed out on our Yuricon Facebook group, I haven’t read the original Japanese volume of this yet, so I am cautiously optimistic. 

Also announced this week was a manga I reviewed last week – Kodama Naoko’s Oya ga Urusainode Kouhai (♀) to Gizoukekkonshitemite (親がうるさいので後輩(♀)と偽装結婚してみた。) as I MARRIED MY BEST FRIEND TO SHUT MY PARENTS UP. I suggested “I Fake-Married My (Female) Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up” might have been a bit more accurate, but maybe less funny? ^_^

Kodansha is releasing the Sailor Moon Perfect Edition, and Deb Aoki and editor Lauren Scanlan talk about it on the ANNcast this week!

Ultra Jump editors on Twitter announced Ultra Jump‘s very first Yuri anthology! Yuritora Jump (ユリトラジャンプ) will be available in Japan in mid-October. This will include the recent story by Hayashiya Shizuru, “Tanerabo manga do it!” I’m not bouncing out of my skin, you are. (This is not to be confused with the Kindle story Yuri-couple vs Bengal Tiger (百合ップルvsベンガルトラ) that exists in the real world. Why?!? Someone with 300yen and a JP Kindle account needs to get it and tell us what it is. ^_^ The description is hilarious – a ship full of Parisian girls sinks and a tiger is eating the girls. OMGWTFLOLBBQ.)

The first volume of Hisakawa Haru’s Yurikon (ゆりこん) serial about female couples who get married, has hit JP shelves.

Yuri Anime

A second, longer promotional video for the upcoming Yagate Kimi ni Naru (Bloom Into You) anime has been released on Youtube.

Still not Yuri, but still of interest, Aria the Origination has been added to the Crunchyroll catalog, according to ANN. ^_^

LGBTQ Comics News

For folks in the New York area, the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ is running an exhibition of art from Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For comic. Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel will run through December 30, and Bechdel will be there to do a talk on October 10. I love the Zimmerli and recommend it highly. 
 

Other News

Cartoon Network is running a Storyboard Training Academy. Applications are open. Definitely read the FAQs, because it is a form of paid internship at CN, but you’d be responsible for your travel and room.

A group of Maine pastors with no sense of irony attempted to get a copy of My Lesbian Experince With Loneliness pulled from a Banned Books display, ANN’s Lynzee Loveridge reports.

Over on Crunchyroll, Nicole Meijas reports that Akiyo Nagano, Atsuko Ishizuka, and Akira Himekawa Discuss Being a Woman in the Anime and Manga Industry.

Nippon.com has a tidy little article about the spread of LGBTQ acceptance in Japan beginning with Shibuya’s offering same-sex partnership certificates.

Catch my discussion of this week’s news and some other items of importance on the YNN Podcast on Patreon! I did the audio editing myself this week, so don’t blame Ashley for it. ^_^

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

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!