Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 16, 2024

November 16th, 2024

A blue silhouette of a girl with a white flower in her hair, embracing the earth. Blue block letters read YNN Yuri Network News. Art by Lissa P. For Okazu.Yuri Anime

The top news this week is the announcement of an anime adaptation for Kuzushiro’s The Moon on a Rainy Night/ Amayo no Tsuki (雨夜の月)! This series about disability and queer life has been one of my favorites since I read the first volume in Japanese. I look forward to seeing Kuzushiro’s work animated.

Whisper Me A Love Song / Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau (ささやくように恋を唄う) episodes 11 & 12 have been scheduled for broadcast in Japan on December 28. I’m very glad the production company is able to complete the series. I know we were all getting a little worried.

ANNs Alex Mateo reports on Amazon Prime streaming Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back anime film. This Week in Anime has Steve and Lucas discussing the film, with the lens of their own recent loss of Nick, and Jairus Taylor provides a glowing review for the film. I have still not watched it, as I am not in an appropriate emotional state to cope just yet.

I’m In Love With The Villainess / Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) anime has slipped to third place on the Tokyo Anime Awards. Still respectable, but inori.-sensei has asked that if you want to, please consider voting by December 2. Bandai Channel is showing the whole series, which I hope helps.

GKids has obtained N. American right to Liz and the Blue Bird. Alex Mateo has the news on ANN.

ANN’s Rafel Antonio Pineda has the news and trailer for Witchy Precure!!: Mirai Days sequel anime.

 

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Yuri Events

Comic Academy 25 will be held at Tokyo University and the Tokyo University Yuri Club will be selling their magazine Liliest, Volume 8!

Comitia is going to be at Tokyo Big Sight on November 17th in the East Halls 3, 4, 5, 6,and 7.

I’ll be moderating a talk on December 10 at The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn, NY! Authors JD Glass, Mala Kumar and I will be discussing the Gift of Love and queer joy! There is a small charge, but you’ll get it back in store credit. Hope to see you there. ^_^

Winter Comiket will be at Tokyo Big Sight on December 29 & 30.

Yuriten will be in Tokyo from January 25- February 2, and in Osaka from February 8- 16.

 

Yuri Manga

Éditions Akata has formally announced several new licenses, including schwinn’s senior Yuri series, Hana Monogatari for French readers.

Aoto Hibiki has a series being translated and serialized on Manga Planet: First Love Story: Shino x Asuka Story.“Ever since Shino saw Asuka take the stage to lead the freshman pledge, she knew they were in completely different worlds. Intelligent, endlessly talented Asuka is the type who’d only be friends with fellow preppy girls – never ordinary girls like her! The correct plan of action for Shino to take for her high school debut is to fit in by sticking close to her old friends, getting through academics somehow, and snagging herself a boyfriend – but when Asuka herself asks Shino to be her friend, does fitting in even matter?”

Aneido-sensei posted a short comic about a woman who sells her soul to the devil on Bluesky in English, and asks us the question – what is the soul after all?

Galette No. 32 (ガレットNo.32) is going on sale officially for Comitia 150. You can buy it digitally or in print from the different options on the Yuricon Store.

Akiyama Haru, creator of Octave, has a new series, Watashi no Blue Garnet (私のブルーガーネット) which is getting an acrylic figurine on MangaOh. This series follow Ai and Kon. Kon is looking for a former lover when their lives become intertwined.

U-temo has a new series beginning this month at Manga-Action, Okawari Itadake Darouka? This is a horror story about a girl who can summon spirits by eating and a classmate who eats spirits. Honestly, this looks kind of fun in a dark way.

Yatosaki Haru has an new online comic on Comic-Days called Akuma made Amai Watashi no Kanojo (あくまであまい私の彼女) about a girl whose heart is broken after her girlfriend breaks up with her. She meets a beautiful girl who she falls for, only to learn that the beautiful girl is a succubus. Thanks David for the corrected title!

Via Yuri Navi, Fujimoto Remochi has a new “cool boyish” Ikemen x Ikemen Yuri manga, Makoto-sempai no mae de ha Kakko  Tsukerarenai!(真先輩の前ではかっこつけられない！) on Web Ace.

 

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Yuri Light Novel

J-Novel Club has announced a new Yuri LN, The Hero-Killing Bride written by Aoikou with art by Enji. ANN’s Crystalyn Hodgkins has the details. Sure it’s lascivious crap, but I dunno, I might read it. ^_^

 

Yuri Visual Novel

Ebi-hime has another Yuri VN for you! Shut-In Vampire, is about a secret Vampire who is behind on the rent and only has two weeks to pay up

Quill Yuri offers up Death Becomes You: Yuri Onsen Vacation on Steam. “Alice and Sophie finally have the time to go on an onsen retreat. However, their trip gets inturrupted [sic] by mysterious magic. The last straw: “MY FOOD!!!” Will the couple be able to find the culprit and finally enjoy their vacation? “

 

Other News

I’ve moved the Yuri Manga Bot to Bluesky. This is where I make up plots for Yuri manga as the mood takes me. ^_^

Melon Books will no longer be accepting Mastercard or Visa from December 19. This appears to be something they are trying to fix, but for now, you’ll need Amex, JCB or another card on file. Joana Cayanan has the details on ANN.

Lycoris Recoil has an aquarium-themed museum shop in Tokyo Skytree from November 22 to December 8. And Crunchyroll now has the ClariS music video of the series OP,  Alive.

Please enjoy this video pow put to music by Miyo for inee’s manga LOVE BULLET! on X.

Crunchyroll now has translated Newtype magazine Crunchyroll edition online for free – check out the flipbook.

 

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Throw Away The Suit Together, Volume 2

November 13th, 2024

A woman with pinkish collar length hair wearing denim shorts and a green tee shirt, holds up a can of beer, while next to her a woman with long black hair, wearing running shorts and a white tank top sucks on an ice pop, as she takes their selfie in front of a deeply blue ocean.

by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer

In the first volume of Throw Away The Suit Together, college students and partners Haru and Hinoto decide to ditch the city and the pressures of job hunting and escape to Hinoto’s aunt’s island summer home. Sure, it was an impulsive decision, but they can certainly make a new life here with no degree, no employment, and no money. Right?

Throw Away The Suit Together, Volume 2 opens as the girls finish writing up a marriage contract. It would be a feel-good moment if either of them had any plan on how they will make a marriage work. Haru immediately says they need to make a lot of money to afford a wedding, but even before that, they are nearly flat broke and need to make some money now.

Luckily, they had met local dive instructor Naruko via lost scooter. She offers them part-time work, and the girls feel like they’ve been thrown a little bit of a lifeline. Sure, they are literally living paycheck-to-paycheck each day, but it’s a start.

We spend a lot of time with Haru and Hinoto as they anxiously kill time between shifts. They do laundry at the local laundromat. They sleep in late on a day off. They go to a diner. They have plenty of conversations, except for the one they really need to have: what is their backup plan. Each of them is harboring doubts.

However, even before they can think long-term, Naruko mentions that they only have about three weeks of work left in the busy season. What that leads to is…going back on the job hunt. Given their remote location and high expectations of what kind of job they think they qualify for, options seem nil. In a hail Mary shot, Hinoto again uses her aunt, who has a connection to someone high up in a medium-sized company. This does not pan out, since the job requirements include a college degree. The volume ends with Hinoto calling her college about reenrollment, with Haru eavesdropping.

Like with the first volume, the book ends with a bonus story with a bit of spice, but it’s honestly pretty off-putting. I could do without ever seeing a bit where a partner gets jealous and so decides to cover their lover’s body with hickies so that they are forced to cover up. It’s never been a good trope.

I had some concerns with this story in volume one. Most of it focused on the nagging feeling that this whole plan is a house of cards, ready to fall with the slightest gust of wind. It made for very anxious reading, and it seems now that the feeling was the intended experience. But worse, I’m not sure what the story is really driving at. Sometimes love is not enough? There’s no escape from capitalism? That college degrees are important? I feel like I’m watching slow-motion Yuri Uncut Gems, with the girls gambling with their future.

The other thing that is bothering me is that we don’t get any view into Haru and Hinoto’s life before the story begins. Had they fought through adversity before? Are there any shared memories that they hold dear? Do they, uh, like things in common?? They clearly know each other well enough to give (loving) critiques on their personal quirks, but Keyyang-sensei’s got to give me something more to hold on to here.

The art also somehow seems worse this volume. The characters just look sloppily drawn to begin with, and then there are wild swings in style used for humor that causes even further whiplash. The one drawing I would say really hit for me was a full page spread of the girls job searching on their phones while sitting in the dark living room (which raises the question: how are they paying for their phone service?).

By the end of this volume, I am bracing for disaster. The girls are one missed paycheck away from ruin, and yet they seem to leave those envelopes of money lying around without much concern. The island dream may be over soon, but will a new dream follow it?

Ratings:

Art – 5 It’s getting more distracting as it goes
Story – 6 Things don’t appear to be getting better, but to what end?
Characters – 6 Haru and Hinoto continue to make bad choices
Service – 3 Only for the bonus story
Yuri – 9 / LGBTQ – 5 Gonna leave this here

Overall – 6 Would possibly be put on a PIP, if they even had a job

The third and final volume of this island “escape” story hits shelves in February.

Matt Marcus is a cohost of various projects on the Pitch Drop Podcast Network, as well as the writer for the blog Oh My God, They Were Bandmates analyzing How Do We Relationship in greater depth.

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I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, Volume 4

November 11th, 2024

A girl in a salmon pink jacket over a white tee, with long dark hair and a girl in a denim jacket over a white tee with blonde hair are seen from above as they embrace.In Volume 3, Ayaka stood up and protected Sora from a neglectful and selfish mother. With Sora no longer dealing with an unkind parent, Ayaka and Sora are free to figure out who they want to be as people, and what kind of partnership they want. This could very well have been the end of the series, but instead, we turn to our newest member of the friend group, Wakana.

It was pretty obvious that Wakana’s gaydar was sensitive enough to pick up on Sora and Ayaka’s relationship. And the way she watched over them felt like a story. In I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, Volume 4 we learn that story.

Wakana’s past was only a little sad and, amazingly, her new friends make it possible to patch things up with her old friend. And that, in a nutshell, is what I like best about this series. Friends are as important here as lovers. Good friends give each other room to grow and accept their friends as they are. Sora and Ayaka are flying because their friends have lent them wings. In return Ayaka and Sora have opened up – to each other, to their friends, and to themselves.

The next hurdle is going to a tough hurdle – Ayaka has exams that will separate her from Sora, even as they both are thinking about moving forward in their physical relationship.

Ratings:

Art – 8
Story –8
Characters – 8
Service – 1
Yuri – 8

Overall – 8

Kashykaze’s art is gentle and swooshy, everyone is maturing little by little, the rough edges of the plot are almost all smoothed out. There’s no doubt that the climax of this story will be happily-ever-after-…or will it?  Volume 5 will be out in December from Kodansha.

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 9, 2024

November 9th, 2024

In black block letters, YNN Yuri Network News. On the left, in black silhouette, a woman with a broad brim hat and dress stands, a woman in a tight outfit sits against the Y. Art by Mari Kurisato for OkazuBecause this week wasn’t bad enough, I have lost my job once more and can face the uncertainty of the future with that to stress about as well. Whee. So to take my brain away, I have spent all week catching up on all the dozens of items that were backlogged to be added to the Yuricon Store. As a result, this week’s news report is going to be very long. The good news is that I am caught up on Yuri manga and Light Novels for the moment! ^_^ (A statement that did not last a full 12 hours as accurate. There is just so much Yuri these days!

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Yuri Events

Yuriten has begun announcing the participating artists for the 2025 event. I was initially considering going to one or both, but that’s not happening now unless someone sponsors me. ^_^ Many of the artists have been part of the previous Yuriten exhibitions, but there are some new names as well. You can track the announcements on the Yuriten official X account. I have written them to ask that they consider moving to Bluesky, as X is not safe now for queer folks at all and will get appreciably worse in 2025.

Comitia is going to be at Tokyo Big Sight on November 17th in the East Halls 3, 4, 5, 6,and 7. A bunch of Yuri manga artists will be there AND Winter Comiket table announcements are coming through, so look for Yuri on Sunday, December 30 in the West Halls. Follow your favorite artists on X and Twitter to keep up with who will be where.

 

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Yuri Anime News

Sugoi Lite shared a rumor that Kuzushiro’s The Moon On A Rainy Night will be getting an anime. If true that would be very big news – they are very accurate, so we should prepare. ^_^

Also from Sugoi Lite, Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games is getting an anime adaptation.

Hidekuni Shida provides a translation of the Newtype exclusive interview: Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night Ryōhei Takeshita and Composition Writer/Screenwriter Yūki Yaku on ANN.

Dear Brother Complete Blu-ray Series is back in stock from Diskotek! Get the best remaster of the Dazai Osamu’s shoujo masterpiece.

Via YNN Correspondent Cryssoberyl, Rock ha Shukujo no Tashinamideshite, aka Rock Lady ( ロックは淑女の嗜みでして) combines “S” Aesthetic private school for girls and rock & roll rebellion for what looks like a fun niche crossover that is likely to appeal to our audience. ^_^ Check out that trailer on Youtube, it’s a banger.

As I detailed yesterday here on Okazu, I’m In Love With The Villainess is now in the #2 position for Best 100 Anime from the Tokyo Anime Award. It has fierce competition, so read Can “I’m In Love With The Villainess” Win The Tokyo Anime Award Festival? and get your vote in. ^_^

Anime Feminist Patreon members can listen to a bonus podcast on LOOK BACK, Grief, and Creating Art.

 

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Now buckle in, because I added a few dozen volumes of manga on the Yuricon Store – including getting a few series fully caught up and updating the earlier issues. To make it easier to digest, I’ll split it up by languages.

 

English Yuri Manga

Hitting English-language shelves just in time for holiday gifts, Viz is promoting Rainbows After Storms, Volume 1. I have been reading and reviewing this incredibly slow-burn, sweet story of two girls in love in Japanese as Hana ni Arashi (はなにあらし) since 2019.  ^_^ Now I’m motivated to finish it up!

The final volume of Yuama’s tragic love story, The Summer You Were There, Volume 6 is available for pre-orders for a new year release.

Assorted Entanglements, Volume 6 by Mikanuji continues this series of various Yuri couples and their various complicated situations.

I’m in Love with the Villainess, Volume 7  of the manga is out in English. Cardinal Lily joins the cast just as Claire is grasping how important Rae is to her.

All of Tsukiko’s Futaribeya is now up! Some of the earlier volumes are digital only now: Volume 6 | Volume 7 | Volume 8 | Volume 9 | Volume 10

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…, Volume 5 and Volume 6 a are up, brings us up-to-date with the manga for Teren Mikami’s series, illustrated by Musshu, based on character designs by Takeshima Eku.

Next month we’re getting The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 6 of the manga!

When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine, Vol. 1 is a silly, raunchy, manga about a heroine whose heart is stolen by the villainess…and she couldn’t be happier. I reviewed the JP volume in 2023 here on Okazu. Review of Yen Press’s EN edition is on the way.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, Volume 1 is about an immortal child set to battle for  an orphanage which trains children as weapons. This has very moe art on the cover and is full of very guro art on the inside.

And, finally, we’re all caught up with Shio Usui’s I Married My Female Friend, with Volume 3 | Volume 4.

 

Japanese Yuri Manga

Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 9 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし ) follows what happens to Miko when Tsubaki destroys the juzu that keeps her kitsune self in check. Check this series out as This Monster Wants to Eat Me in English!

For those of you following Hana ni Arashi in Japanese, the final volume of is out! Hana ni Arashi, Volume 13  (はなにあらし) bring Chidori and Nanoha’s story to a close, but we’ll be getting Rainbows After Storms in English soon, as I mentioned above.

Out this month is Shimura Takako’s Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 10 (おとなになっても). This series is available in English from Volume 1 through Volume 9 as Even Though We’re Adults.

I am super excited to be able to list Heimin No Watashi Desu Ga Koushaku Reijou-sama o Taburakashite Ikite Imasu, Volume 1 (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, as a collected volume. A commoner finds her place with a Duke’s daughter who is besotted with her.

The second volume of Usotsuki Hanayome to Dousei Kekkon-ron, (嘘つき花嫁と同性結婚論) completes this story of a married woman and the lesbian who saves her from a shitty marriage.

Gal Maid to Akuyaku Reijou ~ Ojou-sama no Happy End Shika Katan!, Volume 1  (ギャルメイドと悪役令嬢 ～おじょーさまのハッピーエンドしか勝たん！) is an isekai about a gal reincarnated into a game her friend lent her where she becomes maid to pay off her family debts.

Kimi no Tamenara Shineru, Kuzushiro’s (creator of The Moon on a Rainy Night,) Heian period comedy about Sei Shonagon and Murasaki Shikibu in the Imperial palace with their respective empresses, is finally on the store as a complete series: Volume 13 | Volume 14 complete the set.

I really like Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!, Volume 1 ( 崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせたい) almost despite myself. ^_^

Nauchi’s Yukidoke to Agapanthus, Volume 3 (雪解けとアガパンサス)  is live on the Store!

We also have Inkya Gal Demo Ikigaritai!, Volume 2 (陰キャギャルでもイキがりたい！) by Kashiwagi Tsukiko.

Kanno Fumi’s Osananajimi BIG LOVE (幼馴染BIG LOVE (KITORA)) is the story of childhood friends who meet later and find they have wildly different personalities.

Sono Uruwashiki Hito to ha (そのうるわしきひとは) is the first Yuri manga to run in Hana to Yume magazine in years. This Yuri mystery is available in one collected volume.

Genkai OL To Joshidaigakusei Ga OO Suru, (限界OLと女子大生が〇〇する) tells the story of a hopeless OL and the high school student next door who changes her life for the better. Volume 1 | Volume 2 are up.

Check out interspecies Yuri anthology, Umare ha Chigaedo – Koi Takushou Ishuzoku × Yuri Anthology ( 生まれは違えど一恋托生 異種族×百合アンソロジー).

The final volume of Yodokawa’s Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 5 (毎月庭つき大家つき) hit JP shelves last month.

Another cheerful school girl series, Watashi no Megami ga Kyou mo Oseru ~ Kore Kara Mo, Itsu Made Mo is up. Volume 1 & Volume 2 is a complete set.

Only married couples are allowed to fish among the stars. Two women, Terra and Diode, choose to challenge the culture, in the manga adaptation Twinstar Cyclone Runaway, Volume 2  (ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ)

Fujio’s lovelorn comic essays about her life continue in Onna x Onna Umakuikanai Renai Essay parlor, Volume 2 (女×女のうまくいかない恋愛エッセイ parlor).

Yuri Manga artist Seta Seta announced on X that their comic  Wakeari Jiken (ワケあり案件) won the Young Jump Yuri Category Grand Prize! Read it online now in Japanese!

hakei, on X, says they have a new masc x masc GL comic called A Refreshing Summer.

And Tiklil took to X to announce their comic with Viz Originals Drifting Into Summer, which is a swim team drama, you can real online. It was pretty good for a one-shot.

Galette Illustration Book 03 is a collection of Galette magazine covers and color illustrations that is available digitally on US or JP Kindle. Book 04 is just out now  from Galette WORKS and I’ll get that up as soon as links become available.

 

French Yuri Manga

YNN Correspondent Mang’Albine tells us that Taifu has licensed Murata’s Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete as Coup de foudre dans ta face !which, she tells us can be read as “Love at first sight IN YA FACE !”

 

Vietnamese Yuri Manga

Sumiko Arai announced that her series Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta has been released in Vitenamese, as Người Tôi Để Ý Không Phải Con Trai.

 

 

Yuri Light Novels

Via Yuri Daily on Facebook, Reverse with me: Across Millions of Orbits is a Thai GL novel by Zezeho Zezeho, which is available now in English digitally.

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… (Light Novel), Volume 4  & Volume 5  are up on the Yuricon Store,  which bring us  to “Season 2” of this series.

The novel series for Twinstar Cyclone Runaway  ( ツインスター・サイクロン・ランナウェイ) Volume 2 and Volume 3 are on the store. On ANN, Rafael Antonio Pineda tells us that the series will end with Volume 4.

Ao To Kaibane No Rakuen Shoujo (蒼と壊羽の楽園少女) is a science fiction novel about a water world where two girls undertake a journey to “paradise.”

 

Other News

Global Bookwalker is doing a survey on pricing, their ranking system and other features. Take the survey and let them know what you think, as well. If you have an affiliate account, you’ll nab some extra points.

 

 

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Can “I’m In Love With The Villainess” Win The Tokyo Anime Award Festival?

November 7th, 2024

In autumn 2023, we got our very first look at the I’m In Love With The Villainess anime. Based on the first two novels of the same name by inori., the anime told an apparently scattered isekai story about Rae Taylor, the reincarnated former employee of an exploitative company, Oohashi Rei, into the world of her favorite game where she is free to woo the game’s villainess, Claire François. The end of the anime came at the climactic moment when Rae makes her love for Claire too clear to be ignored and Claire in turn finally admits that she has a vested interest in Rae. In other words, just as the story was getting good. As fans of the series know, the apparent “scattered” storytelling was always heading towards a very serious conclusion.

Fans of the light novel series and manga adaptation drawn brilliantly by Aonoshimo, (available in English from Seven Seas, and almost a dozen other languages across the globe,) were openly disappointed with the low-budget for the anime itself, but still enjoyed the voice acting from both the Japanese and English casts, and the fascinating multi-part Opening and Ending songs. WataOshi/ ILTV fandom is still going strong…and in recent weeks there has been a campaign to push for a second season of the anime, which would *at least* take the story into, and possibly through, the Revolution arc of the story.

Stepping into this conversation, inori.-sensei just happened to mention that the Tokyo Anime Award Best 100 was open for voting. She gave step by step instructions to assist her overseas fans to vote if they wanted to. By November 3, Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) had made it into the top 20. It faced some serious competition, like Frieren (葬送のフリーレン) and Delicious in Dungeon (ダンジョン飯), but WataOshi passed both and is now sitting at a strong #2 position behind the amazingly popular #1, Brave Bang Bravern! (勇気爆発バーンブレイバーン) and in front of the Sanrio collaboration with boy band JO1, Jochum.

Can WataOshi push past Bravern to win the top position? It’s not likely given the highly sexualized nature of Bravern and the fact that it is a BL mecha series, so it has cross-genre appeal. As one of our esteemed Okazu Discord members, Rugose noted, “Bang Bravern has the gays and robotfuckers supporting it,” and I can’t disagree with that summation. That said, Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou has so far made a strong stand. Even a #2 finish might convince the powers that be to develop a second season. Like all popularity-driven “best” contests, this contest is absolutely vulnerable to ballot stuffing by using multiple emails. That said, it does indicate the passion of a fandom and WataOshi fans are keeping up the pressure.
 
Voting is open until December 2 and all you need is an email and a few moments so if you too wish to see (an appropriately funded this time) second season to one of our favorite Yuri isekai, let the Tokyo Anime Awards know what you think!

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