Print schedules are in the air, but digital editions are still headed our way! Before you knee-jerk comment “I like print better”, consider…if you’re reading scanlations or online comics, you don’t like print better, you value print more. Take a moment to consider what you are saying about the effort of writing, editing, drawing, lettering, proofreading, laying out content for you to enjoy. If you happily read digital content for free, you’re saying that that is worth less to you than the paper being used to make a book. I’m NOT saying you can’t like a book. Obviously not. I love books. What I’m saying is life is going to irrevocably change during this pandemic and you might want to re-evaluate the value you place on the work and the content over the physical container.
Because I cannot get my physical copies of Comic Yuri Hime, and I was on Bookwalker Global, I picked up the May issue digitally. You can subscribe to the magazine through Bookwalker Global and never need a place to put giant cartons of magazines you can’t get rid of! ^_^
BOOKWALKER Global is doing a sale for 60% coin back on selected English manga and light novel titles right now. I picked up Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex Volume 1 for $1.06. If you’re following me on Twitter, you know I’m doing a massive rewatch of all the Ghost in the Shell properties in the order they were made. I’ll be doing a post on my thoughts after the new Ghost in the Shell SAC 2045 launches later this month on Netflix. I’ll do the same for the manga, and see if I can get a hold of the new manga when/if that comes out in the fall.
What you can find on Bookwalker is a wide variety of English and Japanese manga from many publishers on – and here’s the part that I think is the best thing – any device, since their reader is usable on iOS and Android devices, as well as on desktop and other systems. Few regional limitations – this isn’t like Kindle, which insists one account= one country. In effect, Bookwalker is the store you all want, with titles from every major and many minor publishers, in English and Japanese. They have a Yuri category on their English and Japanese stores.
This has been an unsponsored, unprompted advert, but I gotta tell ya, last night I sat down to read that issue of Comic Yuri Hime and it was so *nice* to read on my tablet. So clear and easy to see, I might not go back. ^_^
Yuri Manga
I spent some time catching up on the big backlog of stuff for the Yuricon store:
Our Wonderful Days, Volume 3 is currently still slated for a July release. This volume wraps up Kei Hamuro’s sweet, quiet slice of country life Yuri romance out from Seven Seas.
In Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 4 (ไปใๅใฃใฆใใใฆใใใใใช) Saeko and Miwa are still trying to find their way. If you’re a fan, take a look at this doujinshi anthology for the series on Melonbooks! A couple of sample pages are available.
Comic Yuri Hime, May 2020 (ใณใใใฏ็พๅๅงซ2020ๅนด5ๆๅท) is up on Amazon JP, but I’m not seeing any print issue after that…yet.
The รclair series has put out a new one-shot collection, รclair Special Kazuno Yuikawa Masterpiece Collection (ใจใฏใฌใขSpecial ้่่ญ ็ตๅทใซใบใ็พๅไฝๅๅไฝ้ธ).
Yagate Kimi ni Naru Koushiki Comic Anthology, Volume 2 (ใใใฆๅใซใชใ ๅ
ฌๅผใณใใใฏใขใณใฝใญใธใผ_ is the second official Bloom Into You manga anthology. The first one was very good.
An adult woman falls in love with a cool, good looking woman, in this collected online comic Ikemen Onna to Hakoirimusume, Volume 1 (ใคใฑใกใณๅฅณใจ็ฎฑๅ
ฅใๅจ).
Galette No. 14 (ใฌใฌใใ) is taking pre-orders directly for folks who back the magazine at 500๏ฟฅor more/month in Japan. Because all the events have been canceled, it looks like they are doing a limited print run.
Not gonna lie, I was really glad Tsuki to Suppin, Volume 2 (ๆใจใใฃใดใ) arrived in my last shipment of books from Japan. I really like this adult odd couple daily life romance.
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Yuri Light Novel
Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka, Volume 2 is headed our way shortly in digital form! The print will be delayed. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to read this translation of Sayaka’s high school one-sided love. I enjoyed it in Japanese, for sure.
Otherside Picnic, Volume 3 is also on it’s way for the middle of April. Got my pre-order in for this creepy-cool adventure sort of Yuri-ish series. Thanks to Sean G and AV-chan for the date corrections.
Yuri Visual Novels
Aikasa Collective is taking pre-orders for their beautiful Chinese folklore0inspired Yuri Visual novel Mizuchi(็ฝ่ๅฟๅณ) with 33% off through the 13th.
J-List has the preorder for the third installment of Innocent Grey’s Flowers series, FLOWERS -Le volume sur automne- Limited Edition.
Yuri Doujinshi
Lilyka is starting to sell their catalog of Yuri doujinshi on Kindle and Nook, according to their official Twitter account.
LGBTQ Cartoons
DC’s Harley Quinn cartoon is returning and will “explore” a relationship with Poison Ivy, reports Kat Calamia on Newarama.
Other News
Via YNN Correspondent Timeboxer, we have a beautifully written short scifi, Distant Stars by P.H. Lee. Lovely and sad.
Unrelated, I wrote a short story, recently. I like to think of it as a fanfic for the plague year. ^_^ Dodecahedron.
I’m going to end this week with a memorial note. LGBTQ rights pioneer Phyllis Lyon died this week at 91. She’s being remembered as the first person, along with her wife Del Martin, to have been married in California when gay marriage became legal, but she was so much more than that to LGBTQ history in America. She and Martin co-founded the first lesbian organization in the USA, the Daughters of Bilitis, and have been unceasingly on the front of LGBTQ civil rights. Lyon and Martin have a wikipedia page on their work together and as a tribute to this amazing woman, I’d like you to take a second and read it: Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. You should know who they are and what they have done for you.
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In Volume 1, we met Tanaka Iori, a careerwoman with a job that she does not love, and a former juvenile delinquent girlfriend, Minami, whom she does. Ultimately, we also meet Iori’s obsessive little sister, and Shizuku, who was Minami’s closest friend in juvie.
