Yuri Network News Podcast September 8, 2018

September 9th, 2018

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!

 

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 8, 2018

September 8th, 2018

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!

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Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime October 2018 (コミック百合姫2018年10月号)

September 6th, 2018

Comic Yuri Hime October 2018 (コミック百合姫2018年10月号) starts with a cover embued with picturesque peace and calm, as the recent series of covers have been detailing the daily experiences of a pleasant Yuri couple. This month (which is labeled October, but shipped in August) shows them at the beach. This is followed in the front pages by a bloody horror comic. I don’t mind the blood, I do mind the mental instability tied with Yuri. That’s pretty last century. 

In “2 DK, G Pen, Mezamashitokei” Kaede and Nanami are both lost at sea, suffering from what I call “Jondalar Syndrome.” All they need to do is talk, but. Koyuki’s sick to death of them, and I kind of sympathize with her.

Anna is walking around, pondering the meaning of life as an  android in “ROID” whenshe’s discovered by…someone….who seems to know who and what she is.

Takemiya Jin is back! With “Itoshi Koishi,” a young woman comes to understand love.

In “Goodbye Dystopia” Miyuki is starting to think about someone other than herself for, as far as we know, the first time.

New story “Ririshitoshite Karenna Hana no You ni” began and I have so much hope for it, it looks totally up my alley, but for the first time I can ever recall, the art put me completely off. It’s really not good.

Sumika is still determined to sake Kanako from herself in “Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu!”

My new favorite  story “Hayama-sensei to Terano-sensei ha Tsukiatteiru” is delightful, as Hayama-sensei is interrogated by her students in a way that sounds exactly right for young women. ^_^ The actual plot conflict is stupid, but the teachers are adorable together.

And Citrus ends. With a wedding. But I’ve talked about that on last week’s YNN podcast. I’ve got nothing more to say, except Mei still doesn’t look happy. 

A strong volume and I am looking so much forward to “Scarlet” which starts next month. No surprise. Girls in uniforms w/swords! Yay!

Ratings: 

Overall – 8

The November issue hits shelves mid-month and there’s a bunch of stuff I’m looking forward to! 

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Adventure Time Ends With a Kiss

September 5th, 2018

This week saw the end of Adventure Time‘s 10-year run. In a special finale, we finally got confirmation of the the ‘ship we all knew existed. Heck, they even knew it in Japan where I saw this tote bag back in 2016:

And now, as the series ends, everyone knows that PB and Marceline are a couple. Well, we knew that all along, but now folks who spend their energy denying the obvious will have one more couple they have to check off their “we’re not sure yet, need more proof” list. ^_^

Take a a look at this tweet and remember that, despite all the bad things happening right now, there is good in the world- and an awful lot of that good is in the form of comics and cartoons.

 

And that, as they say is that. 

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Yuri Manga: Prisontown e Youkouso! (監獄街へようこそ!)

September 3rd, 2018

Neji’s Prisontown e Youkouso!, Volume 1 (監獄街へようこそ!),  is a Yuri youkai Alice-in-Wonderland-style story about a human, Akari, who finds herself on a late-night youkai train and falls into Prisontown, an otherworld underworld inhabited by demi-humans of many kinds, including her newly assigned “wife” Mary, the frankengirl.

Akari is cheerful about her new circumstances, and would like to be more friendly with Mary, but Mary is reticent, even standoffish. Where Akari is clumsy and fails at her assigned tasks (feeding the basilisk, I understand, but delivering stuff to the hunchback in the bell tower should not be that hard,)  Mary is competent, hard-working and cooks and cleans for the two of them. 

The Cheshire Cat (who naturally calls Akari “Alice”) lets her in on Mary’s secret past, but instead of driving the two apart, it may be the thing that brings them together. At the end of Volume 1, it appears that Akari and Mary have broken past the barriers between them and are now truly “wives.”

This story will be a natural fit for Seven Seas, who has already licensed Neji’s other Yuri demi-human romance as Beauty and the Beast Girl. Ten bucks says that the title of this one will be “Alice in Prisontown.” ^_^

Ratings:

Art – Fun if you like youkai-humans
Story – Slightly handwave-y, but srlsy, who cares
Characters – Akari’s sweet but clumsy, Mary’s competent and aloof. Guess which character I like.
Yuri – 7
Service – Some. A number of the demihumans are seductive-ish,if that’s your boom. Girls with horn, animal ears, tails and body parts, that sort of thing.

Overall – Fun, not my fetish, but as half-humans go, I like youkai over animals, so let’s call it a 7

The story is continuing in Comic Yuri Hime, so it might have to develop a plot, We’ll see.

If Seven Seas is still mining the monster girl vein, they should resurrect Tokimeki Mononoke Gakuen, Volume 1 and Volume 2 from Yuri Hime, for some serious youkai-human Yuri interaction. That series was amazing. And horrifying. 

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