Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 29, 2016

October 29th, 2016

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Yuri Manga

Today’s top news comes from Seven Seas and represents the very wrongest I have ever been about a Yuri title in my whole life. ^_^ Seven Seas has licensed Nagata Kabi’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. I haven’t had a chance to read it, yet, but I’ll bump it up on the review pile. The news is a double-fisted bit of good news, because our friend Jocelyne Allen is working on the translation!  The English edition has a June 2017 release date.

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LGBTQ Comics

Lauren Bullock over at Black Nerd Problems has offered up the Five Queer AF Comics Starring Black and Brown Women and I’m just standing behind her nodding enthusiastically. I’m a huge fan of Agents of the Realm (and fangirled all over Mildred at Flamecon!) and Ari North’s Always Human.

And via YNN Correspondent Elizabeth F, James Whitbrook’s passionate request that Marvel do better at LGBTQ representation on io9.

 

Other News

Grand Stage Live is…live! Check out this picture of the ladies of the Grand Stage on stage.

The live action Saki cast has full cast visuals, according to Komatsu-san over at Crunchyroll News.

The Economist looks at the power of comics journalism.

We’re heading into the final week of Dangerous Women: Tales of Queer Villainy and we still have some stretch goals to reach! If you read this blog regularly, I know you love good lesbian fiction and I’m not joking when I tell you this is some of the best I’ve ever read. So please get in there and back this project! I and 12 others have given it my blood, sweat and tears and we want it to get as much love as possible!

Know some cool Yuri News you want people to know about? Become a Yuri Network Correspondent by sending me any Yuri-related news you find. Emails go to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com. Not to the comments here, please, or they might be forgotten or missed. There’s a reason for this madness. This way I know you are a real human, not Anonymous (which I do not encourage – stand by your words with your name!) and I can send you a YNN correspondent’s badge.

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Yuri Manga: MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 8 (ムルシエラゴ)

October 27th, 2016

mv8kyI’m sorry to say that in MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 8 (ムルシエラゴ), no one dies. Well, no one we care about, anyway. In fact, a lot of people die.  A whole army of nameless cannon fodder.  But since we don’t care about them, it’s like no one dies.

Kuroko and the team are still looking to find the new/old terrorist group that appears to be assassinating people for reasons that kind of made sense 70 years ago, but now appear to be petty. While Kuroko and Hinako track the ringleader through the subway, unleashing Ringo for some light murder practice, Reiko, the sexy sniper of the second arc of the series makes a reappearance.

A chunk of the book is given over to Reiko’s rooftop battle with a muscle-bound sniper which she, predictably, wins.

Ringo does not not manage to kill terrorist second-in-command Shizuka, when beefy, scared bartender Kokoro, stopped the fight before it becomes fatal. In return Shizuka promises to tell Ringo about her psycho father, the Skin Collector.

While everyone takes on the terrorist cell forces, Kuroko and Hinako take on the cell leader and we’re left with the creepiest feeling that all of this somehow relates to Hinako.

In a short flashback, we get to see a young Hinako and something we thought, but never expected to have confirmed is confirmed, at last. Hinako is very broken.

The epilogue follows a young lady whom Reiko saved in an earlier arc taking a visit to the sniper, and cuts off as the lights go down on them kissing. I’m very happy for Reiko….and for us. ^_^

Ratings:

Art – 6
Story – 7
Characters – 7
Service – 5
Yuri – 8

Overall – 8

MURCIÉLAGO is messy and gross and violent and gay. There are no good guys here. I like it so much.

 

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Dangerous Women want *you* to help them take over the world.

October 23rd, 2016

We are just shy of our initial goal on Dangerous Women and we are looking at some really fantastic stretch goals if we can get there. Backing Dangerous Women gets you fantastic stories of evil psycho lesbians you’ll love and give creator bonuses and more!

It’s time to join the wrong side and be a little more selfish. Go on, join us on Team Dangerous.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zan/dangerous-women-tales-of-queer-villainy

 

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 22, 2016

October 22nd, 2016

ynn_lissaYuri Manga

Ichijinsha’s got a pile of stuff coming out, including collection like  Tsutsui’s Jackpot ni Hohoende (ジャックポットに微笑んで) Mimoto’s Yutasan ha Mamanaranai!, (ゆたさんはままならない!), Sunao Kasuga’s Sumedo Jigoku no Inferno, Volume 2, popular Pixiv artist Tokuwotsumu’s Shuuden de Kaesanai, Tatta Hitotsu no Houhou (終電で帰さない、たった1つの方法) and Kodama Naoko’s Zankou Noise Perfect Volume (残光ノイズ).

From Kodansha, the second volume of HaruYuri (ハルユリ) by Nanatsu Tsubaki hit shelves this week.

There’s a new Yuri mook which has a fairly questionable title, Yuri no Sekai Nyuumon (百合の世界入門). It has content by Yuri creators, such as Canno and Kuzushiro, at least. It includes has an interview with Morinaga Milk and art by many of your faves. Check out the gallery of art from the book over on Comic Natalie.

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Yuri Games

Christine Love, creator of popular indie game don’t take it personally babe, it just ain’t your story, has a new game, the BDSM-focused Ladykiller in a Bind. This is an actual erotic story about BDSM and consent, by and for adults. Gamasutra has a good overview of Ladykiller, and Ana Valens takes a look at the hypocrisy of the game ecosystem on Steam that allows games with school girls having sex, but not consensual queer adult BDSM games.

 

Maria-sama ga Miteru News

Global Bookwalker has added all of the Maria-sama ga Miteru novels and manga in Japanese!  So if the idea of carrying all those volumes around, or making space on your shelves is daunting, you can get them all for a few bucks a piece (the novels cost only 330 yen, that’s $3.17) and have them on your phone or tablet or desktop and read them anytime. Want them in English? TELL BOOKWALKER. They send out surveys all the time asking people what they want to see.

Know some cool Yuri News you want people to know about? Become a Yuri Network Correspondent by sending me any Yuri-related news you find. Emails go to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com. Not to the comments here, please, or they might be forgotten or missed. There’s a reason for this madness. This way I know you are a real human, not Anonymous (which I do not encourage – stand by your words with your name!) and I can send you a YNN correspondent’s badge.

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Black Yagi to Gekiyaku Madeline, Perfect Volume (ブラックヤギーと劇薬まどれーぬ 完全版)

October 21st, 2016

downloadIn 2012, Ohsawa Yayoi had her big break in Yuri with the collection Black Yagi to Gekiyaku Madeline, which I reviewed here on Okazu.  It was a short story collection that had some good and less-good stories, but the one that stood out was the oddball title story, which then went on to a sequel, Strange Babies, which I also reviewed in 2013.

Now we are here in 2016 and Ohsawa-sensei’s original volume has been re-released, with additional content in Black Yagi to Gekiyaku Madeline Perfect Volume (ブラックヤギーと劇薬まどれーぬ 完全版).

The cover image got my hopes up immediately, with Yagi and Mado-chan as adults, and they are contrasted nicely by the color page inside. Unfortunately for me, the cover art is unsupported by the new content. Boo….

The stories from the original remain exactly the same, wrapping up with the story of two net idols who couldn’t be more different if they tried. Original chapters follow their first date out in public as a couple, on which Yagi brings along her Baphomet just in case and how Kokoto and Arisu end up at their school. I found this chapter frustrating for all the reasons watching Arisu pine after Kokoto were frustrating in Strange Babies.

I had hoped that we’d get a chance to see Yagi a little older and more self-assured and Mado-chan post cute idol phase, but I guess I’ll just have to use my own imagination.

Ratings:

Art – 8
Stories – 7
Characters – 8
Yuri – 8
Service – 2

Overall – 8

The one thing we do get is a quick glimpse at just how much Ohsawa’s art has improved. Just contrast the cover with that color page and the difference is amazing. In the last 4 years, she’s really gotten better. I want to see a story about that couple…

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