Yuri Events
Yuriten is ramping up with the opening of their Yuriten Store online. All orders are pre-orders, which will be filled after the exhibition has concluded in February. Even knowing I’ll get burned on shipping in the new year, there were a few items I just had to have, so my order is in.
Yuriten is also planning an event awards ceremony – rules for voting are posted at Yuriten2024cherish.com. You’ll need to have an active X account. Last week I asked them to consider moving to Bluesky and they responded by blocking me, so I won’t be voting. ^_^;
If you are in the NYC area on December 10, please join authors JD Glass, Mala Kumar and myself at The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn, NY for a discussion of “The Gift of Love” and queer joy. This is going to be a powerful discussion and I’d love to see you there! Registration is $15, but you get a $15 discount on any book in the store – and we’ll be signing our books, of course.
Via Shoujo Crave on X, Sailor Moon Super Live will be returning to London in February 2025. This is highly recommended by me and my wife, who says “Go! Go! Go!” We attended the 2019 NYC show and it was fabulous! Do see it if you have a chance.
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Yuri Anime
The new Precure series has been announced and it seems to be the inevitable evolution of the franchise, as You and Idol Precure♪, will be the 22nd series. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details on ANN.
ANN’s Alex Mateo wants to warn you that NIS has stated they will no longer be printing physical media for it’s anime titles, which includes Card Captor Sakura, among others
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise has announced a 25th anniversary project, including a new manga, new merch and an television edit of the Nanoha movies. Egan Loo has the details on ANN.
Yuri Manga
Yen has debuted the cover and release date for She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Volume 5 which is headed our way in January!
Yuina Chiri’s Okiku-san ha Icha Tsukitai (お菊さんはいちゃ憑きたい) has sample chapters on Comic Walker. An Edo-period demon in our time is less interested in demoning than in kissing a pretty girl. It’s pretty servicey, just so you’re warned.
A story about two warring factions in a girls’ school, Kimi Meku Yoru no Kogarete (君めく夜に焦がれて) seems overwrought and fun. Check it out on Bookwalker JP!
Nomiya Rion has a new series, Watashi to Kanojo no Kawaii Koi no Hajimekata (私と彼女のかわいい恋のはじめ方) which you can read for free on Pixiv, is about a cute receptionist and the apparently cold and unfriendly sales rep who unexpectedly invites her to dinner.
Check out this 5-second animation on X by Kamejiro from their Yuri series, The Princess of Sylph (シルフの花姫) which you can read on Pixiv.
Ayumi Shinozaki wants you to know that her English translation of Yuri series My Magical Girl is available on DL Site and it is not 18+, even though the site requires you to affirm that you are over 18 because a lot of content there is very adult.
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Yuri Merch
Bookshop.org is offering free shipping and the chance to support your local independent bookstore while enjoying the convenience of shopping online. Grab a copy of my book, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga for yourself or a friend!
Melonbooks is running a Yuri special for Fuzuroi no Renri, Volume 9 by Mikanuji, with a Saori x Shizuka acrylic standee. Melonbooks will stop taking Visa and Mastercard on December 18, and this goes on sale the 17th, so you might be able to squeak in!
Takeshima Hiromi-sensei wants you to know about this lovely Kase-san and Yamada acrylic standee on the Yuriten store!
Sweets co-op Anisugar announced a collab with Whisper Me A Love Song on X for various adorable sweets as part of a multi-faceted “matching outfits” series of merch tie-ins, including a pop-up shop in the Shinjuku Marui annex.
Studio Élan is doing a massive Black Friday sale for merch and VNs on their store.
Other News
Galette magazine has just radically changed it’s supporter levels as of today (Dec. 1 in Japan.) Pixiv Fanbox support is now down to two choices – 500￥ or 5000￥. For more options, go to their Galette Fanclub, which still has a simplified 4 levels of sponsorship.
Comic Yuri Hime magazine is posting job openings. This could be a good opportunity to get in on the ground floor if you are looking for work in Japan.
Not Yuri, but of interest, Seven Seas licensed The Twelve Kingdoms light novels. This blast from the past was one the most enraging anime I have ever liked. ^_^ I’m interested to read what happened after the anime ended.
Kabi Nagata’s newest comic series focuses on her troubled relationship with food, You can read Kore ha Yuganda Shoku Report Desu (これはゆがんだ食レポです) in JP on Comic Action.
CW for imperialism, war crimes, Japanese nationalism: I found an English translation of one of Yoshiya Nobuko’s articles written in Manchuria about the Japanese invasion into China. This translation is from 2014, but the site it is on is very much a right-wing revisionist org with a clear propagandist bent. If you still want to read, here is Yoshiya Nobuko’s Bearing Witness To The Ravages Of War In Northern China from 1937.
With help from our Senior Asian Live Action Drama staff writer and supporter of Okazu, Frank Hecker, the Okazu account is verified on Bluesky, yay! Thank you Frank! Follow and chat with me at @okazu.yuricon.com on Bluesky. I’ve moved off of X completely, except for following JP accounts still there.
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