Yuri Games
The 2020 Yuri Game Jam is happening right now. Make the games you want to play! EVN Chronicles has a terrific write up of the Visual Novels from last year.
shino on Twitter shared their previous game (while working on their new submission!) tender feelings like water.
Yuri Manga
We’ve got some new items up on the Yuricon Store!
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Vol. 5, Makoto Hagino’s soft and slow seaside romance continues.
The Rose of Versailles, Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 and Volume 4 are now listed on the Store! I can’t wait for you to read them all.
And we finally have a pre-order for Asumiko Nakamura’s A White Rose in Bloom, Vol. 1. I’m so looking forward to this!
New from Ichijinsha is Volume 1 of Majyou ga Koi Suru 5 Byou Mae (魔女が恋する5秒前) about a solitary witch and a witch-hunter in a sort of relationship.
Another slow, gentle school romance, Hana ni Arashi, Volume 6, ( はなにあらし)and it looks like an actual thing might happen! ^_^
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Kodansha Comics has announced the license of Whispering You a Love Song, by Takeshima Eku. I very much enjoy this series in Comic Yuri Hime.
Seven Seas has released all of Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl on digital. If you missed your chance to read this super-problematic, but also not all that terrible Yuri series, grab it it on digital now! This series has its own category here on Okazu, as it was a biggish thing back in the day, with manga and an anime. Check out the Kashimashi Category for all my reviews from 2005 – 2008. My opinions and reading of this series will undoubtedly have evolved significantly in the last 15 years (so be warned.)
Comic Natalie reports on a “Manga Music Video” for Shimura Takako’s Donikanaru Hibi, Happy Go Lucky Days.
Yuri Anime
Added to the Yuricon Store is the new Diskotek release of Devilman Lady – The Complete Series.
YNN Correspondent Megan notes that the VLADLOVE team had a press-only event where director Oshii Mamoru spoke. You can find it on YouTube with English subtitles!
Get a look at Ecchan and Aya-san, the lesbian couple from the anime Happy Go Lucky Days on Comic Natalie!
Yuri Navi talks about Yuri fandom’s interest in the up-coming anime of I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level due to the various relationships among the women in the story.
ANN’s Alex Mateo reports on Viz’s removal of all free Hulu videos on their site. Now you’ll have to subscribe to Hulu to watch classic Sailor Moon anime.
Other news
You can stream the music from Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah ze Musikal, based on Carlo Vergara’s brilliant transsexual superheroine on Spotify. ^_^ I still find myself humming “Babae Na Ako,” years after watching the movie. ^_^
MSN finally gets me. This week I opened up a browser and found Latonya Pennington’s article, A Beginner’s Guide to Modern LGBTQ+ Manga. ^_^
Lauren Orsini interviews Waka Hirako, creator of the powerful, award-winning My Broken Mariko. This manga is getting a lot of buzz and looks like it’s well worth your time. Lauren asks if here could be a queer reading of it. ‘My Broken Mariko’ Manga Is An Emotional Journey Of Love And Loss
And speaking of possible queer reading, J-Novel club announced on Twitter, that Volume 4 of My Next Life as a Villainess is being released as a paperback next week.
One last item, Vertical Comics has shared the acceptance speak by Macoto Tezuka on behalf of her father Osamu, as he is inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.
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