We have a very light week this week, as the summer wraps up and we’re past the major license announcements of SDCC, Anime Expo and Otakon, so it’s time to get ready for the next wave of events!
Events News
Start by checking out Heidi MacDonald’s Comicsbeat report on Flamecon.
Girls Love Fest is fast approaching in the Tokyo area on September 9, 2018
New York Comic Con is in New York City on October 4-7.
Anime NYC is coming to New York on November 16-18.
And get those panel ideas in for Queers & Comics 2019 at NYU in NYC. Panel submissions are open until September 30!
Yuri Anime
Zac Bertschy has an Interview with Kase-san and Morning Glories Director Takuya Sato and Producer Yusuke Terada on ANN.
Egan Loo on ANN covers the new Bloom Into You anime cast and music announcements.
Yuri Manga
Via Alextasha, Yuri manga Pulse, Volume 4 is available for pre-order on Ratana Satis’ facebook page!
Two girls, one very high school girlish and one totally not, meet in Futaridashi ni Ochiru (ふりだしにおちる!) by Mushu.
Other News
For those of you looking for good research material – via James Welker, his chapter “From Women’s Liberation to Lesbian Feminism in Japan: Rezubian Feminizumu within and beyond the Ūman Ribu Movement in the 1970s and 1980s” in Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (2018) is now open access…”
YNN Podcast
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