Yuri Manga
Volume 1 of Canno’s new throuple series, Goukaku Tame no! Yasashi Sankaku Kakei Nyuumon (合格のための！ やさしい三角関係入門) is now available on Japanese shelves.
We’ve got Volume 3 of Takako Shimura’s new adult life Yuri drama Otona ni Nattemo (おとなになっても) on Yuricon Store!
The recently-licensed by Seven Seas School Zone manga will be going on hiatus until October. Happily, the reason is a good one, reports Jennifer Sherman on ANN.
Yen Press official Twitter account shows off their new Puella Magi Madoka Magica Omnibus.
Via Comic Natalie, Yuri Comedy Ohime-san no Ohime-sama (お姫様のお姫様), which takes place in Cho-Yuri Gakuen, Looks goofy rather than ghastly…even if it is a Champion comic.
Kanojo to Himitsu to Koi mo you (カノジョと秘密と恋もよう) is a secret love Yuri comedy from ToMoe and Ichijinsha’s 4-koma Kings Palette magazine. I’m sure we’ve seen the artist’s name in an anthology or three, so I might give this a chance. ^_^
From another 4-koma magazine, this time Magatime KR Comics, we have Hoshikuzu Telepath about an alien who can understand people’s feeling when she touches her forehead to theirs, and Kaika,who cannot speak well, because of her extreme illness.
Yuri Webcomic
YuriMother brings us the news that comedy Yuri webcomic Not So Shoujo Love Story by Curryuku is being serialized on Webtoon Originals this month. From the webtoons page: “A delinquent girl that hopes to find romance in her high-school, pursuing a love story just like her Shoujo mangas, but what happens when her unexpected “Antagonist” rival falls in love with her?” – sounds like it could be fun.
Yuri Anime
Section 23’s release of the Fragtime anime movie is now available on Blu-Ray. If you enjoyed Seven Seas’ omnibus of the Fragtime manga, you ought to enjoy this as well.
The official Twitter account for Otherside Picnic anime has announced a January 2021 debut for the scifi horror series, based on the novels by Miyazawa Iori, available from J-Novel Club with an action-filled trailer. (I only just noticed that one of the tags for this series on J-Novel Club’s website is “creepypasta.” That’s some fine taxonomy right there. ^_^)
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Yuri Light Novel
J-Novel Club is pleased to announce the arrival of Otherside Picnic, Volume, Part 1 on their website!
Translator Jenny McKeon is super excited to let us know that she’s worked on Yen Press’s new release Virgin Road, which she described on Twitter as “an isekai yuri story about an executioner and her would-be target, with great characters and lots of twists and turns“.
Via Yuri Mother, Sexiled, Volume 2 is now available in print from J-Novel Club.
Other News
Anime Feminist has a chat with a bunch of cool folks on Shoujo Manga Part 1, and Shoujo Manga Part 2, now with transcript!
Hazel Newlevant has a wonderful tweet in which she illustrates what is one of the first written uses of “gay” to represent a homosexual relationship, in Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr & Miss Skeene.”
Comitia is once again going online for the November even. Kim Morrisey has the details on ANN.
I’m actually kinda stoked that Watanabe Naomi has been cast as Zirconia for the upcoming Sailor Moon Eternal movies. ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda has the scoop.
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