Fujoshi O'Clock (10/3/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. There is also a focus on trans and bisexual anime/manga. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• The BL acquisitions this week are jumping: SuBLime grabbed several new titles including the Love Stage!! manga, Sentai Filmworks scooped up the Love Stage anime, and Crunchyroll is going to simulcast the shonen-ai OVA, Orenchi no Furo Jijo.
• The episode of Love Stage!! that will be bundled with a volume of the manga now has a second video teaser. It will come out on November 22 in Japan.
• An original anime series named Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! has been announced for winter 2015. It looks like prime fujoshi bait on the same level as Free! and Yowapeda.
• If you live in Japan, you can now find BL manga characters in the meat section of your local supermarket. The Ito Yokado chain now has packaged meats with images of these cute characters.

Reviews:

• Fandom Post reviewed season one of Junjo Romantica's anime series, released by Nozomi Entertainment.
• Holly Saiki at Examiner.com reviewed One Is Enough by love, from Gen Manga.

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PR: Viz's SuBLime Imprint Announces New Licenses At Yaoi Con 2014

LOVE STAGE!!, THE WORLD’S GREATEST FIRST LOVE,

GINGER HONEY, THE NIGHT BEYOND THE TRICORNER WINDOW, And More!

San Francisco, CA, September 15, 2014 – SuBLime, the global yaoi manga publishing initiative between VIZ Media and Japan’s Animate, Ltd. (Animate), provided detailed updates for a variety of brand-new and continuing yaoi manga titles during its YaoiCon 2014 panel this past weekend in San Francisco. News of the acquisitions of several exclusive new digital and print titles thrilled fans in attendance.

To the delight of many fans, SuBLime announced plans to release Eiki Eiki and Taishi Zaou’s LOVE STAGE!! (Rated ‘M’ for Mature) in print starting May 2015 with additional volumes to follow every other month. In this romantic comedy, the protagonist’s family is packed with famous celebrities but Izumi Sena is actually a huge otaku with aspirations of becoming a manga creator.

SuBLime also detailed plans to publish GINGER HONEY (Rated ‘M’ for Mature), creator Isaku Natsume’s humorous follow-up to DEVIL’S HONEY (also published by SuBLime), which is set for digital-only release February 2015.

Fujoshi O'Clock (9/10/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. There is also a focus on trans and bisexual anime/manga. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• Crunchyroll is publishing a new fujoshi-theme manga in English: Watashi ga Motete Dousunda by Junko, which translates into What Am I Going To Do About Being Popular?.
• Viz's BL imprint SuBLime has announced deals for attendees of YaoiCon 2014. The convention takes place in San Francisco during the upcoming weekend.
• A new Japanese language BL questionnaire/mailer has just opened online. Naturally, it's more targeted to BL fans who read the manga untranslated.
• ANN's latest Daily Cosplay is from DRAMAtical Murder; the character is the Shiroba version of Aoba Seragaki.

Reviews:

• ANN has reviewed the latest episodes of DRAMAtical Murder and Free!'s second season.
• AnimeSecrets.org reviewed the first episode of Love Stage!!'s OVA series.

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Fujoshi O'Clock (8/30/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. There is also a focus on trans and bisexual anime/manga. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• The OVA for Kono Danshi, Sekka ni Nayandemasu aka This Boy Is Worrying About Turning To Stone has a second promo video. This shonen ai OVA is from Soubi Yamamoto, who also made several other shonen ai OVAs in the past couple of years.
• The sixth installment of the BL Pose Collection Created Together With Artists series is turning heads with its real life subjects photographed in very - ahem - interesting poses. There's even behind the scenes videos!
• the beautiful world talks about the importance of Hourou Musuko/Wandering Son and its treatment of trans characters. Some spoilers for the manga are in this post.
• An unaired episode of Free! Eternal Summer will be bundled with the seventh BR/DVD release. This disc will be released in March 2015.

Reviews:

• Anime News Network is now reviewing Love Stage!! and Free! Eternal Summer on an episode-by-episode basis. Love Stage!! is being reviewed by Rebecca Silverman and Free! Eternal Summer is being reviewed by Lauren Orsini.

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Fujoshi O'Clock (8/16/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. There is also a focus on trans and bisexual anime/manga. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• The Hybrid Child OVA has a second promotional video; the Fandom Post link has more details on the DVD/Blu-Ray release it will be getting.
• The Love Stage!! OVA has a new TV ad, streaming via Kadokawa's YouTube channel. The ad has the anime series' own opening theme featured.
• Yuri no Boke looks at trans male characters in older manga, focusing on works by Riyoko Ikeda, member of the Year 24 Group.
• ANN has information on the DRAMAtical Murder anime home release. The anime, based on the BL game by Nitro-Chiral, will include the OVA episode and several related CDs for the DVD and Blu-Ray box sets.
• A live action version of Docchi mo Docchi has been announced by Kaiosha. Docchi mo Docchi aka Same Difference is a BL manga by Nozomu Hiiragi and is available in English by June Manga/DMP.

Reviews:

• Reverse Thieves reviews One Is Enough by love as part of their Ongoing Investigations series. This manga-ka is new to me; I'm looking forward to seeing more from them.
• Naru at OASG reviews Doukyuusei/Classmate by Kiyo Ueda, a school-centered BL manga involving a tennis club senpai/kohai relationship as well as two other separate stories.
• AnimeNation reviews GEN Manga's This One Is Plenty. I dunno, this review is incredibly patronizing towards manga fans and yaoi fans and assumes that "homosexual romance stories" automatically have sex scenes which . . . ugh.

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Fujoshi O'Clock (8/01/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. Why? Because rotten girls need love too! Note: This is not my 8/01 post for today! My yaoi day post will come later tonight!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• In news about Hybrid Child's upcoming anime, Annabel will be singing the main theme song. The first volume of the anime ships out in late October.
• English language comics get queerer with the first issue of Dash, an LGBT private eye story set in the 1940s, now available for order.
• The wildly popular series Junjou Romantica is getting a third season. Previous seasons are available through Nozomi Entertainment. It is based on the Junjou manga, whose manga-ka is also the author of Hybrid Child's manga.
• Contemporary Japanese Language has a masterpost of essays on gender studies and cross-dressing in anime/manga, which delves into queer-friendly properties such as takarazuka theatre, gender fluid identities, and the manga Wandering Son.
• Highlighting the trans in LGBT, Racialicious has a complete write-up of the transgender trends in popular media panel that was at SDCC 2014.
• Otaku Journalist talks about being an "out" fujoshi and how it differs from just being an otaku that isn't into BL/yaoi.
• Otaku Champloo already has their 801 Day Fujojocast online and available for listening. Audience participation is requested!
• Anime News Network has put the spotlight on the new Love Stage anime series. It includes character profiles, cast list, and voice actor information.

Reviews:

• Naru at Organization Anti-Social Geniuses reviews est em's Age Called Blue and is pulled in by the wonderful story, although taken aback by the similar character designs.

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Fujoshi OClock (6/13/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• The newest promo for the Love Stage!! anime is now online. It is two minutes long and the series itself is scheduled to air this summer.
• The staff for the Hybrid Child anime has been announced. This also includes the voice cast for the main characters.
• The Comics Journal has interviewed the BL manga-ka est em, whose works has been published more and more in English.
• The Gay Manga! Tumblr blog answers a question about the usage of the term 'bara'. It tackles the misappropriation of the Japanese language by Western readers.
• In upcoming convention news, Nijicon is a Philly based con that will take place in October. It is centered around male/male media.
• Otaku Champloo has posted the fifth edition of the Fujojocast podcast; it is about the cycling manga/anime, Yowamushi Pedal, which has recently captured fujoshi fandom's attention.

There are no reviews this week.

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Fujoshi O'Clock (5/18/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• The trailer for the No Touching At All live action film is now online. The film is an adaptation of a Kou Yoneda BL manga by the same name.
• YaoiCon will be hosting the manga-ka Shoko Takaku at its September convention. Several of Takaku's works are available in English.
• For the Love Stage fans: singer Daigo will be voicing one of the characters. He joins other seiyuu who have been announced as the cast of the upcoming Love Stage anime.
• I found this amusing (and possibly NSFW cos of language) Keep Calm parody for fujoshi on Twitter: Keep calm? Bitch please I'm a fujoshi I'll never be calm.
• At the Mary Sue, they discuss the nerd semantics of Japanese fandom, including words like otaku and yaoi.

Reviews:

• llama kitten reviews Because, Isn't It Love?! by Yuri Ebihara, a collection of stories which sounds like there's a bit of oyaji action going on.

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Fujoshi O'Clock (3/22/14)

What time is it? It's . . . Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• News for Youka Nitta fans: the manga-ka will be starting a new manga, which will start running in the April 28 issue of Be-Boy Gold.
• The first promo video for the Love Stage!! anime has been posted online. The anime is planned to air this July.
• Manga Therapy talks Evangelion and the Kaworu/Shinji relationship in both the anime and the manga. Naturally, major spoilers for NGE! Too bad it doesn't address any possibility of bisexuality, which as a bi otaku has me sadface.
• Otaku Champloo discusses Room801, an Australian BL convention that addressed both yaoi and yuri. And pigeons? Cool.
• The Japan Society Film Program posted photos from their 'gender-bending yaoi' party, following a viewing of Summer Vacation 1999 aka a film adaptation of Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio. (Hat tip to Fantagraphics for the link!)

Reviews:

• No review this week.

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Fujoshi O'Clock (11/14/13)

What time is it? It's . . . Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• Ichijinsha, a Japanese manga publisher, will be launching the BL manga magazine 'gateau' later this month. The BL imprint of the same name has been in production since 2011 as well as a bi-monthly anthology, also named 'gateau'.
• Lily Hoshino has released her fanart of the Gundam Build Fighters series. Hoshino is a noted BL artist.
• ANN presents their seven anime odd couples, which includes Touji/Kensuke from the Evangelion anime as well as the main leads of Tiger & Bunny. Ho yay!
• Via the Yaoi Corner Facebook page: Love Stage! will be adapted into an anime to be aired in 2014. It is based on the shonen ai manga with the same name by Tsuda Mikiyo and Eiki Eiki.

Reviews:

• Johanna at Manga Worth Reading reviews Lies Are A Gentleman's Manners by Marta Matsuo, a BL manga set in America - a rarity indeed!
• Llama Kitten Reviews looks at Vector In Love by Rika Akira, in which the smut's made up and the plot doesn't matter. Review is NSFW.
• Manga Bookshelf reviews a variety of titles in the latest BL Bookrack, including The Man of Tango and the latest chapter of Off*Beat along with the newest est em title in English. 

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