Fan Favorite Yuri Series 'Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl' Licensed in English; Omnibus Release September 2024
On February 14, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that it has licensed the popular Yuri romance manga Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl (Ikemen Girl to Hakoiri Musume). The manga is written by Mocchi Au Lait and illustrated by majoccoid.
The publisher describes the series:
When Okuma Satomi’s friend seeks her help wrangling guys for a crossdressing cafe, Satomi winds up with a boyfriend! Sort of. After asking her handsome and aloof classmate, Kanda Mizuki, to help out in the cafe, Mizuki agrees, but on one condition: the two of them must go on a date. Satomi eagerly agrees, delighted to have such a good-looking guy interested in her, but Mizuki realizes that Satomi has completely misunderstood something crucial: Mizuki is a girl! Will this case of mistaken identity blossom into something beautiful, or will the truth leave both girls brokenhearted?
Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl was originally serialized in Comic REX from September 2019 until its conclusion in October 2020. It was based on a work posted on Twitter before being picked up for serialization. Ichijinsha published two collected volumes of Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl in Japanese.
Despite its lack of an international release, the manga quickly became popular with English-speaking audiences and is highly ranked on cataloging websites such as MyAnimeList and Anime-Planet.
Creator Mocchi Au Lait is a pair known for their Yuri manga works, many of which have a shared world and lose connections. In addition to Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl, they have contributed to several anthologies, including Yuri Drill, Syrup (licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment), and the official Yuri Is My Job! Anthology. Many of their works are independently released online. Their other serialized works include Yamitsuki and the currently running adult comedy series Warui ga Watashi wa Yuri ja Nai (Sorry, I'm Not Yuri) from Kadokawa.
Illustrator majoccoid, also known by the circle name Haratama, has also contributed to several manga anthologies and is currently the illustrator of Shimesaba's romance manga series Tayutau Kemuri wa Tsukamenai, which is serialized in Comic HOWL.
The complete series of Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl will be released in English in September 2024 as a single omnibus under Seven Seas' GL label.
Source: Press Release, Seven Seas Website
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My favorite girls love manga & light novels!! ❤️👭❤️👭❤️👭
I’ve been reading GL manga & light novels for a long time now and just thought I’d share my favorites. Take these as a recommendation list, if you will. ❤️
(Note: I have not finished all of the mangas & light novels on this list, but I have read enough of them to get an opinion on them.)
(Note #2: this list will change over time, so come back every so often to see if things have changed!)
“Strawberry Panic” light novel by Sakurako Kimino
“Adachi and Shimamura” light novel by Hitoma Iruma
“Sweet Blue Flowers” manga by Takako Shimura
“Our Teachers Are Dating!” manga by Pikachi Ohi
“Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka” light novel by Hitoma Iruma
“Yuri Is My Job!” manga by Miman
“I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up” manga by Kodama Naoko
“A Lily Blooms in Another World” light novel by Ameko Kaeruda
“Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink” manga by Milk Morinaga
“Secret of the Princess” manga by Milk Morinaga
“éclair orange: A Girls' Love Anthology That Resonates in Your Heart” manga by multiple authors
“A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow” manga by Makoto Hagino
“Beauty and the Beast Girl” manga by Neji
“Cocoon Entwined” manga by Yuriko Hara
“Syrup: A Yuri Anthology Vol. 1” manga by multiple authors
“Even Though We're Adults” manga by Takako Shimura
“Run Away With Me, Girl” manga by Battan
“Tadokoro-san” manga by Tatsubon
“Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl” manga by Majoccoid
“She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat” manga by Sakaomi Yuzaki
“I'm in Love with the Villainess” light novel by Inori
“I'm in Love with the Villainess: She's so Cheeky for a Commoner” light novel by Inori
“The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady” light novel by Piero Karasu
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The Stuff I Read in January 2024
bold indicates favourites
Novels
Death's End, Cixin Liu
The Maze Runner/The Scorch Trials/The Death Cure, James Dashner
Echopraxia, Peter Watts
Other Long-Form
Against the Gendered Nightmare, baedan [anarchist library]
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin
What Is To Be Done, Lenin
Yuri/GL
Ring My Bell, Yeongol
Dallae, Choonae
Now Loading! Mikanuji
Even If It Was Just Once, I Regret It / Ichido Dake Demo, Koukai Shitemasu, Miyako Miyahara
Maka-Maka, Torajirou Kishi
Blooming Sequence, Lee Eul
Love Bullet, inee
Honey Latte Girl, Ayu Inui
I'm Sorry I Know / Wakatte Iru No Ni Gomenna, Ayu Inui
Night and Moon / Yoru to Umi, Goumoto
Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl / Ikemen Onna to Hakoiri Musume, Mochi au Lait & majoccoid
The Forbidden Peach / Suimitsutou Ha Shoujo Ni Kajirareru, Iroha Amasaki
Goodbye, My Rose Garden, Dr Pepako
Blood Lust, yoshimired [link]
Palestine
The Grim Reality of Israel's Corpse Politics, Jaclynn Ashly [jacobin]
Mohammed El-Kurd and Ahmad Alnaouq on the complicity of mainstream media in Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza [link]
Inside Israel's torture camp for Gaza detainees, Yuval Abraham [archive]
The Work of the Witness, Sarah Aziza [link]
Who profits from keeping Gaza on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe? Shir Hever [archive]
Misreading Palestine, Max Ajl [link]
A Pediatrician's Two Weeks Inside a Hospital in Gaza, Isaac Chotiner [link]
A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation, Fady Joudah [link]
Gender/Sexuality
Assigned Faggot: Gender Roles, Sex, and the Division of Labour, Sophia Burns [link]
Gendered Bodies: The Case of the 'Third Gender' in India, Anuja Agrawal [doi]
Paola Revenioti: The Greek transgender activist on blowing up sexual taboos in the name of art, Hannack Lack [link]
Wages Against Housework, Silvia Federici [pdf]
My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage, Susan Stryker [pdf]
Race
This is Crap, Hannah Black [link]
Social Constructions, Historical Grounds, Shay-Akil McLean [link]
White Psychodrama, Liam K. Bright [doi]
‘I don’t think you’re going to have any aborigines in your world’: Minecrafting terra nullius, Ligia López López, Lars de Wildt, Nikki Moodie [doi]
Singular Purpose: Calculating the Degree of Ethno-Religious Over-representation in the US No-Fly List, Matteo Garofalo [doi]
Iran
Samad Behrangi's Experiences and Thoughts on Rural Teaching and Learning, M. H. Fereshteh [jstor]
The "Westoxication" of Iran: Depictions and Reactions of Behrangi, al-e Ahmad, and Shariati, Brad Hanson [jstor]
Geographies of Capital and Capital of Geographies: Reckoning the Embodied City of Tehran through Cosmetic Surgeries, Marzieh Kaivanara
Economics
China in Africa: A Critical Assessment, Ahjamu Umi [link]
Small Scale Farmers and Peasants Still Feed the World, Report by ETC Group [link]
16 Million and Counting: The Collateral Damage of Capital [link]
The Keynesian Counterrevolution, Mike Beggs [jacobin]
Jobs For All, Mike Beggs [jacobin]
Other
How This Climate Activist Justifies Political Violence, David Marchese interviewing Andreas Malm [NYT]
Against Domestication, Jacques Camatte [marxists dot org]
The Annihilation of Caste, B. R. Ambedkar, [archive]
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