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Do a survey: Okazu Yuri Fandom Survey!
Erica Friedman’s Okazu blog is running a Yuri fandom survey.The intro post for it is here: one is IMPORTANT! Erica Friedman’s Okazu blog and the Yuricon fan community[…
Do a survey: Gender Identity among Overseas Fans of Queer Japanese Media
March 2022: Here is a survey that may be of interest to some readers of this blog: “Questionnaire on Gender Identity among Overseas Fans of Queer Japanese Media…
10 years after, live
In 2 days it will be the 10-year anniversary of this blog. WOW! Longtime readers may have noticed an absence of new posts this year. Nope, I’m not…
guest review: Crossdressing Pandemic
Josō pandemikku/ Crossdressing Pandemic by Mikuzu Shinagawa, Comic Valkyrie, 2019-ongoing Please welcome a guest review by longtime correspondant Bobbie (bliss) Sellers: Crossdressing Pandemic mang…
Outlander Magical Girls
Briggs N. Stratton: Welcome blog readers new and returning. This time on Hearts of Furious Fancies; simulated banter about a tradition in Japanese Magical Girl tropes presented in…
Ascendance of a Bookworm, Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, Madam is a Magical Girl
Usotsuki Winnegan
…and now for something useful. The polls results from the previous post are in. As of this time of writing, I have received the expected 3 votes and…
Marooned in real time
“There’s a point in any aspiring intellectual’s life when they must ask themselves: what can I contribute to the field of Fujoshi-Bataille studies?” — some tweetor: Ti…
Easter — spring 2020 update
Greetings! Briggs N. Stratton, Emergency Blogging Hologram here and I’m guest-hosting this post because someone has been neglecting their responsibilities.” Mudakun: “Leemmee alon…
Upwind from Yoshiwara
Kabukichou Sherlock [Case File nº221: Kabukicho[2] (歌舞伎町シャーロック Kabukichō Syarokku)] Anime, Studio I.G., Fall 2019 – Of course I will greedily watch all of the ongoing Kabukichou Sherlock anim…
Given; my little guy band, male friendship is magic
“melody awakens the mind, the rites perfect through performance, thus music completes experience.” — Lun Yu , Book VIII, Chapter 8 “Death awaits us all, what is one dalliance…
Worthy of Grace
“HEY YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!” Two recent Twitter commotions serve as a worthwhile point of departure for digging deeper into themes of queer representation and subtext…
Sailor Moon, ZOMBIE LAND SAGA, Midnight Occult Civil Servants
Too Het #4: “Outlanders, Outsiders and Outlaws”
Initially I wanted to slot Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid [ into the yuri section but recurring complaints about how it plays fast and loose with busty dragons sexually…
Too Het #3:”There are only girls at this school”
Approaching the yuri genre; Japanese pop visual culture’s stories of women’s same-sex affection and desire with the motive of finding (and perhaps borrowing) visual tropes of physical i…