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American Manga Awards, Event Report by Sean Gaffney and Erica Friedman on Anime Herald
I promised you a really exciting look at AnimeNYC and today I can share that Sean Gaffney and I were absolutely honored to cover the first-ever American Manga…
Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koishiteru, Volume 3 (彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋してる)
We left Ayaka in full “hitting on Hiroko-sempai” mode in Volume 2. In Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koishiteru, Volume 3 (彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋してる), we finally get some backstory on why…
3 Days at AnimeNYC, Event Report by Matias Mintz
It’s Friday, 12:15pm, and I’m tiptoeing in a bathroom stall, cautiously stepping on my shoes, one at a time, avoiding the floor as if it were lava, getting…
Cheerful Amnesia, Volume 4
It was painfully apparent from Volume 1 that I am not the ideal audience for Tamamushi Oku’s Cheerful Amnesia series. As the story progressed, so many handwaves had…
Hana no Asuka-gumi! ∞Infinity, Volume 9 (花のあすか組! ∞インフィニティ)
Once again, we come to the end of the longest-running girl-gang manga series. I say “again,” because this series has ended several times before. This first time when…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 7, 2024
Yuri Events The Girls Love Fest doujinshi market will be held in the Tokyo Asakusa/Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center, Taitokan, once again on October 6th. ANCHOR rainbow port…
Yamada to Kase-san, Volume 4 (山田と加瀬さん。)
As you age, one of the absolutely weirdest things is watching the people you knew as children growing up, maturing, starting their own lives. You never know what…
A White Rose in Bloom, Volume 3
Content Warning for off-screen violence and implication of intended sexual assault. We have thus fa, been paying attention primarily to Ruby Canossa, that breath of fresh air that…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 31, 2024
It’s been a long tow weeks since the last report and there’s a bunch of great stuff to talk about. The top story at AnimeNYC has got to…
This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Volume 2
In Volume 1, we meet Hinako, a girl who has lost almost everything and, as a result, doesn’t mind entertaining the thought of death. She is befriended by…
I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, Volume 3
We ended Volume 2 with a good feeling about whatever was building between Sora and Ayaka, however screwed up it was at the start. But both of them…
Yuri at Anime NYC!
This weekend, at Javits Center in New York City, many tens of thousands of anime fans will converge on AnimeNYC and I will be among them. This is…
Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou., Volume 8 (私の推しは悪役令嬢。)
Watashi no Oshi ha Akuyaku Reijou., Volume 8 (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) is the climax of Yu’s arc and, as a result it is poignant and touching in about 4 different…
Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord, Volume 3
Last spring Frank Hecker left us with these timeless words in his review of Volume 2, regarding any relationship between our principles Miyako and Asako “Okay, it’s happening!”…
Yuri Cafe Research Project
Okazu turned 22 this past week! Happy birthday to everyone here at Okazu! Every year I like to do some piece of research and this one is very…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 17, 2024
Okazu turned 22 years old this past week! Given the fact that 38% of websites from 2013 no longer exist, to have 22 years of Yuri reviews and…
The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Vol. 8: Fall Down
We left our intrepid adventurers at the doors to the ominously named City of Ruins after a Volume 7 that began new interior journeys for our new principals.…
The Secret of Us
Another day, another Thai yuri “love team.” Today it’s Lingling Sirilak Kwong and Orm Kornnaphat Sethratanapong, better known to fans as “Lingorm.” They star in The Secret of…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月)
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月) is absolute perfection. It was so good, that the moment I finished it, I started from the beginning and read it again.…
Comic Yuri Hime September 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年9月号)
Quite a lot goes on in Comic Yuri Hime, September 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年9月号). Beginning with a double chapter of “Kimi ga Hoeru tame no Uta o” a new series…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 10, 2024
Yuri Manga New items up on the Yuricon Store! Chasing Spica, Volume 1, by Chihiro Orihi, follows the tried and true formula of a popular girl who is…
Cheerful Amnesia, Volume 3
Memory loss is no fun, I can attest to that. When I was younger, I had a mind like a steel trap, now I frequently struggle to remember…
Galette, No. 26 (ガレット)
Energized by this week’s Kickstarter for an English-language version of creator-owned, crowdfunded quarterly Yuri manga magazine, Galette, (which has now surpassed it’s 3rd stretch goal with more than…
She Makes My Heart Flutter
By Frank Hecker, Staff Writer I like to highlight yuri series from different countries (why should Thailand get all the attention?) and from new directors and studios. In…
I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, Volume 2
Sakurai Ayaka is an excellent student who sucks at tests. A teacher offers her a recommendation to the college Ayaka aims for with a pretty manipulative twist –…
I Want To Be A Wall, Volumes 1-3
by Eleanor Walker, Staff Writer I Want To Be A Wall explores the fake marriage between Gakurouta, a closeted gay man with an unrequited crush on his childhood…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 3, 2024
Happy Okazu Birthday month! August is always such an amazing time of year with tons of stuff going on and this year is no different. So let’s get…
Koudou Ryou no Seizana Hibi, Volume 2 (黄道寮の星座な日々)
In Volume 1, a young woman is sent to the Zodiac Dormitory by her sister with the admonition to “Take care of Alice.” And so, in Koudou Ryou…
Throw Away The Suit Together, Volume 1
by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer I have a morbid fascination with LinkedIn. I often peruse the site for a sort of black comedy, a satire where people are…
Comic Yuri Hime, August 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年8月号)
After the behemoth of an issue last month, you might be concerned about the slimmer volume for Comic Yuri Hime, August 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年8月号)…don’t be. It jumps right in…
Summer Lucky Boxes!
I am *still* cleaning out stuff that I picked up in Japan last year! As a result, I have 3 Lucky Boxes this round. All are premium boxes…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 27, 2024
Yuri Manga Huge news this week, as the folks behind quarterly, crowd-funded Yuri manga magazine Galette have announced an upcoming Kickstarter for an English language edition! Sign up…
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Volume 7
So, you’re a Princess with memories of another world where “magic” tools existed, an obsessive interest in research on magic that is opposed by a lot of the…
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
Koharu to Minato: Watashi No Partner Ha Onna No Ko, Volume 1 (小春と湊 わたしのパートナーは女の子)
Koharu to Minato: Watashi No Partner Ha Onna No Ko, Volume 1 (小春と湊 わたしのパートナーは女の子) is a fictionalized autobiographical comic essay on the real-lives of the creative team, Daruma…
Otherside Picnic, Volume10
by Sandy Ferguson, Guest Reviewer Otherside Picnic, Volume 10 includes the satisfying conclusion of ‘Sannuki and the Karate Kid’, the beginning of ‘The Whisper Is At-Your-Own-Risk’ and the…
Omai Series
Thailand’s next-door neighbor Vietnam is poorer and more socially conservative, and has a government more resistant to addressing its LGBTQ population’s concerns. Thus it’s understandable that Vietnamese bách…
Cooking Anime: 50 Iconic Dishes from Your Favorite Anime
Hello Okazu family, this is Pattie, ‘the wife’ and first lady of Yuricon and Okazu. Here’s a little-known fact about Erica… she reads as many cookbooks as I…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 20, 2024
Yuri Events The schedule has dropped for Anime NYC and there are going to be a bunch of interesting panels. It’s got a nice mix of industry and…
Assorted Entanglements, Volume 5
by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer Have you ever been on a bad first date? Like, a really bad one? Maybe you neglected to vet the content of the…
Kiss the Scars of the Girls, Volume 2
by Christian Le Blanc, Staff Wrier Feet are not something to lance, And the soft palate’s no place for hands. Though we’ve been through school combat, We should…
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All Cafe, Report by Miguel Adarlo
Hello, this is Miguel Adarlo, also known as an overachieving potato from the Okazu Discord. This time, I’m sharing my visit to the Tower Records Cafe Omotesando during…
My Idol Sits the Next Seat Over, Volume 7
by Luce, Okazu Staff Writer My Idol Sits the Next Seat Over, Volume 7 is the final volume, in which we get the fallout of Maaya coming clean…
Comic Yuri Hime, July 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年7月号)
Comic Yuri Hime, July 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年7月号) is 800+ pages of Yuri. I am still boggling at the size of this thing. If they used paper the same thickness…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 13, 2024
Yuri Manga Good news from Dark Horse, who has announced a new omnibus edition of Sonoda Kenichi’s Gunsmith Cats. Crystalyn Hodgkins has the news on ANN. If you’re…
The Moon on A Rainy Night, Volume 5
In Volume 4, a number of loose ends are suddenly untangled. Kanon decides to participate in her school festival fully, and Saki helps Ayano see that her behavior…
Love Bully
Two of the most impactful scenes of season 2 of Blank: The Series featured a fictional version of the real-life Thai show Club Friday, in which people call in…
I’m in Love with the Villainess: She’s so Cheeky for a Commoner, Volume 2
In Volume 1, we once again find ourselves in Bauer’s Royal Academy, where one Rae Taylor upends the school and eventually the entire country in her pursuit of …
An Error Occurred ( 오류가 발생했습니다)
A few months ago, I was contacted by Lee Sanhwa, a Korean author, to do a review of a Yuri board game, Yuri Ranbou (百合乱慕), which was followed…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 6, 2024
Yuri Manga We have some new titles on the Yuricon Store! Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Deluxe Edition, Volume 5 hits shelves next month and I cannot wait for an…
Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koishiteru Live-Action (彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋してる)
Ayaka works in a fairly typical Japanese office where the star of the company is Hiroko, a very competent, caring career woman. After a gaffe early in her…