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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…
The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio, Season Finale
Adding to the extensive and mostly excellent list of series Yuri fans were watching this year was a pretty amazing look at the obstacle course of demands young,…
Blank: The Series, Season 2
In my review of season 1 of Blank: The Series I noted three negatives of the series: the 16-year age gap between the older Neung and the younger…
Sound Euphonium, Season 3 Finale
In the context of Sound Euphonium, the word “finale” takes on an extra layer of meaning. This is the final act of an anime series that has been…
Train To The End of The World, Season Finale
Of the several, Yuri, Yuri-adjacent and Yuri-adjacent-adjacent series (which I differentiate internally from “Cute Girls Doing Cute Things Cutely’ series, which is why I keep using phrases as…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 29, 2024
Yuri Live Action Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko, based on Sal Jiang’s manga of the same name (of which I have reviewed Volume 1 and Volume 2…
Jellyfish Can’t Swim In the Night, Season Finale
We are coming to the end of another surprising season of anime with a number of Yuri, Yuri-adjacent and Yuri-adjacent-adjacent series. Most of these anime were interesting to…
Cocoon, Entwined, Volume 6
Guest Review by Patricia Baxter. As the curtain closed on Yuriko Hara’s Cocoon, Entwined series, I knew that a truly remarkable story had ended. There have been times…
The Executioner And Her Way Of Life, Volume 7: Lost
In Volume 6 of Mato Sato’s isekai fantasy light novel series, the promised battle occurs and it ends and there are no apparent consequences at all. Which was…
Pulse volumes 5-7
Content warning: Volume 6 contains scenes of sexual assault. Remember when I said back in my review of the first two volumes “does this hospital not have an…
Cocoon Entwined, Volume 5
Guest Review by Patricia Baxter. If there is one word you could use to describe the penultimate volume of Yuriko Hara’s Cocoon Entwined it would be “change”. While…
Kunoichi Bettegumi Igarashi Satsuki, Volume 4 ( くノ一別手組ー五十嵐五月)
The problem with writing alternate history is that you have to figure out where things go, as china has discovered in Kunoichi Bettegumi Igarashi Satsuki series. To understand…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 15, 2024
Yuri Live Action Stardust Telepath is getting a live-action TV drama! With the girls looking far more age-appropriate than the infantilized moe design of the original manga, it’s…
Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 12 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)
Yesterday I said that I was reviewing two series this week that focused on complicated relationships. The first was Volume 9 of Otona ni Nattemo, by Shimura Takako…
Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 9 (おとなになっても)
I am currently reading two Japanese series about adults in complicated relationships. Both series are, in equal part, compelling and interesting and annoying as heck. Today we’re looking…
Himegami no Miko (姫神の巫女)
by Rachel Gruber, Guest Reviewer As a teen growing up in the 2000s, my introduction to yuri anime naturally came in the form of the “big three:” Strawberry…
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Vol. 6
Among the many remarkable things in Piero Karasu’s light novel series, the most remarkable to me continues to be the author’s willingness to address issues after the happily-ever-after…
Karas, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
Koudou Ryou no Seizana Hibi, Volume 1 (黄道寮の星座な日々)
One again, this review comes with a story. I was standing in Animate in Shibuya and saw a book I had been meaning to read for a while,…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 8, 2024
Yuri Manga On the Yuricon Store this week: The Moon On A Rainy Night, Volume 5 hits shelves this week! Do not miss this wonderful story by Kuzushiro…
Assorted Entanglements, Volume 4
by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer In the previous volume of Assorted Entanglements, a new couple joined our problematic posse with the 3rd year high school student Sugimoto and…
Comic Yuri Hime June 2024 (コミック百合姫2024年6月号)
Teenager angst is such a staple of fantasy literature that we don’t really question is any more. We all know that been an adolescent is fraught, (complicated, unnerving…
23.5: The Series
by Frank Hecker, Staff Writer The Thai company GMMTV is a BL powerhouse, with eight live-action BL series aired in 2023 and a staggering fifteen BL productions scheduled…
Cheerful Amnesia, Volume 2
In a review of Spy Classroom: A Glint In Monika’s Eye, Sean Gaffney said, “Generally speaking a large chunk of fiction, especially fiction written for drama and starring…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 1, 2024
I am returned from a much-needed vacation in which I managed to do everything I wanted to – including meeting some Okazu staff and friends in London! We…
This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Volume 1
This Monster Wants To Eat Me, Volume 1 is a tale that is creepy and dark and yet somehow full of kindness, set in a seaside town on…
She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Volume 4
In She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Volume 4 important things happen, there are beginnings and endings, but the most important thing is that delicious…
Vampeerz – “My Peer Vampires,” Volume 3
by Christian LeBlanc, Staff Writer I found the last book somewhat vile, But this volume did make me smile. Basketball, talking crow, The return of Jiro, And artwork…
How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend?, Volume 1
by Luce, Staff Writer Imagine you are a Japanese schoolgirl, and you’ve just realised you have a big crush on your friend! What do you do? Your options: …
Run Away With Me Girl, Volume 3
Guest Review by Matt Rolf Having run away with high school friend Makimura as an adult in Volume 2, Midori wants to keep running in Run Away with…
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Deluxe Edition Volume 4
In a series in which most of the “people” are androids, there are still humans on the planet. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Deluxe Edition Volume 4 spends some time…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 18, 2024
Yuri Manga in English The Moon on a Rainy Night, Volume 5 is headed our way this month. It’s up on the Yuricon Store, but more links to…
Kitanhana Monogatari (綺譚花物語)
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing a book on Yuri history in Taiwan by Baihe novelist 楊雙子 Yáng Shuāngzǐ. Today I am reviewing the…
Silakbo 2 Anthology, Guest Review by Miguel Adarlo
Hello, this is Miguel Adarlo, an overachieving potato on Discord. I wanted to share a recent yuri anthology released in the Philippines. I shared it over at the…