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Assorted Entanglements, Volume 6
by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer Last we left our ragtag crew of sapphics, dates were “enjoyed”, feelings were revealed, emotional wounds were bonded over. We were left just…
Give a Gift of Okazu!
Patreon has a new feature that I want to share. You can now give an Okazu patronage as a gift to someone else. Maybe you know someone who…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 16, 2024
Yuri Anime The top news this week is the announcement of an anime adaptation for Kuzushiro’s The Moon on a Rainy Night/ Amayo no Tsuki (雨夜の月)! This series…
Throw Away The Suit Together, Volume 3
by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer In the first volume of Throw Away The Suit Together, college students and partners Haru and Hinoto decide to ditch the city and…
Throw Away The Suit Together, Volume 2
by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer In the first volume of Throw Away The Suit Together, college students and partners Haru and Hinoto decide to ditch the city and…
I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl, Volume 4
In Volume 3, Ayaka stood up and protected Sora from a neglectful and selfish mother. With Sora no longer dealing with an unkind parent, Ayaka and Sora are…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 8, 2024
Because this week wasn’t bad enough, I have lost my job once more and can face the uncertainty of the future with that to stress about as well.…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 9, 2024
Because this week wasn’t bad enough, I have lost my job once more and can face the uncertainty of the future with that to stress about as well.…
Can I’m In Love With The Villainess Win The Tokyo Anime Award Festival?
In autumn 2023, we got our very first look at the I’m In Love With The Villainess anime. Based on the first two novels of the same name…
Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl: The Complete Manga Collection
by Eleanor Walker, Okazu Staff Writer When Okuma Satomi’s friend seeks her help wrangling guys for a crossdressing cafe, Satomi winds up with a boyfriend! Sort of. After…
Now No One Lurks Under The Snow & Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles
The last few years has seen a huge shift in the crowd-funding landscape for independent Yuri artists. With the success of the Boyish² Butch x Butch Yuri Anthologies,…
Comic Yuri Hime, October & November 2024 (コミック百合姫)
I received a notification that my copy of the December issue of Comic Yuri Hime has arrived and I still had not finished up the two previous issues…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 2, 2024
Yuri Manga The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1 is just out of the gate, but Yen isn’t waiting on this –…
Bakumatsu Joshikousei – Oni to Yoake, Volume 1 (幕末女子高生 鬼と夜明け 一)
Back a the beginning of the year, I reviewed the second volume of a sequel to this series, Oni to Yoake Yuzikiyo (鬼と夜明け 夕月夜). Given that I knew…
Affair, Streaming on Youtube
After GAP and Blank we now have Affair, a recently completed Thai live-action yuri series available on YouTube. Like those series, Affair is based on a novel by…
Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc, Streaming on Amazon Prime
Sakuragi Kana is engaged in the miserable grind of looking for a job after graduating college. She’s smart, energetic, determined and has a great memory, but the companies…
Bakajo 26-ji, Volume 1 (バカ女26時)
Akko and Yuri have been friends since high school and Yuri has always been a bit of a basic bitch. Akko has bailed her out over and over,…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 26, 2024
Thanks so much to everyone who was kind about my health the past few weeks. Turns out I was cosplaying as a dying Victorian infant for the season.…
Health hiatus for Okazu
Hey everyone, you may have noticed that reviews have slowed down a bit. I’ve been struggling with my health this month and don’t have the energy to read,…
Acro Trip, Streaming on Crunchyroll
Date Chizuko has been moved around a lot in her young life. When he finds herself living with her grandfather in his typical little town, Chizuko is convinced…
A Magical Girl Retires, by Park Seolyeon
Every once in a while, I choose a book by it’s cover. ^_^ In the case of A Magical Girl Retires, by Park Seolyeon the title and synopsis…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 12, 2024
Yuri Manga Sal Jiang has announced a new series, Wicked Spot (ウィキッドスポット), as part of the Candle A imprint from Kadokawa. “Sada is a modern-day witch who is…
Spoil Me Plzzz Hinamori-san, Volume 1
I’m Luce, one of the staff writers here at Okazu! I hope you enjoy my review of this new Yuri manga! Yaya Suo is the darling of the…
Girls Band Cry, Guest Review by Cryssoberyl
There’s a show called Shirobako, which began airing exactly ten years ago today, as it happens. A love letter to its own industry, it’s an anime about making…
Okazu Staff Reviews Studio Élan’s Dandelion Set
Studio Élan has announced a 4-story collection of short Yuri VNs as part of their own internal Yuri Game Jam, titled Garden Variety: Dandelion Set. Each of these…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 5, 2024
This week was a veritable cornucopia of licenses and cover reveals, but before we get in to this week’s news, I want to say this – Okazu will…
How Do We Relationship?, Volume 11
by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer Content Warning for discussions of sexual coercion My grandfather remarried when I was seven years old. This was fantastic news for me, since…
Maou to Yuri, Volume 2 ( 魔王と百合)
How DARE this series make me feel things? Back in 2022 I read and reviewed what I considered to be a slightly amusing, slightly forgettable manga called Maou…
Is You and Don’t Mess with Senior
Continuing our tour of Southeast Asian live-action yuri, we come to Cambodia, a country that has a much smaller population than either Thailand or Vietnam, and a per…
Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta Drama CD, Special Edition (ドラマCD 気になってる人が男じゃなかった)
Last week, I was able to review the upcoming Yen Press release of Sumiko Arai’s popular manga The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All.…
Movies on a Plane Mini-reviews
I am of an age to remember the classic Justice League cartoon, so was interested in this new version of the team. It was a bit of a…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 28, 2024
First of all, my very sincere thanks to Luce, who covered YNN last week. It’s always a lot of work and she did a great job! Yuri Manga…
Kiss the Scars of the Girls Volume 3
by Christian Le Blanc, Staff Writer Eve dreams to give travel a whirl, While Lucce wants to unite the world. Emille’s dream, less global, She claims is quite…
Sasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau, Volume 8 (ささやくように恋を唄う)
In Volume 7, Shiho finally addressed the elephant in her room and admitted that the source of her bad temper was unrequited love. Having shot her shot, it…
My First Love’s Kiss, Volume 1
by Okazu Staff Writer, Eleanor Walker Content warning: Underage sex work is a prominent theme of this book, although nothing is explicitly described. There is also violence. My…
Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 8 ( 私を喰べたい、ひとでなし)
There is no way to review this volume without a few spoilers, so if you would like to skip them, please jump down to after the asterisks. Kitsune,…
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 1
Because Sumiko Arai’s school life rom-com is absolutely one of this year’s most-anticipated Yuri series in English, I’m going to give it straight to you right up front.…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 21, 2024
This week’s Yuri Network News has been written by Okazu Staff Writer Luce. Thanks Luce for stepping in! Welcome to Yuri News Network! I’m Luce, contributor to Okazu,…
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Volume 5
The end is nigh in Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Volume 5. There were never many humans in Ashinano Hitoshi’s story, and now most of them have left. The grass…
The Loyal Pin
It’s been less than two years since Rebecca Patricia Armstrong and Freen Sarocha Chankimha put Thai live-action yuri on the map with their appearances in GAP: The Series.…
The Executioner and Her Way of Life Manga, Volume 5
As you know if you read Okazu regularly, I have been following the Light Novel series by Mato Sato, The Executioner and Her Way of Life, and the…
Search and Destroy, Volume 1
Come, the incantation sing, Frantic all and maddening, To the heart a brand of fire, The Furies’ hymn, That which claims the senses dim, Tuneless to the gentle…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 14, 2024
Yuri Events Yuri Kissaten LeLis is running a one-day event at Cafe Fuze in Sangenjaya, Setagaya. Join the staff on Sunday, November 10 for a lily-scented tea time.…
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…