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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 12, 2023
Yuri Anime We have news at last about the broadcast date for I’m In Love With The Villainess anime. From the Official WataOshi Twitter feed, it will be…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 5, 2023
Yuri Manga Yen Press has announced that I Don’t Know Which Is Love, by Tamamushi Oku, Volume 1 will be hitting bookstores this month! This comedy about a…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 26, 2023
Yuri Manga This year’s Do-Not-Miss release is hitting shelves in just a few weeks! Absolutely grab yourself a copy of The Moon on A Rainy Night, Volume 1…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 1, 2020
Yuri Anime RetroCrushTV is adding more new titles that were fundamental back in developing Yuri fandom a few decades ago. They have Key The Metal Idol, Vampire Princess…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 28, 2021
Welcome to an edition of Okazu that transcends time and geography! We have some really exciting news this week. Yuri Manga Starting, as always with new Yuri manga…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 15, 2020
Yuri Anime We’re starting this week off with some song and dance. Rafael Antonio Pineda at ANN has the details of the upcoming Revue Starlight film and the…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 8, 2020
Week after week, I put this news report together and am absolute amazed at how much news there is from the Yuri Network. It’s a great time to…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 21, 2021
Thanks very much to every one who came to last week’s Yuricon anniversary event and thank you all for your patience as I made my way through this…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 13, 2022
Yuri Event In an unusual turn of events, both Rica Takashima and I will be at Flame Con, a fantastic LGBTQ+ comic event in New York City on…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 6, 2022
Yuri Manga Yen Press announces the license for Fuzoroi Renri by Mikanuji-sensei (the first 5 volumes of which I have reviewed here on Okazu) as Assorted Entanglements. We’ve…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 29, 2020
Yuri Light Novel Seven Seas wants us to know that it’s almost time for the release of “reincarnated into an otome game” school comedy I’m in Love with…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 27, 2022
Yuri Manga Otherside Picnic Manga, Volume 2 has hit English-language shelves (and hell yes, I read it right away, thank you…. ^_^) I think the manga version is…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 20, 2022
Yuri Events I will be presenting on the First 100 Years of Lesbian-themed Japanese Animation and Comics at Flamecon, today, August 20, 12:45 – 1:45 PM in New…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 7, 2021
Yuri Events There are a double handful of spaces left for the 20th Anniversary Yuricon Community Event. I hope you will join James Welker, Verena Maser and myself…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 19, 2022
Yuri Manga My Wandering Warrior Existence, the next autobiographical comic essay by Kabi Nagata, is out from Seven Seas. This look at her relationship to sexuality, gender, and…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 19, 2020
Yuri Manga We have some new items on the Yuricon Store! Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu! Volume 7 (私の百合はお仕事です!) Miman’s Yuri-themed cafe drama is still moving along,…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 19, 2020
Yuri Manga The first volume of the manga Watashi no Oshi ha Akujyaku Reijou. (私の推しは悪役令嬢。) is out now from Yuri Hime Comics! If you enjoyed the light novel,…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 19, 2021
Yuri Events Join me on Discord for CasaCon on June 26-27: June 26 8PM EST US for What Goes Into Manga Licensing and Translating? June 27, 2PM EST…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 19, 2022
Yuri Manga Top news this week is Seven Seas’ license for Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou! This incredibly gentle and sweet story takes place during the twilight of the human…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 11, 2023
Yuricon 2023 Yuricon 2023 has begun! The Opening Ceremony video is up on Yuri Studio. I have 3 panels in for editing, am running another tonight and am…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 9, 2023
Yuri Manga Yamashita Tomoko’s Ikkou Nikki, about a person-avoidant woman who takes in her niece, who is queer, has been named best manga in DaVinci magazine’s “Book of…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 21, 2023
Yuri Anime As we’ve all been endlessly discussing I’m In Love With the Villainess here and on the Okazu Discord (where Patreon Patrons and Ko-fi Supporters now have…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 16, 2023
Light Novel News Seven Seas has announced that they are doing an audiobook edition of I’m In Love With The Villainess! Click the link to pre-order and to…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 17, 2023
Event News I’m In Love With The Villainess and Aonoshimo-sensei has announced their participation at Anime Expo, July 1-4 in Los Angeles Convention Center. If you are attending,…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 7, 2023
Yuri VN News Studio Élan held their Élan Festival last week, so we have a number of news items! From their press release: “Please Be Happy has passed…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 23, 2023
I’m In Love With The Villainess News Some great news to start this week’s report – Seven Seas has announced an audiobook for I’m In Love With The…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 18, 2023
Okazu Needs Your Help! 2023 is a year that is especially full of new creative content for all of us – tons of Yuri manga, light novelsvisual novels,…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 24, 2023
June 25th is “Yuri Day” in Japan! So happy Yuri to all of you! ^_^ Yuri Manga In English The Summer You Were There, Volume 3 by…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 14, 2023
Yuri Anime Top story this week is the news that Takeshima Eku’s Whisper Me a Love Song is getting an anime! Crystalyn Hodgkins has the details on ANN.…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 8, 2023
Yuri Manga Kodansha announced the license for I Can’t Say No To The Lonely Girl by Kashikaze at Anime Expo. I haven’t reviewed volumes of that, but I…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 15, 2023
Yuri Anime Don’t miss Volicia of Pluto, streaming now on Youtube with English subtitles. Crystalyn Hogkins has the details over at ANN. Yuri Manga New on the…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 13, 2023
Yuri Anime It lives! I’m In Love With the Villainess will be premiering in October 2023! Check out the trailer on Youtube. Crystalyn Hogkins has details of casting…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 4, 2023
Yuri Anime The dub of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury is in the news. First Crunchyroll announced the dub cast, then there has been an ongoing…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 7, 2023
Welcome to a whole new year of Yuri. ^_^ Yuri Events 20 years ago, I ran a three-day event to celebrate Yuri fandom. Yuricon 2003 was a small,…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 25, 2023
Yuri Manga School Zone Girls, Volume 4 is up on the Yuricon Store. This series will wrap up with Volume 5. I reviewed Volume 1, and now Koi…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 1, 2023
Yuri Events At Anime Expo Anime Expo kicks off today with a surprising number of Yuri events! I’m In Love With The Villianess manga artist Aonoshimo-sensei will be…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 30, 2023
Yuri Anime Set your alarms! Crunchyroll will begin streaming I’m In Love With The Villainess on Oct. 2 and Stardust Telepath on October 9. Thanks to YNN Correspondent…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 3, 2023
Yuri Survey Tania is currently working on a Survey of Yuri readership in Japan. Feel free to share her link to get more responses to her survey! She’s…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 16, 2023
Welcome back to the middle of “holy crow, jet lag is a thing” week. I had planned on writing up a bunch of stuff, but crashing to the…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 14, 2023
Yuri Events The Yuriten Yuri Exhibition has opened today in Tokyo. In a newly refurbished space, they are doing same-day entrance tickets for fans who would like to…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 6, 2023
Yuri Manga Still catching up on the Yuricon Store, but here’s a start. Definitely don’t miss the concluding volumes of two of my favorite Yuri manga! Catch These…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 25, 2023
Yuri Manga in English On the Yuricon Store, we have Otherside Picnic Manga, Volume 7 and If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would…
If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die, Otherside Picnic
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 20, 2023
Yuri Manga We have some new items up on the Yuricon Store! Coming this summer, we have If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 3, 2023
English Yuri Manga Still doing some catch up on the Yuricon Store, but I’m mostly through the back log now and heading into the final stretch, at which…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 25, 2023
Yuri Events Yuricon 2023 continues this week with the first of our “Yuri is their job!” track. I spoke with three professional translators about their work on some…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 28, 2023
Yuri Manga Otherside Picnic, Volume 3 is out now from Square Enix and up on the Yuricon Store. I’ll be finishing it up this weekend and reviewing it…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 22, 2023
Yuri Manga Watashi no Oshi ha Akyaku Reijou. Maid Kitchen（私の推しは悪役令嬢。メイドキッチン), the food-centric spin-off of the Watashi no Oshi ha Akyaku Reijou. first chapter is up on Ichijin…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 29, 2023
I want to start off today by thanking all of you who have been sending me support and good thoughts. This is my first YNN report since February…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 11, 2023
Yuri Manga ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!, Volume 3 manga is out from Seven Seas, after…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 30, 2023
Welcome to the last Yuri Network New report of 2023! This is the 43rd YNN post of this year, which means only 9 weeks were left un-YNNed. Given…