In recent years, I have reviewed two kinds of Yuri short story collections here on Okazu: The Pixiv+Yuri Hime Yuri Bungei Shousetsu Contest ((百合文芸小説 コンテスト セレクション) collections and a number of scienc…
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Yuri Bungei Shousetsu Contest Selection 3 (百合文芸小説 コンテスト セレクション)
Once again, today’s review requires a bit of context. In 2019, Pixiv and Comic Yuri Hime ran a Literary Yuri Short Story contest. I finally managed to read…
Yuri Bungei Shousetsu Contest Selection 2019 (百合文芸小説 コンテスト セレクション)
This story begins somewhere in the middle of itself. I was online one day and saw an announcement for the 2nd Yuri Literary Short Story Contest on Pixiv,…
Yuri Bungei Shousetsu Contest Selection 3 (百合文芸小説 コンテスト セレクション)
Once again, today’s review requires a bit of context. In 2019, Pixiv and Comic Yuri Hime ran a Literary Yuri Short Story contest. I finally managed to read…
Comic Yuri Hime Magazine, April 2020 (コミック百合姫2020年4月号)
Here we are at the April 2020 issue of Comic Yuri Hime magazine(コミック百合姫2020年4月号). This year the cover theme is women in ill-fitting clothing having what always looks like…
Yuri Hakaarashi (百合墓荒らし)
With a title translated on the cover as “Lily Grave Vandalism” you just know I had to pick up Yuri Hakaarashi (百合墓荒らし) by Natsuo Tougen. Yutaka hates her…
Matching App Yuri Anthology (マッチングアプリ百合アンソロジー)
Ichijinsha has a whole pile of new anthologies these days, almost all of which fall so far out of my interest zone, I’ve picked up only one of…
Yuri Anthology: LiLium Yuri Anthology, Vol. 1 / リリウム 百合アンソロジー
Comic Zin is the bomb. I’ve probably mentioned it before, but it’s a teeny little cave crammed full of treasures. Across the street and down a block or…
Yuri-Ota ni Yuri ha Gohattodesu!, Volume 1 (百合オタに百合はご法度です!)
In U-temo’s Yuri fantasy, Yuri-Ota ni Yuri ha Gohattodesu!, Volume 1 (百合オタに百合はご法度です!), Yuri is the law by which Yuri otaku Watanabe Fuyu lives. When she transfers to a…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 18, 2021
Yuri Light Novels I’m in Love With the Villainess Light Novel, Volume 4 is up for pre-order and let me tell you how good it is…it’s great. ^_^…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 27, 2020
Yuri Manga Kodansha added a new Yuri license this spring with Takeoka Hazuki’s Kyou, Koshiba Aoi ni Aetara (今日、小柴葵に会えたら), as Chasing After Aoi Koshiba. I’ve reviewed Volume 1,…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 28, 2020
Yuri Manga On the Yuricon Store, we’ve got a couple of new items! Whisper Me a Love Song, Volume 2, will be hitting shelves next month. Yamada and…
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) – October 24, 2020
Yuri Games The 2020 Yuri Game Jam is happening right now. Make the games you want to play! EVN Chronicles has a terrific write up of the Visual…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 7, 2022
I foolishly took New Year’s Day off, so we have a LOT of news to get through today. Ready? Let’s have at it! Yuri Manga Seven Seas has…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 1, 2022
Yuri Manga Volume 3 of the I’m in Love With the Villainess manga has hit shelves this week from Seven Seas. Rae and Claire will face each other…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 30, 2022
Yuri Manga Kodansha has some cool news, they’ve licensed Kanojo to Camera to Kanojo no Kisetsu by Tsukiko (all 5 volumes of which I reviewed back in 2012-14)…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 5, 2022
Yuri Light Novels Great news for fans of I’m in Love With the Villainess, via her twitter account inori-sensei’s newest novel Heimin no Kuse ni Namaikina! (平民のくせに生意気な!) will…
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) – March 16, 2024
Anime News The upcoming season will be filled with Yuri-adjacent or Yuri-adjacent-adjacent – i.e., cute girls doing things cutely – to keep us busy. All (or mostly-)-female …
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 20, 2021
Yuri Live Action The trailer for Netflix’ live-action movie of Nakamura Ching’s GUNJO, (羣青) Ride or Die, now has a subtitled trailer. Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 16, 2021
Yuri Manga [Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology has made its Kickstarter goal with more than a month left! That means you have plenty of time to back this anthology.…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 10, 2024
Yuri Manga Melonbooks is doing a promotion if you buy Volume 2 of Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Jankakatta (気になってる人が男じゃなかった), by Arai Sumiko, you will be entered into a…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 9, 2020
Yuri Events Join us all today on the Okazu Discord for our lowest-key Yuri event ever. There is no agenda, so come by, relax, have some tea and…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 10, 2021
Yuri Events Our top story today is the very exciting news that creator of My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, Nagata Kabi will be a special guest of this…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 22, 2020
Yuri Events Top News this week: Yuriten is back! This traveling Yuri art exhibit and store will be going on the road for a Japan-wide tour beginning in…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 9, 2022
Yuri Essay I wrote a short essay for Mary Robinette Kowal’s blog this week, and I’m really pleased with how it came out. ^_^ I hope you’ll take…
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…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 17, 2021
Yuri Manga We’ve added some new items to the Yuricon Store: Volume 1 of the Otherside Picnic manga is something I’m really looking forward to. In part because…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 27, 2023
Now that I am making a concerted effort to catch up on the Yuricon Store, there are two things we must reckon with: 1) There will be a…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 14, 2020
Yuri Light Novels Manga Planet has announced an exciting new license for 7 “Super light” Yuri novels from Parsola, featuring art by popular Yuri creators Akiko Morishima, and…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 6, 2021
Sorry for the radio silence the last few days on Okazu, we’ve been dealing with a week of tech issues. All should be resolved now. ^_^ Yuri Games…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 11, 2023
Yuri Anime ANN’s Egan Loo has the scoop on more staff and a delay until spring for upcoming Yuri anime Whisper Me A Love Song, based on the…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 11, 2021
Yuri Manga Winter 2022 is looking pretty great for Yuri! We’ll start with a bunch from Seven Seas. Our Teachers Are Dating!, Volume 4 brings this series to…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 29, 2022
Yuri Visual Novels & Games Via Audrey on Twitter, who subbed the game, Square Enix is releasing Towatsugai, a Yuri VN about a couple finding each other over…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 2, 2021
Yuri Manga Added to the Yuricon Store, we have Bloom Into You Anthology, Volume One, now available from Seven Seas. Volume Two is available for pre-order, with a…
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) – 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) – March 27, 2021
Yuri Manga The cleanup of the the Yuricon Store continues! The English Manga section is about half finished, a few items are linkless as we’re trying to determine…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 29, 2022
Yuri Manga Kodansha has announced the license of Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki.This book, which is slated for a Autumn 2022 release is “A poignant coming-of-age…
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) – November 27, 2021
Yuri Goods The Gee! Store, with locations in Tokyo, Osaka, Sendai, Kokura and Nagoya, is running a series of Comic Yuri Hime pop up shops. You can buy…
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) – November 18, 2023
Yuri Audiobook I’m In Love With the Villainess, Volume 1 just launched as an audiobook on a few platforms. Others, including Audible, are still pending. Check out the…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 18, 2023
Yuricon 2023 The first discussion panel of Yuricon 2023 is up on Yuri Studio! The first of our Scholarship track, Boston University professor Sarah Frederick and I talk…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 10, 2020
Yuri Anime There’s a bunch of Yuri-ish anime hitting streaming services right now. Assault Lily Bouquet is streaming on Funimation. I’ve watched the first episode. We will be…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 12, 2022
Yuri Anime Sentai Filmworks has licensed The Executioner and Her Way of Life.This means that it will be exclusive to their HIDIVE streaming service. The anime will be…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 4, 2021
Yuri Manga The Bloom Into You Anthology, Volume 1 is hitting shelves this month from Seven Seas. This was a great addition to any Bloom Into You fan’s…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 23, 2022
Yuri Interviews This past week got off to an amazing start with a wonderful interview. inori-sensei, creator of I’m in Love With the Villainess, was kind enough to…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 24, 2020
Yuri Games The 2020 Yuri Game Jam is happening right now. Make the games you want to play! EVN Chronicles has a terrific write up of the Visual…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 8, 2021
Yuri Events Toronto Comics Arts Festival, on Wednesday, May 12 at 7 PM Eastern NA Time will host Deb Aoki talking with creator Kabi Nagata. This is a…