2020 was a whack year, but 2021 has blessed us with countless anime adaptation announcements, new movies, and some truly unexpected sequels. And of course, some fantastic yuri news as well. Let’s s…
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Yuri News Update: May 2021
No disrespect to the other things on this month’s News Update, but it might as well only be about Madoka★Magica~ Yes, the sequel to Rebellion has FINALLY been…
News Update - Mon, 10 May 2021
Skyscraping The Bottom of The Barrel. So yeah, Allen watched High-Rise Invasion, and he can hardly be accused of masking his disdain with the show. And that's our lot this…
News Update - Mon, 31 May 2021
Tencent Princess. Well, at least Allen thought Psychic Princess thought was kinda alright. I know I haven't exactly been very... nice... to Tencent's earlier efforts, so it is at…
News Update - Mon, 3 May 2021
Cell of Duty: Blood Ops. Well, we are going in again. Literally, as Allen assigns himself Cells At Work: Code Black, a darker, grimmer version of an already kinda…
News Update - Mon, 17 May 2021
Breaking a Leg Or Two For The Love Of Your Life. Allen takes a look at Tonikawa: Over The Moon For You, a show about two people starting their…
News Update - Mon, 24 May 2021
Re:(In)Ception? Allen takes a look at Re:CREATORS and finds it a fascinating study in "what if your main character in that terrible fanfic you wrote when you were a…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 15, 2021
There is so much news this week and I have an opinion at the end, so strap in! Yuri Manga Nagata Kabi’s new book My Alcoholic Escape From…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 22 2021
Yuri Manga Senior YNN Correspondent Sean G. wants you to know that Seven Seas has a couple of license announcements for us this week. Topping the list is…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 29, 2021
Yuri Manga This week Yen Press announced the cover release for the upcoming Strawberry Fields Once Again, Vol. 3, which is hitting bookstores at the end of June!…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 1, 2021
Yuri Manga We’ve added a bunch of titles to the Yuricon Store to start! Failed Princesses, Volume 4. Ajiichi’s tale of opposites tells a whole story on the…
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…
Spiraken Manga News Ep 001: May 26th - June 2nd 2021
Let's find out the latest manga news with our latest podcast In this first episode, Xan discusses some important manga piracy news, the latest update on the Otakon Convention…
Only news recap this May
Another two-week recap this week, and unfortunately due to travel it looks like this will be the only one this month. (Awkward timing with the new Godzilla flick…
Yuri News Update: May 2020
It’ll take a lot more than a pandemic to stop the yuri world from spinning, and this month, we have more proof of that. So sit back, relax,…
Sailor Moon, Strike Witches, YuruYuri, Destiny of the Shrine Maiden
Screen Anime May 2021 Streaming Line Up
Streaming curated film festival Screen Anime have just revealed their May 2021 line up. Headlining this time around is Tokyo Ghoul S, the...
Reading Log: May 2021
This month I started project Attack on Backlog, which I’m hoping will see me get through all the light novels I’ve been stockpiling over the last few months.…
May 2021 Monthly Favorites
Welcome back to my little corner of the internet where I gather some of the gems I’ve come across the past month! It’s going to be an interesting…
Q&A: May 2021
With Jump off during Goldenweek, Nik & Chris wax about British stereotypes, manga cereal, and recap series as 80's slasher movie victims.
Japan Diary: May 2021
May, as per usual, started with Golden Week. This would be my fourth, but like last year, I was pretty much stuck where I was. With State of…
News Update - Mon, 29 May 2023
Oh My God...dess, This Is So Not On The Level. So yeah, Allen reviews The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, which is not about an actual angel, but…
News Update - Mon, 16 May 2022
The Chair, The Dream, and You. Allen swoops in this week with Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish, and he's.... not really all that pleased with it, mostly because…
News Update - Mon, 22 May 2023
"What We've Got Here Is A Failure To Feminist...." Allen's pick of the week is Kaina of the Great Snow Sea, a series he finds honestly kind of disappointing.…
News Update - Mon, 23 May 2022
Juliet and Vampire Juliet. This week, Allen jumps into another world inhabited by vampires. He really tries to like Vampire in the Garden, but only comes out of the…
News Update - Mon, 15 May 2023
Uncle Does What Sega Don't. Well, I said we were gonna cry uncle, but if Allen's review of Uncle from Another World is anything to go by, we needn't…
News Update - Mon, 30 May 2022
Hero and Sponsor. So yeah, this week is for Tiger and Bunny Movie 2: The Rising, which Allen is suitably impressed by. Top sponsor dollars at work. And that's our…
News Update - Mon, 9 May 2022
Connecting the Princesses, One Gacha at a Time. A small delay, but here we are. I watched the second season of Princess Connect Re:Dive, and I have something to…
Lucy-May project status: Exciting News!
Exciting news for those of you who are eagerly awaiting new episodes of Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow! First news is that our translator Wild Tiger Girl completed…
News Update - Tue, 2 May 2023
Revenger, Son of Revenge. And father to Revengest, I guess. Anyway, Julian returns with a review for Revenger, a show she finds a bit middle of the bloody road,…
News Update - Mon, 2 May 2022
The Fabulous Fairy Five. Just in the nick of time, here is Tim and me doing a collab on Fairy Ranmaru, a rather flamboyant piece of manservice with some…
News Update - Mon, 8 May 2023
SuzuME, not SuzuKA. That's what I had to continuously tell myself as I put Allen's pick of the week, Suzume, up on the site. It's another Makoto Shinkai masterpiece…
Weeb Reads Monthly May 2021
Another month, another delve into the light novel hole! Just for the record (which applies with all of these), the stuff I cover is less than 1% of…
Author Journey (May 17, 2021)
I’m still here! However, after almost two weeks doing basically nothing, I’ve eaten into a lot of my forward planning and now find myself playing catch-up while trying…
Author Journey (May 10, 2021)
Well, it would appear that I have hit yet another roadblock and by roadblock, I mean the mother of all roadblocks, which, unless you’ve been living under a…
[Monthly Overview] May 2021 Overview
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Hachette design interview, May 2021
A conversation commemorating the extension of the Making Space Battleship Yamato 2202 series Aiming to create a “full-scale” model Junichiro Tamamori (series supervisor) & Ken Sato (Hachette Collections…
Author Journey (May 24, 2021)
I’m working my way back to full strength and raring to get back to work. I’ve got stories to write, editing to do, plotting to revise, and posts…
Author Journey (May 3, 2021)
Hello productivity, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again! That’s right, even in the midst of all this chaos and unpredictability, I have managed to…
[Editorials Update] May-December 2021
This is the second batch of 2021 editorials which I posted on my blog as well as other sites devoted to Asian cinema and dramas. As I have…
Author Journey (May 31, 2021)
I’ve put together a nice run where I’ve written at least one blog post every day for the last eight days. They’re a good way to ease back…
May 2021 Solicitations for US Anime Home Video Releases
Funimation returns with a few more LEs and a couple of shows, while Sentai releases a number of anime that streamed on both Amazon and Netflix.
May 2021 Anime Collaborations and Pop-up Store Events
1. Tokyo Revengers x Animate Cafe Event Period: May 19 – June 21 (The event has been postponed for the time being)Website: Tokyo Revengers has become a pretty…
My Hero Academia, Shaman King, Tokyo Revengers, AMNESIA, Cardcaptor Sakura
Anime News Network’s “Our Most Anticipated Anime Of Spring 2021”
For the first time ever, I'm a part of Anime News Network's "Our Most Anticipated Anime Of Spring 2021."
Anime News Network’s “The Most Anticipated Anime Of Fall 2021”
Once again, I'm a part of Anime News Network's "Our Most Anticipated Anime Of Fall 2021." So head on over and give it a read!
Anime News Network’s “The Most Anticipated Anime Of Summer 2021”
Once again, I'm a part of Anime News Network's "Our Most Anticipated Anime Of Summer 2021." So head on over and give it a read!
Spiraken Manga News Ep 45: News For May 25th - June 8th 2022
It's been a bit of time, but we are back and let's find out the latest manga news with our latest podcast In this episode, Xan discusses the continuation…
The AniMessenger May Check-in! Some Good News and Some Bad News
As the winds of change toss and turn The AniMessenger like a discarded bag of Pocky, he lifts his eyes to the AniHeavens and whispers, “It is time.”
Blerdy Otome Monthly Recap -May 2021
Hey there Blerdy Tribe! It’s the end of yet another month, so it’s time for the Blerdy Otome Monthly Recap. May has been an okay month here on…
May 2021 manga releases worth reading
With lots of manga being released this month, let's jump in and see which of the May 2021 manga releases are worth reading!
Otaku Collection Haul for May 2021
The May haul takes a step back thanks to more package delays but overall offers a solid variety to keep the collection going.