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, 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, 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…
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, 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…
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 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…
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!…
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...
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…
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.
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, 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…
News Update - Mon, 13 May 2024
Camp is Work, Work is Life. This week, Nicoletta and I take a look at the Laid-Back Camp movie, and was more than a bit relieved to find out…
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, 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…
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 - 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 - 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, 27 May 2024
Do It To The Children. Wait, not for the children? Apparently not, because Black Butler: Book of Circus does not treat its children kindly. Allen does not look too…
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…
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, 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, 20 May 2024
Romances at the Shallow End of the Pool. Allen takes a look at Taisho Otome Fairy Tale and finds it rather lacking. As in the core ingredients are all…
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, 6 May 2024
Getting Your Just Desserts. Allen went to the theater for this week's review. He watched Spy x Family: Code White and finds it just as appealing as the TV…
[Monthly Overview] May 2021 Overview
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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…
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…
[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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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
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.
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!
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."
Kio Shimoku Twitter Highlights May 2021
Tweets of interest from Kio Shioku’s official Twitter for May 2021: This past month saw the unfortunate passing of Miura Kentaro, author of Berserk. “Whaaaaaa?!” “I can’t believe…
Listening/reading log #20 (May 2021)
Damn, 20 of these posts. This feels like a landmark somehow, though that should really be marked at 24 instead, shouldn’t it? I don’t have anything special planned…