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 on the Yuricon Store. The st…
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 7, 2021
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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 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 19, 2023
This month is Okazu’s and Yuricon’s birthdays so I am running an amazing birthday special! US folks can get By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri…
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 10, 2024
Yuri Manga New items up on the Yuricon Store! Chasing Spica, Volume 1, by Chihiro Orihi, follows the tried and true formula of a popular girl who is…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 31, 2024
It’s been a long tow weeks since the last report and there’s a bunch of great stuff to talk about. The top story at AnimeNYC has got to…
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 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 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 3, 2024
Happy Okazu Birthday month! August is always such an amazing time of year with tons of stuff going on and this year is no different. So let’s get…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 17, 2024
Okazu turned 22 years old this past week! Given the fact that 38% of websites from 2013 no longer exist, to have 22 years of Yuri reviews and…
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 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 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 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) – March 28, 2020
Okazu News We’re having some trouble with Facebook, which has seen fit to remove every single post I’ve ever made from Okazu from our Yuricon group on Facebook.…
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) – 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…
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) – December 28, 2024
And here we are, the very last YNN Report for 2024. This year has undoubtedly been an astoundingly good year for Yuri and we’ll certainly hope that that…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 4, 2021
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 30, 2021
Yuri Manga Yen Press has announced the cover reveal for Strawberry Fields Once Again Volume 2. Kodansha is hyping Chasing After Aoi Koshiba. Volume 1 is slated for…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 6, 2021
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 31, 2021
Yuri Events HUGE NEWS! Join us for a special Yuricon 20th Anniversary Discussion – Global Yuri Fandom, with James Welker and Verena Maser, hosted by Erica Friedman. We…
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) – 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 23, 2021
Yuri Manga Just as I was working on last week’s report, Yen Press announced two new Yuri titles: The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except for Me,…
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) – September 18, 2021
Yuri Studio I’m doing a special of recording of the next Yuri Studio! Tomorrow at 3PM Eastern US time, I’m going to address two great questions, I got…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 4, 2021
Event News There’s still time to register for Shojo Manga: The Power and Influence of Girls’ Comics sponsored by the Japan Foundation of New York. I’m looking forward…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 20, 2021
Yuri VN & Game News Studio Élan is celebrating Heart of the Woods’ second anniversary with a planned console release for Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4. And they…
Yuri Network News (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 6, 2021
Yuri Anime Last week, Yen Press announced the license of Virgin Road (which, apparently is a colloquialism in Japan for the path a bride walks towards her husband…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 5, 2021
Thank you everyone who came to the Mechademia panel at too-effin’-early today! And my very sincere thanks to James and Verena for being fabulous panelists. As a result…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 17, 2021
Yuri Events Anime Lockdown was a lot of fun and you can still watch my panel on Youtube (and lol at my wife’s interjection.) Yuri: How It Began,…
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) – January 9, 2021
Yuri Anime Yuri scifi/horror anime Otherside Picnic is streaming now on the local legal streaming platform you use. For the US it is Funimation.com. The first episode is…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 9, 2021
Yuri Manga I am super excited to share Seven Seas’ new licensing announcement with you: Sal Jiang’s Black & White. I loved this extremely violent and unpleasant Yuri…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 26, 2021
Yuri Events I’ll be hitting the virtual con circuit in the next few weeks, catch me on Discord this weekend for CasaCon: 8PM EST June 26 for What…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 3rd, 2021
Yuri Manga We had a bunch of new license this week from Seven Seas! Monologue Woven for You by Syu Yasaka, is “a full-color manga series about two…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 25, 2021
We have an extraordinary amount of news this week. ^_^ Yuri Manga Yen Press has licensed If You Could See Love, about a girl who can see who…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 13, 2021
Yuricon News I’ve got some really exciting news for fans of Okazu and Yuricon – my book on the first 100 Years of Yuri, tentatively titled By Your…
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 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) – March 13, 2021
We have an absolute avalanche of news today, so let’s get right into it! Yuri Webnovel I am absolutely delighted to announce that Manga Planet has licensed Girls…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 3, 2021
Yuricon Store Update Thanks to our Okazu patrons, the Yuricon Store reboot is about to get into full swing. We’ve re-enabled the multiple retailer option, so you’ll have…
Yuri Network News (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 2, 2021
Welcome to the future! Thank you to Mari Kurisato for the lovely new logo, which we will add to the mix of our lovely YNN logos! Mari…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 29, 2021
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