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 and review the first collection in …
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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,…
Zerogo: Yuri Literary Magazine (零合 : 百合総合文芸誌)
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…
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) – 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) – 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) – February 3, 2024
Yuri Manga Italian manga publisher Toshokan has licensed Sal Jiang’s Black & White. Check out their catalog for preview pages. Via YNN Artemis, Aneido’s 18+ The Murderer and…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 3, 2020
Yuri Manga We have some new items on the Yuricon Store! Naoko Kodama’s new series, Days of Love at Seagull Villa, Volume 1. When Mayumi leaves her old…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 3, 2024
Some personal news to start. This week I begin a new job, in a new industry for the first time in 30 years(!), so reviews may be extra…
Watashi ha Ongaku de Naguritai: Band Yuri Novel (わたしは音楽で殴りたい: バンド百合小説)
Watashi ha Ongaku de Naguritai: Band Yuri Novel (わたしは音楽で殴りたい: バンド百合小説) by Yuruico Vraisravana is the very last item I picked up in February 2019 when I was in…
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 Manga: Comic Yuri Hime, March 2020 (コミック百合姫2020年3月号)
Now that we’ve settled into to the new year’s look of artistic fonts vomiting all over the cover and ignoring the third of the magazine that makes me…
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) – September 10, 2022
Yuri Events My autumn schedule is filling up. I’m very excited to be part of so many great events in the next few months. These are all NYC-based.…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 16, 2022
Yuri Events Okazu’s 20th anniversary is coming up and I’ve asked our Okazu Patrons for some feedback as to what might be good way to celebrate. They came…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 29, 2020
Yuri Visual Novels Breaking News! The visual novel creative team at Studio Élan, announces a new publishing initiative, Bellhouse, by Studio Élan. Bellhouse will be publishing games not…
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) – September 12, 2020
Yuri Manga Volume 1 of Canno’s new throuple series, Goukaku Tame no! Yasashi Sankaku Kakei Nyuumon (合格のための! やさしい三角関係入門) is now available on Japanese shelves. We’ve got Volume 3…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 20, 2024
Baihe News Terrific news from Monogatari Novels on Twitter: Two of Qǐng Jūn Mò Xiào’s titles, Female General and Elder Princess, and Clear and Muddy Loss of Love…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 7, 2020
Yuri Anime The first trailer for Yuri science fiction/horror series Otherside Picnic is up on Youtube! I’ve been really enjoying the light novels by Miyazawa Iori, which are…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 25, 2022
Queer Manga Studies I want to start by thanking everyone who has bought By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga so far. To…
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) – December 17, 2022
Buckle in folks, we have a *lot* of news this week. Yuri Anime The top story this week is definitely the formal announcement of Watashi no Oshi ha…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 18, 2020
We’ll start off with a bunch of stuff on the Yuricon Store! Yuri Light Novels Iruma Hitoma’s Adachi and Shimamura, Volume 1 is officially launched in English. Volume…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 12, 2022
I’ll be at Table D04 in the Artist Alley at Anime NYC. Details of a con exclusive to come later this week! Yuri Anime Watashi no Yuri…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 18, 2020
Yuri Manga We have some new titles up on the Yuricon Store for your reading pleasure! Kyou, Koshiba Aoi ni Aetara, Volume 2 (今日、小柴葵に会えたら) hit shelves in Japan…
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) – 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) – 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 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) – 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) – January 15, 2022
Yuri Light Novels Top news this week is the digital release of Volume 4 of I’m in Love With the Villainess, by inori, with illustrations by hanagata. The…
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) – 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) – September 5, 2020
Yuri Event I’m absolutely ecstatic to announce that the Yuriten Yuri Exhibition, which was canceled due to the pandemic last spring has announced a new online event! I’m…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 30, 2019
Yuri Manga While most retailers are browbeating you into buying things for other people, I’m here gently reminding that you should also consider getting some things for yourself!…
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) – 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) – June 20, 2020
Yuri Light Novels A couple of new Yuri Light Novels on the Yuricon Store! Adachi and Shimamura continues with Volume 3. I’m re-reading Volume 1 now in English…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 4, 2023
Yuri Audiobook Volume 1 of I’m In Love With The Villainess audiobook is hitting devices on November 16. If you’re a new fan from watching the anime, this…
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) – 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) – 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) – December 14, 2019
Yuri Manga We have some new items on the Yuricon Store! (One of my stretch goals for Okazu in the future is to hire someone to help me…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 23, 2021
Yuri Manga A new license this week from Seven Seas, Namekawa-san Won’t Take a Licking! Vol. 1, a Comic Yuri Hime classroom gonzo comedy series. The link leads…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 10, 2021
Yuri Events Today at 3:30 PM Eastern US time, I will be talking about Yuri at Anime Lockdown! Join me for “How It Began – How It’s Going:…
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…