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Dekisokonai Hime-tachi, Volume 4 (できそこないの姫君たち)
Fujishiro Nanaki, having been ostracized by her group of fashionable and popular girls, has found acceptance with the “nerd” group, Kurokawa’s friends Izumi and Iroha. Together they are on the school...
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The Rose of Versailles, Volume 3
As I sat down to write today’s review, it dawned on me that I had never covered Volume 3 of The Rose of Versailles. So today, we will nod towards it, as we stride past headed for the last volume to...
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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 The Girl I Want is So Handsome, by Yuama. I...
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A Pictorial History of Yuricon and Okazu in T-shirt Design
In the late 1990s a bunch of folks were chatting about cool f/f couples in anime and manga on Usenet. I decided to have a t-shirt made up for a bunch of us who were going to meet at Otakon in 2002....
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I Love Yuri and I Got Bodswapped with a Fujoshi, Volume 1
If you are a long time reader of Okazu, you know that I have almost never enjoyed a body-swap comedy manga, because the comedy has almost always been about the wrong things. But here we are again…and...
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High-Rise Invasion on Netflix, Guest Review by Christian LeBlanc
Welcome to Guest Review Wednesday on Okazu! Today’s review is a gift to me as much as to you. ^_^ I was thinking about watching this anime on Netflix when Christian said he had just watched it and...
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Hana ni Arashi, Volume 6 (はなにあらし)
Nanoha and Chidori have shared their first kisses and, frankly, they are pretty sure that they no one has noticed, even though it got a little weird between them for a while. Their partially right,...
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Syrup, A Yuri Anthology, Volume 3
Syrup, A Yuri Anthology, Volume 3‘s Japanese name is Syrup NIGHT Hatsuyoru Yuri Anthology, (シロップ NIGHT 初夜百合アンソロジー) and I want to make that very clear, because the title explains why I never reviewed it...
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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! This volume is an absolute whirlwind...
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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 Japan for Comitia that was left unread....
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The Rose of Versailles, Volume 4
What better way is there to start off Pride Month than to begin with revolution, with a fight against the status quo and respectability? What better thing can we do this 2021 to remember why we...
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Hello, Melancholic!, Volume 3 (ハロー、メランコリック!)
When we last saw them, Minato had just blurted out that she liked Hibiki. As we begin Hello, Melancholic!, Volume 3 (ハロー、メランコリック!) everything between them is so normal it’s making them both...
View ArticleTaking the Day off to Yuri
I said in yesterday’s review that today’s would be intense, but I lied. Today, I am reading I’m in Love With the Villainess, Volume 3, which is out in digital for at last! Yay! Feel free to tell me...
View ArticleMechademia in the Morning
Again, I intended to talk about something else today, specifically, Sailor Moon Eternal, but I have a fever and I have Mechademia at barely awake o’clock tomorrow, so I’m taking another day off. Meet...
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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 of our conversation (because we...
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Sailor Moon Eternal on Netflix
2021 has been an “interesting” year in every meaning of the word, In the middle of so much wonderful and awful news, Netflix announced a Global (excluding Japan) release for Sailor Moon Eternal, Parts...
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I’m in Love With the Villainess, Volume 3
As I said of the Japanese edition of I’m in Love With the Villainess, Volume 3, “We’ve already established that all norms are off the table in this series, so the plot here is a little bit of...
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Perfect Gold Visual Novel, Guest Review by Eleanor W.
Welcome back to Guest Review Wednesday on Okazu! Today we welcome back Eleanor, who has graciously offered to cover a new Yuri Visual Novel. You all know the rules – please give her a warm welcome and...
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Nettaigyo ha Yuki ni Kogareru, Volume 8 (熱帯魚は雪に焦がれる)
As we reach Nettaigyo ha Yuki ni Kogareru, Volume 8 (熱帯魚は雪に焦がれる), we’ve hit what I tend to call the “storm before the calm.” Summer is winding down and Koyuki and Konatsu haven’t really been able to...
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Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, Volume 1
Sahoko shows up at a reunion for her high school class. As she greets people she hasn’t seen in a while, she’s on the look out for someone else who is not there. and isn’t expected to attend. Adult...
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