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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 12, 2021
Yuri Manga Tamifull’s How Do We Relationship?, Volume 3 hit US shelves this week. Now we can talk. Even Though We’re Adults, Volume 2 by Takako Shimura is hitting bookstores this week. We have a few...
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Meisou Senshi – Nagata Kabi (迷走戦士・永田カビ)
In my recent conversation on with the folks at Manga Mavericks about My Alcoholic Escape From Reality (a conversation that will go up on their Patreon later this month) we talked a little bit about...
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Girl’s Kingdom, Volume 3
Girls Kingdom, Volume 3 is a remarkable book. I am not lying to you about this. You will absolutely agree with me when you read it that it was, indeed, remarkable. We pick up Volume 3 after Misaki, our...
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Comic Yuri Hime, June 2021 (コミック百合姫2021年5月号)
Okay, yes. inori-sensei is right, Relaire is very cute. In Comic Yuri Hime, June 2021 (コミック百合姫2021年5月号) we get to meet our very own Yuri water slime and it is an adorable jiggly thing, with cute eyes....
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Kaketa Tsuki to Donuts, Volume 2 (欠けた月とドーナッツ)
In Volume 1, we met Hinako, a woman who is crumbling under pressure to conform to society’s requirements for a “good” life and Asahi, a woman who has cast aside any interest in conforming for her own...
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Save the Date for a Yuricon Community 20th Anniversary Event!
Back in the day, there was a brand-new online community for fans of lesbian characters and stories in Japanese comics and animation. That group was named AniLesboCon mostly as a joke1. By 2001, I was...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 19, 2021
Yuri Events Join me on Discord for CasaCon on June 26-27: June 26 8PM EST US for What Goes Into Manga Licensing and Translating? June 27, 2PM EST US time for the “Secret” History of Yaoi and Yuri. Not...
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It’s a Lucky Box Summer on Okazu! All Claimed
Doing a seasonal clean up of stuff that has accumulated, breaking down some of Bruce’s collection (we’re about half way through the boxes!) and goods from Yuri exhibits and this spring’s Yuriten...
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Galette Illustration Book 01
Crowd-funded, creator-owned quarterly Yuri manga magazine, Galette is coming up on a third anniversary later this year. It’s currently at 18 issues of the main magazine out, 15 volumes of Galette...
View ArticleOtona ni Nattemo, Volume 4 (おとなになっても)
In previous volumes of Otona ni Nattemo, we met Akari and Ayano, who met in a bar and spent the night together, Ayano’s husband Wataru, who has wondered what that means for him, and assorted family,...
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The Rose of Versailles, Volume 5
Today we look at what was, until 2015, the final volume of the grand historical epic The Rose of Versailles, by Riyoko Ikeda. After the death of Lord Oscar François de Jarjayes, one might expect a...
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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 Goes Into Manga Editing and Translating? 2PM EST US...
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NO STRAIGHT LINES: The Rise of Queer Comics
It’s the final Sunday of Pride month. NYC is gearing up for a virtual Pride Parade, which is being televised and sponsored and a real Queer Liberation March at which police and corporations are not...
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Marvel Voices #1: Pride
The week after DC announced their Pride anthology this year, Marvel jumped in to say that they would be launching their new “Voices” series with a pride issue as well! My feelings about this were...
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Hayama-sensei to Terano-sensei ha Tsukiatteiru, Volume 4 (羽山先生と寺野先生は付き合っている)
We last left Asuka and Saki celebrating their first anniversary. Volume 4 of Hayama-sensei to Terano-sensei ha Tsukiatteiru (羽山先生と寺野先生は付き合っている) begins with a class trip to Okinawa, and a new friend of...
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DC PRIDE #1
2021 is not the best timeline ever, but this year both Marvel and DC decided to acknowledge the queercreators and characters in their line-ups. A few days ago, I took a look at the Marvel Voices #1,...
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ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight With My Love and My Cursed Sword, Volume 3
There were two surprises for me by the end of this light novel by Kiki, illustrated by Kinta. One was that I made it to the end of this light novel (admittedly, I skipped a chunk in the middle) and...
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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 young women falling in love despite their conflicting...
View ArticleUpcoming Yuri and Queer (and Queer-Adjacent) Events
We have a couple of upcoming Yuri or queer events of interest and I want you all to have time to register and join me virtually. ^_^ I’ll be at Anime Lockdown 2021 on July 10, 3:30 Eastern US Time for...
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Sex Education 120%, Volume 1
Sex Education 120%, by Kikiki Tataki, with art by Hotomura was a very good book. I’m saying that right up front. I won’t belabor us all with the details of how execrable “health” education is in...
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