Kageki Shojo!! on Funimation
Watanabe Sarasa is a young woman with a dream. She is entering the Kouka School, in hopes of becoming a Kouka Musical Revue Top Star. Exceptionally tall and outgoing, Sarasa will make allies and...
View ArticleOkazu Upcoming Events Calendar
I am participating in some upcoming events and I wanted to give you a change to get registering. ^_^ November Wednesday, November 17th @ 5:00pm ET for #MangaInLibraries The LGBTQ+ Community webinar! I...
View ArticleHow Do We Relationship, Volume 4, Guest Review by Matt Marcus
Welcome to another Guest Review Wednesday on Okazu. I am so delighted to introduce a new Guest Reviewer here today for so many reasons: Matt Marcus is a cohost of various projects on the Pitch Drop...
View Article2DK, G Pen Aftertime Ohsawa Yayoi Short Story Collection...
Ohsawa Yayoi’s adult life romance, 2DK, G Pen, Mezamashitokei was a part of the monthly Yuri contributions from Comic Yuri Hime from 2015 to 2018. After 8 volumes, in which we became familiar with the...
View ArticleBloom Into You Anthology, Volume One
The Bloom Into You Anthology, Volume One is something we didn’t used to see much in the west – an “official” collection of shorts about the characters by artists other than the creator. It’s a...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 13, 2021
LGBTQ+ Manga Events This week is pretty exciting for fans of Yuri, BL and Queer manga! There are two chonky discussions you don’t want to miss. On November 17th, at 5:00 PM on Zoom check out Manga in...
View ArticleGalette No. 19 (ガレット)
Galette No. 19 (ガレット) magazine is, happily, still chugging along with quality series by popular Yuri manga artists. This issue is probably the smallest we’ve seen so far, which had me worried, but...
View ArticleDays of Love at Seagull Villa, Volume 3
Days of Love at Seagull Villa, Volume 3, teeters a the edge of crisis from almost the very first page for what might have been a really dark story but, ultimately, wasn’t. I’m still not sure if it was...
View ArticleYoung Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games! Volume 1, Guest Review by Luce
I’m Luce, several time reviewer here and long-time book collector who is very much a tsundoku exhibiting person. I’ve been reading my manga though, including this one, a small gem from Seven Seas who...
View ArticleSasayakuyouni Koi wo Utau, Volume 5 (ささやくように恋を唄う)
The battle of the bands is coming! Now that Yori-sempai has officially joined the SS Girls, they are raring to go. Only, they seem to have developed a rival in the process. Shiho, leader of the band...
View ArticleManga Panels, Podcast and Talks You Won’t Want to Miss!
It’s been a super busy week for me and there’s still a bit to go, so I just wanted to run down where you can and will see me talking about manga! November 2021 I had a lovely talk with Ashley from the...
View ArticleFor The Love of Anime, NYC
I have been drawn back into the con world and my return, my first in-person convention since 2019, was the event that I now consider the best anime/manga event in North America, Anime NYC. NYC is not a...
View ArticleAyaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koishiteru (彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋してる), Volume 1
Ayaka-chan is fashionable and cute. As a result, she’s super popular with her male colleagues. Unfortunately for them, she isn’t interested. Ayaka only has eyes for her cool, competent sempai, career...
View ArticleDouble Your Pleasure Yuri Anthology, Guest Review by Luce
(I have used the cropped one as the full image whilst not explicit, is not really safe for work) I’m Luce and often my curiosity gets the better of me. See also: I read and reviewed it so you don’t...
View ArticleWatashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 2 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし)
Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 2 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし) is a freakin’ brillant volume of a manga and I really hope someone (cough/Yen Press/cough) licenses it so you can read it. ^_^ In Volume 1, we...
View ArticleWhisper Me a Love Song, Volume 3
I’ve said this repeatedly, but it bears repeating once again. When I began reading Eku Takeshima’s school romance Whisper Me a Love Song, I was fully prepared to not like it, because really do we need...
View ArticleYuri 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 goods from a number of popular series that run in...
View ArticleSex Education 120%, Volume 2
Last summer, I reviewed Sex Ed. 120%, Volume 1 by Kikiki Tataki. I summed it up as “The characters were likable, the lesbian couple is cute and Tsuji’s enthusiasm is just exactly ridiculous enough to...
View ArticleWhisper Me a Love Song, Volume 4
When we left Himari and Yori-sempai at the end of Volume 3, they had finally, officially begun to date. I don’t know why this series was graced with continuation after the conclusion of Story A, but I...
View ArticleOtherside Picnic, Volume 6, Guest Review by Sandy F.
Welcome back to Guest Review Wednesday on Okazu. We’ve had 17 guest Reviews this year, 10 of them since September. Thank you so much to our Okazu Patrons for making this increase possible! I’m super...
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