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Puella Magi Tart Magica Manga, Volume 1 (魔法少女たると☆マギカ The Legend of “Jeanne d’...
Yen Press is releasing the Puella Magi Tart Magica manga in April and, as I am wont to, I wanted to get a good look at the Japanese version in order to compare and contrast. So today, let’s take a...
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Yuri Manga: Yuritetsu Volumes 2-4 (ゆりてつ~私立百合ヶ咲女子高鉄道部) Guest Review by Bruce P
Wahoooo! It’s Guest Review Wednesday and we have a Guest Review! Fresh from the keyboard of the always stellar Bruce P, today he looks at three manga at once (presumably because the idea of reviewing...
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Rokujo Hitoma no Nekogami-sami Manga (ろくじょ~ひとまの ねこがみさま)
Minamoto Hisanari-sensei is coming off of several very decent manga series for Comic Yuri Hime. Following his stellar series Fu~Fu, he’s had a few fun short series collections. So despite my...
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Fun Home The Musical on Broadway
YNN News has been delayed to bring you this special report. ***Special Superlative Alert. This review will contain an overuse of superlatives. Be warned. If you know of a superlative that was not used...
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Kampfer Manga, Volume 2
At the beginning of the year, I was ambiguously pleased to review Kampfer, Volume 1 on Kindle, the manga of a short-lived and utterly forgettable anime series about a guy who turns into a girl and has...
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Himawari-san Manga, Volume 5 (ひまわりさん)
In Volume 1 of Sugano Manami’s Himawari-san, high schooler Matsuri meets the owner of the Himawari Book Shop, eponymously referred to as “Himawari-san.” In Volumes, 2, 3 and 4, Matsuri and Himawari-san...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 10, 2015
Event News I’m at MoCCA Fest today, enjoying the buzz from being around so many people with enthusiasm and creativity and a genuine desire to expand the art and craft of comics in every way possible....
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MoCCA Fest 2015 Report
It’s been about ten years since I first attended a MoCCA event, and I have to say, MoCCA Fest really is a must-do comics event, along with Stumptown, Small Press Expo and TCAF. In a discussion about...
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Akuma no Riddle Manga, Volume 1 (悪魔のリドル)
Last year, we were treated to an anime, Akuma no Riddle/Riddle Story of a Devil, which was sold blatantly as a Yuri anime, but failed, really to be anything specific. I mean, yes, there was some kind...
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Yuri Anime: Yurikuma Arashi (English)
The Yurikuma Arashi anime from Funimation is, like so many of Ikuhara Kunihiko’s works, a fairy tale. Like so many of his previous works, in this fairy tale the fairy ex machina is the tale itself....
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Yuri Manga: Kyou mo Futari ha Nakayoshi Desu. ~Kuzushiro Short Story...
Kyou mo Futari ha Nakayoshi Desu.~Kuzushiro Short Story Collection (今日も２人は仲良しです。) is a collection published not by Yuri Hime Comics, but by Rex Comics, also an Ichijinsha imprint. I found that...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 18, 2015
Event News I will be presenting at Kean University’s Towercon on Sunday, April 19th at 3:25. Admission is free and the event is presented by the very nice folks of the Kean Otaku Anime Society. Drop...
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Western Comix: Underwire Comic (English)
We are many things here at Okazu. We focus on lesbian-themed works, but are queer, female and minority creator – friendly. There are a lot of good works that we look at that don’t fit snugly into the...
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Yuri Anime: Dear Brother Set 2, Disk 1 (English)
When people referred to the anime based on Riyoko Ikeda’s Dear Brother manga as Yuri, it was primarily this section of the series they were talking about. Disk 1 of the second Dear Brother set is...
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Ikkitousen Xtreme Xecutor Anime, Disk 1 (English)
I want to talk today about violence in comics. In particular, my love of violence in comics. Over the years, I’ve been really upfront about how I love fighting comics and animation and characters that...
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Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime, March 2015 (コミック百合姫 2015年 03月号)
If you’re a regular reader here, you’ll know that I haven’t been really happy with Comic Yuri Hime this year. Too much pandering to the low and uncreatively-minded, too little actual girls in love with...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 25, 2015
We’re starting off today with some time-critical news. A new Yuri Anthology out of Europe is down to the last few days of crowdfunding and they can really use our support – Freya Anthology is...
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Second Eureka “Yuri Culture” Article on the Yuricon Essays Page!
Terribly exciting news today. The second translated article from Eureka magazine’s “The Current State of Yuri Culture” issue is live and public on the Yuricon Essays Page! Thoughts on the...
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Yuri Manga: Golondrina, Volume 5 (ゴロンドリーナ)
In Volume 5 of Golondrina, (now available on the Yuricon Store along with the rest of the series) Chika finds herself doing well enough as a matador. She’s regularly being awarded by the crowd, but...
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Puella Magi Tart Magica Manga, Volume 2 (魔法少女たると☆マギカ The Legend of “Jeanne d’...
Last month, I took a look at the first volume of the new Puella Magica spin-off, which has now been released in English from Yen Press. I found it interesting for squeezing an almost unbelievable real...
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