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Stretch Manga, Volume 2 (ストレッチ)
There is no one more amazed than I am that I am still writing reviews of Akili’s weird little manga, Stretch. But here we are and the timing couldn’t be better. Volume 2 of Stretch (ストレッチ) carries on...
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Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime, May 2015 (コミック百合姫 2015年 05 月号)
I’m nervous. I’m really enjoying Comic Yuri Hime these days, but nothing lasts forever, right? As I read Comic Yuri Hime, May 2015 (コミック百合姫 2015年 05 月号) I couldn’t shake the feeling that the boot will...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 23, 2015
Short report this week, while I go out and have some fun. Yuri Game News YNN Senior Correspondent Grisznak reports that the English language edition of the Love Live! game is set to mostly remove all...
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Yuri Live Action: Seonam Girls’ High School Investigators, Episodes 11 & 12
Earlier this year, South Korean TV made a breakthrough in portrayals of same-sex relationships with a lesbian kiss. The show takes place in high school; like North America’s Degrassi High, the series...
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Yuri Light Novel: Gakuen Yuri Stories (学園百合ストーリーズ)
Yesterday, I talked a little about the series Seonam Girls High School Investigators, and why it’s far more important in terms of same-sex representation that a mere lesbian kiss. Today I want to look...
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Yuri Manga: Chou Chou Nan Nan (喋喋喃喃)
The girl/guy next door, the childhood friend who has always been there for you, who can always read your mood, and knows just what to say; it’s a well-worn trope in every subset of romance. It’s...
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How Does Japan Treat Gay People? on Slate.com
One of the most commonly asked questions I have gotten in panels and after lectures is some version of “What is it like to actually be gay in Japan?” It’s always been a hard question to field for any...
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Yuri Network News (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 30, 2015
It’s a random news kinda day. ^_^ Manga and Comics News A collection of Shimura Takako’s color paintings has been collected and is being released in June. This will include her watercolor cover images...
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Okujou no Yuri Yurei-san Side A; Mou Hitotsu Yuritopia (屋上の百合霊さんSIDE A...
Originally released in Japan in 2012, Visual Novel Okujou no Yuri Yurei-san is an extremely popular Yuri series. As you know, I do not play VNs – and I now understand why I don’t. /blink/...
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LGBTQ Manga: What Did You Eat Yesterday, Volume 3 (English)
You know how it feels when you’re watching TV, say, with someone – like a parent or friend, who isn’t quite convinced that you’re getting life right, and you see a report on something you really care...
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Western Comic: Strong Female Protagonist (English)
Not too long ago, Alison Green was a “superhero.” That is to say, she is a “biodynamic” person, whose chromosonal instability gives her what we refer to in common parlance as “super powers.” But,...
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Sporadic Reviews For Reasons
I like to think of my readers as friends and I know that over the years I have had the chance to actually meet and befriend many of you. (Not “befriend” Nanoha style, although I’m open to that, too....
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 6, 2015
Yuri Webcomics YNN Correspondent Kimber Stormer wanted to share the news that the first Italian Yuri manga-novel Orange Cream by Scarlett Bell and Aeryn Sun, is now available in Spanish and English....
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Yuri Manga: Himitsu Hitotsu (ひみつひとつ)
Nakahara Tsubaki’s Himitsu Hitotsu (ひみつひとつ) is a very solid exploration of an essential “Story A” trope – best friends whose feelings are more, etc, etc. Shorts in this collection are firmly rooted in...
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Yuri Manga: Witch Meets Knight (演劇部の魔女と騎士)
In thinking about this book I coined a new phrase – “Dice of Life.” In “Slice of life” narratives we are given a glimpse into the life of a person during a period, or situation. In “Dice of Life” we...
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Okazu Patreon Special Offer!
I’m about to embark on a two-con weekend and bring you coverage from Flamecon, New York City’s first LGBTQ Comic Con on Saturday and my local home con here in New Jersey, AnimeNEXT, on Sunday. And I...
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Yuri Manga: Watashi no Kiraina Otomodachi (私の嫌いなおともだち)
Although I just finished reading Sumako Kari’s Watashi no Kiraina Otomodachi: Fatal Lies (私の嫌いなおともだち): last night, it is already back on the to-read pile. It deserves another, slower, more attentive...
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Event News: Flame-Con, AnimeNEXT and Girls Love Fest
Flame-Con, NYC’s First Queer Comic Con is happening today at the Grand Prospect Ballroom in Brooklyn, (which itself is an old drag queen of a building.) It appears at a glance that Flame-Con has done a...
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Event Report: FLAMECON 2015
It was my sincere pleasure to be able to attend FLAMECON 2015, the inaugural year for another queer Comics-focused event in New York City, after Queer & Comics last month. (West Coast folks, you’re...
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Yuri Manga: Seijun Shoujo Paradigm (聖純少女パラダイム)
In Seijun Shoujo Paradigm (聖純少女パラダイム), Morishima Akiko gave Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari readers her take on the most common private Catholic girl’s school tropes. And typically, she has a lot of fun...
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