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Takarazuka: La Rose de Versailles 2001, Oscar et Andre (ベルサイユのばら 2001...
Welcome back to Takarazuka Week on Okazu! We’ve got another interview coming up and a review of Chicago at Lincoln Center in our future, so check back regularly! There are several Takarazuka...
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Takarazuka: Zorro, The Masked Messiah (ZORRO 仮面のメサイア
Takarazuka Week here at Okazu continues! So last night, I was digging around in my shelves for something Takarazuka to review and with some surprise I found a DVD set I had previously purchased…and...
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Interview with Anthropologist Dr. Jennifer Robertson
Welcome back to Takarazuka Week here on Okazu! Tonight is the premier of the Takarazuka performance of Chicago at Lincoln Center. (And I have never, in my life, seen Lincoln Center push a show as hard...
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Takarazuka: Chicago at Lincoln Center
We’re finishing up Takarazuka Week here on Okazu with the reason we started in the first place – the iconic all-female revue troupe is performing Kander and Ebb’s Chicago at Lincoln Center in New York...
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Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime July 2016 (コミック百合姫2016年7月号)
Comic Yuri Hime for July 2016 (コミック百合姫2016年7月号) wasn’t as wretched as the May issue, but the divide between stories I like and the super creepy fanservice that is pretty much indefensibly vile is...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – July 30, 2016
Yuri Manga Top News this week – Yen Press has announced that they’ve licensed Canno’s school-life Yuri series, Anoko ni Kiss to Shirayuri wo as A Kiss and White Lily For Her. ANN has the report. With...
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Yuri Manga: Kannazuki no Miko, Volume 1 (English)
Well, here we are again. ^_^ In 2005, I wrote that the Japanese edition of Kannazuki no Miko manga, “is a piece of utter, plotless dreck, wrapped up in frisson of hormonal angst, senseless screaming...
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LGBTQ: Alphabet Anthology
In honor of the Prism Comics annual Queer Press Grant and to raise money for this wonderful, inclusive, friendly queer comics consortium, the folks at Prism gathered 40 popular and successful queer...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 6, 2016
Events News This week we celebrate 14 years of Okazu and 16 years of Yuricon! While I celebrate several things at once, the next few weeks will be a veritable desert of reviews. Please imagine me...
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Western Comic: I Thought You Hated Me
Every once in a while, a comic comes along that is so beautiful you just want to run around with copies and hand them out, screaming “READ THIS! READ IT RIGHT NOW!” I Thought You Hated Me, by Mari...
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Kannazuki no Miko, Volume 2
In Volume 2 of Kannazuki no Miko we come face to face with a centuries old prophecy meeting self-inflicted homophobia of a young woman. Through no effort of the creative team, we recognize that should...
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“The Secret History of Yaoi and Yuri” at Flamecon!
Well yee-ha! I’ll be bringing my guerilla “history of Japanese literature” panel to Flamecon 2, New York’s queerest comic event, which will be held in Brooklyn, New York on August 20-21. The Secret...
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Yuri Drama CD – Grand Stage, Volume 5 Akabara-no-Kimi, Suoh Yui ( グラン・ステージ...
Have I mentioned how much I love this series? I mean, yes, I have, but I really love this series! Every time the opening theme plays, I grin like a fool, because it’s just the greatest, most musically...
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I’m out of the office this week. I’ll be back asap with roundups of Otakon news, Flamecon news and bunch of catching up to do!
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See you at Flamecon 2!
I am returned from my pilgrimage, about which I will write tomorrow, but first, Flamecon 2! Please join me for The Secret History of Yaoi and Yuri, today, Saturday August 20, Room C at 4PM. I will be...
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Otaku in Paris, Pilgrimage to Versailles
I am back from the third of my three vacations this summer and once again, I come with pictures and thoughts and things, this time from Paris, France. You may remember that in 2015, I was in Japan and...
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Event Report: Flamecon 2
Flamecon 2 was a fantastic event and I’m absolutely gutted that I couldn’t get to it for both days. Flamecon bills itself as New York’s Queer Comic Con. This year, it was queerer and more diverse than...
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Adventure Time Cartoon (English)
I’m late to this party, I know. It was last year or so when Dreiser (the very same Dreiser who coined “AniLesboCon”) sat my ass down and did an epic description of the Marceline x Princess Bubblegum...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 27, 2016
Welcome back to Yuri News Network! Today we have news from all over the globe, brought to us by our amazing YNN correspondents. Yuri Manga The top story of Otakon – Viz Media has licensed Shimura...
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Drama CD: Kindred Spirits, Rain Kick (English)
Let’s talk about representation. Let’s talk about canon and subtext and identity. Years ago, I threw out a definition for recognizing “Yuri,” as opposed to “lesbian” content. Yuri could be seen as...
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