Yuri Manga: Hana to Hina no Houkago, Volume 2 (ハナとヒナは放課後)
In Volume 1, we met Hana, a typical high-school girl with an afterschool job at a mascot goods store, against school rules. At the store, she meets and befriends Hinako, another student from her...
View ArticleYNN Special Report –“Dangerous Women” is Coming
“Eden could tell that she made Grey nervous. She liked that.” – From “Eden’s Revenge, by Missouri Van The gold rush in California beckons. They say a man can make his fortune there, but I intend to be...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 8, 2016
Yuri Manga and Comics Ana Valens takes a look at the changing nature of Yuri Manga over at The Mary Sue. YNN Correspondent Shannon L wants us all to know that Batwoman has been given a second chance...
View ArticleDangerous Women Kickstarter is Live!
“Yes, you burn with passion, yes, you desire vengeance and control, of course you have devastating plans and amazing powers, but there is so much more to supervillainy than that.” Dangerous Women:...
View ArticleLive Action: The Handmaiden (English)
The Handmaiden, from director Park Chan-wook is, in a word, spectacular. Based on Sarah Water’s exceptional novel Fingersmith (which itself was given the live-action treatment as a BBC miniseries), The...
View ArticleTorikaebaya Manga, Volume 9 (とりかえ・ばや)
The train wreck that is the plot of Saito Chiyo-sensei’s Torikaebaya, Volume 9 (とりかえ・ばや) just keeps getting wreckier and wreckier. Sarasojuu who was born as a woman, but should have been a man, has...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 15, 2016
Kickstarter News Dangerous Women: Tales of Queer Villiany is at just about 2/3 the initial funding goal in our first week! I encourage you all to take advantage of the excellent backer pricing and...
View ArticleYuri Games and Visual Novels on the Yuricon Store!
We’ve hit a point this year where were have enough English-language VNs and sims that it’s absolutely worth collecting them in one place. To that end I’ve added a Yuri Games & Visual Novels page on...
View ArticleLight Novel: Miniskirt Space Pirates, Volume 7 Souhaku no Dokuroboshi...
When we left Captain Marika and the Bentenmaru crew at the end of Volume 6, she had just fought another, formidable, pirate ship to a standstill and forced them to run. In Miniskirt Space Pirates,...
View ArticleYuri Visual Novel: A Little Lily Princess (English) Guest Review by Brian T
It is my very sincere pleasure to welcome a brand new Okazu Guest Reviewer to our ranks today! Happy Guest Review Wednesday and welcome to @NetbrianT, a long time Yuri-fan and all-around hoopy frood....
View ArticleYuri Manga: Lily Love (English)
In 2015, it was my sincere pleasure to introduce you to a Thai Yuri manga artist by the name Ratana Satis, when I first reviewed her story Lily Love. Because the book was in Thai, my understanding of...
View ArticleBlack Yagi to Gekiyaku Madeline, Perfect Volume (ブラックヤギーと劇薬まどれーぬ 完全版)
In 2012, Ohsawa Yayoi had her big break in Yuri with the collection Black Yagi to Gekiyaku Madeline, which I reviewed here on Okazu. It was a short story collection that had some good and less-good...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 22, 2016
Yuri Manga Ichijinsha’s got a pile of stuff coming out, including collection like Tsutsui’s Jackpot ni Hohoende (ジャックポットに微笑んで) Mimoto’s Yutasan ha Mamanaranai!, (ゆたさんはままならない!), Sunao Kasuga’s Sumedo...
View ArticleDangerous Women want *you* to help them take over the world.
We are just shy of our initial goal on Dangerous Women and we are looking at some really fantastic stretch goals if we can get there. Backing Dangerous Women gets you fantastic stories of evil psycho...
View ArticleYuri Manga: MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 8 (ムルシエラゴ)
I’m sorry to say that in MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 8 (ムルシエラゴ), no one dies. Well, no one we care about, anyway. In fact, a lot of people die. A whole army of nameless cannon fodder. But since we don’t care...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 29, 2016
Yuri Manga Today’s top news comes from Seven Seas and represents the very wrongest I have ever been about a Yuri title in my whole life. ^_^ Seven Seas has licensed Nagata Kabi’s My Lesbian Experience...
View ArticleLGBTQ Comic: The Other Side Anthology
The last few years have been stellar for independent queer comics. The number of successful Kickstarters is growing and the market is, as well. Shows like Nijicon and Flamecon, and GaymerX prove that...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Oni no Yome to Kurashiteimasu. (兄の嫁と暮らしています。)
Shino is a normal high school senior. Her parents died when she was young, so she moved in with her older brother and his wife. Then her older brother died, leaving her living alone with her young,...
View ArticleMeet the Women of “Dangerous Women”!
There’s a handful of days left in the Dangerous Women Kickstarter and we’re really hoping to make a stretch goal or two. I know that folks here are always looking for great lesbian fiction – this is a...
View ArticleSabishi-sugi Rezu Fuzoku ni Ikimashita Report (さびしすぎてレズ風俗に行きましたレポ)
Nagata Kabi’s Sabishi-sugi Rezu Fuzoku ni Ikimashita Report (さびしすぎてレズ風俗に行きましたレポ) was just licensed by Seven Seas as My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, so I bumped it up on the to-read pile, because...
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