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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 23, 2017
Yuri Manga Seven Seas has licensed a kind-of-Yuri manga-ish title, Hungry For You: Endo Yasuko Stalks the Night by Flowerchild. It’s a Young King title, so I feel not particular hopeful that it’ll be...
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New! Okazu Patron-Only Content on Patreon
Today I hit a major milestone in what I’m calling the “Big Book o’Yuri” – the definitive book on history, influences, key series, definitions, and random things I want to write about, etc, etc. This...
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Sailor Moon S Anime , Part 2, Disk 2 (English)
For the first time ever, I’m going to say hands down, the Blu-Ray is better. Watching Sailor Moon S, Part 2, Disk 2 on BD was…fun. The colors are super-saturated, and the animation is as good as the...
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Yuri Manga: Kai to Alternarock (貝とオルタナロック)
Nako’s Kai to Alternarock (貝とオルタナロック) has the English subtitle “The key to her room will be opend by her music” which nicely, if inaccurately sums up the story. Alternarock is short for “alternative...
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Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu Manga, Volume 3 ( 推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ )
I’m starting to think that Hirao Auri-sensei has a bad case of manga interruptus. Is the creator a master of tense, unresolved (unresolvable sexual tension) or is it a case of “string ’em along, the...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – September 30, 2017
Yuri Anime ANN has a couple of relevant items about the upcoming Card Captor Sakura Clear Card Arc anime. Fittingly, a classic singer, Sakamoto Maaya, is returning to do the theme. That’ll please all...
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Summer Reading: What Happened
Well. That was cathartic. What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, won’t fix anything. It won’t change the weaponization of social media we saw used so effectively (even now) by Russia and mercenary...
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Yuri Novel: Shoujo Mousouchuu. (少女妄想中。)
As I read Shoujo Mousouchuu. (少女妄想中。) by Iruma Hitoma, I pondered how I might translate the title, as I do. Is it more like the “Girl of my Delusion” or “The Delusional Girl?” This is not an idle...
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Yuri Anime News: Asagao to Kase-san OVA Coming in 2018!
The news has come from on high – 2018 will see an Asagao to Kase-san OVA! The official Asagao-Anime twitter feed and website made the announcement this week. According to the announcement, the OVA will...
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Yuri Manga: Sweet Blue Flowers, Volume 1 (English)
Third time’s the charm. In 2012, JManga did a digital-only translation. Towards the end of 2014, Digital Manga Publishing also tried putting Shimura Takako-sensei’s new classic Yuri manga out as a...
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Yuri Manga: Yagate Kimi ni Naru, Volume 4 (やがて君になる)
In my previous reviews of Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 of Nakatani Nio-sensei’s series I have expressed, at length, my discomfort with this series as a whole and in specific. I won’t beat that same...
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A Note from the Editor’s Desk – On Removing A Post on Okazu
Today I did a thing here on Okazu that I have not had occasion to do very often – a post has been removed. It’s not something I have to do often because this is my blog and obviously, most of what I...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 7, 2017
Yuri Anime So weirdly, I was looking around my shelves of anime the other day and thought, “wWw, another whole new generation of Yuri fans will have no idea who Shizuru and Natsuki are when I use them...
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Patron-Only Content Launched on Patreon
I won’t be making a habit of this, but Patrons of Okazu got a chance to see some original content from the monster I’m calling The Big Book O’Yuri (that’s not the real title. It has a name,it’s just...
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Yuri Manga: Kase-San and Shortcake (English)
Kase-san and Shortcake, by Hiromi Takashima is awkward and painful and wonderful and sexy and excruciating and delightful. In other words, it’s a bit like adolescence itself, except that I’m perfectly...
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Image Comics to publish BINGO LOVE!
Some big news out of NYCC this weekend! Image Comics is going to be publishing Bingo Love. the book that I’m calling THE comic of 2018. Created and written by Tee Franklin, with art by Jenn St-Onge,...
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Yuri Manga: Kiss and White Lily For My Dearest Girl, Volume 3 (English)
Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl, Volume 3, follows the drama of the school’s garden club into which resident school genius Kurozawa Yurine is roped. Yukina, the Gardening Club President is...
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Sailor Moon S Anime, Part 2, Disk 3 (English)
Okay, I’m convinced. Watching Sailor Moon S, Part 2, Disk 3 on Blu-Ray has convinced me of the superiority of Blu-Rayfor remastered old analog anime. (I’m still completely un-awed by it for regular...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – October 14, 2017
LGBTQ Comics It’s an exciting time to be a fan of queer comics isn’t it? Award-nominated comic creator Hazel Newlevant has just released her newest book, a bisexual, polyamorous love story, Sugar Town....
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LGBTQ Novel: Apparition Alley
Where were you in 1997? I was just on the cusp of my interest in anime. I was devouring lesbian mysteries- not because they were good, per se (and many were not) but because I could stand in a large...
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