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2017 Yuri Gift Guide, Part 2: Anime
Part 1 of this year’s Gift Guide was all manga and comics, so it seems sensible that we take a few minutes to take a look at some anime that has come out this year in sets so you can populate your...
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LGBTQ Comic Essay: The Big Book of Bisexual Trials and Errors
Elizabeth Beier’s The Big Book of Bisexual Trials and Errors strikes that rare balance between self-reflection and redemption that we so desperately need in 2017. Equally importantly, this tale of...
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LGBTQ Comic: Bingo Love
Sometimes, all you really want to read is an adorable story about a timeless love winning over intolerance and other people’s opinions. On days like that, I heartily recommend Bingo Love, the...
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Yuri Manga: Bloom Into You, Volume 3 (English)
As I read Nakatani Nio’s Bloom Into You, Volume 3, I get to experience a vast range of emotion, much of which I find hard to put into words. I can’t help seeing the narrative through my own lens, even...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 16, 2017
Yuri Anime Having found success with the most exploitative series in Comic Yuri Hime, Ichijinsha is trying again with Tachibanakan To Lie Angle (立花館To Lieあんぐる). This perve-fest of cameltoes and breast...
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Ichigo Mashimaro Manga, Volume 8 (苺ましまろ)
Barasui is consistent, I’ll give him that. The last volume of Ichigo Mashimaro was 4 years ago, and the previous one was four years before that. Nice work if you can get it. Unfortunately for us, a lot...
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Yuri Manga: Galette No. 4 (ガレット)
Creator-owned and crowdfunded, quarterly Yuri anthology magazine Galette (ガレット) is a success. How can I say that with such confidence? Keep reading and find out. ^_^ This is the 4th volume of this Yuri...
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Winter Reading: Queer-Friendly Science Fiction
I know I usually write about non-Yuri stuff on Sundays, but I’ve read a pile of great science fiction recently that I wanted to share with you before the holiday season slams down on all of us and I...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 23, 2017
Short report today. I dislocated my shoulder Thursday night and typing is not so fun. I’m fine, I promise. I put the shoulder back in Friday morning and just have a nasty sprain now. Just want to keep...
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Torikaebaya Manga, Volume 12 (とりかえ・ばや)
It’s all coming to a climax in Torikaebaya, Volume 12 (とりかえ・ばや). The penny dropped in Volume 11, as the emperor got an inkling of an idea that the person he knows as his consort Suiren is quite likely...
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Yuri Manga: 2DK, GPen, Mezamashitokei, Volume 5 (2DK、Gペン、目覚まし時計。)
In 2DK, GPen, Mezamashitokei, Volume 5 (2DK、Gペン、目覚まし時計。) Nanami comes to a decision regarding her feelings for Kaede, then the world conspires to make her rethink that position. First of all, Nanami’s...
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Top Ten Yuri Manga of 2017
2017 brought us a veritable excess of Yuri riches. So much so, that with 2 exceptions, every item in this list is available in English and Japanese – and even one of those is available on USA Kindle....
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Top Ten Yuri Anime of 2017
Anime’s always harder than manga for me, because despite the premise that “only guys buy anime” being disproved over and over again, the prevailing belief among producers is that only guys buy anime....
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The Okazu Top Ten Yuri of 2017
Well, my dear friends. Here we are at the end of another year together. We’ve lost some important people, and had some hard times, so we should definitely take a moment and give each other a pat on the...
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Celebrate the New Year with Okazu Lucky Boxes! – Claimed!
Happy 2018! It’s time to celebrate the dawning of a new year with our Okazu ritual sending of Lucky Boxes crammed with Yuri stuff to a few lucky folks! This year, the USPS has downsized the boxes a...
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Yuri Manga: 2DK, G Pen, Mezamshitokei, Volume 6 (2DK、Gペン、目覚まし時計。6)
In Ohsawa Yayoi’s 2DK, G Pen, Mezamshitokei, Volume 6 (2DK、Gペン、目覚まし時計。6), we get something we haven’t seen before – Kaede’s perspective. Nanami, having come to a conclusion for herself, confessed her...
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Yuri Doujinshi: Kitao Taki and Yorita Miyuki Short Story Collections
A million years ago, back in November, I was wandering around Comitia throwing money at Yuri doujinshi artists. In the hurlyburly of buying many things, I managed to pick up two collections that I...
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Yuri Manga: Hana & Hina After School, Volume 3 (English)
In Volume 3 of Hana & Hina After School, Hana and Hina face a growing distance between them manufactured out of their mutual desire to avoid their feelings for one another. Nonetheless, we’re...
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Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime January 2018 (コミック百合姫2018年1月号)
Comic Yuri Hime, January 2018 (コミック百合姫2018年1月号) is off to a strong start with series new and continuing, from folks we know we like, folks we know we don’t like and folks we don’t know at all. We have...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 6, 2018
Yuri Manga In celebration of the 20th anniversary, Viz put out a gorgeous 2-volume set of the (to-date) complete Revolutionary Girl Utena Manga . And Shogakukan, not about to be outdone has responded...
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