Yuri Manga: Soirée Gakkyuu, Volume 1 (ソワレ学級)
Yanagi is a decent guy who, after dropping out of more prestigious school, decided to go for a more laid-back trade school. And so he finds himself at Shirabuji. The students at Shirabuji wander in...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Fuwafuwa no Kimochi (ふわふわのきもち)
Today feels like old-timer’s day here on Okazu, as I review a book nostlagically put out by Shinshokan from Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari, (which was also home of the Kase-san series, so maybe they are...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Kyuuketsuki-chan x Kouhai-chan, Volume 1 (吸血鬼ちゃん×後輩ちゃん)
Yuri Vampire Manga #2 Was something I thought I could do. I put in the work…some, But it was all just too irksome So I’m leaving it all up to you. Do vampire in sailor suits appeal? Does sexy biting of...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime March 2018 (コミック百合姫2018年3月号)
The March 2018 issue of Comic Yuri Hime (コミック百合姫2018年3月号) was pretty darn good. Some of the longer serializations are settling in for the ride, others are flailing a bit and some are pivoting from a...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 10, 2018
Yuri Light Novels Via YNN Correspondent Sean G, Seven Seas has listed the Strawberry Panic! Light novels as digital releases. If you missed the “Hikari cries” drinking game the first time around,...
View ArticleLGBTQ Novel: Flowers of Luna (English)
It is my very sincere pleasure today to be reviewing a creative work by a member of our Okazu family! I was sent a copy as a gift, but there’s some very excellent elements here that I wanted to share...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Akaneiro no Kiss ha Okujou de (茜色のキスは屋上で)
Even as Momono Moto-sensei is working her butt off with Galette magazine, Ichijinsha has been licensing some of her work, as well. Akane-iro Kiss ha Okujou de is one of these collections. In the first...
View ArticleEndou Yasuko ha Yomaiyochou ni Kakureteru Manga (遠藤靖子は夜迷町に隠れてる)
Probably-a-vampire Yuri manga number 3 Was not just a waste of a tree It was dumber than hell And it knew it quite well So I’ll read Volume 2…maybe. Masaoka Shizue is starving. She’s living alone, in...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 17, 2018
Super short report today. Yuri Manga The Asagao to Kase-san official Twitter feed noted that Kase-san and Apron, the fourth volume of the series in English will be on sale on February 20th! Yuri...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Kase-san and an Apron (English)
Yamada’s life has changed radically since she’s started to go out with Kase-san. She’s always been kind of average and had no confidence in herself, except in relation to the greenery committee at...
View ArticleSailor Moon Classic Concert Album with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra...
To quote my wife, “The FEELS.” Oh my goodness, the feels. You may remember that last autumn we encountered the flyers for this concert and, although we couldn’t go to the concert itself, we picked up a...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Sougou Tovarisch, Perfect Edition, Volume 1 (総合タワーリシチ 完全版 上)
I cannot stop telling you how amazing it was to walk into Animate in Ikebukuro and see a giant sign in the middle of the ground floor that said “Yuribu.” Nor will I stop gushing about shopping for...
View ArticleLGBTQ: Hitori Koukan Nikki (一人交換日記)
“Dear Nagata Kabi-san, this is Nagata Kabi.” We left Nagata-sensei at the end of 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) (which was sold as My Lesbian Experience With...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Sayuri-san no Imouto ha Tenshi, Volume 1 (小百合さんの妹は天使)
It’s come-clean time. We’re down to the dregs of the pile of my November impulse purchases. That means we’re scraping the bottom of the Yuri barrel. I’m probably not at the bottom yet, but this one is...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 24, 2018
Yuri Manga Via YNN Correspondent Alextasha , Volume 3 of Pulse by Ratana Satis is available for Pre-order! Also from Alextasha, the sad news that Ssamba, the creator of popular Korean Yuri webcomic,...
View ArticleNagareikusha: Moribito Short Story Collection (流れ行く者: 守り人短編集 )
If you, like me, enjoyed the Moribito novel series, and the Seirei no Moribito anime and the Moribito live-action series, (all of which are reviewed here on Okazu) you may, like me, have wondered what...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Bloom Into You, Volume 4 (English)
In Bloom Into You, Volume 4, as the Student Council goes into a stay-over training camp in order to work on their play for the school festival, the principal characters encounter issues they’ve brought...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Shouraiteki ni Shindekure (将来的に死んでくれ)
“Can’t buy me love,” or so the song says. But Hishikawa Shun is much too young to know that song and and she has much more money than sense, so she approaches classmate Komaki with an offer she could...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Galette No. 5 (ガレット No. 5)
Happy 1st Anniversary Galette (ガレット)! With Volume 5, this magazine has hit an important benchmark – one full year of publication. To celebrate their birthday, the folks of Galette are participating in...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 3, 2018
Yuri Anime Yesterday on Twitter, the official Asagao to Kase-san anime account announced new cast members and a (squee!) Drama CD with the next manga volume, which will be released in Japan on May 20,...
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