Yuri Manga: Strawberry Fields wo Mou Ichido, Volume 2 ( ストロベリー・フィールズをもう一度)
In Volume 1, we met loner Akira and enthusiastic girl Pyua, who claimed to love her. In Volume 2 of Strawberry Fields wo Mou Ichido ( ストロベリー・フィールズをもう一度), we spend most of our time inside Akira’s head...
View ArticleYuri Doujinshi: Kotonoha 1 (English)
When Emi and Aoi were in school, they were best friends…until one day they kissed. But Aoi never confessed, Emi and she stayed just friends until they graduated. Years have gone by and Aoi now works...
View ArticlePretty Guardian Sailor Moon Manga Eternal Edition, Volume 1 (English)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal Edition, Volume 1 is, in a word, gorgeous. It’s also enormous. It’s almost fitting that the English-language version of the 20th anniversary edition is huge, as...
View ArticleAnimeNYC 2018 Report
I’m just going to say this upfront – – if you’re an anime/manga fan, next year skip New York Comic Con and just come to AnimeNYC. Last year it had potential. This year it lived up to that potential and...
View ArticleYuri Manga: MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 8 (English)
While Kuroko, Hinako, Rinko and Shizuka take on the the Tozakura Group’s 70-year old grudge in the sewers, crazy eyed sniper Reiko is contracted to neutralize their above-ground operations. Hinako’s...
View ArticleThank you to my Okazu Family!
It’s Thanksgiving here in the United States and as is my wont, I would like to take time to thank all of you, my Okazu readers, commenters, guest reviewers, and correspondents. You are the reason Okazu...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 24, 2018
Yuri Manga Yen Press had a number of Yuri manga license announcements at AnimeNYC; Whenever Our Eyes Meet, (link goes to my review of the Japanese volume) an anthology of stories set in adult office...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Éclair rouge Anata no Hibiku Yuri Anthology (エクレア rouge...
Éclair rouge Anata no Hibiku Yuri Anthology (エクレア rouge あなたに響く百合アンソロジー) is the fourth Yuri anthology of the Éclair, series, the first of which, Éclair: A Girls’ Love Anthology That Resonates in Your...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Chocolat Shakaijin Yuri Anthology ( ショコラ 社会人百合アンソロジー)
While we’re on Yuri anthologies(!), it seems a great time to 1) mention that there’s a new Yuri + Kanojo anthlogy out and, without having actually read any of it except the first story, it’s already...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Kiss & White Lily for My Dearest Girl, Volume 7 (English), Guest...
Hello and welcome to Guest Review Wednesday on Okazu! Yay! Today we welcome Christian LeBlanc of 3Dcomics.weebly.com to our loving embrace. Or, was that deadly clutches…I can never remember. ^_^ In any...
View ArticleBecome a Subscriber to Okazu and Join Us For Online Patron Holiday Party!
Today is the final day to Support Okazu on Patreon and receive an invitation to our exclusive Patron Online Holiday Party! Bring your own cake, but the friendship and prizes are real! We’ll be talking...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 1, 2018
Yuri Manga YuriNavi markes the second Toile Web Anthology (WEB百合アンソロジー トワールvol.2). You can read the short stories online in Japanese for free! Atashi no Sempai (アタシのセンパイ) by Shaoya Teruko looks like a...
View Article2018 Okazu Yuri Gift Guide
Last year there was so much to suggest that I broke the Yuri Gift Guide into two separate articles, for manga and anime. Many of those series are still available, so do check out last year’s guide as...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Yurikon, Volume 1 (ゆりこん)
You know what I needed this week? A bag of sesame cookies and a Yuri manga that was sweet and sappy and feel-good. Luckily, I had both to hand. One package of Ginbis black-sesame “asaparagus”* cookies,...
View ArticleRakuen Le Paradis, Volume 28 (楽園 Le Paradis)
Rakuen Le Paradis, Volume 28 (楽園 Le Paradis) does not have a lot of Yuri. In fact, this issue has one chapter of one story that can be in any way considered “Yuri.” But this one chapter is worth...
View ArticleYuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 8, 2018
The new WordPress Gutenberg editor bites. My apologies if things look really messed up for a while as I try to wrestle this all into shape. (So much cursing…) Okazu News The invitations for the Okazu...
View ArticleShe-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Season 1
Okay, okay! I went and signed up for Netflix, fine. Sheesh. For the last couple of years I have been hearing about dozens of series that didn’t make me want at all to subscribe, but finally there’s one...
View ArticleYuri Manga: Nettaigyo ha Yuki ni Kogareru, Volume 3 (熱帯魚は雪に焦がれる )
Nettaigyo ha Yuki ni Kogareru, Volume 3 (熱帯魚は雪に焦がれる ) is, honestly, a very frustrating interlude in a story that had been developing so sweetly. It’s summer and the whole town really digs in and does...
View ArticleMonthly Dengeki Daioh, January 2019 (月刊コミック 電撃大王 2019年1月号)
One of the most fascinating aspects of 2018 for me is the fact that I am once again reviewing individual magazine issues much more often this year than I had for years previously. And typically, with...
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