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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 15, 2018
This week’s report is going to be super short, as I have a ton of stuff to work on this weekend. But do not worry, you will get to read all of it as it appears. ^_^ First, let me thank all our Okazu...
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Why Is It Always Catholic Schoolgirls in Yuri?
I’ve talked a lot recently about “secret projects.” One of my secret projects was this essay, which was orignally written for the first volume of Yuri is My Job, by Miman, available in English in...
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Comic Yuri Hime December 2018 (コミック百合姫2018年12月号)
This year has given us a number of excellent Yuri manga and anime, but as Comic Yuri Hime December 2018 (コミック百合姫2018年12月号) hit shelves, it brought with it the end of a remarkable (and remarkably...
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Yuri Anime: Sailor Moon Crystal, Season 3, Disk 1 (English)
Why yes, I am finally getting around to watching Sailor Moon Crystal, Season 3 just so I can put it on this year’s Top Yuri Anime list. Come at me, I don’t care. ^_^ There were many legit complaints...
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Yuri Anime: Sailor Moon Crystal, Season 3, Disk 2 (English)
As I wrap up watching Sailor Moon Crystal, Season 3, I find that there is indeed a lot to talk about in this final disk of Crystal so far. First, let us speak of the actual story, in which a very few...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 22, 2018
Yuri Visual Novel Studio Élan announces the release date for their Yuri Visual Novel, Heart of the Woods and the ED by In Love With A Ghost, a snippet of which is available on their soundcloud. The VN...
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Yuri Visual Novel: A Beautiful Ride to Carlisle
In honor of the massive amounts of Yuri Visual Novels on yesterday’s YNN report, and because everyone likes to feel good about the world, I can think of no better thing to review today than Little...
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Live Action: Rose of Versailles Digital Remaster Blu-ray (ベルサイユのばら デジタルリマスター版)
What better way is there to celebrate a holiday, than to watch Lady Oscar, the French live action movie with English cast and audio, Japanese subtitles, based on a Japanese manga about the French...
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Yuri Manga: After Hours, Volume 3 (English)
I was genuinely delighted that Viz picked up this lovely short series about two women who meet each other by chance at a live show. Now that the series is completed, I want to reiterate that I really...
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Yuri Manga: Galette, No. 8 (ガレット)
Galette No. 8 (ガレット) is here, full of Yuri goodies, as always, and some interesting treasures buried inside! Yay! ^_^ There are a lot more color pages than previous issues, which keep surprising me, no...
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Top Ten Yuri Manga of 2018
Well, my friends, that time of year has come upon us once again. 2018 is coming to a close and I have never before had so many riches to work with. This has been the most remarkable year for Yuri I...
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Top Yuri Anime of 2018
No YNN report this week, we have bigger fish to fry. This year’s top Yuri anime list is a tribute to both the past and to the future of Yuri. ^_^ In the early ’00s when I began Okazu, there was very...
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Top Ten Yuri of 2018
Inexplicably, as I began to type this, the first few words of the song “My Way” popped into my head. ^_^ This list is definitely not a song of the end, it’s a paean to some simply fantastic work that...
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Okazu Podcast: Yuri in 2018, Yuri in 2019
Welcome to 2019! We’re starting the year off right away with a brand new podcast on our Okazu Patreon, thanks to my new computer, which has functioning audio recording. (That was part of why we went so...
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Non-Okazu End-of-Year Lists and Reviews
We’ve got a massive pile of Yuri to review to start 2019 off, so I want to wrap up one last lingering item from 2018! As you all know, I work my brain to the bone (yeah, that metaphor did not go so...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 5, 2019
Happy New Year to all of you in the Yuri Network! There’s a ton of news to get to today, so away we go…! Yuri Manga All of Nakamura Kiyo’s (aka Nakamura Ching’s) manga is available digitally on...
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Yuri Manga: Jyoryusakka to Yuki, Volume 1 (女流作家とユキ)
When considering just which of the gigantic piles of things I have her that I want to write for my first review of 2019, I was faced with a question of intent. Did I want to cover a classic manga so...
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Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime, January 2019 (コミック百合姫2019年1月号)
Comic Yuri Hime, January 2019 (コミック百合姫2019年1月号) magazine has a new cover artist for the year. I like it. The new story begins with a girl catching a glimpse of another girl at the station, as she...
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Yuri Anthology: Yuri + Kanojo – Tomodachi ha Kinou Made – (百合+カノジョ-友達は昨日まで-)
The Yuri + Kanojo anthologies from Fusion Comics has been a fascinating mashup of first-person visual story telling and ultra-short narrative creation that has, in general, piqued my interest. If you...
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Cutie Honey: The Classic Collection (English)
Many years ago, I was given the 1985 reprint of the 1973 manga Cutie Honey. When she gave it to me, artist Rica Takashima mentioned that this was the very first magical heroine who didn’t need a man...
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