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Yuri Manga: Transparent Light Blue (English)
Transparent Light Blue, by Kyoko Iwami, was a collection of two multi-chapter short stories that ran in Comic Yuri Hime (and, I believe a earlier as a doujinshi. My Japanese volume is buried in the...
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Toronto Comics Arts Festival 2019 Day .5 and Day 1
Like all good events, Toronto Comic Arts Festival begins and ends before and after the event itself. For me, TCAF 2019 began on Thursday when I got a message on the way to the hotel. Wait, let me tell...
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Toronto Comics Arts Festival 2019, Day 2
Sunday started with breakfast. It is the most important meal of the day. Well, it is for me, I need that coffee. I finally had a chance to actually go around the festival, so I did. ^_^ I picked up a...
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LGBTQ Manga: Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Volume 1 (English)
I have been waiting to review this book for about a year. And finally, here it, is, Our Dreams at Dusk, Shimanamai Tasogare, Volume 1 by Yuhki Kamatani is out in English and I cannot express how happy...
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Yuri Manga: Anoko ni Kiss to Shirayuri wo, Volume 10 (あの娘にキスと白百合を)
Whenever a popular and long-running manga series ends, I’m always tempted to start the review with the lyrics of My Way. I may even have given in to that temptation once or twice. In any case, here we...
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Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime May 2019 (コミック百合姫2019年5月号)
Due to a conflict with a recent update, the Yuricon Store is not currently functional. We’ll get it back up as quickly as we can, but in the meantime, links on Okazu will go straight to Amazon or...
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Yuri Manga: Dekisokonai no Hime-tachi (できそこないの姫君たち)
One of the byproducts of so many Yuri anthologies and manga outlets recently is the pleasure of encountering new names among the familiar ones. Ajiichi has been around a little while, but hasn’t had a...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 11, 2019
Yuri Events Today at the School of Visual Arts in New York City we are celebrating queer comics of all kinds at the Queers & Comics event. Join scholars Yukari Fujimoto, James Welker, Kazumi...
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Western Comic: Chronin, Volume 1 (English)
I’m really excited to be able to talk about a terrific comic today, Chronin, Volume 1 by Alison Wilgus. I’m obsessively promoting this work and, after having spoken to Alison at both TCAF and again...
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MURCIÉLAGO Manga, Volume13 (ムルシエラゴ)
MURCIÉLAGO, Volume 13 (ムルシエラゴ) is a rare volume. While there is a ton of violence and fighting and implied lesbian sex and the return of a fan favorite enemy, very little actually happens. A new enemy...
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Yuri Manga: Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu. Volume (兄の嫁と暮らしています。)
In the previous volumes of Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu (兄の嫁と暮らしています。), we have met Shino, a 17-year old and her sister-in-law, Nozomi. After the death of her bother, Shino and Nozomi continue to live...
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Western Comic: When I Arrived at the Castle (English)
Despite the increase in lesbian vampire (or not-a-vampire) stories in recent years, there has not yet been a lesbian horror renaissance. Recently in a twitter conversation several folks were speaking...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 25, 2019
Yuri Manga From the twitter feed of Suzuki Paisen, a “sexy” harem Yuri manga has begun serialization in Shonen Jump Plus. You can read a sample of Tonari no Heya kara Aegigoe ga surun desukedo…...
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Summer Reading: The Stars Are Legion
This review must begin with several thank yous. Thank you, my Okazu family for giving me both the motivation and the positive reception that has encouraged me to to read classics I missed in my youth...
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Lily Lily Rose Manga, Volume 2
In Volume 1, we met Nobara whose quiet live is upended when the daughter of her late sister arrives on her doorstep. Lily is a quiet girl, but slowly, she becomes more comfortable with her aunt and her...
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Ah toka Uh toka Ienai Manga, Volume 1 (あーとかうーしか言えない )
The subject of today’s review isn’t really Yuri, although I’ve seen it on a number of Yuri lists. Despite that I want to talk about it, in part because I mentioned it recently during an interview. Ah...
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Yuri Manga: Kiss & White Lily Volume 9 (English) Guest Review by Christian...
Hello and welcome to Guest Review….Thursday. Yeah, I dropped the ball yesterday and simply forgot to post this. But I didn’t want you to miss this terrific review by Senior Kiss & White Lily...
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Yuri Manga: Eve and Eve (English)
Eve and Eve by Nagashiro Rouge is a collection of stories that ran in several publications, including shorts from Comic Yuri Hime. By the time I had read the Japanese edition, the license announcement...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – June 1, 2019
Yuri Events Please join me in Atlantic City on June 8th at AnimeNEXT for a 100 Years of Yuri presentation! There will be prizes for good questions! The deadline for signing up for the 100 Years of...
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The Little Series that Could: Asagao to Kase-san
1.Introduction When Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari magazine, Volume 2 hit shelves in summer 2010, it didn’t have any big names in Yuri in the table of contents. (Hakamada Mera did not join the roster until...
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