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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 1, 2020
Yuri Anime RetroCrushTV is adding more new titles that were fundamental back in developing Yuri fandom a few decades ago. They have Key The Metal Idol, Vampire Princess Miyu, Devil Lady. Alex Mateo...
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A Study in Honor, by Claire O’Dell
Well, we’ve managed to make to August. Congratulations us! August is traditionally the time of year where I do kind of crash and burn, so reading a pleasantly fanficish story starring queer, black,...
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Aikata System ~ Gakuen ga Eranda Unmei no Onna no ko~, Volume 2...
What if you entered a school that had a fabled old tradition and it sounded so beautiful and romantic that you couldn’t wait to be part of it…but once you did you found the system was broken and toxic?...
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Hitogoto Desukara, Volume 1 (ヒトゴトですから!)
Hitogoto Desukara, Volume 1 (ヒトゴトですから!) , by Yuni is a very funny, outrageous and ever-so-slightly enraging workplace comedy manga. Komori Mio is a self-proclaimed sales ace. She’s got skills closing...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 8, 2020
Week after week, I put this news report together and am absolute amazed at how much news there is from the Yuri Network. It’s a great time to be a fan of Yuri. ^_^ Yuri Manga Yen Press has announced a...
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Weekly Magazine WOMAN, Volume 3 Summer (週刊文春WOMAN 夏号)
In September 2019, when I was in Japan for the 100 Years of Yuri Tour, I had an item on my to-buy list that I honestly expected to have difficulty finding. Shunkanbunshun WOMAN, Volume 3 Natsugou...
View ArticleOkazu Community Standards Have Been Updated
I cannot believe that in 2020 I have to say this, but recently there have been a spate of really grotesque comments by supposed fans here on Okazu. I’m not talking about harassment, that’s always...
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Bloom Into You, Volume 8
As we pick up Bloom Into You, Volume 8 by Nakatani Nio, out now from Seven Seas, it’s almost inevitable that the unctious strains of “My Way” come floating into our minds. ^_^ Yuu and Touko at last...
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Comic Yuri Hime, August 2020 (コミック百合姫2020年8月号)
I just want to take a moment before I even begin this review and offer a tip of my hat to cover artist Rolua, who in a few cover pieces told a decent short science fiction story. ^_^ There are a couple...
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Ai ni Airashi Itoshi Anata (愛に愛らし愛しいあなた)
Suzuki Yufuko’s Ai ni Airashi Itoshi Anata (愛に愛らし愛しいあなた) was not at all what I expected it to be. No, scratch that. It was exactly everything I expected it to be…only it turned out to be kind of...
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – August 15, 2020
Yuri Anime We’re starting this week off with some song and dance. Rafael Antonio Pineda at ANN has the details of the upcoming Revue Starlight film and the teaser trailer. Kyoto Animation is producing...
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Rafiki, directed by Wanuri Kahiu
Rafiki directed by Wanuri Kahiu, is a beautiful film about two Kenyan women in love in a county where homosexuality is illegal, and Church, State and Society are violently opposed to queer people...
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Bloom Into You Regarding Saeki Sayaka, Volume 2
Saeki Sayaka would probably not, if you asked, consider herself nostalgic. Nor would she likely think of herself as capricious, I don’t think she’d go far as to say that she was any more logical than...
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Anata to Watashi no Shuuhassuu (あなたと私の周波数)
Readers of Comic Yuri Hime monthly, might remember most of the stories in this volume, Anata to Watashi no Shuuhassuu (あなたと私の周波数) by Kuwabara Tamostsu. Each short takes a look at a frustration in life...
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No YNN Report Today
It’s been 8 months straight for the weekly Yuri Network News report and today, I’m taking a day off. ^_^ We’re working hard on a new video for Yuri Studio right this very moment…stay tuned! If you’ve...
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Galette, No. 14 (ガレット)
Galette, No. 14 (ガレット) marks a shift in my collection and starts with a multi-layered tale of woe. ^_^ Due to the pandemic, this issue was offered in limited amount to backers as a physical...
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Nakatani Nio Short Story Collection Sayonara Alter ( 仲谷鳰短編集 さよならオルタ)
Nakatani Nio Short Story Collection Sayonara Alter ( 仲谷鳰短編集 さよならオルタ) is the collected volume of short stories by the Yagate Kimi ni Naru /Bloom Into You creator. The stories in this collection come...
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Vampeerz, Volume 3 (ヴァンピアーズ)
The third volume of the manga Vampeerz (ヴァンピアーズ) Is chock-full of fetishes and fears. Vampires in school, but really, It’s all what you’d expect from Akili,, Gravitas Twilight has smeared. That’s...
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Comic Yuri Hime, September 2020 (コミック百合姫2020年9月号)
This cover wins. It is, in a lifetime of reading comics and decades of reading Yuri manga, my favorite cover of any Yuri manga ever. The foldout cover, with art by Rolua, is the wholly goth image of an...
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The Future is Always Obsolete: Ghost In the Shell Manga Franchise
Some months ago, I took a great number of hours and watched all the visual media (except for the recent VR Noh-inspired play, which I desperately want to see…) from the Ghost in the Shell franchise....
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