| 9:22pm | Yuri Anime: Saki, Mid-season review | | | | Saki, we need to talk.It's nothing bad, really, it's just I'll be honest. I wasn't sure that we'd get along at first. You seemed to be too fake-cutesy, with those ridiculous ever-blushing cheeks, but always flashing your legs at me. It was a creepy mixed signal thing that got on my nerves. And Nodoka,... |
| 7:00pm | Hayate x Blade Manga, Volume 10 | | | | If you have been following Hayate x Blade (はやて×ブレ ド) from the beginning, you are vaguely aware that there is an itch in this series that is not being scratched. But first, as Volume 10 opens, there's the persistent and dangerous Ensuu and Mei to deal... |
| 1:13pm | Yuri Network News - September 19, 2009 | | | | Yuri GamesOne of the biggest news items this week is the Sasamekikoto kissing game application for iPhone and iPod touch. It's available with English subtitles and apparently Ushio and you get to practice kissing until her mask dissappears. As you might remember, a Sasamekikoto anime is due out soon,... |
| 9:10pm | Yuri Light Novel: Amagami Emmenthal | | | | Upon reading the back cover of the Light Novel Amagami Emmenthal (あまがみエメンター ), I commented to the wife, "You gotta figure that any story in which the clothing gets credit as a cast member is definitely gonna be *great.*" (I was being sarcastic, in case that doesn't come across well... | | |
| 9:35pm | Needless, Anime and Manga | | | | A little over a year ago, I began getting Ultra Jump magazine, when Hayate Cross Blade moved to there from its former home. One of the other series in the magazine was the manga Needless and, being the manga omnivore I am, I gave it a try. I picked it up in the middle of a fight between a bunch of girls,... | | |
| 4:04pm | Yuri Network News - September 12, 2009 | | | | Lots of Yuri News this week!Yuri AnimeAnimevice reported that He is My Master is going to be showing on Anime Network Online and out on DVD, and Ultraviolet 044 (yes, *that* Ultraviolet - based on the crap movie, and wasting starring the voice talents of Paku Romi) will be getting a US DVD release. If... | | |
| 7:00pm | Ichiroh Manga, Volume 1 (English) | | | | When Yuri Network Correspondent Sean G. drew my attention to this manga, he did it in the least appealing way, much as he might have introduced me to a creepy relative. "This is Aunt Claudia. We have to invite her." lol So, while it wasn't high on my list of manga to read, it went onto the list and eventually,... | | |
| 4:22pm | Yuri Manga: Hakodate Youjin Buraijou Himegami, Volume 5 | | | | Demons, women, women demons and women who fight demons. It's a much of a muchness in Hakodate Youjin Buraijou Himegami, Volume 5 (箱館妖人無頼帖ヒメ ミ).Having defeated the evil, demony, well-endowed, cross-dressing French proprietor of the Black Widow brothel, Himeka has been indulging... |
| 12:37am | "Lesbian" Comic: Peanut Butter, Volume 3 (English) | | | | Let's talk porn. It's not at all true that everyone knows porn when they see it. That's part of the meaning of the "L" in LFB. There are a lot of people who don't see any difference in say, true romance, and stalking or rape. Not just in straight porn, either. These themes are very very common in, oh,... |
| 4:00pm | Yuri Manga: Linkage | | | | "Do you remember, the moment your love first began?"Thus begins Linkage, the collection of Yuri Hime stories by Kurata Uso.These stories are linked only by their exploration of that one moment, when two people realize that they share the same feelings as one another.Two office workers who misunderstand... |
| 9:17pm | Click Manhwa, Volume 3 (English) | | | | It's a full-on "stress about your gender" a-thon in Click, Volume 3.Joonha, now trapped permanently in a woman's body, is not one whit less gynophobic than she was a a guy. Men's bodies, she says, "sure are strong and beautiful," while women's bodies are "impossible to move around in and annoying as... |
| 8:39pm | Yuri Manga: Tetragrammaton Labyrinth, Volume 6 (English) | | | | In Volume 6 of Tetragrammaton Labyrinth, what was always implicit becomes finally explicit. As Angela, Meg and their allies face the evil, insane and powerful Gilles de Rais, and find that their own power comes up short against his, he raises the issue that has been the leitmotif of this entire series.... | | |
| 5:46pm | Yuri Network News - September 5, 2009 | | | | So much great Yuri news this week!Yuri AnimeNovember is going to be a bang-up month for Yuri fans, with Sasamekikoto in Japan and El Cazador here, and now we have yet another thing to look forward to: Arca Jeth (and many other people!) want you to know that Sentai Filmworks announces that they'll be... | | |
| 12:01am | Aoi Shiro Manga, Volume 2 | | | | In the Jive edition of Aoi Shiro, the focus is squarely on the game characters, as opposed to Ichinjisha's Yuri Hime edition of the story, in which the focus was on two almost irrelevant characters and was so tepidly Yuri that it failed to capture my interest. In Volume 2 of the Jive version of Aoi Shiro,... |
| 7:00pm | Hidamari Sketch Manga, Volume 4 | | | | It's Guest Review Wednesday once again on Okazu and once again, it is my sincere pleasure to welcome George R. for this week's guest review!The fourth volume of Aoki Ume's Hidamari Sketch manga (ひだまりスケッチ) came out in Japan this past January. I was a bit slow in picking it up, but am glad... | | |
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