| 1:04am | Light Novel Maria-sama ga Miteru: Bara no Mille-Feuille, Intro & Part 1 | | | | IntroductionRei: I realize parts of this translation will sound stilted or exist only as frozen language, and I apologize. On at least one occasion I have been called, "too rigid" and this is due to the method I use to translate. Having studied translation to some extent in college, I tend to approach... | | |
| 11:34am | Response to Requests for Recommendations | | | | I am now up to about 20 emails/posts/comments a week requesting recommendations for other Yuri titles that people would like me to guess that they would want to read (usually scanlations, because very very rarely do people ask what they can buy.) I do not do recommendations. I'm not really comfortable... |
| 8:33pm | Lesbian Comic: Detective Comics | | | | What a week here at Okazu! Not only did we get to read that breathtaking interview with Nakamura Ching-sensei, but today I have a guest review written by none other than David Welsh of Precocious Curmudgeon. I'm all a-quiver with excitement at today's review.Some weeks ago on Twitter, David mentioned... |
| 5:32pm | Alice on Deadlines Manga, Volume 4 (English) | | | | After yesterday's amazing interview this will immediately pale into the obscurity it deserves, but it has to be done. :-)We have, through much hardship and effort, made our way through to the final, climactic volume of Alice on Deadlines and still, the title remains the best part of the story.The final... |
| 6:51pm | Interview with Gunjo's Nakamura Ching | | | | You may or may not remember that my love affair with Gunjo began when I received a message on Mixi from a young manga artist, asking if I'd be interested in a non-moe Yuri manga. Obviously, I was.A few weeks ago I asked Nakamura-sensei if she didn't mind, could she answer a few questions for us here... |
| 1:37pm | Yuri Network News - August 8, 2009 | | | | It's a lazy summer day, let's start off with news for the lazy!Yuri AnimeThe Anime Network has announced that in celebration of National Lazy Day on August 10, they are offering all of its online content, including "premium" content, for free. There a number of Yuri offerings in their catalog - they... |
| 10:44pm | Hitohira Manga, Volume 3 (English) | | | | In Volume 3 of Hitohira, the spotlight remains firmly on Mugi's transformation from a pathologically shy girl to one capable of dealing with being in the public eye. But even Mugi's new pair of wings doesn't mean she's always going to be able to fly.Although they had their triumph, Nono's renegade Theater... | | |
| 10:48pm | Gunjo, Chapters 10-13 | | | | I haven't talked about Gunjo (new spelling courtesy of the editors of Morning 2 magazine) in a while. It's not because it stopped running, although there was a hiatus for a bit of the spring. It was because, simply, I couldn't. I could not write about what is arguably the most amazing story I have ever... | | |
| 11:44pm | Yuri Drama CD: Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan ~ White Engage | | | | It has been previously established that the Ame-iro Kouchakan rates very high on the 'ole Yuri-o-meter. In fact, it seems to draw female couples like bees to lilies and yes, I'm mixing my metaphors, thank you.So, it will come as no surprise that Mana-chan-sensei from the earlier mini DCD, "Pink Princess"... | | |
| 8:24pm | Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime S, Volume 9 | | | | Yuri Hime S, Volume 9 (コミック百合姫S (エス)) isYuri Hime S. I keep wanting to like it, I really do. And mostly I kind of sort of enjoy it. But it is not for me and I am reminded repeatedly of the fact as I face chapter after chapter of stories like "Yuru Yuri," "Love Cubic," "Minus Literacy,"... |
| 7:31pm | Digging the (Anime/Manga) Twitter Scene | | | | If you look on the right-hand sidebar of this blog, you will see a number of links that lead you to social media spaces of varying kinds. Yuricon on Facebook, my profile on Mixi, the Yuricon Mailing List and a number of other spaces. Today I want to talk about Twitter.Yuricon on Twitter is a bit of a... |
| 6:10pm | Yuri Network News - August 1, 2009 | | | | As Yuricon is about to turn 9 years old, and Okazu 7, I've been thinking about what we've accomplished so far and what there is still yet to do. In many ways we have no influence over what happens in Japan, of course. Other than perhaps buying so much Yuri that we actually become a blip on their market... | | |
| 7:00pm | Maria-sama ga Miteru Special CD, Vol. 3 | | | | You know you're really an otaku when you generalize "spending time with characters we like to spend time with" to "spending time listening to the people who play those characters talking about cake."Welcome to the second-floor council room at the Rose Mansion of Lillian Jogakuen and the quite meaningless,... | | |
| 10:16pm | Yuri Manga: Tsubomi, Volume 2 | | | | I was about to sit down this morning, at an obscenely early hour, while the sun rose into my living room (bringing light and heat, but not joy) when something important happened. I picked up my copy of Tsumbomi, Volume 2, (つぼみ) all ready to damn it with faint praise - how the stories were like... |
| 11:39am | Chicago Examiner Interview | | | | Jolie DuPre of the Chicago Examiner asks me all the right questions in today's Interview of the President of Yuricon & ALC Publishing.(If you've been a fan for a while, you know all this. Still, check out the interview and bump Jolie's ratings, will you? Also, feel free to send this link to your... |
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