| 7:00pm | Aria the Natural, Part 2 Anime (English) | | | | Squeezing Yuri from Aria the Natural, Part 2 is like making an essential oil from a rose petal. It's a lot of work, takes a lot of petals and, in the end, what you have is a beautiful, but ephemeral scent. Which is not to say that it's not worth your time. Like a rose, Aria the Natural, has a timeless... | | |
| 9:38pm | Yuri Manga: Gokujou Drops, Volume 2 | | | | Everyday at the Ootori Dorm is a passive-aggressive kind of day in Volume 2 of Gokujou Drops, one of the Yuri manga distributed on cellphone by Ichijinsha.Komari is not *quite* as sappy as she appears, and certainly not nearly as sappy as she started out in Volume 1, but she's not conquering the universe... |
| 7:46pm | Women Make Comics...dammit! | | | | You may remember that, at the end of June, I mentioned that Deb Aoki, editor and writer of manga.about.com, had spearheaded a program to make the point that women and girls not only read and buy, but also make comics, after a particularly bad media backlash about female fans of the Twilight series "invading"... |
| 4:14pm | Yuri Network News - July 25, 2009 | | | | This is the first week in a while that there hasn't been loads of Yuri news. Everyone is at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, and while there are tons of announcements coming out in manga, none of it has been Yuri. It's interesting to note that while Yuri manga is exploding in Japan, it has become nearly... | | |
| 9:46pm | Zombie Loan Manga, Volume 3 (English) | | | | Having sold her soul to the Ferryman, Michiru's life went from miserable to chaotic. But, in Zombie Loan, Volume 3, it's finally settling down into a pattern of hunting zombies with Shito and Chika in order to pay off the loan that keeps her alive. Of course, as with all things regarding credit, the... | | |
| 11:18pm | Your And My Secret Manga, Volume 4 | | | | Crazy, wacky gender-bendy hijinks turn into slightly serious gender-bendy hijinks in Volume 4 of Your and My Secret. Akira, still stuck in Nanako's body, is being wooed by his best Senbongi, while Nanako, happily passing her days in Akira's body, is still going out with her best friend Shiina.The bulk... |
| 2:17am | Hidamari Sketch Light Novel: Hidamari School Life | | | | I really intended on writing my own review today. Then I ended up sacrificing some hours to the gods of Tech Support and by the time I was done, I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't. Sorry. Bravely, George R. has leapt into the gap to save my shattered nerves and so, I commend him and his review to... | | |
| 11:13pm | Yuri Manga: Butterfly 69 | | | | Butterfly 69 is everything that is good and right about Yuri manga. It makes me happy to be a manga reader.Right from the first panel of the first story that ever appeared in Yuri Hime, I found Natsuneko's art appealing. It has vibrancy, an energy that lacks in most manga these days. It's not just that... |
| 3:11pm | Yuri Network News - July 18, 2009 | | | | Welcome to the relaunch of the News Report as Yuri Network News. YNN correspondents have reported in from around the world! I just whacked together this logo, so I'm officially announcing a YNN logo contest. Send in your YNN logo to anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com and I'll come up with something fun... | | |
| 11:08pm | Yuri Manga: Morita-san no Mukuchi | | | | There are *so* many ways Morita-san ha Mukuchi (森田さんは無口) could have been annoying. But it isn't annoying. Not at all. It's very funny and very enjoyable.Morita Mayu is, compared with other people, more silent. It's not that she can't talk, or that she doesn't want to talk, it's just that... |
| 7:00pm | Yuri Manga: Butterfly Kiss Blade, Volume 1 | | | | In the beginning, there were the Inklings. From the Inklings were born Lord of the Rings and the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. These misbegot such things as the Sword of Shannara and the Belgeriad and from these were, ultimately, begot Harry Potter. From Harry Potter came Negima! and now, here we... | | |
| 7:00pm | Gin Tama Manga (English) | | | | Welcome to Wednesday on Okazu, the day I crash and burn and pass the baton to whomever is standing closest and doesn't think to run away. Today's victim Guest Reviewer is the much beloved, admired and bewildered Sean Gaffney, Okazu's resident LFB correspondent. Let's welcome Sean with this Laurel and... | | |
| 1:20am | New Anime Season Summer 2009: Yuri Anime: Kanamemo (English) | | | | We've talked about how similar 4-koma comics are to each other many times. They are usually slice of life, perhaps at a school, in a club, a bunch of friends, all hangingoutandbeingsilly. Life, you know.Well, Kanamemo isn't like that. It has a rather depressing set up, as it happens. Kana's parents had... | | |
| 2:25pm | Passion Art Show | | | | Friday night I was honored to be able to attend the opening of the "Passion" Lesbian group art show, which was part of the Fresh Fruit Festival at the Leslie/Lohman Gallery at 26 Wooster St., NYC. It runs through July 25, Tue-Sat, 12 Noon - 6:00 PM and if you are in or around the NYC area, please do... |
| 1:40am | Yuri News This Week - July 11, 2009 | | | | I was in NYC last night at "Passion Fruits," the Lesbian art show that is running as part of the Fresh Fuits Festival this month. Rica Takashima has some pieces in the show. It was a really, honestly an amazing opening, and tomorrow I'll be posting some pictures I took of people with her art. In the... | | |
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