| 8:45pm | Events: LGBT Comic Signing, Girls Read Comics Project | | | | This Saturday, June 27, at Jim Hanley's Universe I, Rica Takashima, Abby Denson, Ariel Schrag, JD Glass and a bunch more LGBTQ comics artists, writers, publishers and distributors will be doing a Prism Comics book signing for Gay Pride. Seriously, don't miss it - it's going to be a star-studded event!Deb... |
| 9:43pm | Sunshine Sketch, Volume 3 (English) | | | | 4-koma comics, the Japanese analogy to the western comic strip, tend to follow a pattern. Like comic strips, they focus on talking heads, doing rather formulaic things. Think of any mainstream comic strip or even popular webcomics, and you can see the pattern pretty quickly. The most common formula is... |
| 1:00pm | Yuri This Week - June 20, 2009 | | | | I'm out on the road today, so keeping it short. Next week I'll be at Jim Hanley's Universe on Gay Pride Saturday with a number of LGBTQ artists and writers for a Prism Comics book signing. Saturday, New York City, the summer, Gay Pride weekend. You know you wanna~ See you there!Yuri Light NovelsA number... | | |
| 9:15pm | Yuri Manga: Burst Angel, Volume 3 (English) | | | | Answer: LoveQuestion: What is the one thing that defines something as being not a "monster?"In Volume 3 of Burst Angel, the revelation that Jo was actually created to be a monster comes too late for us to ever be able to believe it, because we've already seen the look in her eyes when she looks at Meg.... |
| 8:18pm | Maria Watches Over Us Anime: Season 3, Volume 3 (English) | | | | There I was, surveying my domain, which is to say I was staring at my pile of things to review, and I saw the Season 3 boxset of Maria Watches Over Us. It came into my mind to review "Ciao, Sorella"and, I smiled. Because this particular OAV makes me smile. Every time. Smiled when I watched it raw, right... | | |
| 8:59pm | Hanayashiki no Junin-tachi Manga, Volume 2 | | | | Ah, the dramatic love triangle. What would we do without you for tired, retread, yet eternally fascinating drama. I love you, but you love him and he loves me. It's been done so many times it's almost not funny. But, add in a drenching cold rain, a deathly fever and a psychotic cross-dressing brother... | | |
| 9:24pm | Yuri Doujinshi, Lesbian Comics and Other Neat Stuff | | | | Well, the first two event-filled weekends of my event-filled June are over and I thought I'd take a moment to review some stuff I have sitting here that doesn't fit into neat categories and ramble on a bit about related things.Let's start with the concept of Doujinshi. As you can see, we defined this... |
| 1:15pm | Yuri News this Week - June 13, 2009 | | | | Yuri EventsYuricon and ALC Publishing is, even as you read this, selling Grab Bags and Yuri Manga in Con Row at AnimeNEXT! Drop by tonight for the Yuri Panel at 6PM, in which we will talk about many things - almost all good. :-)***Yuri AnimeKatherine was pleased as punch to be able to share the news... |
| 11:38am | Finding Yuricon & ALC at AnimeNEXT | | | | Con Row at AnimeNEXT is past registration and around the corner, in from of the back door to the Expo Center - where the shuttle bus lets off. the Yuricon table is on the left as you walk in.Yuri Panel is at 6PM on Saturday, June 13 - see you there! |
| 7:00pm | Maria-sama ga Miteru Special CD, Volume 2 | | | | Tsutako is in the house! Yes, in the second Maria-sama ga Miteru Special CD, Satou Rina is the guest of honor and conversations about soeur and sweets abound. Satou Rina has the most amusing habit of calling Ueda Kana "Yumi-san," which she just canNOT shake. They discuss the usual things - the kind of... | | |
| 8:41pm | Alice on Deadlines Manga: Volume 2 (English) | | | | Lapan is the worst Shinigami ever. He's a slacker, a layabout and a perv. Alice was the most beautiful and popular girl in her elite girls' school, but since Lapan arrived, poor Alice is forced to watch as day after day Lapan abuses her own body after accidentally being incarnated in it, leaving her... |
| 9:10pm | My-HiME Manga, Volume 5 (English) | | | | My absolute favorite panel of My-HiME Volume 5 is the first page. We see TWO gaudily dressed women, arrogantly posed, smiling condescendingly and clearly labeled "Three Cosmic Beauties."Eventually we learn why the third of the three Cosmic Beauties is not present in this panel, and I agree that a label... |
| 12:07am | Event: Yuricon & ALC Publishing at AnimeNEXT | | | | AnimeNEXT, the next generation of anime conventions, will be held this weekend, from June 12-14 at the Garden State Exhibit Center and the DoubleTree Somerset Hotel in Somerset, New Jersey.And Yuricon & ALC Publishing will be there!We'll have a table in Con Row (ask at the Information Desk where... |
| 10:00pm | Yuri Anime: El Hazard - Magnificent World (English) | | | | I know I've told the tale many times, about how Sailor Moon was my gateway into Yuri. But it was not my gateway into anime. My first anime was back when I was watching Star Blazers after school and instinctively understanding that anime was a black hole into which all my time and money would go, so I... | | |
| 2:30am | This Week in Yuri - June 6, 2009 | | | | I, Rica Takashima and some our our Yuricon folks are at MoCCA Fest in NYC (at Table 516 PRISM Comics) today. I hope we'll see you there!In the meantime, a short, bittersweet news report.Yuri Manga Creator of classic Yuri manga Paros no Ken, and grandmother to the Light Novel and Josei genres, Kumimoto... |
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