| 5:18pm | Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime, Volume 16 (Part 2) | | | | The second half of The Comic Yuri Hime, Volume 16 (コミック百合姫) starts off with what I consider to be an interesting turn of events. In "Honey Mustard" Morishima Akiko details a silly little story of two careerwomen, Kaori and Mitsuki. Some years ago they were lovers, but are now good friends... |
| 2:04pm | Event: ALC Publishing at MoCCA | | | | The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival is taking place this weekend at the 69th Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Ave. (Between 25th and 26th Sts) from 11-6.ALC Publishing will be at the PRISM Comics booth - Table 516 - and Rica Takashima will be there in the afternoon! Drop by, pick up a copy of... |
| 9:12pm | Yuri Manga: Comic Yuri Hime, Volume 16 (Part 1) | | | | The 16th Volume of Comic Yuri Hime (コミック百合姫) starts off with a big "Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan" presence. Sarasa, Seriho and two new characters, Mana-chan and Shiko, adorn the cover. Inside the cover is the "Pink Princess" Drama CD in which we are introduced to Manako and Shiko.This is followed... | | |
| 3:40pm | Yuri Manga: Negima! | | | | It's Wednesday, which must mean it's time for a Guest Review! Today Sean Gaffney will catch us up to date on the Yuri in Negima! Magister Negi Magi. Take it away, Sean!I haven't done a review going into the Yuri in Negima in a long time. Mostly as there's been almost nothing to say. The only Yuri couple... | | |
| 6:56pm | Yuri Manga: Hayate x Blade, Volume 3 (English) | | | | I told you, didn't I? I've been telling you for years now and you *finally* realize that I haven't been lying. Hayate x Blade, Volume 3 isawesome.In this volume, two major things happen - we start to learn that the characters we thought were all idiots are in, fact, amazingly, stupendously cool. And... |
| 7:16pm | Breaking News: Yuricon on the Daily Kos | | | | I was fully prepared to do a review today, but instead would like to nod in thanks and awe at Okazu Hero Bruce McF for his article on today's Daily Kos:What Can Newspaper Reporters Learn From Yuricon?For one thing, Bruce really *gets* what I say about niche marketing, and he shows an understanding of... |
| 1:55pm | Top 7 Things Every Young Artist or Writer Needs To Know | | | | The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival is next weekend. I believe I have said this before, but I will keep saying it - if you go to one comic event a year, it should be this one. Comic-Con is fun, and it is interesting and cool and overwhelming, and it crosses a crazy number of media boundaries... |
| 5:35pm | Yuri News This Week - May 30, 2009 | | | | Once again, we are off in a blaze of Yuri!Yuri MangaFrom a conversation on the #lililicious channel on IRC, Erin S is pleased to report two new Yamaji Ebine books, Aoaza Shimi and Ai no Jikan. Be warned however that the second is not Yuri in any way - it's about a possibly gay girl who falls in love... | | |
| 12:15am | Yuri Drama CD: Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan ~ Pink Princess | | | | Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan Drama CD: Pink Princess is the Drama CD that came with the most recent volume of Comic Yuri Hime as a bonus. It's meant to be a little taste of things to come for the ladies of the Ame-iro Kouchakan and, as a result, I had very reasonable expectations for plot, characters, running... | | |
| 2:10am | Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime Wildrose, Volume 3 | | | | Let's get the most damning thing about Yuri Hime Wildrose, Volume 3 (百合姫Wildrose) out of the way right up front. When I picked it up today to review it, I couldn't remember a single story in it, although I had only re(!)read it a week ago. After I picked it up and flipped through the volume I remembered... |
| 10:10pm | Ray the Animation (Polish) | | | | My brain is doing its weekly explosion and so it is with relief pleasure that I turn to our Guest correspondent, Winterbraid, for another fun-filled review of a Polish anime release. Once again, everyone please welcome Winterbraid!The company which released Haibane Renmei also did Ray the Animation... |
| 9:01pm | Click Manhwa, Volume 2 (English) | | | | After the fiasco of Click, Volume 1, I was not very much looking forward to sandpapering my psyche with Volume 2. Although this volume was not my number one bestest read of the year, by the end I began to actually enjoy it.The volume begins with a light Yuri appetizer, as rich, powerful, popular, cute... |
| 8:51pm | Now This is Only My Opinion, Part 7 | | | | Once again, I take some time out of my - and your - day to answer your questions about, well, anything. In doing so, I expect to befuddle, entertain and probably enrage. I've also organized the questions into categories, since so many of them run along the same lines (and are often the same question.)... | | |
| 2:30pm | Yuri News This Week - May 23, 2009 | | | | Yuri MangaErin S nabs the headlines with a number of reports today. Starting off, gravure idol Ichinose Ayaka has come out as a lesbian, in manga form. Free previews of chapters of her story, Real Bian are available on her blog. You'll need to download the reader (of course) which is the second link... | | |
| 11:06pm | Yuri Manga: Gakuen Alice, Volume 5 (English) | | | | Gakuen Alice is a warped tale of children with immense, silly powers and what happens when stupid adults imprison them in the cage of a "school for gifted children." The heroine of this story, like so many shoujo manga heroines is cheerful, energetic, likable and not particularly intelligent - a lesson... |
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