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This Monster Wants To Eat Me, Volume 4
We finished up Volume 3 with a distinctly uncomfortable feeling although why, exactly would be hard to pin down. Shiori’s smile is ingenuous and Miko is ingratiating. Hinako,…
How To Find Yuri Events, Pop-ups and Signings in 2026
In the past 20+ years of writing here at Okazu, I have created several guides to shopping online for Yuri or finding Yuri manga in Japanese bookstores back…
Yuri News Network – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 21, 2026
Yuri Manga Crossed Hearts announced another GLAM BEAT Yuri license this week – Afternoon Tea For Two. Tokyopop has licensed The Shadow and the Flower by Hana Ikuta about…
Comic Yuri Hime, April 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年4月号)
Comic Yuri Hime, April 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年4月号) begins with a deep, chocolately brown cover of a girl cheerfuly buried under a pile of hats. The gloved woman behind her…
Threads of Me and You
by Patricia Baxter, Guest Reviewer Threads of Me and You is the newest yuri manga series from Ayu Inui, the author of If We Leave on the Dot.…
Yuri Hime Cover Art Collection 2011-2025 (百合姫表紙集 2011-2025)
In 2011, the publisher of Comic Yuri Hime magazine did something new. Earlier, the magazine had split into two different editions, Yuri Hime S, supposedly targeted towards male…
Yuri News Network – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 14, 2026
Yuri Manga in English Kodansha took to the socials to let people know Sal Jiang’s Wicked Spot will be headed our way in May! I managed to squeak…
Not So Shoujo Love Story, Volume 3
Once again we are given a brilliantly fourth-wall breaking cover for Not So Shoujo Love Story, Volume 3 by Curryuku. Hanna literally rips through an image of alien,…
One Night Yuri Love Yuri Anthology (ワンナイトラブ百合アンソロジー)
This is the third similarly “one night stand” themed anthology I have read. Ichijinsha has done one which I found depressing, rather than entertaining, and I believe Kadokawa has…
I Wanna Be Your Girl, Volume 3
by Eleanor Walker, Okazu Staff Writer We have now reached the penultimate volume of Umi Takase’s I Wanna Be Your Girl, and having also reviewed volumes 1 and…
Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu, Volume 10, (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ)
Volume 9 left me weak with relief as Eripyo and Maina actually had a conversation. But as we look at the cover of Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu,…
Renai Bakudan
Guest Review by Patricia Baxter. After spending two long years in prison for protecting her best friend, Juri Kido is at a loss of what to do next.…
Galette, No. 31 (ガレット)
We’ve made it to Galette, No. 31 (ガレット)! Although I thought I was supporting Galette on Pixiv Fanbox, for some reason during the multiple kerfuffles with non-Japanese credit…
Homunculus Tears: Alchemy For the Brokenhearted
Stories from the perspective of “other” are not uncommon – and especially so in the context of queer literature. Indeed, much of what we have read from inori.-sensei…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – May 2, 2025
Yuri Manga New on the Yuricon Store, we have Naekawa Sai’s creepy fun school yokai Yuri story, Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 10 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし). Also on the…
Comic Yuri Hime May 2025 / コミック百合姫2025年5月号
Comic Yuri Hime, May 2025 (コミック百合姫2025年5月号) cover by hechima shows our unnamed protagonists on March 23rd, 2018 11:40:52 GMT 1900/ 12 years old as they ask each other…
Anne Shirley, Streaming on Crunchyroll
by Burkely Hermann Burkely Hermann is a writer, researcher, and former metadata librarian. His reviews can be read on Pop Culture Maniacs or his personal WordPress blog. He…
The Anemone Feels the Heat, Volume 1
The Anemone Feels the Heat, Volume 1 is a story of missed chances and opportunities gained. Nagisa, who might have passed quietly through life at an elite high…
Galette, No. 30 (ガレット)
Still working my way through the backlog of Galette magazines, which brings me to Galette, No. 30 (ガレット). Aneido’s “Watashi ha Kimi no Kami dayo”, which has the…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 26, 2025
Last post of April already! Time is moving fast this year! Yuricon News Two quick items. We have committed to a collaboration with Hand Design Co. to give…
Fragrance of the First Flower, Seasons 1 and 2
Live-action yuri series from Asia often traffic in the fantastical even when they’re not explicitly fantasies: the implausible coincidence, the melodramatic plot twist, the deus ex machina that…
Pink Candy Kiss, Volume 1
Viz Media is quietly carving out a little niche for themselves, aren’t they? ^_^ Along with all the quiet little school Yuri from Shogagukan, like Rainbows After Storms,…
The Expression Amrilato
Guest Review by KatGrrrl The Expression Amrilato is the first visual novel by Yuri developer SukeraSparo, initially released in Japanese in 2017 and localised into English and Chinese…
Sailor Moon The Super Live Event 2025 Report
Sailor Moon The Super Live was absolutely a fantastic show! My first in-person live Sailor Moon stage show was in 2002, when I stumbled into a performance hall…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 19, 2025
Yuri Events I am writing this in a post-show haze from an incredible Sailor Moon The Super Live! event. Tomorrow, I’ll write it all up. There are a…
Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!, Volume 1 ( 崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせたい)
Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!, Volume 1 / 崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせた has a great title. Honestly. ^_^ Gakepucchi means “on a cliff’s edge,” that is to say, someone…
Girls Made Pudding
By Christian LeBlanc, Staff Writer Girls Made Pudding is an adventure game and visual novel from Kazuhide Oka and KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO, which just came out on April 10th…
Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty, Streaming on HIDIVE
If you hang around in Yuri spaces long enough, you’ll discover that an inordinately large amount of early Yuri takes place in private schools for young women from…
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, Season 1 Blu-Ray Steelbook, Disc 2
If you have ever watched Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, Season 1, then you know why it took me this long to get through disk 2…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 12, 2025
Yuri Anime Just making sure – we are all watching Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty, on HIDIVE, right? ^_^ Class S, Yuri service and rock music make for…
Bakumatsu Joshikousei – Oni to Yoake, Volume 2 (幕末女子高生 鬼と夜明け 二)
Welcome to the wrongest way to read a series, part 3. ^_^ This series began in 2023, when I was wooed by the repeated appearance of girls with…
If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die, Volume 5
In If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die, Volume 5, the members of Cham Jam make it to Tokyo. And, while they…
Otherside Picnic, Volume 12
by Sandy Ferguson, Guest Reviewer Otherside Picnic manga, Volume 12 concludes “The Whisper Is At-Your-Own-Risk” then launches into “About That Rush” concluding with Kozakura’s rebuttal, “Flashback To That…
Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles, Volume 2
It is always fascinating to me to read a collected volume of work I have previously seen as serialized. The story seems so familar, of course, because I…
Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics
One of the best things that happens when one steps past “fandom” as an interest to “research” of that interest, is that one meets a community of people…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 5, 2025
Yuri Anime We said goodbye to the last season and now we face a….no, no, there’s no way Momentary Lily would jut let us move on that easily.…
Otherside Picnic, Volume 9
I have one real beef with Miyazawa Iori’s light novel Otherside Picnic, Volume 9. It was too short. I’m not joking or saying that like “Tee hee, it…
Galette, No. 29 (ガレット)
And….I was wrong. ^_^ Galette No. 28 was not the end of Hakamada Mera’s “Aikata System,” just of Kairo and Abiko-sempai’s story. In Galette No. 29 (ガレット) The…
Throw Away The Suit Together, Volume 3
By Matt Marcus, Staff Writer “…This has been a really great conversation. We’re really excited for the possibility of you joining our team here at Island Industries.” “It’s…
– Inu to dorei no 100-nichi sensou – (-犬と奴隷の100日戦争-)
I am on a Galette kick! I am desperately trying to clean up after a long, emotionally and physically exhausting winter and that means even metaphorical piles of…
Spring Cleaning 2025 – It’s Lucky Box Time!
I’m doing some spring cleaning, so we have 3 Lucky Boxes this round. All are premium boxes with media, manga, candy, toys and goods from Japan – that…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 29, 2025
Live Action Yuri Sr. YNN Correspondent Frank Hecker has good news to report. He says that the pseudonymous Korean director Soo Not Sue is filming a new series,…
How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into my Girlfriend? Volumes 2 and 3
I’m Luce, here to cover the next two volumes of the manga I have ‘shortened’ to ‘Best Friend Girlfriend’ by Syu Yasaka. Let me know if you have…
Galette, No. 28 (ガレット)
Galette No. 28 (ガレット) ended something I felt might never end, but I get ahead of myself. I am finding it harder to read things on the computer…
Who Knows Girls’ L
Once a rarity, live-action yuri series have now spread throughout East and Southeast Asia, most famously to Thailand but also to Taiwan, South Korea, and Cambodia. One major…
Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume 3 (気になってる人が男じゃなかった)
Up until this volume, there has been almost no conflict of any kind in Arai Sumiko’s school and music Yuri series. In Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume…
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – March 22, 2025
Yuri Events Girls Love Fest is happening in mere hours in at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial and Trade Center Hamamatsucho Building, Minato-ku, Tokyo. This is GLFes 43, so…
Sheep Princess in Wolf’s Clothing, Volume 5
by Luce, Staff Writer I’m Luce, lover of cute things and books with happy endings! Currently tackling my tsundoku problem, I’m trying to balance the book dragon and…
Wicked Spot, Volume 1 / ウィキッドスポット
Sal Jiang’s newest manga, Wicked Spot, Volume 1 (ウィキッドスポット) is a classic case of a story beginning in one place and ending way far away from there in…
Sailor Moon The Super Live, in London, Guest Post by Rue Bell
As I have been shouting from the rooftops, the live-action extravaganza Sailor Moon The Super Live is on tour. I have seen any number of live stage performances…