The last few years has seen a huge shift in the crowd-funding landscape for independent Yuri artists. With the success of the Boyish² Butch x Butch Yuri Anthologies, and the Galette magazine crowdfunding in Japan and now English as a Kickstarter, we saw a number of Yuri artists reaching out directly to fans at home […]
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