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Order By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga Today!

May 2nd, 2022

20 years in the making, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga, is a ground breaking history of the Yuri genre. Factual, funny and highly entertaining, By Your Side is a series of interlocking essays, articles and lectures from Yuricon founder Erica Friedman’s work on Yuri anime and manga. Meant […]

By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale June 1!

March 30th, 2022

Here is the awesome full cover of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga! Available June 1 from Journey Press. Art by: Rica Takashima Cover Design by: Christine Sandquist Thanks to the entire team at Journey Press for this amazing cover! This book has been a 20-year long endeavor to […]

Journey Through the First 100 Years of Yuri Manga with Erica Friedman By Your Side

February 18th, 2021

It’s official! I and Journey Press are pleased to announce By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Manga & Anime. The term “Yuri” began life as a coded reference to lesbianism within manga and anime genres, but in the last two decades has been shaped by creators, publishers and fans into a genre […]

100 Years of Yuri 2020 Project, by Erica Friedman

January 5th, 2020

Welcome to the final post of the 100 Years of Yuri 2020 Project! With this post, the first centennial anniversary of the Yuri genre is complete. We can walk forward into a new century, assured in the knowledge that we have absolutely no idea at all what will happen. ^_^ One of the most often-asked […]

100 Years of Yuri 2020 Project, Guest Post by Nicki Bauman

January 4th, 2020

Today, for Part 3 of the Finale 100 Years of Yuri event, I would like you all to welcome Nicki Bauman, whom you may know as The Yuri Mother. Nicki is a terrific resource for current news about Yuri and LGBTQ+ women in anime, manga, games, and media. and I hope you will all give […]