Archive for the Yuri Network News Category


Okazu News: We’re the Top!

December 12th, 2007

I’ve been getting a lot of email these days on how impossibly cool Okazu is. I can’t say this displeases me. LOL

This week we got two pieces of particularly ego-gratifying email.

Okazu is being included in an upcoming book, Top 500 Blogs by online dating blogger Vicky Zhou. The book is slated for release in Q4 2008; Okazu will be included in the “Animation & Media” section.

And this morning I learned that Okazu is coming in in the Top 3 blogs at Inside Manga. According to the website, Okazu is one of the hottest blogs on manga. Okay, I accept graciously. :-)

So thanks to Vicki, Inside Manga, Cole Porter and to all of you for making Okazu the top! I look forward to writing more reviews and hearing more from all of you. :-)





Maria-sama ga Miteru News, Yuricon News

December 2nd, 2007

Many of you will have already read this, but for those of you who have not, Pizza Hut and the makers of Maria-sama ga Miteru have announced a co-promotional campaign. Fans can get Marimite themed pizza boxes with series-related goods, and enter a contest to win other items. For more details, you can read the Anime News Network article here.

Marimite is hardly the first to do a Pizza Hut campaign in Japan – the product was notably placed in Code Geass, but it does seem a really unlikely one at first thought, doesn’t it? It’s difficult to imagine the ladies of Lillian eating Pizza Hut, although not at all hard to imagine their hordes of fanboys doing so. lol

I also note that there will be a Winterket special DJCD which I’ll be darn sure to try and nab for myself while I’m there!

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This is sort of anti-news, but I want to let everyone know that I’m pulling the RSS newsfeed from the Yuricon website. I haven’t had the time to keep it up to date at all, and I’m more likely to post here. So, as of today, Okazu is the official outlet for Yuri news for Yuricon.

While I’m on the topic of the Yuricon site, I also want to mention that we have a project that we’ve just started to translate chunks of the Yuricon site into Japanese. It’s in the very first stages now, but going forward into 2008, you can look for “Nihingo” links to the Japanese-language versions of the home page and inwards from there. :-)

I promise, an actual review will be forthcoming today as well. :-)





News from the Yurisphere

November 7th, 2007

A couple of news items of interest that I wanted to throw your way today!

Eriko Tadeno, author/artist of the collection Works, and contributor to Yuri Monogatari 5, has been interviewed by Polish magazine “Comix Grrrlz.” Thanks to Sylwia for the link! This review is in Polish, so don’t be surprised.

Dedicated reader and Yuri fan Eric P points out that Love My Life, the live action movie based upon the Yuri manga of the same name by Yamaji Ebine, (here’s my review of the movie) has been starting to pop up at Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Film Festivals in North America. It’s already been screened in Tampa and at Outfest. ANN Previously reported that Wolfe Video licensed it, so keep an eye out for a North American release.

Download the new Yuricon toolbar! In the never-ending quest to provide both good information and a lively community, I have developed a Yuricon toolbar which is now available for download at: http://yuricon.communitytoolbars.com/. There are toolbar versions for M$IE and Firefox, which works on Linux and Macs, I’ve been told. The toolbar includes a search box, messaging, an Okazu headline ticker and a Yuricon Chat. (I’ve been looking to do a chat for some time and this seemed like an interesting experiment.) The rules of the chat are the same as those on the Yuricon Mailing List.

The search box utilizes the custom Yuri search engine I built – which is also located on the Yuricon Site Map, so the results will be very anime/manga-centric. You can also search for reusults within the Yuricon site, as well.

Feel free to download and play around with it – tell friends who are interested in Yuri and want to chat, send messages or just search for Yuri online. :-)

And thanks to eagle-eyed Erin S. for pointing out that a Spanish scanlation group has received permission from Rica Takashima to scanlate Rica ‘tte Kanji!? in Spanish. I know that Yuri has a huge Spanish-speaking following, so cool for them! :-) And thanks to Erin for the news! Here’s the link to the thread on the CoYuHi forums.





Yuri Monogatari News

September 14th, 2007

A couple of quickie items today.

Somewhat belatedly, I have learned that Yuri Monogatari 3 was nominated for this year’s Lambda Book Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the country’s leading organization for LGBT literature. While YM3 did not win, merely being nominated is a tremendous honor! Congratuations to everyone who contributed to YM3! If YM5 gets a similar honor, I *promise* to announce it earlier! -_-;;

 

 

 

 

And secondly, the newest member of this award-nominated series, Yuri Monogatari 5 will be making its official premiere at Yuricon’s 2007 “Yurisai” Event! We’ll have no less than 5 contributors to the Yuri Monogatari series at the event – this is your best chance to get copies autographed by the artists who make this such a fantastic (and notable) series!

 





Okazu News: 5th anniversary ahoy!

August 7th, 2007

I just happened to notice last night that we are only a few posts away from the 800th post here on Okazu and, coincidentally, one week from today is Okazu’s 5th anniversary. (No, I won’t be forcing the two things to land on the same day.)

Wow.

800 rambling, incoherent opinions about nothing much, over 5 years! What a total waste of time. LOL On the other hand, I have met many, many of you, my dear readers, and that has been a pleasure and not a waste of time at *all*.

Since we have a week left and I love prezzies, how about some 5th anniversary art? I think it would be nice if the art illustrated the theme “Hungry for Yuri? Have some Okazu” in some way. It could be the blog seen on a computer screen, a word in an ad, a typical Okazu meal being shared by two women, or the faboo Yuri Okazu designed by my wife (which can be seen above and has a place of honor in the in the downloadable banner on the sidebar or the scrolling headline banner the bottom of the page) as part of the picture. However you want. Fan or original art (fan art of Yuriko and Midori or any series, whatever you want.)

You can email any 5th anniversary art to me at anilesbocon01 at hotmail.com . Include contact information, please, because there’s a high likelihood that I’ll send out a thank-you prize or two. :-)

Good lord. 5 years of this. lol