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Otakon, Ho~~!

August 7th, 2008

I’m off this AM to truck my car overstuffed with stuff down to Otakon where it will be my pleasure to not see the sun for three days, while I lurk in the most fun part of the con – the basement Dealer’s Room.

Other people go to the con for the guests, the music, the cosplay (no one goes for the anime, right?) I spend the weekend hanging with the Dealers and Industry. Frankly, I think it’s more fun in the DR than anywhere else in the con. ;-) We play “cosplay bingo.” lol

For those of you looking for good Yuri, Yuricon & ALC Publishing will be at Table 511, right next to Hen Da Ne which sells primarily heinous bodily-fluid spewing hentai Yuri doujinshi, so you can get some of that, too. But you’ll have to beat your way through the Yaoi fans. :-) Don’t forget to visit the Media Blasters table, too, where you can get Yuri anime – sold *as* Yuri, to Yuri fans. Revolutionary, isn’t it? If Right Stuf is there, demand Marimite box sets and freak them out with the overwhelming demand!

And once again, let me remind you that the Yuri Panel is on Friday at 1PM in Panel Room 1. That’s the big room, so let’s fill it up with Yuri fans and show Otakon that we love Yuri!

I look forward to seeing you all there!





Yuri News This Week – August 2, 2008

August 2nd, 2008

Otakon’s coming up, so there won’t be a report next week, while I spend the weekend doing Otakon things. :-)

Yuri Anime

Eric reports that a movie has been announced for Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha that will be an “parallel history” of Fate and Nanoha’s first meeting. This should appease all the lolicon who felt that the most recent Naonha series, StrikerS, had too many people over the age of ten.

And for Polish and German Yuri fans, Winterbraid sends this piece of good news – El Cazador de la Bruja is out on DVD with dual audio (Japanese or German) and dual subtitle tracks (Polish and German). Winterbraid also reports that the first DVD contains episode 1-5 and two beautiful postcards. So excellent news all around! But, now I’m whining, because I want El Cazador~ waaah~…

And in case you missed it, the Maria-sama ga Miteru Season 1 box sets have shipped. My phone charm is already attached to my phone. :-) I’ll do a review as soon as I have a chance to watch any of the disks.

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Yuri Manga

Eagle-eyed Eric also caught the news that Venus Versus Virus is ending this coming issue of Dengeki Daioh As it happens, I read the penultimate chapter – fans will be happy to note that Lucia and Sumire touched and Sumire said that Lucia is “important” to her. That ought to be enough for scores of fanfic. lol

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Yuri Events

Did I ever mention that Maiden’s Garden will be held this autumn for the third time? This Yuri doujinshi event was organized by (among others) the main artist for the Pen-Pen Gusa Club doujinshi circle, Katase Minami. It’s in the Kyoto, so if you plan on being around this October 13th, check out the Yuricon Events page for more details. (And don’t forget to email me, so I can have you shop for me! LOL)

Otakon is coming up, as I said. Not only will there be a Yuri Panel on Friday, from 1-2PM, I’m told that Media Blasters is holding a separate panel for discussion of their Yuri and Yaoi lines. Don’t miss it!

And just to remind you – we’ll be having a raffle at the Yuricon table in the Dealer’s Room – Table 611. Spend $25 or more and you’ll be entered for a cool manga-style Catwoman figurine!

The New York Anime Festival is around the corner, and this year I’ll be running a Yuri Panel on Saturday, Sept. 27th, from 8-9PM. Check the NYAF website for details.

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Again, a short report. Expect some news from Otakon – I don’t know anything specific, not even a hint, so this isn’t foreshadowing. I just expect that *something* will have to be at least vaguely Yuri-flavored. :-)





Yuri News This Week – July 26, 2008

July 26th, 2008

Short post today – I’m incredibly pressed for time.

Yuri Novels

Ichijinsha has released the first two Yuri Light Novels in their new Girls Love Line. Wild Bouquet looks to be a maid/mistress story and Period is a girls with guns thing that is notably illustrated by Shoujo Sect‘s Kurogane Kenn. Thanks to Kazu-kun for also sending me info on these. There’s previews of these novels in Yuri Hime S (plus an “Otomeiro Stay Tuned” clearfile by Fujieda) and some Yuri Hime Wildrose side stories in Yuri Hime as extras, so if you want to take a look before haring off and buying them, you can.

I do have to say, though, that for series supposedly part of their line for girls, these two novels look *awfully* like they are really for the guys. Unless “girls” novels really meant “novels about girls.” No clue and don’t really care one way or another. I’m just sort of thinking out loud. lol

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Yuri Manga

WORKS by Eriko Tadeno is back in print! Place your orders now at the Yuricon Shop for this fabulous 100% Yuri collection.

Bandai has yet again announced that it has licensed the Lucky Star manga, which is probably good news for Konata x Kagami fans.

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Yuri Event

If you are in the Miami, Florida area and you have some time, run over to Yasumicon and join Katherine on August 2 at 3-5PM for a fabulous Yuri Panel!

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That’s it for this week! As always, feel free to send your news items to me and I’ll do my best to let the world know!





Events: Otakon and MangaNEXT

July 20th, 2008

Two event-related news items!

Otakon – August 8-10, 2008, Baltimore Maryland.

Yuricon/ALC will be running the Yuri Panel on Friday, August 8th at 1PM. Check the schedule for the location – and to confirm the time. You *know* it will change. :-)

Also, drop by the Yuricon/ALC booth in the Dealer’s Room (Table 611) for Yuri manga, t-shirts, pins, postcards and other goods – we even have a “I Love Yuri” Teddy Bear! Anyone who spends more than $25 at the table will get a chance to enter a drawing for this anime art-inspired Catwoman figurine. Cool, huh?

MangaNEXT – October 31 – November 2, 2008, Somerset, NJ

ALC Publishing is looking for Yuri artists and doujinshi creators to get together for a “Circle of Yuri” in the MangaNEXT Artist’s Alley. If you are a Yuri artist, and would like to reserve a table in the Circle of Yuri, please contact me at anilesbocon at hotmail dot com with the subject “Circle of Yuri”. You will be paying for your own table – a table and membership will be $50. I’ll provide promotion and a sense of community. :-) I’d love to see if we could get a little Yuri Row started in the closest thing to Comiket here in America! :-)

I’m looking forward to seeing you all at these great events!





Quick AnimeNEXT 2008 Recap

June 22nd, 2008

AnimeNEXT and MangaNEXT (yes, there will be one in 2008) are my “home” cons. The audience is usually quite friendly and exhaustingly fresh-faced and youthful. :-)

Yuricon and ALC never have a major impact here, mostly because the audience is so young. Paddles are likely to do quite well here, because these attendees aren’t quite old enough to buy porn – which for some reason, is all they really want. lol

This year it was a lot of new faces at the Yuri Panel, mostly none of whom had ever heard of any of the series we’ve been going on at great length about here and on the Yuricon Mailing List. So it was a bit of an upstream swim, but we all warmed up to one another after a little while. :-)

Secondly and quite majorly (but no one in the Yuri Panel knew what I was talking about so, again, no impact) Media Blasters told me that why yes they have licensed Maka Maka and they are working on it right now. I’m assured its going to look great. :-) I asked if could say anything and they were like – sure, all surprised. I replied – you know you never made a licensing announcement. They looked puzzled, “didn’t we?” Uh, no. lol And lots of love to Clark this weekend for being a really nice guy. :-)

So, let’s see, major thanks to my best lackeys Serge and Donna, translator extraordinaire Mari Morimoto, the lovely Isabel, Hyo, Devin and Leanne, who is as evil as ever. :-) And thanks to everyone who got something from our table, whether it be book, postcard or grab bag! (Did I ever tell you people about those? Every year at ANEXT, I clean out my house of all the stuff I got over the year. DVDs, magazine, books, toys, promotional items, etc. I scoop ’em all up and make grab bags which *always* are sold out by Friday night here. It’s crazy. lol)

Today should be quiet for us, but I do have a Fanfic Writing workshop today at noon. Always fun. See you there! :-)

I’ll be back to reviews soon.