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Yuri is My Job, Volume 6

November 9th, 2020

Depending on who you feel is the actual protagonist of the story – or whomever you are personally rooting for – Yuri is My Job, Volume 6 by Miman can be hard on the heart.

Let us say, for instance, that you feel Hime is the protagonist, as we’ve been following her since the first page of the series. In that case, Volume 6 is largely her struggling trying to not hurt her former best friend again, while also not hurting her newer best friend and preserving the even newer relationship she’s built with that former best friend.

If you’re rooting for Mitsuki, you’re about to watch her spill her heart and soul out in front of Hime without any guarantee of it being recoverable.

If you, like me, actually sympathize most with Sumika and Kanako, you’re going to be watching as things break and you cannot even help to catch the pieces this time.

It seems like something is going to have to give and Hime decides that that thing…is her. Or, is she just running away again? We don’t know yet. (Frankly, we *still* don’t know in the ongoing serialized chapters in Comic Yuri Hime, either. ^_^;)

Despite Miman’s protestations to the opposite in the author’s note, it seems like the story is very much under control. We, the readers can’t yet predict the outcome….but we can conjecture on the possible courses to lead to the outcomes we want, which is a wholly different thing.I know what I want – it isn’t Hime and Mitsuki as a couple. I expect that is what we’ll get, and that’s jut fine. But it’s not that I want.

Miman’s art is stronger than ever before, backgrounds are really being filled out and characters have more definition. So, when we get the next volume, pay close attention to the background people. They are getting people-ier. ^_^

When the Yuri in this volume lands, it lands hard. ^_^

Kodansha is doing  clean job of the reproduction. And we’re getting people to credit now for that work. Translation by Diana Taylor captures the emotion beautifully, Jennifer Skarupa’s lettering helps keep the story moving along. Logo design and cover design by Phil Balsman and My Truong respectively are terrific and editing by Haruko Hashimoto pulls it all together.

 

Ratings:

Art – 8
Story – 8
Characters – 8
Service – 4 Mitsuki’s cleavage is its own character
Yuri – 7

Overall – 8

Yuri is My Job, Volume 6 is a pivotal – and emotional – volume of a a series that is more than the sum of it’s Yuri trope parts.





Yuricon and Okazu Updates

November 8th, 2020

Although this has been a chaotic time, with pandemic and other uphrevals, we’ve accomplished a lot so far this year with your help. 

Take a look at the full list of what we’ve done, what we’re doing and what we plan on for next year – our 20th anniversary! – at Yuricon and here at Okazu.

https://www.yuricon.com/blog/2020/11/08/yuricon-okazu-updates/

 





My Darkest Secret, Revealed on Youtube for Okazu Patrons Only!

October 4th, 2020
Become a Patron and enter an exclusive world with me, to learn about the shockingly few things I have ever recommended without reservation here on Okazu!
I needed some video editing practice and this seemed like a great way to play around with the editing tool.
Thanks to Okazu Patrons for making this possible! Become a patron today and help support our efforts in making entertaining and educational videos for Yuri Studio!

 
 




It’s Ooooohhhh~~~kazu on Twitter!

October 1st, 2020

Welcome to the official start of Ooooohhhh~~~kazu. Follow me on Twitter and every day I’ll be tweeting out a scary review from the last 20 years of reviews on Okazu through Halloween. (Or, at least that’s the plan. We’ll see how far I get. ^_^)

I’m starting with one of my all-time favorite “WTF did I just read?!?” creepy manga.





End of Summer 2020 Lucky Boxes! – All Claimed

September 6th, 2020

I need to do a doujinshi clean up, and to do that, I need to make room to do a doujinshi cleanup, so once again, it’s Lucky Box time here at Okazu HQ!

This time we have 2 Large Premium boxes, 1 Medium Yuri box and one last 1 Medium BL doujinshi box, with some other non-BL stuff in there.

All of the boxes include books, other media, random paper goods  and/or stickers/magnets/toys, and candy from Japan. I just tried the adzuki bean candy and they are pretty good…but the Hana Kuchizuke candy is still my favorite and the Hokkaido milk candy is my wife’s. The Premium boxes include clearfiles and other flat fun things like artbooks and whatnot. I’m still – and probably will be for years – going through Bruce’s books. I still have 2 dozen boxes downstairs, so we’ll be doing this seasonally as I need to straighten up.

I will once again assure you that this is all 100%, unadulterated stuff. Like all my grab bags, these are created by me shoving a bunch of things in boxes until I can barely tape them shut. I no longer remember what went in, so no..I can’t tell you what is in each box. I do try to put random things like postcards and papers in there to make the unpacking process an adventure. ^_^

When you email me, please refer to the box you want by the title and #1. First come, first served and these always go fast! These are listed out so I can cross them off as they go.

Large Premium Box 1 – $50

Large Premium Box 2 – $50

Medium Box 1 – Claimed

BL Doujinshi Box 1 – $20

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To be eligible to buy a Lucky Box, follow these instructions carefully. Please. Thank you. Failure to follow all of these instructions will disqualify you. It’s not personal, they go fast and I don’t have time to track you down for a piece of information.

1 – You must live in the Continental USA (contiguous 48) only, no APO/FPOs – sorry about that, really. It’s vexing, I know.

2 – You must be over 18, I am not policing books or recipients.

3 – Email me at anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com with the subject “Lucky Box”. Use an email you check regularly. Because I will reply asap.

4. *****Please include your name, age, mailing address. ***** Tell me which box you want. Even if you’ve given me your address previously, please include it, I am very lazy.

5- I will contact you at that point and give you details about payment by Paypal. Please be prepared to check your email and get payment out so this post doesn’t linger. Thanks in advance.

This whole process will be handled with utmost capriciousness, as usual. ^_^ 

Ready? Get your Lucky Boxes!