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Original Okazu “I Love Yuri” Design on the Yuricon Store!

March 14th, 2016

okazu-heart-small Wahoo! For the first time in 14 years, Okazu has it’s own “I Love Yuri” design, which is now available to be customized on shirts in many cuts and colors, mugs, journals, pillows and more through Redbubble.

This design was created by our fabulous web designer and mistress of WordPress, Lissa Patillo, and features our Okazu Mascots sharing a meal and their love of Yuri.

That makes 6 great designs on the Yuricon Store to tell the world how much you love Yuri, Yuricon and Okazu! I’m so excited! An Okazu t-shirt! Squee!





Okazu Patreon Special Offer!

June 11th, 2015

I’m about to embark on a two-con weekend and bring you coverage from Flamecon, New York City’s first LGBTQ Comic Con on Saturday and my local home con here in New Jersey, AnimeNEXT, on Sunday.

And I have some really exciting news  that I can’t share yet, but is going to about 5x awesome and you will totally want to know all about it. ^_^

In the meantime, we’re still moving forward with Yuricon Store, which is already the most comprehensive place for Yuri media online, and we’re hoping that the next phase will make it the most comprehensive Yuri *everything* shop online! Clothes, toys, goods, cel phone accessories,…everything.

As you know, I am now accepting subscriptions through Patreon. As you also probably realize, nature prefers zeroes to other, more messy, numbers. ^_^ Right now the Okazu Patreon is currently $5.62 away from $400.  Seriously, less than $6 to hit a major milestone, although not quite the one we hoped to hit for launching the Store. (But, screw that, you get the Store, no matter what.)

We just sent the third perq out to patrons yesterday, and if you hop on this, you’ll get that too. Early access to the third translated article from Eureka magazine’s “Current State of Yuri Culture” issue. This one is a provocative article by artist Rica Takashima.

I am offering a super special one-time perq for the person who pushes us over that mark. Be the person who subscribes to Okazu, and gets us over the $400 line and I will give you a 1-hour Skype session with me about anything. Your favorite Yuri series, why I’m wrong about Claymore, or Candy Girl, or Hitohira…or 60 solid minutes of us gabbing about how *amazing* Sei is, or our favorite predatory lesbians…or anything. I’ll let you in on industry “secrets” (there aren’t any, it’s all rather tedious business stuff, but still…) or we can just show each other our coolest Yuri figurines. The time will be yours to do with as you will, with the obvious exception for people being a raging asshole or weird sex stuff, I charge way more than $6 for that. ^_^

So how about it? Your own private Yuri panel. And you’ll be supporting Okazu and Yuricon and getting us that much closer to our goal of being the best source for Yuri everything and anything, anywhere and everywhere.

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Thanks to all our current patrons, supporters, friends and readers! You make everything worth it.

 

Friday June 12 Update! Holy Mother of All That Is Yuri, we have broken the $400/month mark!

Thank you Okazu Patrons and Readers everywhere!

 





5 Days Left to Become an Okazu Hero!

January 26th, 2015

SubscribeepsThere are five days left in the 2015 Okazu Patreon Campaign!

Subscribe to Okazu and get early access to translated articles from the “Current State of Yuri Culture” issue of Eureka – and our eternal gratefulness. (Well, “eternal”, y’know. ^_^) . And you’ll get us that much closer to launching the new Yuricon Shop (which is looking awesome, btw. We’ll be doing beta-testing soon. It should launch early Q2 at this rate.)

All patrons who join through January 31 will receive access to the articles. Patrons from $5/month and up will get nifty badges and recognition on the Okazu Hero Roll on Okazu! It’s on the right sidebar there. –> Down a bit. Yeah, all those medals. That. ^_^

Thanks very much from everyone at Yuricon and Okazu!





Okazu in 2015 – It’s All About You (and Yuri)

January 4th, 2015

Hello! It’s already been an amazing 2015 and we’re 4 days in. We started the year with a look at the comics ecosystem in which we live, and already, we have a Yuri Network that is already kicking into gear with one event report – and another to come – interviews, Guest Reviews and eventually I’ll get to tell you about the cool books I just finished. ^_^ I should be exhausted thinking about it all, but instead I’m excited and energized and inspired.

So, to share with you my thoughts on you – and all that we’re doing here on Okazu and Yuricon, I’ve recorded a video to let you know how far we’ve come and where we’re headed and how you can help us get there! We’re already working on giving the Yuricon Shop the facelift it deserves – I can’t wait for you to be able to you, know, browse and search in different ways and do stuff that the Amazon shop interface never really gave us. When we make that second goal on Okazu’s Patreon, we’re gonna have a kick-ass Shop unveiling, with prizes and lollipops and balloons. (Well, maybe not balloons, they don’t ship well, but lollipops are still a possibility.)

So thank you and I hope you’ll watch this video. It took me 14 takes to get it right. I was halfway to throwing the camera into the street and cheering when it was run over by a car. Rude language may have been used, too. So please watch the damn thing. Thanks. (^_^)





Thank You, Okazu Heros!

November 25th, 2014

Thanks to your support, Okazu Heros and Superheroes, today we hit our first goal on Patreon – going ad-free.

Effective immediately, and hopefully forever more, no ads on Okazu posts. Phew. They always made me feel a little guilty. ^_^;

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I thought about using a traditional congratulations image, but this one seemed so much more appropriate for us. ^_^

Thank you for your subscriptions, your sponsorships of English and Japanese language items, your support, your passion and most of all – thank you for being an important part of the Okazu family!