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Yuri News This Week – April 25, 2008

April 26th, 2008

The top story this weekend – ALC Publishing is teaming up with award-winning lesbian novelist J.D. Glass for a special American Goth side story in Yuri Monogatari 6! We’re very excited to have J.D. joining Eriko Tadeno, Rica Takashima and Circle UKOZ as part of our next 100% Yuri anthology.

New titles to watch out for – Sasamekikoto, Volume 2 (review of Volume 1 coming shortly, promise!) and the third Hayate x Blade Drama CD – along with a host of other great Yuri – are now available on the Yuricon Shop.

We’ve also got some new Yuri Events up! Although it’s not Yuri, I will be doing a lecture at the Brooklyn Museum of Art on June 14, as part of their Japanese art programming. Along with their heavily promoted Murakami and Utagawa exhibits, they’ll be showing Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell: Innoncence, and I’ll be talking about, erm, something related to that. LOL Should be interesting, anyway. :-)

Speaking of related events, Afterellen.com has asked their NYC-area lesbian readership to hold May 18 for a get-together. I’m going to try and be there, so if any of you women need a reason to get off the couch and meet people, this seems like a darn good one.

And in the “series to keep an eye out for” file, Okazu reader Gareas reminds us that Young Gun Carnaval aka YGC, the Light Novel, Drama CD and manga series, has lesbians in it. :-) I know a few folks have pointed me in the direction of this series, so i promise to take a look and report back. :-)

As always, if you know of any Yuri-related news, please feel free to drop me a line at anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com. It’s always appreciated!





Yuri Interview on About.com

March 3rd, 2008

Happy Girl’s Day! About.com has an interview with me on Yuri today. What better way to celebrate girls than to talk about girls who like girls, huh? :-)

…and my Top 10 Yuri manga list, which I already now disagree with. lol.

Thanks to Deb Aoki – enjoy!





This Week in Yuri

March 1st, 2008

Last week I wasn’t sure we’d have enough news for a report. This week, we have tons! LOL We’ve got news from all over the Yurisphere this week, so here we go.

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Deb Aoki editor of About.com’s excellent Manga section, will be publishing an interview with me, about, you guessed it – Yuri. The interview is slated to go up on Girl’s Day, March 3rd, so keep an eye out for it! The questions were all “basic,” so of course they were massively complex and I answered yes and no to most of them. If you’re a long-time Yuri fan, you won’t learn anything new, but if you’re new to the genre, or have some friends who pester you with questions about the history, nomenclature, audience, etc, send them that way. I’ll post the link here when I get it. Thanks Deb!

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From a couple of folks, we received a link to Wai Wai’s translation of Mainichi’s interview with Nakamura Saytaro about Yuri Hime magazine and Yuri in general. For fans, the most amusing bit has to be the summary of Maria-sama ga Miteru as a series about girls who see visions of the Virgin Mary. (I suggested that the author of the article had confused the series with “La Vierge de la Guadalupe en Regarde,” but no one else thought that was funny… lol)

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And while we’re on the topic of Yuri Hime, according to Light Novel.org, Ichijinsha will be publishing two new light novel lines, one “for boys” and one “for girls” which will include series from Comic Rex and Yuri Hime magazines. Good news and something to look forward to!

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I don’t want to forget this – the 2008 Yuricon Poster Contest submission rules are up and we’re accepting submissions any time until April 30! We’ve got some amazing prizes lined up, so get those posters in!

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Last week, one of our alert readers noticed that Animate.tv has announced a third Hayate x Blade Drama CD. I can’t find the direct link, but scanning Animate.tv is enough to make an otaku drool, so have fun looking for it on your own. lol

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I know that no one but Serge and I care, but a new series of Ikkitousen has been announced. Ikkitousen: Great Guardians is going to be a completely new series, with no relation to the previous characters or the manga. So no more Ryofu or Kanu, but we’ll hope that the trend of inserting random lesbian characters into the “story” continues.

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Today’s last news item isn’t “Yuri,” but it is relevant to our interests. Malinda Lo, Managing Editor of Afterellen.com, has received a book deal for a fairy-tale type story which is similar to Cinderella, but she assures us that the girl Prince will get the girl. So Princess Knight, Utena, Rose of Versailles fans have something to look forward to. :-)

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I’m fairly certain there was something else I wanted to mention today, but I didn’t write it down and now I can’t remember…. Oh well, if I do remember, I’ll be sure to add it! In the meantime – thank you alert readers and “friends of Yuri”! Keep up the good work and remember if you know of events, news or other items of interest, send them to me at anilesbocon01 at hotmail dot com. Thanks!





Okazu and Yuricon make Active Anime’s Top 25

February 18th, 2008

It’s a one-two punch! Okazu (#6) and Yuricon (#7) have made the Top Ten of Active Anime’s Top 25 Anime Sites poll!

We join such notables as Comipress, Mangablog and Anime News Network in the Top 25.

My thanks go out to all of my Yuricon staff, all the many helpers we’ve had over the years, all our guest reviewers here at Okazu and you, all the readers and fans. Thank you for your support, truly. :-)





Yuri News, Yuricon News

February 2nd, 2008

Once again, we get some fun news from Poland, this time from Sylwia who says that in the newest issue of Polish feminist magazine Zadra, readers have chance to read about lesbian in comic books from all over the world. Sylwia wrote about the American, European and African markets, including Yuri. :-)

Yuricon and ALC Publishing is pleased to announce our first con of 2008 – Anime Boston. We’ll be at Table 419 in the Dealer’s Room and will be running a Yuri Panel at 3PM on Saturday, March 22nd! This will be our first time at ABoston in 6 years, and we’re looking forward to being part of it once again. See you there!

And in preparation for the next round of translation into Japanese, the Site Map and Links pages on Yuricon have been updated. We’ve got some shiny new links up to both English and Japanese sites. :-)