Archive for the Yuricon Category


Order By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga Today!

May 2nd, 2022

20 years in the making, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga, is a ground breaking history of the Yuri genre.

Factual, funny and highly entertaining, By Your Side is a series of interlocking essays, articles and lectures from Yuricon founder Erica Friedman’s work on Yuri anime and manga. Meant to be approached as informal discussion in the manner of convivial conversation over multiple dinners, or panels at an anime convention, through these essays, readers will become familiar with the key creators, tropes, concepts, symbols and titles of the first 100 years of the Yuri genre. Walk by our side as we journey through the past, present and future of Yuri!

By Your Side will be released out in time for both Pride Month and the 20th anniversary of Erica’s blog, Okazu! 

Here’s what early readers have had to say about By Your Side:

“By Your Side is the complete Yuri resource I only ever dreamed could exist. Decades in the making, this glorious collection surveys, analyzes, and contextualizes Yuri with unparalleled detail and enthusiasm. Friedman graces readers with illuminating insights as they follow her through a century of the genre’s evolution and revolution. By sharing her extraordinary knowledge, she provides inquirers, scholars, and aficionados alike with a deeper appreciation and understanding of lesbian anime and manga while galvanizing them towards the next era of Yuri.”

-Nicki Bauman, Yurimother

 

“The first in-depth study of Yuri in English.”

-James Welker, Professor of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies, Kanagawa University

Order your copy of By Your Side today!





New on Yuri Studio! S03 E02 Girl Gangs in Anime and Manga

April 18th, 2022

In honor of murata’s Catch These Hands! out now from Yen Press, I take a look at some popular girl gang anime and manga and talk about why I like them so very much. ^_^

As always, please consider subscribing and following the channel and a like and a kind comment on YouTube is a big help, thanks!





By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale June 1!

March 30th, 2022

Here is the awesome full cover of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga! Available June 1 from Journey Press.

Art by: Rica Takashima

Cover Design by: Christine Sandquist

Thanks to the entire team at Journey Press for this amazing cover! This book has been a 20-year long endeavor to cover a century of literary and artistic works.  It will be available for pre-order as a digital or print book soon. You’ve all read so many of these stories, but to have them all in one place has been an extraordinary journey. I’ll hope you’ll walk by my side together as we go through the whole tale!

 





Translators, Editors and Letterer Roundtable on Youtube

March 20th, 2022

This past winter I facilitated a 4-week workshop for Michigan State University on Japanese Pop Culture and Transmedia translation. Thanks to our sponsor Catherine Ryu and the incredible talent we gathered as workshop leaders, it was a raging success and we hope to be running it again next winter.

This workshop featured Zack Davisson, Louise Heal Kawai, Mari Morimoto, Sara Linsley, Sarah Moon, Jennifer O’Donnell, Jennifer Sherman and myself as speakers. Links to all of their public sites and contacts are in the show notes.

Because all of the workshop leaders had so much fun learning from one another and chatting online and on Zoom, we decided to do a post-workshop roundtable so we could sum up things we learned from each other and the lessons we wanted to share with everyone. That roundtable is now up on Youtube, where you can watch it at your convenience.

 

 

 

This was so much fun, I hope you’ll watch it and join us on our Discord and share your experiences in publishing manga! Don’t forget to give this video a like on Youtube.

We’re working on the next Yuri Studio video right now, so see you soon!  ^_^





Interview with Ada Palmer on Yuri Studio

January 30th, 2022

This week we have a special episode of Yuri Studio! A few weeks ago, I did a short video with reading recommendations for fans of Revolutionary Girl Utena. Among the recommendations was Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series. (See below for links)

Today I am able to share my interview with Ada Palmer herself on world- and character-building in Terra Ignota, the works of Tezuka Osamu, historical LARPing and, of course, Revolutionary Girl Utena!

We range pretty far and wide, so I hope you’ll tune in for what was an amazing conversation.^_^

 

 

Please consider giving us a like on Youtube, a kind comment and subscribe, if you haven’t, because I have way more planned for Yuri Studio!

The Terra Ignota Series, by Ada Palmer
Too Like the Lightning
Seven Surrenders
The Will to Battle
Perhaps the Stars
(links to Amazon, but these are available at any bookstore or site)