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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. ^_^

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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.^_^