Archive for the Yuricon Category


Yuricon Store Update and Yuriten Walkthrough on Discord

March 16th, 2021

We have two wholly unrelated pieces of news today that have only one thing in common.  ^_^

We are doing a spring cleaning at the Yuricon Store! This is a work in progress as we update categories, reset broken links, fix tags, and otherwise tidy up for what will be an eventual move to a new theme, but do drop by – the pages are linked to Yuri anime, manga, LNs, VNs, apparel and more!
 

On the other side of the world is the Yuriten Exhibition and we’re going to be doing a walk through”tour” on the Voice channel on the  Okazu Discord on March 20, 1PM EST US time. I’ll be paging through the exhibition and we can chat about the pretty art. This is a low-key get together, just for fun. Joins us if you can!

 





“Why Is There More Boy’s Love than Yuri?” on Yuri Studio

March 5th, 2021

Welcome to the new season of Yuri Studio – we have a new look and a new video to start off the new year! This is another question I get all the time.

So,  in our first video for 2021, I answer Why is There More Boys Love than Yuri?

 

 

I hope you will give this video a “Like” on Youtube and subscribe to the Yuri Studio channel. Because YouTube-oniisan watches over us, these things are very important to helping the video be recommended and shared. ^_^;

If you’d like to ask questions that we’ll consider answering on future videos or support more videos, become an Okazu Patron. We’re only a handful of people away from passing 100 patrons and that would be a huge benchmark for us! ^_^

I hope you enjoy this video. I really enjoyed making it. Ad a quick shout out to Louise for editing and Pattie for the design.

Give this a watch and let me know what you think in the YT comments!





Coming Soon: Season 2 of Yuri Studio

February 21st, 2021

Please enjoy this teaser I made for the first video of Season 2 of Yuri Studio. It took much longer than it should have but the fade out was being a pain in the butt. ^_^;

 





Journey Through the First 100 Years of Yuri Manga with Erica Friedman By Your Side

February 18th, 2021

It’s official! I and Journey Press are pleased to announce By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Manga & Anime.

The term “Yuri” began life as a coded reference to lesbianism within manga and anime genres, but in the last two decades has been shaped by creators, publishers and fans into a genre of its own. Though Yuri as a genre is a modern development, it has a century of artistic and literary history behind it. In “By Your Side: The First 100 Year of Yuri,” we take a stroll through that history, from Yoshiya Nobuko’s pioneering works for young women in 1920s Japan, to current 21st century trends in webcomics, light novels, visual novels, events, manga and more.

Factual, funny and highly entertaining, By Your Side is a series of interlocking essays, articles and lectures from 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 is scheduled for a June 2022 release, in time for both Pride Month and the 20th anniversary of Okazu, the oldest and  most comprehensive site on Yuri in any language.

 

About Erica Friedman

Erica holds a Masters Degree in Library Science and a B.A. in Comparative Literature, and is a full-time researcher for a Fortune 100 company. She has lectured at dozens of conventions and presented at film festivals, notably the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She has participated in an academic lecture series at MIT, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Harvard University, Kanagawa University, and others.

She has edited manga for JManga, Seven Seas and Udon Entertainent, most recently Riyoko Ikeda’s epic historical classic, The Rose of Versailles.

Erica has written about Yuri for Japanese literary journal Eureka,  Animerica magazine, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund,  Dark Horse, and contributed to Forbes, Slate, Huffington Post, Hooded Utilitarian, and The Mary Sue online. The founder of Yuricon, she has written news and event reports, interviews Yuri creators and reviews Yuri anime, manga and related media on her blog Okazu since 2002.

 

About Journey Press

Journey Press was born in 2019 with the goal of bringing unusual and diverse science fiction to the forefront of the publishing landscape. They are dedicated to supporting the women and queer people who have been erased from the history books and reprinting novels that fell by the wayside, in addition to publishing new novels by creators of all types.

For interviews, signings or appearances please contact Erica Friedman

https://www.yuricon.com/contact-yuricon/

For all other publicity, please contact Christine Sandquist at [email protected]

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“Own Voices – Are There Queer Creators Creating Yuri?” on Yuri Studio

December 14th, 2020

We’ve posted our final video of the first “season” of Yuri Studio and it’s a doozy. This time I take on one of the most complicated questions I get during Yuri panels and lectures. Own Voices – Are There Queer Creators Creating Yuri?

Amazingly, while I was working on this video several creators came out and/or were licensed! I started writing the script with a much smaller group of names than I ended up talking about, so that was pretty amazing. ^_^

I hope you’ll give this video a like and subscribe to my channel for more videos on Yuri.

Thanks very much to all the Okazu Patrons who made this possible. Become an Okazu Patron to have your question answered on the next season of Yuri Studio!