Kase-san and Yamada have been dating for a few years now, and while they are both working on building lives for themselves that include each other, their schedules make it very difficult. And maybe that would be okay, but it means that they haven’t really had the time they need to discuss themselves with each […]
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Okazu Top Yuri Anime of 2019
Hello and welcome to the 2019 Edition of the end-of-year lists here on Okazu! <pausing for applause> As usual, I will be splitting the lists of things I consider notable, interesting, worth mentioning into three. We begin, as we always begin with anime of the year that I consider worth noting. Also as usual, I […]
Yuri Manga: Yuritora Jump ~ Ultra Jump Yuri Digital Anthology~, Volume 2 (ユリトラジャンプ～ウルトラジャンプ百合アンソロジー～ Vol.2)
Last year Ultra Jump (Shonen Jump‘s older brother magazine) did an awkwardly titled Yuri anthology called Yuritora Jump.The title’s awkwardness comes from it being an “Ultra Jump” off-shoot, so Ultora Jump ウルトラジャンプ becomes Yuritora Jump ユリトラジャンプ…yeah…, no, it doesn’t work in Japanese either and people keep making fun of it. ^_^; I could have sworn […]
Catcher in the Rhyme Manga, Volume 1 (キャッチャー・イン・ザ・ライム)
Catcher in the Rhyme (キャッチャー・イン・ザ・ライム) by Segawa Noboru is my new favorite thing ever. ^_^ Takatsuji Satsuki suffers from that painful, paralyzing embarrassment that functions as a major plot complication in so many manga. She’s a lonely child, berated for not having skills no one has ever bothered teaching her. Unable to even manage a decent […]
Top Ten Yuri Anime of 2017
Anime’s always harder than manga for me, because despite the premise that “only guys buy anime” being disproved over and over again, the prevailing belief among producers is that only guys buy anime. Sigh. Despite that, 2017 wasn’t a bad year for Yuri anime, although I had to fiddle a bit to get us up to […]
