Welcome back to the middle of “holy crow, jet lag is a thing” week. I had planned on writing up a bunch of stuff, but crashing to the floor mid-day puts the cabosh on that. Regularly scheduled nonsense will resume when I have completed a passage around the clock the long way to get back […]
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Running Around Tokyo, December 2023
We did a lot in a week, let me just say that. When we arrived in Tokyo, my wife and I met up with Sonomi-san, who was my interpreter for the lecture at Keio University later in the week. I randomly decided that, rather than go to a cafe, we’d meet at an Alice in […]
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 9, 2023
Yuri Manga Yamashita Tomoko’s Ikkou Nikki, about a person-avoidant woman who takes in her niece, who has a queer best friend, has been named best manga in DaVinci magazine’s “Book of the Year” in Japan. Number two on the list is Arai Sumiko’s Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, which I reviewed here on […]
Finding Queerness in All The Right Places
We spent the last couple of days running from one section of town to another. This was a manhole cover not too far from the Animate main store. I guess Ikebukuro has it’s own mascots now. I forgot to mention that I met the person behind the Yuri Times at Comitia! Ayumi is super lovely, […]
Comitia 146
It has been nearly 5 years since we’ve been at Tokyo Big Sight. It was a bit moving to be back. Comitia was not as large as it was in 2019, nor quite as high-level on design (for, I imagine, reasons of economics, time, health and sundry) but it was lovely to walk through a […]
