This year I was supposed to have been a guest at a number of event, but when Long Covid hit, I had to cancel everything and I am not going to be able to attend an event for a while. So, to celebrate Okazu’s, Yuricon’s (and my) birthdays, we’re doing a Special Birthday Sale of […]
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Order By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga Today!
20 years in the making, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga, a ground breaking history of the Yuri genre is now on sale! 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 […]
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale June 1!
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 […]
A Pictorial History of Yuricon and Okazu in T-shirt Design
In the late 1990s a bunch of folks were chatting about cool f/f couples in anime and manga on Usenet. I decided to have a t-shirt made up for a bunch of us who were going to meet at Otakon in 2002. That shirt had a logo designed by Kat Williams and a motto that […]
Journey Through the First 100 Years of Yuri Manga with Erica Friedman By Your Side
Yuricon founder Erica Friedman 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 […]
Yuricon & Okazu Updates
We’ve been working hard here to update, upgrade and move forward while we’re all in pandemic lockdowns. With the help of all of our Okazu Patrons, here’s what we’ve accomplished this year! Tech Updates: We had some false security notices recently. It turns out that the SSL certificate we had was no longer sufficient for […]
Breaking New Ground With Your Support
Okazu is very close to a new milestone and with your help we can make it! Two more $5/month donations puts us at 80 patrons – and we’ll hit our second microgoal of being able to support another queer creator! (See below for our current list of folks we support.) For just $5/month, you will […]
2020 Online Yuri Panel Schedule!
I’ve been promising this for some time, but at last I have set up a tentative schedule for our 2020 Online Yuri Panel. On May 27th, 2020 4:00 PM, we’ll be doing an Okazu Patron-only access for live test. This will include me doing the setting up of my “film studio” and goofs, so […]
100 Years of Yuri Events Schedule
Yuricon Founder Erica Friedman will be speaking about the 100th Anniversary of the Yuri Genre at the following events: Yurithon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. August 16-18, 2019, Palais des congrès de Montréal. Crunchyroll Expo, San Jose, CA, USA. August 30 – September 1, 2019. San Jose Convention Center 100 Years of Yuri Tour, Tokyo Japan – […]
100 Years of the Yuri Genre Anniversary Kickoff!
The end of last month, we officially kicked off our 100th Anniversary of the Yuri Genre series with what I hope will be a saturation of articles, interviews and podcasts. Thanks to the folks at Proyecto Sugoi for the chance to talk about Yuri in the first of my 100th Anniversary of Yuri interviews! Also […]
Subscribe to Okazu and Receive and Invitation to our Exclusive Okazu Holiday Party!
Subscribe to Okazu on Patreon and get: Yuri anime and manga reviews, news, podcast, event reports, and an invitation to the exclusive Okazu Holiday Party!
Thank you to my Okazu Family!
Thank you to my Okazu Family!
2018 Okazu Patreon Campaign!
8 events, 5 posts a week, 40% more patrons – we’re now able to pay Guest Reviewers – 2017 was amazing year for Okazu! And we expect an even better 2018, with new goals and a new reward for all patrons on Patreon!
Get a Glimpse at the ‘Big Book o’Yuri’ by subscribing to Okazu on Patreon!
We’ve hit major milestone in what has a working title of the “Big Book o’Yuri” – the definitive book on history, influences, key series, definitions, and random things related to Yuri that Erica wants to write about, etc, etc. This project, which is going to cover approximately 100 years of the genre we love is […]
Special video New Year’s Message from Erica
On Okazu, Yuricon Founder Erica Friedman talks about the Okazu and Yuricon mission for 2015 – what we’ve accomplished, where we’re going…and how you can help.
Welcome Okazu to the Yuricon Domain
After a decade of being split apart, the oldest, most comprehensive and complete Yuri blog on the web, Okazu, has now joined the Yuricon domain! Yuricon founder Erica Friedman has been writing news, reviews and articles on Yuri anime, manga and related media since 2002 on her blog, Okazu. Bringing Okazu on board here at […]