Category: Site Updates

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 […]

Yuricon Community Guidelines

Yuricon began its life as an online community, and we still believe that to be our strength. Fans of Yuri from all over the world can gather on Yuricon & ALC communities and chat about things that are of interest to them. Here is our list of Active Yuricon communities (as of September 2012): Yuricon […]

Yuricon 2011 Art Contest Winner!

It is our great pleasure to present to you, the Winner of the 2011 Yuricon Art Contest, “Everday is a Celebration with Yuricon!”. Winner Catherine F. (and all our entries, in fact) conveyed the joy Yuriko and Midori have in every moment of every day together. Whether they were cleaning, reading in bed, or just […]

First “What Yuri Means to Me” Essays are online!

Our written archive of personal histories relating to Yuri is now online, with the first two sets of essays! Enjoy the Q&A with Morishima Akiko-sensei from the 2005 Yuricon in Tokyo program book, in English and Japanese, and an essay from Katherine Hanson. Enjoy the first essays from the  What Yuri Means to Me Project. […]

A new New Yuri Essay

A new essay on the roots of the Girl Prince character so common in Yuri manga. Visit our Essays Page or visit this essay directly at Erica’s monthly column for Hooded Utilitarian, Overthinking Things.

New Guidelines Page for Yuricon Online Communities

We’ve just uploaded the revised FAQs for all Yuricon communities to the website: https://www.yuricon.com/faqs/ Please take a few moments and read them over. These standards apply to all Yuricon & ALC communities.

You Choose Which Will Be the First New Yuricon Contest

Now that we have the new Yuricon website, it’s time for a new Yuricon contest! We’re running two polls, on our Facebook Community and Yuricon Mailing List, for you to decide which kind of contest it will be: Art Contest, Fanfic Contest or AMV Contest. But…there’s a catch. ^_^ The New Yuricon is all about […]

Share Your Love of Yuricon!

We’ve got a new feature here at Yuricon – now you can “Share” News and Pages with friends and readers on other social networks! Major pages will have logos at the very bottom for Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, Stumbleupon, Printing or Email, so you can share your love of Yuricon. Feel free to be generous […]

New Yuri Essay

Erica Traces the roots of the standard Yuri genre story in her exploration of “Story A” for her column on Hooded Utilitarian. 40 Years of the Same Damn Story, Pt. 1 Link has also been added to the Yuri Essays page.    

Yuricon Under Construction

It’s been a long time, we know. You deserved a new site and we wanted you to have one. And now we do. The look is new, but the info will be mostly the same – Shop, Essays, Light Novel, Links and access to AMVs, Yuri Reviews and more. Events will be posted here on […]