2025 was a heckuva year! Yuricon celebrated a 25th birthday in summer with a brand new web site design. Check out the new look at https://www.yuricon.com/ Our Okazu staff grew to 7 amazing humans. Erica was a guest at Blymecon and CitrusCon online and Y/Con in Paris. For posts about that last experience and about […]
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Redbubble’s Usurious Policy And The Yuricon Store
Due to an outrageous change in Redbubble’s cut of sales – from something like 40% to 85% – we’ve pulled all of our custom Yuricon items from their site, pending a new host. We’ll repost the Apparel and Goods on the Store when we’ve found a new host. Thank you for your patience.
Why We Call It “Yuri” on Anime Feminist
A brief article for the Anime Feminist blog, discussing some of the words used to describe manga and doujinshi with female same-sex couples and why Yuri creators and fans decided specifically on the word, “Yuri” during a conversation in a cafe in Tokyo in 2005. (Also, capturing oral history, so we don’t lose it in […]
“The Secret History of Yaoi and Yuri” at Flamecon!
Erica will be bringing her guerilla “history of Japanese literature” panel to Flamecon 2, New York’s queerest comic event, which will be held in Brooklyn, New York on August 20-21. The Secret History of Yaoi and Yuri Saturday August 20, Room C Another chance to talk to an LGBTQ crowd about Japanese queer media, and give folks a […]
Yuricon Store Grand Opening!
Yuricon Mascots Yuri and Midori would like to welcome you all to the new Yuricon Store, the one-stop shop for Yuri Anime, Yuri Manga, Light Novels, Literature, Goods and more. If you are new to the Yuricon Store, take a moment to read this description of the categories, vendors and features. Our favorite feature is the new search […]
Read “Japan: Fertile Ground for the Cultivation of Yuri” by Rica Takashima from Eureka’s Current State of Yuri Culture issue!
The third article from Eureka Magazine’s “Current State of Yuri Culture ” issue, December 2014 is now online and available for all Yuricon readers! Check out public artist Takashima’s commentary about women’s place in Japan, and how it gave birth to a new genre…not always from a place of love in Japan: Fertile Ground for the […]
Rica Takashima at the NYPL on LGBTQ in YA Literature
Yuri Manga artist Rica Takashima will be lecturing at the Mulberry Street Branch of the New York Public Library at 10 Jersey St., New York, NY on Monday, June 20, at 4:30PM. The session is called “Queering Fiction: LGBTQ in YA [Young Adult] Literature.” If you’re local, I hope you’ll drop by and show her […]