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 […]
Category: What Yuri Means to Me
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 […]
Two New “What Yuri Means to Me” essays are up!
Our written archive of personal histories relating to Yuri is now online, with two new sets of essays! From the 2005 Yuricon in Tokyo program book we have the creator of Plica-chan, Amamiya Sae, in English and Japanese, and an essay from long-time friend of Yuri, Eric Potter! Essays can be found on the What […]
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. […]