We’ve given the Yuri Resources page a bit of a visual refresh with some images by A.L.R. Keaton. And we’re pleased to announce three new articles on the Yuri Resources page today, all by Alexandra Arana Blas on the Yuri and Shoujo Manga, Feminism, Gender and Lesbian Themes – Research with Intersections with Yuri section: […]
Category: Yuri Essays
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 […]
New Yuri Scholarship, Interviews and Videos on the Essays Page
We’ve added some new content on the Yuricon Essays Page! In the to the Analysis section: The Yuricon 20th Anniversary Discussion Event on Youtube is now added. Watch Verena Maser, James Welker and Erica Friedman re-create their Mechademia panel on Yuri as a global phenomenon, in Transporting Yuri Across Borders. Kazumi Nagaike’s 2010 article The […]
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 […]
New Videos and Essays added!
We’ve added four new items to the Yuri Essays Page! Yuri Studio Videos from 2020 have been added to the History of Yuri section, so you an now view our look at three common questions from Yuri panels and lectures. In the Yuri and Shoujo, Feminism, Gender and Lesbian Themes section, you’ll find the newest […]
Yuri Essays Page Renewal!
To assist in Yuricon’s ongoing mission to disseminate information and research about Yuri, we’ve updated and slightly redesigned the Yuri Essays page! Broken links have been fixed, and new resources have been added, as well, to keep this page a one-stop-shop for all the Yuri-related research extant in English. Links to full-text articles exist where […]
New Yuri Essay by Erica
On Defining Yuri by Erica Friedman, in Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 24., June, 2017. Erica looks at the term yuri, as both descriptive and divisive, shaped by creators and industry and by different audiences within fandom. The story of yuri is the story of a genre driven forward and backward between conflicting requirements and heterogeneous audiences. Check […]
Alt Manga, Queer Manga – Telling Our Own Stories on Youtube
iWith many thanks to the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, the entirely of my lecture Alt Manga, Queer Manga – Telling Our Own Stories s now available on the Yuricon Essays Page. Learn how queer creators and fans’ desires gave birth to queer manga genres Boys’ Love, Yuri and gay manga!
A [Very] Brief History of Yuri video on the Essays Page
The full text and graphics of Erica’s short 100-years-in-6-slides presentation for the Tokyo Rainbow Pride event, Tokyo Comics Showcase, Vol. 1, is now available as a Youtube video! Follow Erica through the origins of Yuri in the ‘S’movement, through mid-century angst and late-20th century magical girls, right up to the present and the Yuri genre […]
New Thesis on Yuri by Verena Maser on Yuri Essays Page
New on the Yuricon Essays page, we have Beautiful and Innocent: Female Same-Sex Intimacy in the Japanese Yuri Genre – PhD thesis by Verena Maser, examining the relationship between media content, its production, and its reception in Japanese popular culture in regards to Yuri. (Full text article available at linked page.) Yuri scholarship is really starting to build […]
How Does Japan Treat Gay People?
We get this question from time to time in lectures and panels. Today on Slate, Erica has a chance to give it the nuance it deserves, touching upon the importance of media and political representation as indicators of social acceptance.
Read “Thoughts on the Representation of Yuri Fandom in Kurata Uso’s Yuri danshi” from Eureka Current State of Yuri Culture issue!
The second translated article from Eureka magazine’s “The Current State of Yuri Culture” issue is live and public on the Yuricon Essays Page! Thoughts on the Representation of Yuri Fandom in Kurata Uso’s Yuri danshi by James Welker, translated by him and published with his permission. I found his take on the subject fascinating (As you will […]
Read “Yuri: A Genre Without Borders” from Eureka Current State of Yuri Culture issue!
The Yuri Essays Page has been updated withe first translation from the Eureka, “Current State of Yuri Culture” issue (Seidosha, December 2104.) We hope you will enjoy Yuri: A Genre Without Borders, by Yuricon founder Erica Friedman. And stay tuned for more translations!
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.
Yuri Essays Page Updated!
On Octobrr 16, Yuricon founder Erica Friedman presented a lecture at the International Christian University in Mitaka, Japan at the invitation of Prof. Beverly Curran. The fulltext of the lecture is now available online: Persuasion and Opinion in Pop Culture Fandom – Are We the Cart or the Horse? New Yuri essays, videos and links […]