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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 […]

New Yuricon Community on MeWe!

In advance of what will clearly be a future mass migration off of Facebook, as they have now ceded control to white supremacist news sources, I’ve opened a MeWe Yuricon group. This will be a duplicate group and you do not have to feel obliged to follow it, but I wanted to be ready when […]

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 Yuri at Toronto Comic Arts Festival

Please join us at Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 11-12, 2019 in Toronto, ON for a celebration of 100 Years of Yuri! We’ll be kicking off with a look at 100 Years of Yuri at Toronto Reference Library Learning Centre, 1st Floor, at 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 11. This will be followed by an […]

100 Years of Yuri at Toronto Comic Arts Festival

Please join Kase-san series creator Takashima Hiromi and Yuricon founder Erica Friedman at Toronto Comic Arts Festival for 100 Years of Yuri! Hiromi Takashima will attend TCAF in support of the “100 Years of Yuri” program, headed by Yuri manga expert Eric Friedman, featured at the festival this year. In addition to a display of […]

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 […]

“Celebrate 100 Years of Yuri” Tour of Japan from Yuricon and Pac-Set Travel!

[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE] JANUARY 31, 2019: Yuricon, a celebration of Yuri in anime and manga, and Japan travel leader PacSet (PacSet Tours Inc.) have joined forces to launch the first guided trip to Japan dedicated to the Yuri genre of Japanese animation and manga. The trip will take place from September 8 until September 17 […]

Yuricon Autumn 2018 Events Schedule

Yuricon Founder Erica Friedman will be at the following events: New York Comic Con – October 4-7, 2018 New York, NY. Erica will be working as press, so no panels, but if you catch up to her, do say hi! Newark Museum Second Sundays — Manga Mania – October 14, 2018, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Erica […]

Yuricon.com Site Revewal

Revisit the history of the Yuricon website, with a look back into the various incarnations over almost 20 years. On Okazu we walk you through the last two decades, so you can see how the site has changed. Then come back and click around to visit the newest incarnation of Yuricon.com!

Yuricon at AnimeNEXT in Atlantic City, NJ!

Please join Yuricon founder Erica Friedman at AnimeNEXT, June 8-10 in Atlantic City, NJ where she will be a Guest Panelist. She will be bringing Yuri content and prizes for great questions all weekend long! Thursday, June 7, 2018: Sailor Moon Musical – Le Mouvement Final Screening Join me and other Sailor Moon fans 8:30P […]

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 […]

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 […]

Yuricon at Yurithon!

Please join us August 4-6 in Montreal, Canada for Yurithon, part of the Otakuthon event. I’ll be joined by some of my senior staff and dearest friends (but not all, and we’re really going to miss those of you not there!) and we’re doing a bunch of panels. I’m bring a bunch of stuff to […]

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 […]

Yuricon Manga and Comic Events 2017 Calendar

Yuricon founder Erica Friedman’s appearance schedule for 2017. New events will be added as they are confirmed. (Events in which it is confirmed that I’ll be participating in are in bold.) MoCCA Arts Festival, April 1-2, 2017. New York City, USA. (80% confirmed that I’ll be there on Saturday.) Read the Event Report! Queer & […]

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!