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Okazu is the world's oldest and most comprehensive blog on lesbian-themed Japanese cartoons, comics, and related media.
Okazu
17h ago
Every once in a while, I choose a book by it’s cover. ^_^ In the case of A Magical Girl Retires, by Park Seolyeon the title and synopsis piqued my interest, but it was the cover, by Kim Sanho, who also did the cover art for the entertaining An Error Occurred, which I reviewed this ..read more
Okazu
3d ago
Yuri Manga Sal Jiang has announced a new series, Wicked Spot (ウィキッドスポット), as part of the Candle A imprint from Kadokawa. “Sada is a modern-day witch who is tired of living quietly in the mountains and wants to get more attention. Why shouldn’t human beings know about witches? A story of modern-day “witches” who break ..read more
Okazu
6d ago
There’s a show called Shirobako, which began airing exactly ten years ago today, as it happens. A love letter to its own industry, it’s an anime about making anime. In that show, there is a conflict between the cast about the place of 3D computer-generated imagery in anime, with many of the senior animators dead-set ..read more
Okazu
1w ago
Studio Élan has announced a 4-story collection of short Yuri VNs as part of their own internal Yuri Game Jam, titled Garden Variety: Dandelion Set. Each of these stories are developed by a different team working with Studio Élan. All four of these games are playable on desktop. Individual games may be playable on Android ..read more
Okazu
1w ago
This week was a veritable cornucopia of licenses and cover reveals, but before we get in to this week’s news, I want to say this – Okazu will not be reporting on, supporting, or listing on the Yuricon Store, any AI-created or localized anything. All AI in actual existence is “trained” on the work of ..read more
Okazu
1w ago
by Matt Marcus, Staff Writer Content Warning for discussions of sexual coercion My grandfather remarried when I was seven years old. This was fantastic news for me, since both of my grandmothers passed before I was forming permanent memories. Most summers of my childhood, my family would visit my grandparents at their second home in ..read more
Okazu
1w ago
How DARE this series make me feel things? Back in 2022 I read and reviewed what I considered to be a slightly amusing, slightly forgettable manga called Maou to Yuri, Volume 1. I bought the next volume not because I cared what would happen, but because I like to have some manga on tap for ..read more
Okazu
1w ago
Continuing our tour of Southeast Asian live-action yuri, we come to Cambodia, a country that has a much smaller population than either Thailand or Vietnam, and a per capita GDP as small relative to Vietnam’s as Vietnam’s is to Thailand’s. It’s therefore a surprise to find that Cambodia has produced a number of live-action yuri ..read more
Okazu
2w ago
Last week, I was able to review the upcoming Yen Press release of Sumiko Arai’s popular manga The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All. It was a pleasure to share that review because Yen had done a very good job.I hope you’ll all read that review, and pre-order the book. While ..read more
Okazu
2w ago
I am of an age to remember the classic Justice League cartoon, so was interested in this new version of the team. It was a bit of a readjustment with new characters and new people playing some of the superheroes, but I’m pretty flexible and picked up on who did what on the League side ..read more