Yuri Manga: Manga no Tsukurikata, Volume 1
okazu.blogspot.com 5/11/2009 — When Kawaguchi was 13, she debuted as a manga artist. But, due to many different things, she stopped drawing. Now she's 19 and has decided to get back into it only...she has no idea what to...

Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime S, Volume 7
okazu.blogspot.com 1/16/2009 — Color pages? Why yes! The characters of "Yuru-Yuri" are *so* excited that even the voice balloons are in color! But mostly they sit around and talk in a classroom, so it's kind of a waste. lol...

Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime S, Volume 9
okazu.blogspot.com 8/4/2009 — Yuri Hime S , Volume 9 ( コミック百合姫S (エス) ) is... Yuri Hime S . I keep wanting to like it, I really do. And mostly I kind of sort of enjoy it. But it is not for me and I am reminded repeatedly of the fact as I face chapter after chapter of stories like "Yuru Yuri," "Love Cubic," "Minus ...

Yuri Manga: Sasamekikoto, Volume 5
okazu.blogspot.com 10/6/2009 — In Volume 4 , we left Ushio and Sumika not actually saying anything important to one another. Now, in Volume 5 of Sasamekikoto ( ささめきこと ), the walls between them are not getting any easier to get past. In fact, it's safe to say that this entire volume follows two young women who have ...

Yuri Manga: Tsubomi, Volume 3
okazu.blogspot.com 10/8/2009 — Yet again, I find myself almost completely forgetting every story mere days after reading the third volume of Tsubomi . Really, it's not that they are particularly bad or anything - they just have almost no substance. And the continuing saga of two older (barely pubescent) sisters who ...

Yuri Manga: Hayate x Blade, Volume 9
okazu.blogspot.com 2/24/2009 — Is there any way this series could be more awesome? (Other than by becoming an anime, I mean.) What *I* want from a manga series is women who are growing, becoming stronger, becoming more who they...

Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime, Volume 15 (Part 2)
okazu.blogspot.com 3/25/2009 — The second half of this volume of Yuri Hime (百合姫) picks up with "Mizu-iro Cinema," a little ditty about popular actress Yui who, after a day's shoot decides to take a walk along the beach. As she...

Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime, Volume 17 (Part 1)
okazu.blogspot.com 8/23/2009 — Welcome to Volume 17 of Yuri Hime ( コミック百合姫 ), which was both very good and very bad - sometimes at the same time. The cover story, and new series by Eiki Eiki and Zaou Taisho is...really frustrating. It's the 23rd century, all the men are dead and women have, for some reason, reinvented ...

Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime Wildrose, Volume 3
okazu.blogspot.com 5/28/2009 — Let's get the most damning thing about Yuri Hime Wildrose , Volume 3 out of the way right up front. When I picked it up today to review it, I couldn't remember a single story in it, although I had only re(!)read it a week ago. After I picked it up and flipped through the volume I remembered a ...

Yuri Manga: Yuri Hime, Volume 17 (Part 2)
okazu.blogspot.com 8/24/2009 — The second half of Volume 17 of Yuri Hime ( コミック百合姫 ) starts off with another very doujinshi-style story. Which makes me wonder...why do I think of them this way? Probably because i first encountered them when I began collecting original Yuri doujinshi. These stories that I think of as ...