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Erica Friedman
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Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Looking for opportunities.

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Today on Okazu - Galette 04 Special English Edition

Creator-owned crowdfunded Yuri manga magazine Galette has shipped the rewards from their 4th successful Kickstarter. Yuri fans can read original Yuri stories in English!

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Galette 04 Special English Edition cover. A woman with dark hair , wearing glasses, hides behind a woman with long, blonde hair in a beret, playing a game of hide-and-seek with her, as the blonde looks to one side to see her, she is on the other.
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Today on Okazu - A Yuri Love Story That Begins with Getting Dumped in a Dream, Volume 1

After Tsukushi wakes up from a dream in which she confesses to Hinoka. Now, Tsukushi is going to think about that friendship a lot differently. Out now from Seven Seas!

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Two girls wearing blue button down short-sleeve shirts and red striped ties lay next to one another but facing in different direction, so only their heads are near. A girl with long, dark hair looks at the girl with short blonde hair, whose eyes are closed.
January 18, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Today on Okazu - Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 17, 2025

Lots of Live-Action Yuri, Yuri anime and, manga, visual novel, light novel news and more this week from the global Yuri network!

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In black block letters, YNN Yuri Network News. On the left, in black silhouette, a woman with a broad brim hat and dress stands, a woman in a tight outfit sits against the Y. Art by Mari Kurisato for Okazu
January 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Showing up in the snow against ICE and fascism in my town.
January 17, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Today on Okazu - Love Bullet, Volume 2 (ラブ・バレット)

Volume 2 of inee’s poignant action story about love and war introduces us to a new Cupid and another battle for the hearts of young people in a rural school in a thrilling battle for love!

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Cover of Love Bullet, Volume 2 by inee. On a blood red background, a girl with white wings and pale blue tactical gear, holding heart-shaped grenades, is surrounded by bullet shells with a heart shape on the primer part of the casing.
January 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Today on Okazu - Lesbian Space Princess

@historyhermann.bsky.social does a very in-depth look at the award-winning animated movie Lesbian Space Princess about a protected a woman who ventures out of her to save the woman who means everything to her

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Screencap from Lesbian Space Pirate, with humanoid and alien girls kissing under the light of an alien star in a purple sky. The alien girl has white skin, and aquamarine hair, the human girl has medium-brown skin and dark long hair.
January 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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$2 in tariff...almost $18 in "processing" gouging.
January 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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My response to an offer of an "collaboration" with an AI company via my affiliate company.|

AI is theft. I can't draw either, but you don't see me stealing other people's work to fake it.
Portion of an email that reads: ""AI Art" is fraud. Your system is built on the back of stolen artworks. Literally millions of hours of human creativity and skill has gone into that work, and your company just...stole it. Now you are attempting to partner with a company that promotes the creative efforts of actual people so the vultures who pick at the remains of creativity can make money on other people's time and effort. I will not now or ever want to partner with your company. Your AI drains energy from communities, steals people's work and returns nothing but slop for people who are afraid to fail or do any work at all. Frankly, how dare you ask me to partner, collaborate or whatever word you chose, for me to be a barely paid sales person for your product. If your AI is so good, sell it yourself. Oh, wait, right, you don't create things, you just steal from other people. Keep on with out me. Take me off your lists and never darken my doorstep again."
January 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Today on Okazu - Galette No. 36 (ガレットNo.36)

Galette is about to step into a 10th year, with the end of one of it’s longest-running series. This creator-owned, crowd-funded quarterly Yuri manga magazine continues to do what it wants to do the way that it wants!

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Cover of Galette magazines, with the image turned 90 degrees, a woman in a beret style cap looks at us, another woman hiding behind a piece of paper look sideways at the first woman. Colorful, but blurry red and yellow apples make up the foreground air.
January 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Today on Okazu - Yuri News Network – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 10, 2026

A whole lotta live-action Yuri (and not), Yuri manga anime, new Light Novel from ILTV’s inori. and more, this week in news from the global Yuri network!

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A blue silhouette of a girl with a white flower in her hair, embracing the earth. Blue block letters read YNN Yuri Network News. Art by Lissa P. For Okazu.
January 10, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Today on Okazu - She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Volume 5

A winner of Okazu’s Top Yuri of 2025 Special Awards and a fantastic volume of a fantastic manga. Sakaomi Yuzaki's story of queer life and found family is available now from @yenpress.com!

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Cover of She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat, Volume 5 by Sakaomi Yuzaki. On an unadorned background, 4 adult women walk together chatting and eating or drinking. A tall woman in pants and shirt, a shorter woman in woman in a winter jacket and long skirt.
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Today on Okazu - There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless…, Volume 4

@stowly.bsky.social takes a look at the LN that completes what the author considers “Season 1” of the series, with a new character. Available now from @sevenseasentertainment.com!

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Cover of There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover Unless...!, Light novel Volume 4 Two girls embrace, looking out at us. One has pink hair with a crossed barrettes as decoration on the front, the other has silver-blue hair tied up with a gold ribbon. They both wear Japanese style school uniforms of white blouses with red piping, and gray plaid skirts.
January 7, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Today on Okazu - Lilies Blooming in 100 Days

Muromaki’s collected online comics representing 100 Yuri scenarios is adapted into English by Yen into a full-color celebration of Yuri tropes.

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In a classroom, in front of a window glowing with sunshine, a teacher in blouse and slacks stands behind a student in a chair, her arms gently over the girl's shoulders. The student leans back and reaches up to touch the older woman gently on her face.
January 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Today on Okazu - Comic Yuri Hime, January 2026 (コミック百合姫2026年1月号)

New cover artist, new series and a lot of continuing series and a 20th anniversary café in Tokyo for Comic Yuri Hime’s continuing celebration into this new year of Yuri!

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Cover of Comic Yuri Hime, January 2026 - a bold red background. Looking into a mirror, a young woman with a lace bow tying up her purple-brown hair, has lip color applied by brush held by a woman with long pink braids, her face mostly offscreen.
January 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Today on Okazu - Yuri News Network – (百合ネットワークニュース) – January 3, 2026

New Yuri anime key visual, cast and promos, and old Yuri anime up on Youtube! Yuri manga, LNs, VNs, webcomics and more this week in news from the global Yuri network!

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In blue silhouette, two women face each other. One wears a fedora and male-styled attire, one is in a dress and heels. Their body language is obscure - they may be dancing, or laughing or fighting. Art by Mari Kurisato for Okazu
January 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Today on Okazu - Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko, Volume 1

A closeted lesbian fends off unsubtle advances from a straight(?) work colleague in this workplace comedy by Sal Jiang. Available February from Tokyopop’s LoveLove imprint.

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A woman in a business suit on the phone looking off to her right, is watched by a blushing woman in a pink off the shoulder dress who crouches down to look up at the other woman.
January 2, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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I'm good with it
January 2, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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Okazu Staff Presents The Top Yuri of 2025!

Earlier this week the Okazu staff gave a few Special Awards to series that so many of us love. Today we look at the series, people, publications that we think were the Top Yuri of 2025!

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Okazu logo by Lissa P.. Two women read books that say Yuri in English and Japanese. One has medium brown skin and medium-long orange hair with ombre. The other has pale skin and short, blue hair. Below in gray letters is the word, okazu.
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Today on Okazu - Okazu’s Top Yuri of 2025 Special Awards Winners!

These four manga have been so popular on Okazu that we decided to give them a list of their own. ^_^

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A girl with white wings, in blue and white uniform, holding a gun, charges towards us 4 women of different heights and sizes wearing casual cloths walk along eating and chatting Bright green cover of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At ALL, Two girls surrounded by guitar picks blowing in a high wind Two girls sit laughing and talking at a table. One girl with long hair leans forward across the table
December 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Today on Okazu – Takarazuka's Castlevania: Awakening Under The Moon

Takarazuka Flower Troupe’s performance of Castlevania is available as Video on Demand. It’s a great and reasonably priced way to enjoy a Takarazuka experience.

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Title card of Takarazuka Flower troupe's Castlevania Awakening Under The Moon on the left, with stars Sea Towaki as Alucard and Misaki Hoshizora as Maria on the right. Both dressed in blue. Alucard in an elaborate 18th century coat and vest, Maria in a dress with a silver ribbon on her left hip.
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 27, 2025

For the last Yuri news report of 2025, we have new Yuri manga, Yuri visual novels, Yuri anime and live-action news and more! Here’s to one more year of great Yuri news in the books.

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December 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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90. Red Garden

A *brilliant* and occasionally musical anime about girls who learn that they are vampires and boys who are werewolves. So, so, so, good.

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Four girls with expressions of anger, confusion, and pity stand among red flowers becoming butterflies.
December 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Resurrecting this thread because I can.

89. Blue Drop

The manga that launched two drama CDs which were excellent, an anime which was excellent which had absolutely nothing to do with the manga and a sequel which was vile. Humans lost to an alien invasion.

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December 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Today on Okazu – The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All, Volume 3

The third volume of Sumiko Arai’s award-winning manga is full of laughs, deals with serious issues and stomps on tired tropes, to a “Dad rock” soundtrack. Available now from Yen Press!

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On a bright neon green background, drawn in black and white, guitar picks flying around as in a high wind, two girls look at us. One, in t-shirt and jeans, holds a guitar, the other in blouse and skirt, their hair and clothes flying wildly.
December 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Today on Okazu – The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess, Volume 2

Nekotarou’s isekai tale of a over-competent office lady in her favorite game trying to save everyone…even the villainess, is a fun and cute story. Out now from Seven Seas!

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Cover of The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess, Volume 2. Pink-haired girl with a sword and blue uniform, holds a girl in a red dress close as it to protect her.
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM