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I’m Not Okay (and That’s Okay): Happy Sugar Life and the comfort of “bad survivor” narratives
Reading through Happy Sugar Life was a therapy I didn’t know I needed. With its wild-eyed, camera-spinning melodrama, it managed to capture so many unwanted feelings of anger, sorrow, desperation, resentment, anxiety, and at times, a truly aching nothingness. I joy-rode this tour-de-madness, but even I still spent a week afterward somewhere between “destabilized” and “no bath or shower will make me feel clean.”

Perspectivesby Aquarius August 17, 20220 Comments
What Role Are You Playing? Communication, queerness, and neurodivergence in Yuri is My Job!
Miscommunication as narrative conflict is often linked with contrivance and bad writing—and no genre faces this criticism more than romance. That’s what makes Yuri is My Job! so refreshing. In the process of building a will-they-won’t-they story, it explores the gendered, neurotypical, and heteronormative expectations that are built into social interaction.

Featureby Vrai Kaiser June 24, 20220 Comments
Daring to Speak its Name: Goodbye, My Rose Garden and the queer historical romance
Set in 1900 England and steeped in references to both the history and literature of the Victorian era, Goodbye, My Rose Garden draws on turn-of-the-century reality and fantasy alike to highlight the intersectional struggles of queer women of the period.

Historyby Dee December 10, 20210 Comments
How BL and Yuri Helped Me Face My Sexuality
It took years of consuming BL and Yuri to finally face my truth: that I am queer.

Perspectivesby Cynthia Millsap February 17, 20210 Comments
Chatty AF 134: Yuri Manga Variety Hour (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Alex, and Mercedez go over the wealth of yuri being published on the English market and share some of their faves!

Podcastby Anime Feminist February 14, 20210 Comments
Katarina of Irodori Comics on translating doujinshi to English
Irodori Comics launched an all-ages online doujinshi store featuring LGBTQ+ works. AniFem asked its editor to talk about the company’s future plans.

Interviewby Chiaki Hirai September 23, 20200 Comments
Yuri is for Everyone: An analysis of yuri demographics and readership
Throughout its 100-year history, yuri has uniquely evolved in and moved about multiple markets, often existing in many simultaneously. It is by and for a variety of people: men, women, heterosexuals, queer people, everyone!

Featureby Nicki "YuriMother" Bauman February 12, 20200 Comments
How Kindred Spirits on the Roof both represents and exploits queer teen girls
The first time I read Kindred Spirits on the Roof, I was surprised and even grateful, because it often felt like the game was speaking to my questioning teenage self. It attempts to honestly portray queer female relationships, but sometimes blurs the line between depicting attraction and sensationalizing it.

Featureby Shayna February 5, 20200 Comments
Kase-san and Queer Thirst: Depicting sexuality in a “pure” yuri manga
“Purity” is most commonly used as a shorthand for chastity or sexlessness, and generally refers to stories that don’t engage with sex at all. Though Yamada’s sincerity and innocence is part of Kase-san‘s appeal, the way it engages with the girls’ sexuality is just as important. Sex does exist in Kase-san, and while the series focuses primarily on Kase and Yamada’s emotional relationship, it also explores their physical relationship and sexual attraction to each other from the very first chapter.

Featureby Saori Mitsueda August 14, 20190 Comments
Is Yuri Queer?
Inevitably, when I do any kind of public talk about Yuri or LGBTQ comics, someone will express dissatisfaction at mild school life romances or I’ll be asked for recommendations for manga about “real” lesbians. As we move through the 100th anniversary of the Yuri genre, it seems time to address this issue—not once and for all, as the genre is changing as rapidly as the languages that describe it, but for now.

Featureby Erica Friedman June 7, 20190 Comments
Not “Just a Phase”: How Bloom Into You challenges common yuri tropes
Media presents a certain set of common tropes that informs much of our idea about love and what it “should” look like. Bloom Into You interrogates these tropes, making it a story that provides important queer representation in fiction while also talking about representation in fiction within the story itself.

Featureby Alex Henderson June 5, 20190 Comments
The Beginner’s Guide to Yuri Manga
The last few years have seen a boom in the English-language yuri market, with more and more manga about queer romance between women making it to shelves. But with all these choices, where does a curious reader start?

Featureby Vrai Kaiser May 31, 20190 Comments
Beyond the Bear Storm: Morishima Akiko, yuri mangaka
This is the story of an openly queer mangaka who really loves to write about women falling in love with other women.

Creator Spotlightby Ariel 'Solowi' Nakandakare September 19, 20180 Comments
Growing into Love: How Kase-san models a healthy queer relationship
It can be hard to find manga that shows both the struggles and joys of the awkward period of teen romance, especially if you’re not straight. That’s exactly why the Kase-san and… manga series is a breath of fresh air, a slice-of-life comedy that models what a healthy, queer romantic relationship can look like.

Featureby Ashley Glenn August 15, 20180 Comments
Going Beyond Severance: Metaphorical and literal queerness in Yurikuma Arashi
Fantastical fiction is an ideal space for working through complex real-world issues using the frame of allegory, metaphor, and a little bit of magic. Yurikuma Arashi is one such series, a step detached from reality but with something to say about real-world problems, specifically about homophobia and the societal stigmas queer women face.

Featureby Alex Henderson July 20, 20180 Comments
Escape from Yuri Hell: FLIP FLAPPERS’ critique of the Class S genre
In FLIP FLAPPERS Episode 5, Cocona and Papika are thrown into a world that combines Class S, a genre of sweet yuri romance, with horror. Now, what in the world could that strange combination be trying to tell us?

Featureby Alex Henderson November 10, 20173 Comments
Why We Call it “Yuri”
“Yuri” is a complicated word and a complicated genre. Complicated, because words often change shape after they have been coined and exceed their roots, sometimes even completely changing their meaning to the opposite of their original intent.

Historyby Erica Friedman August 9, 201713 Comments
How Girl Friends reflects a real queer experience
When I found the manga Girl Friends, I was not only excited to see a yuri that seemed made for me and other queer women; I also felt as though I related to the girls on a very intimate level because of the authenticity presented in their relationship.

Featureby Ashley Glenn July 20, 20171 Comment
Consider the Lilies of the Field: The case for yuri manga
Yuri manga is an entire genre of comics about girls and women falling in love. So why is it so often overlooked by queer and feminist fans?

Featureby Jenny McKeon May 5, 201715 Comments