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On going to a new, prestigious high school, Akira learns that her childhood best friend Fumi has moved back to town and is going to a nearby school. Now much taller than the cute, bubbly Akira, Fumi is no less prone to strong emotions, insecurities, …Read more »
A premiere month has been locked in for the Overtake! anime, which is an original series that follows the world of F4 racing. Directed by Ei Aoki (Re:CREATORS), the series will premiere this October, and you can see the latest preview in the first full …Read more »
Spring brings the season of cherry blossoms to Japan, and DMP’s yuri imprint Lilyka tweeted an interview with one of their creators, Ruri Kumashika, who wrote Around the Season of Cherry Blossoms. Around the Season of Cherry Blossoms 4 was just released. Have you read …Read more »
Takako Shimura‘s melancholy romance manga Happy-Go-Lucky Days has been adapted into an anime film written and directed by Takuya Sato (Steins;Gate), and it was originally supposed to hit theaters in Japan way back on May 8. As has been the case with many theatrical outings, …Read more »
The rise of yuri as an identifiable subgenre of anime and manga has brought some distinct oddities with it. One of the biggest oddities—and the one most relevant to AOI HANA: Sweet Blue Flowers in a roundabout way—is that yuri very rarely deals with actual …Read more »
It should come as no surprise that manga is a rich medium for exploring gender issues; boys' love/yaoi content is famously infamous within fandom, and girls' love/yuri is becoming almost as recognizable, if not as emblematic for manga, as its male/male counterpart. Yet for all …Read more »
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