Erica Friedman
@okazu.yuricon.com
Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Looking for opportunities.
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
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Erica Friedman
@okazu.yuricon.com
· Nov 8
Just a reminder that I wrote a book on the history of the Yuri genre which was then published by the wonderful publisher @journeypress.bsky.social, which you should definitely buy and support us both!
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga
www.yuricon.com/product/bys/
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga
www.yuricon.com/product/bys/
Reposted by Erica Friedman
IT’S FINALLY OUT. Please give it a read and leave some love? Many thanks to my incredible editor for being so patient as I obsessively put everything together and tried to make it perfect 🤍✨
Want to move to Japan? Got a visa and are confused about what to do next? We've put together a comprehensive guide of everything you need to know to get employed, set up, and settled into your new home.
Moving to Japan: The ULTIMATE Guide (We're Not Joking) - Unseen Japan
Want to move to Japan? About to land and confused about what to do when you get here? Here's everything you need to know.
buff.ly
December 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
IT’S FINALLY OUT. Please give it a read and leave some love? Many thanks to my incredible editor for being so patient as I obsessively put everything together and tried to make it perfect 🤍✨
Reposted by Erica Friedman
Reposted by Erica Friedman
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/26/t...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/26/t...
December 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/26/t...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/26/t...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/26/t...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/26/t...
December 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/26/t...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/26/t...
Reposted by Erica Friedman
Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally
Please see it if you’re curious
Please see it if you’re curious
Takarazuka Revue “Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight" Worldwide streaming／『悪魔城ドラキュラ』全世界 動画配信実施
YouTube video by 宝塚歌劇 公式チャンネル Takarazuka Revue Company
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally
Please see it if you’re curious
Please see it if you’re curious
In honor of the passing of Nananan Kiriko here is my review of Blue.
23. Blue by Nananan Kiriko, " stuck in the limbo space between the tough girl epics of the 1980’s and the new wave of Yuri in the early twentieth century...this manga reads like a tentative probe into a sensitive spot."
okazu.yuricon.com/2004/05/20/y...
okazu.yuricon.com/2004/05/20/y...
December 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In honor of the passing of Nananan Kiriko here is my review of Blue.
This was a genuinely amazing exhibit. Another great excuse to visit Paris!
The manga exhibit, which runs from November 19th through March 9th, takes pieces of the permanent collections and tells the story of manga’s origins in from comic strips and scrolls to kamishibai and commercial books in Japan.
Manga Is An Art Of Its Own! at The National Museum of Asian Art – Guimet
www.animenewsnetwork.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This was a genuinely amazing exhibit. Another great excuse to visit Paris!
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/22/t...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/22/t...
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/22/t...
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!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/22/t...
I just came across a catchpa that asked me to subtract a negative number.
What are we even doing?
I mean, okay, nice to know I remember simple math, but.
What are we even doing?
I mean, okay, nice to know I remember simple math, but.
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I just came across a catchpa that asked me to subtract a negative number.
What are we even doing?
I mean, okay, nice to know I remember simple math, but.
What are we even doing?
I mean, okay, nice to know I remember simple math, but.
Reposted by Erica Friedman
My Xmas gift to you, again, is my entire collection of Tsukutabe/ManaEmi fanworks - 2025 Edition!
Illustrations, doodles, memes, tl'd comics and more! Link is being offered for a limited time~
[🔞is here, too, but in separate folders. It's all on you if you click!]
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Illustrations, doodles, memes, tl'd comics and more! Link is being offered for a limited time~
[🔞is here, too, but in separate folders. It's all on you if you click!]
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
December 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My Xmas gift to you, again, is my entire collection of Tsukutabe/ManaEmi fanworks - 2025 Edition!
Illustrations, doodles, memes, tl'd comics and more! Link is being offered for a limited time~
[🔞is here, too, but in separate folders. It's all on you if you click!]
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Illustrations, doodles, memes, tl'd comics and more! Link is being offered for a limited time~
[🔞is here, too, but in separate folders. It's all on you if you click!]
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Reposted by Erica Friedman
Links to the leaked 60 Minute CECOT piece are getting taken down. This one still works as of 7:20 CST.
archive.org/details/60-m...
archive.org/details/60-m...
60 Minutes Inside CECOT : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Full video of the 60 Minutes Inside CECOT episode that CBS pulled.
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Links to the leaked 60 Minute CECOT piece are getting taken down. This one still works as of 7:20 CST.
archive.org/details/60-m...
archive.org/details/60-m...
@peow.bsky.social I have had several folks ask me - is Stop! Hibari-kun! available in the UK?
December 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
@peow.bsky.social I have had several folks ask me - is Stop! Hibari-kun! available in the UK?
Reposted by Erica Friedman
Anime Herald Magazine #1 is now available and shipping! Be sure to order your copy of this gorgeous, 100+ page edition while supplies last. 💖
Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
Physical copy ($17.95 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1 📔
Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦
Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
Physical copy ($17.95 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1 📔
Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Anime Herald Magazine #1 is now available and shipping! Be sure to order your copy of this gorgeous, 100+ page edition while supplies last. 💖
Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
Physical copy ($17.95 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1 📔
Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦
Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
Physical copy ($17.95 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1 📔
Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦
I'm starting up reading "More Weight" by Ben Wickey and would like to remind everyone that the Salem Witch Trials were always about a corrupt clergy and local administration persecuting people whose land and goods they wanted, not about anything else.
0 witches were tried, only innocent people.
0 witches were tried, only innocent people.
December 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I'm starting up reading "More Weight" by Ben Wickey and would like to remind everyone that the Salem Witch Trials were always about a corrupt clergy and local administration persecuting people whose land and goods they wanted, not about anything else.
0 witches were tried, only innocent people.
0 witches were tried, only innocent people.
Today on Okazu – Comic Yuri Hime, December 2025 (コミック百合姫2025年12月号)
Comic Yuri Hime rings out the year with a wedding on the cover and a fun volume filled with Yuri manga, anime and more inside!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/21/c...
Comic Yuri Hime rings out the year with a wedding on the cover and a fun volume filled with Yuri manga, anime and more inside!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/21/c...
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Today on Okazu – Comic Yuri Hime, December 2025 (コミック百合姫2025年12月号)
Comic Yuri Hime rings out the year with a wedding on the cover and a fun volume filled with Yuri manga, anime and more inside!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/21/c...
Comic Yuri Hime rings out the year with a wedding on the cover and a fun volume filled with Yuri manga, anime and more inside!
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/21/c...
Reposted by Erica Friedman
We may have found a new, very successful was of dealing with cancer.
#ShareGoodNewsToo
www.jaist.ac.jp/english/what...
#ShareGoodNewsToo
www.jaist.ac.jp/english/what...
Gut Bacteria from Amphibians and Reptiles Achieve Complete Tumor Elimination
www.jaist.ac.jp
December 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We may have found a new, very successful was of dealing with cancer.
#ShareGoodNewsToo
www.jaist.ac.jp/english/what...
#ShareGoodNewsToo
www.jaist.ac.jp/english/what...
Today on Okazu – Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 20, 2025
This week in new from the global Yuri network, we have live action dramas, new Yuri manga, end-of-year lists and more! Get ready to read to watch and to buy Yuri for the new year. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/20/y...
This week in new from the global Yuri network, we have live action dramas, new Yuri manga, end-of-year lists and more! Get ready to read to watch and to buy Yuri for the new year. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/20/y...
December 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Today on Okazu – Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 20, 2025
This week in new from the global Yuri network, we have live action dramas, new Yuri manga, end-of-year lists and more! Get ready to read to watch and to buy Yuri for the new year. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/20/y...
This week in new from the global Yuri network, we have live action dramas, new Yuri manga, end-of-year lists and more! Get ready to read to watch and to buy Yuri for the new year. ^_^
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/20/y...
Many thanks to everyone who bought a copy of By Your Side during my clean-up Holiday special sale! I have reclaimed my floor!. ^_^
By Your Side is always available in digital or in print! Order it at online or at a bookstore near you.
www.yuricon.com/product/bys/
By Your Side is always available in digital or in print! Order it at online or at a bookstore near you.
www.yuricon.com/product/bys/
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga
The Untold Story of Lesbian Love in Japanese Animation and Comics. Erica Friedman has been writing and speaking about Yuri anime and manga for 20 years. This book is a collection of her essays, lec…
www.yuricon.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Many thanks to everyone who bought a copy of By Your Side during my clean-up Holiday special sale! I have reclaimed my floor!. ^_^
By Your Side is always available in digital or in print! Order it at online or at a bookstore near you.
www.yuricon.com/product/bys/
By Your Side is always available in digital or in print! Order it at online or at a bookstore near you.
www.yuricon.com/product/bys/
I found marshmallows. The s'mormenorah didn't really work. 🕎
December 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I found marshmallows. The s'mormenorah didn't really work. 🕎
Yesterday I wrote 3 reviews, edited a book, packed books to ship. Today I packed books, wrote 1 review, am working on an article, and have at least 1 review and an edit to do.
AMA.
AMA.
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yesterday I wrote 3 reviews, edited a book, packed books to ship. Today I packed books, wrote 1 review, am working on an article, and have at least 1 review and an edit to do.
AMA.
AMA.
Reposted by Erica Friedman
"Oh my godddd okay so you don't like genAI because it steals from artists, makes processes slower, creates more work for underpaid employees, is supported by data centers that are poisoning Black communities, doesn't even look good, and no one asked for it, but do you have to be so MEAN about it"
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Oh my godddd okay so you don't like genAI because it steals from artists, makes processes slower, creates more work for underpaid employees, is supported by data centers that are poisoning Black communities, doesn't even look good, and no one asked for it, but do you have to be so MEAN about it"
Down to the last three!
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Down to the last three!
Today on Okazu – Belladonna no Koibito (ベラドンナの恋人）
Looking at a collection by a new-to-me creator with a couple of darkish, yet happy(?) Yuri shorts by Ruu1mm.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/18/b...
Looking at a collection by a new-to-me creator with a couple of darkish, yet happy(?) Yuri shorts by Ruu1mm.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/18/b...
December 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Today on Okazu – Belladonna no Koibito (ベラドンナの恋人）
Looking at a collection by a new-to-me creator with a couple of darkish, yet happy(?) Yuri shorts by Ruu1mm.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/18/b...
Looking at a collection by a new-to-me creator with a couple of darkish, yet happy(?) Yuri shorts by Ruu1mm.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/18/b...
Getting our rotting chimney top replaced, so I have human sized animals walking back and forth on the roof, accompanied by pounding and the occasional drilling. Very conducive to writing.
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Getting our rotting chimney top replaced, so I have human sized animals walking back and forth on the roof, accompanied by pounding and the occasional drilling. Very conducive to writing.