Yuri to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito

A Shoujo ai centred Weblog

Heroines of Yuri #1 – Shirai Kuroko

Sorry it’s been so long since the last post – I got the idea for this one a while back, but since I’ve been deleting the episodes of Railgun as we watch them, I had nothing to go back to and get screencaps from. Luckily, I watched the first half on my laptop and they’ve [...]

The Legendary Japanese Cake (densetsu nihon no keeki)

A real cake
It’s just been White Day, for those of you that live here – the Japanese (actual) equivalent of Valentine’s day (i.e. the one where the guys have to make the effort and every restaurant/park/cinema/sex shop/love hotel is packed out all day).
So for a treat, the other half and I headed out to Shinjuku [...]

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya – Movie synopsis and opinions

Well, I’m dead tired today, because for some reason I thought it’d be funny to go to the midnight showing of Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu at the Wald9 in Shinjuku (mainly because I missed the 9:10pm showing by accident. Bear in mind that the movie is almost 3 hours long, and I got out of [...]

Living in Japan #7 – Nice places in Japan 1

I got a call from the wife a while ago while she was at work saying that she had some “news” that she had to tell me at home. Turns out that she’s getting to fly out to Okinawa (for free) to do some bird catch and release for a week. You don’t have to [...]

Nanoha ZA MOVII -FAASTO- Opinions

You may or may not know this (depending on how many Nanoha news groups you read), but the 1st Nanoha movie has just come out in Japan (the premiere was last Saturday I think). So I was naturally very excited (being an enormous Nanoha fan) and even more excited that it was going to be [...]

Winter anime review: I don’t like anything this season!!

I don’t think it’s happened to me for a good long time, but a combination of the winter season being slim pickings and some rather insufferable attempts at animation, I have to say there really is nothing to hook my fancy this season at all (T_T). Actually, that’s a lie. I do quite like Hidamari [...]

Comiket report – Status of your porns

So I thought that I would write a short post on how trends in the doujinshi world seem to be developing, according to my limited view of browsing Toranoana and Comiket 77…
Parodies
Touhou is especially going strong at the moment (though it’s been pretty constant for the last year or so). Shijima visited the Touhou section [...]

Comiket Day 3 – Real shopping begins!!

Approximately 1/10 of the people waiting to get in at 7:30am
So perhaps a shorter post about Comiket day 3 – somehow I caught something between day 1 and day 2, so I didn’t sleep at all last night and felt pretty crappy when I got up at 6 am to start off to the Big [...]

Comiket Day 2 report

A slightly scaled down queue to get in
So missing out the fact that I avoided day 1 and apparently missed all the Saki yuri doujinshi (shimatta!!), I decided to go on day 2 – not exactly to shop, but to scout the place out and also to walk along to Oedo Onsen Monogatari to see [...]

A Yuri Storyline classification System – Part 4

1. Chase/Getting together storylines

D. Storylines where two girls meet and fall in love

Ah, the romantic category. The least dramatic, but perhaps the most realistic and most touching.
In my humble opinion, the best way this is approached is when the mangaka completely ignores the fact that they are both girls and instead concentrates on [...]

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