Fujoshi O'Clock: August Edition

Fujoshi O'Clock is a monthly feature at Nagareboshi Reviews which focus on boys' love/yaoi news, reviews, and meta. The feature also puts a spotlight on trans/bisexual/genderqueer manga/anime news and articles. For yuri/shoujo ai, see fellow bloggers Yuricon and Yuri no Boke for a more thorough examination of the girls' love genre.

It was actually quite difficult to keep up with the reviews this month, so only articles again.

But do visit Slightly Biased Manga, as I think Connie has been the best at steadily posting yaoi/BL reviews at a good clip this past month. See also a review of the Betrayal Knows My Name series over at No Flying No Tights.

But other than those!

Here are the articles for August:

Fujoshi O'Clock (12/27/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, a regular feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. There is also a focus on trans and bisexual anime/manga. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• The final Right Turn Only column at ANN includes discusses a BL manga by Setona Mizushiro, Kyuso wa Cheese no Yume o Miro, which is not yet licensed in English.
• Fujoshi-bait sports series Kuroko's Basketball is being featured at a Japanese hot spring, to promote an onsen (and probably the anime's upcoming third season).
• Ogiue Maniax's Fujoshi Files series has been rapidly updated over the past couple of weeks: there is now Sakuraba Midori from the yuri manga Gakuen Polizi, schoolgirl Kanamori Hakata from Ebiten, and doujinshi manga-ka Saotome Haruna from the popular series Negima!.
• Bateszi Anime Blog discusses the anime series No. 6 in the context of the 'paranoid reader and the non-sexual'.

Reviews:

• AM Cosmos at Polygon reviews the BL visual novel game DRAMAtical Murder, which recently had an anime adaptation.
• Women Write About Comics reviews Carmen by est em, a BL interpretation of the classic opera.
• ANN reviews both volumes of False Memories by Isaku Natsume, a manga-ka who has been published in the past by DMP and SuBLime Manga.
• Experiments In Manga reviews the first volume of After School Nightmare by Setona Mizushiro, a story of adolescent questioning and gender issues wrapped up in the supernatural.

Am I missing your blog? Got some awesome fujoshi-related news and reviews you think deserve a shout-out? Poke me with a link and a bit of description over at my Twitter: @theseventhl. I'm always on the look out for more BL love!

Fujoshi O'Clock (9/10/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. There is also a focus on trans and bisexual anime/manga. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• Crunchyroll is publishing a new fujoshi-theme manga in English: Watashi ga Motete Dousunda by Junko, which translates into What Am I Going To Do About Being Popular?.
• Viz's BL imprint SuBLime has announced deals for attendees of YaoiCon 2014. The convention takes place in San Francisco during the upcoming weekend.
• A new Japanese language BL questionnaire/mailer has just opened online. Naturally, it's more targeted to BL fans who read the manga untranslated.
• ANN's latest Daily Cosplay is from DRAMAtical Murder; the character is the Shiroba version of Aoba Seragaki.

Reviews:

• ANN has reviewed the latest episodes of DRAMAtical Murder and Free!'s second season.
• AnimeSecrets.org reviewed the first episode of Love Stage!!'s OVA series.

Am I missing your blog? Got some awesome fujoshi-related news and reviews you think deserve a shout-out? Poke me with a link and a bit of description over at my Twitter: @theseventhl. I'm always on the look out for more BL love!

Fujoshi O'Clock (8/16/14)

What time is it? It's Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. There is also a focus on trans and bisexual anime/manga. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• The Hybrid Child OVA has a second promotional video; the Fandom Post link has more details on the DVD/Blu-Ray release it will be getting.
• The Love Stage!! OVA has a new TV ad, streaming via Kadokawa's YouTube channel. The ad has the anime series' own opening theme featured.
• Yuri no Boke looks at trans male characters in older manga, focusing on works by Riyoko Ikeda, member of the Year 24 Group.
• ANN has information on the DRAMAtical Murder anime home release. The anime, based on the BL game by Nitro-Chiral, will include the OVA episode and several related CDs for the DVD and Blu-Ray box sets.
• A live action version of Docchi mo Docchi has been announced by Kaiosha. Docchi mo Docchi aka Same Difference is a BL manga by Nozomu Hiiragi and is available in English by June Manga/DMP.

Reviews:

• Reverse Thieves reviews One Is Enough by love as part of their Ongoing Investigations series. This manga-ka is new to me; I'm looking forward to seeing more from them.
• Naru at OASG reviews Doukyuusei/Classmate by Kiyo Ueda, a school-centered BL manga involving a tennis club senpai/kohai relationship as well as two other separate stories.
• AnimeNation reviews GEN Manga's This One Is Plenty. I dunno, this review is incredibly patronizing towards manga fans and yaoi fans and assumes that "homosexual romance stories" automatically have sex scenes which . . . ugh.

Am I missing your blog? Got some awesome fujoshi-related news and reviews you think deserve a shout-out? Poke me with a link and a bit of description over at my Twitter: @theseventhl. I'm always on the look out for more BL love!

Fujoshi O'Clock (4/2/14)

What time is it? It's . . . Fujoshi O'Clock, the biweekly feature at Nagareboshi Review, when I bring to you the latest fujoshi-related news and reviews and various shiny BL-flavored things. Why? Because rotten girls need love too!

This week on Fujoshi O'Clock:

• Project-H pranks readers hard on April 1st with an announcement that they would be releasing the infamous yaoi title Kuso Muso Technique. Naturally, it was a false license announcement.
• KyoAni has posted a promo for the second season of Free!, the popular swimming anime that has taken fujoshi fandom by storm.
• The Nitro-CHiRaL BL video game DRAMAtical Murder will be getting an anime adaptation. There is already a PV for the series online.
• DVDs Worth Watching reports that the gay comedy series Eastsiders has announced a webcomic based on the title. Preview images can be found at the link.
• Caraniel's Ramblings talks about boys' love shipping and specifically the Foe Yay trope of enemies in love/lust.

Reviews:

• OASG reviews Double Mints by Asumiko Nakamura, which "takes a more sadistic and violent approach to its love story".

Am I missing your blog? Got some awesome fujoshi-related news and reviews you think deserve a shout-out? Poke me with a link and a bit of description over at my Twitter: @theseventhl. I'm always on the look out for more BL love!