Yuricon | |
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Status | Defunct |
Venue | Hilton Newark Penn Station |
Location(s) | Newark, New Jersey |
Country | United States |
Inaugurated | 2003 |
Most recent | 2007 |
Attendance | 200 in 2003 |
Organized by | Erica Friedman |
Website | http://www.yuricon.org/ |
Yuricon was an anime convention geared toward fans of yuri anime and manga. [1] The first Yuricon event was held in 2003 in Newark, New Jersey with about 200 attending, [2] although Yuricon has existed as an online entity since 2000. [3] The event was organized by Yuricon, LLC., which continues to run Yuri-focused events of its own, [4] collaborates with other organizations to hold unique events, [5] [6] and hosts contests. [7]
In 2000, Erica Friedman founded Yuricon on Usenet with the name of "Anilesbocon" but this was changed to Yuricon in 2003 in an effort to better "celebrate Yuri in anime and manga." [8] [9] In 2003, the organization had a "three-day anime and manga convention" in Newark, New Jerey. [10] Two years later, Yuricon hosted an event in Tokyo and co-sponsored Onna!, together with the Shoujo Arts Society, which focused on women's roles in animation and comics. [10] Two years after that, in 2007, Yuricon ran a small one-day event, named Yurisai, to recreate the feel of the Tokyo event from 2005. [11] During this time period, Yuricon hosted several panels, [12] cosplay events, [13] anime music video contests, and other competitions, while Yuricon maintained a library of yuri manga for attendees to read. [14]
Some years later, in 2011, Yuricon moved to a new website. [15] The same year, the Kyoto International Manga Museum added works published by ALC Publishing, the publishing arm of Yuricon, into its permanent collection. [16] Also that year, Renbooks, an Italian publisher announced that an Italian edition of Rica 'tte Kanji!? would be published. [17] The following year, ALC Publishing announced a partnership with JManga to publish two stories: POOR POOR LIPS! , [18] Kimi no Tamenara Shineru. [19] and three other yuri comic titles. [20] The next year, Okazu, then just a blog of Friedman, joined the domain of Yuricon [21] and ALC publishing stopped publishing new material. [8]
In later years, the webpage of the Yuricon website as a whole was improved, while the group's founder, Erica Friedman, asked for donations to ensure that Yuricon and Okazu are "on the cutting edge of Yuri Culture." [22] Later, the new-and-improved Yuricon store would be opened [23] and the page listing yuri essays would be improved. [24] Them, in May 2018, Friedman appeared at a guest panelist at AnimeNEXT in Atlantic City, NJ. [25] The following year, Yuricon joined forces with PacSet to launch a guided trip across Japan "dedicated to the Yuri genre of Japanese animation and manga," which would take place in September of that year. [26] The same year, Eric Friedman appeared at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to celebrate 100 years of Yuri, [27] while speaking at various other events that year. [28]
In May 2020, Yuricon hosted an online panel about yuri. [29]
Dates | Location | Atten. | Guests |
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June 13–15, 2003 | Gateway Hilton Newark, New Jersey | 200 | Dr. Sarah Frederick, Gaijin-a-gogo, Mike Hayes, Eriko Tadeno, Rica Takashima, and Kathryn Williams. [2] |
April 16, 2005 | A/Z Books & Cafe Tokyo, Japan | 30 | Akiko Mizoguchi, Natsuko Mori, Eriko Tadeno, and Rica Takashima. [30] |
September 29, 2007 | Hilton Newark Penn Station Newark, New Jersey | Rica Takashima. [31] |
Yuricon has a publishing arm, ALC Publishing, the only all-yuri publisher in the world. [1] Publications include translations from the Japanese—such as Rica 'tte Kanji!? and WORKS—as well as the original English-language anthology series Yuri Monogatari.
Friedman has run guest lectures about yuri at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [32] MIT, [33] Kanagawa University, [34] International Christian University, [35] and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [36]
Additionally, Friedman has run a blog titled Okazu since 2002, which she describes as the "world's oldest and most comprehensive blog" which focuses on lesbian themes in Japanese comics, cartoons, and other media. [37] Yuricon also describes Okazu as their "official" blog. [38]
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