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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 [...]

A Yuri storyline Classification System – Part 3

1. Chase/Getting together

C. Relationships triggered by a man’s actions

Surely the biggest cliche of the yuri or lesbian genre is the age-old porn mantra
“I never thought it could feel so good…with a woman”.
Or, in other words – a woman, having had sex with men all her life is happy with the fact that [...]

A Yuri storyline classification system – Part 2

1. Chase/Getting Together

B. Storylines initiated by sex

Other than being doujinshi fodder, this storyline type actually does exist as a separate category. If we consider real life as an example, I’m sure there are a lot of couples out there that started as a drunken one night stand (though the results are usually that [...]

A Yuri storyline Classification System – Part 1

Here it is then – the first draft of my Yuri Storyline Classification System. This will probably be spread over a few posts just so I get a little time to breathe!

Chase/Getting together
Relationship
Breaking up

Like I said in the introduction post, the major divisions of the storyline types I have decided are to be [...]

A Yuri Storyline Classification system – Introduction

Yes, I know my posts are late, I apologise – I’ve been working on a particularly hard commission (not hard to translate, but hard to edit), so have been a bit behind on posting, even though I’ve had a fair amount of free time (generally away from my computer). But thank God for laptops, [...]

Analysing the yuri potential in K-ON!

So following my post analysing the yuri potential in Saki (of which there is plenty), I thought I’d follow it up with a similar post on possibly the most over-liked animation of all time – K-ON!. Not that I’m knocking it – I can see where the logic in animating K-ON! came from…
Haruhi [...]

Swimsuits – The meaning of summertime?

Well, we’re well into summer here in the UK – it’s the tradition here to have an uncharacteristically warm spell in June, which gets all the nice hours of sunshine out of the way to make way for business as usual during July and August (if the recent years are anything to go by…)
And [...]