Yuri to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito

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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 [...]

This season’s yuri review: Kanamemo

I thought that I should take a break from lurking in the background and doing my translations to post a quick series review on what I think is the yuri anime to watch this season (yeah. I know I’m late and the season’s almost over…)
Kanamemo is a cute anime involving a young girl (the eponymous [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Analysing the Yuri Potential in Saki – Part 2

In this part of the analysis of the latest in the line of my favourite yuri subtext anime, we’ll be looking at the main fanon relationship between the protagonist Saki and her best girl, the J-league chested Nodoka. Now as I said in the previous post, their relationship is built on one three word phrase…
No, [...]

Analysing the Yuri potential in Saki – Part 1

As my mahjong playing friends will attest to, I’ve gotten rather attached to the new anime Saki – about the eponymously named mahjong genius Saki as she plays fun games of mahjong with her friends in the hope of getting to the national mahjong tournaments (ridiculous though it may seem, there are national and international [...]

KonoSetsu – one of the great all time yuri couples

| What Setsuna does on her days off…the dirty girl.
In case you’ve had your head in the sand the last few days, Enigma just released the scanlation for Negima chapter 252, and this happened:
 
I know – SQUEEfest, right?
It’s pretty fair to say that Konoka x Setsuna (or KonoSetsu) is one of the most [...]

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