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Kocchi
joined Mar 23, 2013

my country is different to you guys that's why here the yuri couples is hard to find...got it?...and that's why i called it exotic love..i mean is LOVE...not the person...just please read it again...you didn't get wat i mean...

-i know wut you mean, here in my country.. the society doesnt accept yuri couples (i mean most of the ppl). Tho, i'd say it's very rare and I find it very intriguing :) what i mean by intriguing is.. Whenever i see yuri couple, my reaction is like "wow! their love is so strong that it surpasses gender, i wonder how does it feel? :)" well, i have yet to fall for anyone so, my curiosity is rather.. uhmm, at a higher lvl? coz i'm curious about the feeling of love itself.

Hello
joined Feb 7, 2013

I don't think any other genre could deliver the emotion and happiness yuri can however it is portrayed. In my culture two woman together is looked highly looked down upon and being a lesbian its just an escape from the real world which happens to suck :3 .

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Tsuglenda
joined Aug 10, 2011

I really love Yuri, he gets me is good at finding ordinances that fall off the back of peoples trucks.

joined Jan 30, 2013

BECAUSE IT'S YURI!
Sorry, I just had to.

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Fly by Yuri
joined Mar 29, 2013

I agree with esn too. I like yuri because, simply put, I am a lesbian. I don't have a girlfriend, I live in an area that really frowns on homosexuals, and my very religious family believes that being a lesbian is "an abomination." Yuri is my chief outlet.

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joined Jan 30, 2013

I like yuri because, in my opinion, it is a lot better than the crappy and redundant harem series that have been produced in recent years.

112
joined May 17, 2013

Lesbians. You can never go wrong with lesbians.

112
joined May 17, 2013

I like yuri because, in my opinion, it is a lot better than the crappy and redundant harem series that have been produced in recent years.

There is a ishload of those around lately.....

Some like Nisekoi and To Love ru can pull it off but most are just garbage, or start out good and they fact that they turn into harems make it garbage(I'm looking at you Good ending).

41066419
joined Nov 11, 2010

Harems are kinda just a symptom of a general orientation towards male-centric garbage escapism in anime/light novels/a lot of manga in general. It's definitely kinda disgusting when I see it. At the same time, I did try out a number of shoujo mangas in the past but eventually began to get disgusted with the weak and emotionally immature/dense/useless main characters. I still keep up with a few, but het has definitely lost its sparkle for me.

I think the basic appeal of yuri is cute girls. You can just never have enough of cute girls being together. Also, for guys, the sexual aspect of yuri is a bit like porn without the feelings of exploitation or guilt. You can appreciate the girls without feeling like you're objectifying them.

There's also the emotional intimacy. Het romance is so boring. It's always so reductionist. Rather than personalities, they are fantasies about roles: 'men are like this, and women are like this'. Father and mother, dick and vagina, the biological connection just boils down to that. What is the meaning in a man and a woman being joined together? Fundamentally they are different, can never understand each other; once their roles are finished, the connection falls apart.

That was a bit of an exaggeration, its not like men and women cannot have a meaningful relationship together. However it's the real irony of het that in the consummation of a relationship is when it becomes the most cliche, the most personality-less, the most role-defined, black and white. The endpoint of het is to destroy precisely anything beautiful which came before. The closer it gets, the more impure.

In a yuri relationship, sex is neither the endpoint of the relationship, nor something which has to be denied. Once/if love is established, it can be indulged in fully without undermining the underlying emotional connection. And neither does indulging in that emotional connection turn someone inwards, away from the world. While a heterosexual relationship protects itself by becoming more defined, by closing off parts of oneself, more fully embracing the roles--in yuri the couples' growth must be fundamentally different, with each partner expanding to reach new boundaries.

Yuri is hope. And het is gravitas, despair, the weight of being bound to things like flesh and our degenerating physical bodies. Anyway, the main idea is that yuri is the only vanilla I can believe in nowadays. Not that I plan on turning gay anytime soon.

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OrangePekoe Admin
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joined Mar 20, 2013

Not that I plan on turning gay anytime soon.

You know you want to~

We have Mugi on our side. (Apologies for my lack of a hard-translated version here)

41066419
joined Nov 11, 2010

Ah. Myself speaking as a guy, of course. Dunno if that was clear. I'm all for acceptance and tolerance and stuff like that (largely thanks to yuri, it really widened my sense and awareness of prejudice and stuff) but still don't think I'll ever be particularly inclined towards actually practicing male homosexuality.

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joined Mar 29, 2013

Ah. Myself speaking as a guy, of course. Dunno if that was clear. I'm all for acceptance and tolerance and stuff like that (largely thanks to yuri, it really widened my sense and awareness of prejudice and stuff) but still don't think I'll ever be particularly inclined towards actually practicing male homosexuality.

And why should you?? Everyone is who they are, and sexuality is something that does not readily change (or change at all). Love the people that it's natural for you to love no matter which sex. Anything else is self-destructive.

OrangePekoe Admin
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joined Mar 20, 2013

Yeah, I hope it was obvious my post was not to be taken too seriously. Your last bit just reminded me of Mugi for some reason. Yuri Girl pretty much said everything else.

41066419
joined Nov 11, 2010

Ah, haha, nah, of course I saw it as a friendly joke too. It's just that I still haven't actually watched or read K-On yet (although I do enjoy the doujins) so I wasn't precisely sure if I was missing something.

Woof
joined Feb 8, 2013

"yuri is the only vanilla I can believe in nowadays". I stand up applausing, really

Woof
joined Feb 8, 2013

Y'know I remember how it started, my love for yuri. It was at first sight of NatsuShizu in a church. It touched me so much I thought I cried two rivers! And then an answer came to me... Answer to question why the hell I was stalking for whole two years that wonderfull girl from 11B class!?
Believe it or not (I was surprised (shocked) myself)) but yuri anime gave me somewhat of understanding who I am or something. You may laugh but it was a discovery for me on 14th year of my life coz I grew up in a family of quite strict views

Oh, but I love yuri not coz of that
I like the plot. Its always interesting somehow, almost always full of jokes that can only yuri provide or its coz of those mangakas I donno. Its exciting, cute, touching and everything. It sucks in. Its like a fever when you just NEED MOAR YURI and you cant help but READ IT ALL RIGHT NOW no matter what
Maybe I just dont get enough caress and fondnes irl coz I'm awkward to girls skinship and all...
And GOD its SO frustrating!!! :D

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Yayoi
joined Jan 31, 2013

Being that I am lesbian who definitely loves the ladies, if I am going to read anything with romance involve it will definitely be yuri. Therefore yuri is so good because I am able to relate to some of the stories I read or sometimes think, " Wow I wonder if I will ever find love like that." Yuri is just fantastic <3 drools

Bwuhh
joined May 6, 2013

Yuri is great because...girls? Cute girls are always great.

Speaking more seriously, I love the fact that it's not all just about sex (or at least, it doesn't have to be). The emotions and characters and feelings have a lot of weight to them. The point isn't "those two should screw", but "those two are really cute together and make my heart hurt". That has a sort of beauty to it, and at least for me, that's where the purity comes in. Sometimes you do see just blatant sex with nothing attached, but I can't say I'm very fond of that (it doesn't have the yuri spirit, y'know?). There's something really magical about two adorable girls in love, and I can't get enough of it.

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