I say this just because i finished watching Steven Unverse, and i that show makes me wonder just how idealized yuri is in anime.

"b-but we are both girls!"

Girl1 :"You are a lesbian?"

Girl 2: "Yeah"

G1: "you are cute. Wanna hang out?"

G2: "sure"

The end. Thats how yuri is in real life.

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There are more realistic yuri works and less realistic ones, but you can't pinpoint an objectively "most realistic" yuri story. Lesbian experiences vary greatly from lesbian to lesbian so a story that's especially relevant and believable to one might not be so for another. Same as with any other type of person and their experiences, really.

I'd point to something like Octave if you asked me for a very realistic one.

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ok, i'll not be an asshole and point one out.

Story about actual real lesbians, turned into a manga
http://dynasty-scans.com/series/husky_and_medley

ok, i'll not be an asshole and point one out.

Story about actual real lesbians, turned into a manga
http://dynasty-scans.com/series/husky_and_medley

Same thing except exaggerated for our entertainment
http://dynasty-scans.com/series/magandanai

Are you looking for manga specifically?

Screw you Nidienne, I wanted to link Octave.
Realistic yuri, uh ? I'd say this, this, even this or that. But I believe most of yuri stories, even the idealized ones, are somewhat realistic since there is as much lesbian love stories than there are lesbians.

Edit : I somehow forgot this one, forgive me.

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Gunjo.
http://dynasty-scans.com/series/gunjo

You could try the "Focus on Being Queer" and "Realistic Feel" categories at http://www.lililicious.net/doc.php?id=category
Also Rica tte Kanji and Love My Life.

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Pretty much all of Takemiya Jin's stuff is written from a lesbian point of view, and stuff like Fragments of Love and Girlish Sweet both deal with the complexities of those relationships. Likewise, Morishima Akiko's work has a similar point of view, although with a lighter hand for the most part.Hanjuku Joshi is a bit fluffy, but it's still a very relatable coming of age story.

Here's my contributions:

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter is pretty realistic. It involves multiple girls and shows that love isn't always a neat thing - things like past sexual abuse, social expectations and dating guys, whether sapphic love is real in a heteronormative society.

While they may be old, Mist Magazine's stories often involve tons of real-world issues ranging from unloving het marriages and repressed sapphism, bisexuality, how to move on from past lovers, or exchanging illicit sex for something. They are issues from December 1996, March 1998, and May 1998. I also enjoy them because nearly every story has a NSFW element to it - just like life does.

Finally, Perfume of Love is an anthology that is kinda fluffy, but is somewhat realistic. There's a girl who vents about her secret senpai crush online to a pseudonymous internet friend who happens to be said senpai's best friend - both are blindsighted by senpai's sudden boyfriend and internet friend decides to pursue girl on the upswing, a decently-sheltered girl who is confessed to by a girl in her class and rejects her, but the confession leads to her noticing her and an obsession with her and her most noticeable trait - her sweet smell, a girl who's followed her crush, a childhood friend and neighbor, for a long time until she becomes a teacher at her school and they awkwardly try to pursue each other (has followup in Steps Ch 4 and Ch 5), and an unmotivated student who becomes interested in her new teacher's scent and essential oil usage which leads to her being interested in her body.

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You could try the "Focus on Being Queer" and "Realistic Feel" categories at http://www.lililicious.net/doc.php?id=category
Also Rica tte Kanji and Love My Life.

I really like Love My Life a lot. The movie made the protagonist a bit more immature, which I didn't care for that much, but was otherwise good.

http://dynasty-scans.com/series/yuri_mekuru_hibi

http://dynasty-scans.com/series/yuri_mekuru_hibi

Ah, this is truly the most realistic yuri available on this site.

I don't recall which oneshot this was, but there was a yuri hentai where a girl was performing cunnilingus on another girl, and she was having this internal monolog about how bad it tasted and that the average girl on the giving end really doesn't enjoy that aspect of it. It was an overall pretty loveless and nihilistic endeavor, I wish I could remember which one it was (and I was most certainly paraphrasing), but I remember thinking it was quite far from the typical set-up. May not be what you had in mind, but whatever.

I don't recall which oneshot this was, but there was a yuri hentai where a girl was performing cunnilingus on another girl, and she was having this internal monolog about how bad it tasted and that the average girl on the giving end really doesn't enjoy that aspect of it. It was an overall pretty loveless and nihilistic endeavor, I wish I could remember which one it was (and I was most certainly paraphrasing), but I remember thinking it was quite far from the typical set-up. May not be what you had in mind, but whatever.

Well, that's idealized but I doubt I'd call it realistic. Sounds like something aimed at het dudes, along the lines of "they don't really like going down on each other, so I've got a chance".

I've honestly never heard a lesbian or bi woman say they don't like the taste of vagina, and quite a few who have said the opposite. I'm sure there are some out there, but it's hardly a typical sentiment.