The same way loving girl without confession is not yuri? Sorry pal, but it doesn't work like that. It isn't about expressing feelings, but what those feelings are. As long as character is lesbian and/or have feelings for other girl, that is yuri. The same way they don't have to accept their confession, for it to count as yuri. Soooo, you answered yourself 1 month ago.
even though i'm really tired of these types of arguments, i'll have to reply to you since this manga is one of my favs.
firstly, let's go back to Yuri's actual definition(acording to wiki):
Yuri (百合, "lily"), also known by the wasei-eigo construction Girls' Love (ガールズラブ gāruzu rabu),[3] is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving lesbian relationships in manga, anime, and related Japanese media.[4][5] Yuri focuses on the sexual orientation or the romantic orientation aspects of the relationship, or both, the latter of which is sometimes called shōjo-ai by Western fandom.[6]
so as you see, NO, a girl simply having feelings for another girl isn't yuri, you may argue that it is a yuri crush or shoujo ai, but it is totally not yuri, yuri is a RELATIONSHIP not a feeling, and the same is that if a girl simply had feelings for a boy, without any drama or confession, it is not called Romance. if so, then we would've seen most of anime shows tagged with yuri or romance just simply because they have characters that have love interests, but that is not the case.
However, since dynasty reader is a yuri focused website, it is normal to see a manga tagged with yuri even though it doesn't have a proper confession or relationship, just 1 lesbian girl is enough for dynasty to tag as yuri(and that's one of the reason why a lot of arguments occurs in this website on this matter), but if you checked other manga websites, you'd see that even the most obvious yuri works here, they are not tagged as yuri there(Futari Monolouge, Yuzumori-san, Swap Swap..etc), though you might see the shoujo ai tag.
You might tell me "based on you what you've said, it is normal for dynasty to het tag works to warn readers and to distinguish yuri from non-yuri"
well, if this was Kodomo no jikan or happy end discussion, then i would've agreed. but for this manga, you can't het tag it to warn users of het romance or het endings, this one clearly ended with yuri, not even a confession or a kiss or any het fucks were given, and if you look at other works, like "the feelings we must all endure" which i've recently started reading it, even though it clearly has a straight girl that is dating a guy who she also had sex with, it is not tagged as het! which i may agree because she realized she was a lesbian and that she loves that other girl which also possibly ended with yuri but i'm not sure i'm not done with it yet, however, manga like "Toumei na Usui Mizuiro ni" even though it ended with yuri i agree on tagging it as het since it deals with a love triangle relationship that involves a boy, i also don't think the mods would hesitate to remove the yuri tag or replace it with yuri crush tag if this manga ended with het(see for reference kodomo no jikan tags). anyway, this manga is not popular to the point i had my yuri tag suggestion refused two times until they finally decided to tag it as yuri after i complained, and i doubt they'd bother to remove the het tag.
last edited at Aug 28, 2018 8:31PM