Old school yuri for nostalgia's sake, I guess?
There was a time when all yuri was like this, all about closeness of the hearts... no pda, no dating as gfs, just feelings in their hearts.
We live now in a day and age with yuri about a girl going to a lesbian brothel and sampling all the hot babes is taken as normal... so I guess we have become spoiled and expect much more from our yuri than the readers in the past would have.
soooo feeling in their hearts does that apply if they have boyfriends/husbands too??? or they need to be singles but have “feeling in the heart” (whtever the hell that means)
I mean I have feelings in my heart for my friends too like….does that mean we are “old school yuri” or what??? what does old school yuri mean tho? holding hands only? being in an relationship? just cuz people can now write manga in the most absurde settings doesn’t mean old school yuri was better that what we have now, because you pick the most absurde yuri setting
I think I agree with what you're getting at here. Just because we have more variety now doesn't mean it's necessarily better?
As one of those yuri readers from the past, let me share my take. It isn't about yuri being pure. At its core, yuri is a romance genre, and modern yuri is severely lacking in the romance department... "Oh great, another will they won't they story but this time the plot is a vehicle for the MC to go around fucking people with no interaction with the love interest? Is this really what modern readers expect from their yuri?" (And hey, I love Asumi-chan, but it's also porn and not necessarily a good defense of modern yuri. But so many of the romance serials ended and were not replaced with new romance.)
Ideally, we’d finally be getting post-confession/mid-relationship, pda, dating, intensely romantic yuri, but we aren't. And older yuri has romance in spades. You'd think that now that open romance is acceptable in yuri, we might be... getting more of it?
All right, after that scree, it's time to get back to work on more of these releases.
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