Back then, shipping wasn’t about waiting for a “yuri” label to give you permission. If the chemistry was there, people shipped. Simple as that.
Shipping has always been about reading subtext, dynamics, emotional tension, and character growth. Not just checking a genre tag and saying “okay, now it’s allowed.”
If we only ship what’s explicitly labeled, we’re reducing fandom creativity to marketing categories. Some of the strongest ships in anime history weren’t officially tagged, they were built on chemistry and narrative development.
So yeahhhh no Yuri tag, but the "newlywed couple" energy is already filling LycoReco's living room