@person directly above this message
I kinda understand and somewhat agree with it, but at the same time I think she created the gender barriers for the story so forbidden romance can crop up again in a different world setting. It's a round about way of doing it, because the writer could easily have forbidden romance without eliminating men. I thought this was a Yaoi at first because of all the boyish girls, and said the tags were lying to me >.>
I imagine the gender thing is because of 'penis envy' (thank you Freud, you asshole...) for women and even if men weren't around, gender roles will still exist. Society isn't that advanced in the collective mindset to begin with considering we can't even get past gender barriers this day and age (yes women/transgender/anyone not a white male are still being discriminated against, just in different ways).
I do agree 100% if the creators of this manga wanted this to be a Yaoi, they should have just made it one instead of giving us the illusion of it by having the characters be all female (sex). I say this is still a Yuri because the characters are female, even if they appear different.
Also, I may be reading too much into this, but I really hope the creators were just going for the whole 'yuri comes in different forms, even if the characters look like boys' approach. You always see tomboy with girly girl, girly girl x2, but never really tomboyxtomboy cause people automatically assume YAOI!
Yuri is yuri, even if the girls look like boys.
Quick edit: This is still a good manga, and I will reread it cause it's still interesting...>w>
last edited at Nov 20, 2014 5:14PM