Just watched episode 2. They’re totally going to have the “I’ll never fall in love” guy fall in love with Sulleta.

There's been a fair amount of speculation that he'll end up falling in love with Aerial, as the web novel reveals that she's sentient, and his exact words were that he'll never fall in love with a person

...On the subject of Elan, it looks like he's going to be the newtype love interest for the series, and they have a terrible survival rate

A month ago, if you said that the upcoming Gundam TV series will carry the yuri baton from Lycoris Recoil, most people would've likely rolled their eyes at the suggestion.

Only because most people wouldn't have read the character descriptions... These two being the main pair really shouldn't have been much of a surprise

Honestly at this point I have no idea how things are going to end up

Sekiha Love-Love Tenkyoken. Something similar was actually one of the first pieces of fanart for the characters several months ago

I feel like I'm missing some context?

Not sure whether to be more weirded out about the sudden supernatural elements or someone watching s-CRY-ed in this decade

Wait, Taiga is part of an agency?

Still not the gayest Gundam series. That credit goes to Gundam 00.

Give it time. And I'd consider Tekketsu gayer than 00 in the first place

Episode 2! OP and ED both push MioSule and the episode itself is in no small part about Miorine realizing that she does like Suletta after all. Meanwhile the references to The Tempest have somehow become more blatant than the Utena ones

I understand this ship is some degree of canon?

^ Yeah, Turn A Gundam was supposed to have a female protagonist but the studio blocked it, so instead they just made him crossdress for a large part of the series lol.

They have blocked female protagonists in the franchise, but, despite rumours, there's not really any evidence of it for ∀ in particular. Apparently early concept art makes Rolan look more masculine, not less

Stardust Telepath is getting an anime. Did the yuri in that ever go anywhere?

Stuff White Rose said

Uh, you might want to read the short story set between episodes 0 and 1

Well, Do It Yourself is already in the realm of heavy subtext. The main character's next door neighbour is tsundere for her, and their relationship is a major motivating element for both of them

Bae and IRyS wrote a story about themselves where the joke was that it seemed like they were going to have sex but actually they played monopoly. Saying monopoly instead of sex has since become a running gag, at least for IRyS (I don't follow Bae)

Philip's reaction to learning that men can love men being "Wow, this interesting! Also, it explains my behaviour" was... eyebrow-raising

We actually have a couple Lacus x Meer doujinshi. But, yeah, surprised Atra x Kudelia completely failed to take off

I love how people were already shipping these two months ago, way before the (very gay) first episode aired.

The way things were set up, it was just kinda obvious there was going to be something between these two. Though I don't think anyone was expecting an engagement

:3

Those are some interesting scars

I watched the new gundam show because I heard about yuri and honestly I feel like this is very promising but I keep seeing gundam junkies talk about how the love interest girl is gonna die like its a tradition and now im concerned

...It is, but Miorine is the wrong type of love interest for that. Newtype love interests have a very low survival rate, but Gundam princesses very rarely die

Oh, and speaking of Gundam, the 0.5 short story got translated

Management of Novice Alchemist is cuuuute, just watched the first episode and i'm into it. Basically "Atelier Series: The Anime" in all but name, including subtly gay undertones, what's not to love?

I'm not sure I'd call Sarasa's crush on Ophelia "subtle". And, yeah, show's alright

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I'm not sure if yuribait is enough for me to watch a Gundam for two cour, I love Macross and some other mecha but Gundam is too dramatic.

The individual Gundam series can be pretty different from each other. And G-Witch in particular looks to be pretty far from the UC standard

depending how all of this is done, so it doesn't end as just "Gundam Utena", because this can be more than just that

I don't think it just being "Gundam Utena" is terribly likely, with all the political stuff going on in the background. Not to mention that Miorine and Suletta are basically nothing like Utena and Anthy

It's been long enough since I read it that I don't really remember. Probably narrative juxtaposition?

Uh, okay. I didn't really consider Francine being the main villain a twist, since I thought it was pretty obvious from nearly the start. I was also expecting more information on the backstory there, and I imagine this is even worse if her identity was a surprise

I thought Asuka was a decent bit of trashy fun, but it's not something where I'd want to think about any of the plot very much

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Uh, for people reading this thread that don't want to go through Temp's wall of text, the latest Gundam has the (female) protagonist get engaged to another girl (accidentally). It's pretty solid, even aside from that. I recommend checking it out

Not sure if anyone else has read it all but I'd be interested to hear what other people thought of The Big Twist.

Which one? Like, the very end? That was a bit of a cop-out, but didn't really change my thoughts on the series