These bloopers definitely made the whole series a lot better. I can excuse some of the more overdramatic parts now that I know that it's all a movie or whatnot.

I love how the yumikuri moment/s in episode 5 is almost being completely overshadowed by the confirmation(?) that ymir is now dead in the manga. They seem to have released the chapter and this episode at the same time and it almost feels intentional and I want to believe it is.

So when Isayama praised Life is Strange as a yuri masterpiece, he was actually in it for the dead lesbian trope?

Crap, I wasn't expecting that kind of spoiler for Life is Strange. From what I understand, though, I hear there are a few different endings, so I'm hoping there's a good end in there too... well, at any rate, I need to get around to playing that game before I get spoiled any more. It is pretty interesting though that he's a fan of LiS; who knows, maybe he'll decide to add in more yuri later in.

I love how the yumikuri moment/s in episode 5 is almost being completely overshadowed by the confirmation(?) that ymir is now dead in the manga. They seem to have released the chapter and this episode at the same time and it almost feels intentional and I want to believe it is.

Wait what?? Am I glad that I don't read the manga now... well, there are a host of other reasons, but this is another one to add to the pile... uh, so what happened to her anyway? I thought she hasn't showed up for like 2 years, so did she show up just to die or was she killed off-screen?

I was eerily close to finally getting into the Love Live craze and playing Love Live but... my phone keeps shutting down when the Launching Application screen thing is at 99%, so I guess it's not happening. I am kinda sad since I did want to give it a try but at the same time... whew, I sure dodged a bullet there, I surely would have become just as addicted to this as I become to every other game I play (unless there's a way to fix it, I suppose, in which case I'm just delaying my inevitable destruction).

Edit: Now that I'm reading a bit more about it, it's probably just 'cause I don't have enough storage. Ah, the woes of having a shitty 4 GB phone.

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Well, I guess it's more THAT scene that might cause problems as opposed to Saikawa in all her yuri glory herself. I don't really have an issue with it, but I can certainly understand why some people do.

I'd give Kobayashi a 5/5 Heavily Recommended to all Yuri fan's.

think its an easy recommendation to anyone, not just yuri fans.

Also, got some friends that rarely watch anime (most cuz they hate what anime usually is) that watched and loved it.

I'd like to recommend it to some of my friends that rarely watch anime, but there are two big problems with it that are preventing me from doing that... namely Lucoa and Saikawa... aside from them, I'd say that Kobayashi's actually relatively tame in terms of overtly sexual content, but I don't know how they'll react to these two characters in particular.

Tomorrow I'm watching Kuzu No Honkai, It's not going to be fun.

I just watched it last week during spring break... it's probably not for everyone, but I loved it to pieces and I'm eager to see what you'll think of it when you finish it. :)

When I first saw the title and the tags, I initially thought this thing was the promised sequel to that other You doujin... I'm somewhat disappointed that it wasn't but I'm not at the same time since this was a great read. Kind of a confusing read too since I never watched either of the LL anime but, well, I got the gist of it. Not really interested in LL cause it's apparently not that gay, but I heard Sunshine significantly ramps up the yuri levels, so maybe I'll give that a go sometime.

Soooo, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to discuss anime from a loooong time ago in this thread, but I'll try it, I guess... if anyone has any problems with it, I'll stop immediately. Maybe it'll be more fitting in the Cafe thread? If so, I'll move it over there.

Finally got around to watching Strawberry Panic! I always avoided it 'cause I heard it was overly melodramatic, but I've learned something from watching and enjoying Kuzu no Honkai: I freaking love melodrama. Not really seeing any melodrama in the first two episodes, but I suppose it'll show up sooner or later... that or I just confused it with another yuri anime. Anyhow, it's not really blowing me away in the same way that the first two episodes of KnH did, but I suppose that's to be expected considering that this is far less serious and far more cliched. I'm definitely still interested enough to continue watching it. The animation and music isn't really up to par, but... this is from 2006, so it's certainly understandable. That ending song surprised me since it showed (what I presume to be) the actual MV as opposed to animated stuff like all the other anime I've watched. I guess that's just what they did back then?

I'm going off on a tangent here, but I really am super glad that I got to watch Your Name over spring break. After watching that, I decided to start watching some het romance, which is what compelled me to watch KnH. KnH got me to watch Strawberry Panic, and now I'm on a quest to watch all the yuri classics that I never got around to watching. KnM, Kashimashi, Simoun, Mai Hime, probably some others I forgot about, anything but Maria-sama, here I come!

One question though: is it better to watch the anime, read the LNs, or read the manga?

D. Va is definitely my favorite character for one reason and one reason only... 'cause she's Korean and I'm Korean. She is the ideal to which I aspire: it is my hope that I will one day become such a skilled and famous professional gamer that I'll have the privilege to serve as a mech pilot in the glorious Korean army and kill a bunch of people/robots. But, seriously, while I agree that her voice lines are cringy and obnoxious, I view them as charmingly cringy and obnoxious as opposed to annoyingly cringy and obnoxious. Kind of an oxymoron, but that's how I see it that's all up to personal interpretation though, of course.

Depends what you mean by "actual yuri", first episode already has one character announcing her love and loyalty to another complete with nipple sucking and a reach around. That's "actual yuri" in my book.

+1
Levi, Mina and Asmo seem very much appreciative of the female body
It's totally fanservice, but you can't deny the homoerotic nature of the fanservice

So, it's just fanservice-y actual yuri? Can't say I was expecting much more from this thing, but, well, who knows, maybe I'll like it if I actually watch it. I'm hardly going to die just 'cause of some overtly sexual things (if i never comment here again, i'm probably dead).

Attack on Titan has had one YumiKuri scene so far. Don't know about episode 3 yet, gonna watch it now.

Personally, I'm watching the anime and I've read the manga up until the most recent chapter and I think it's worth watching, although I find it sad how some people ruined the hype for others by being overy annoying about the entire series.

Also: YumiKuri is going to have way way more scenes in this season than they had in season 1, promise.

This may or may not be an unpopular opinion, but I didn't really like the first season of AOT. Well, I liked it at first, but as it went on... I felt that it became kind of stupid. I don't even remember what my qualms with it were, but I think it was something along the lines of: poorly developed characters, poorly developed characters dying by the handful and the show expecting some emotional response from us (Petra's death comes to mind), and WAY TOO MUCH POINTLESS SCREAMING. I liked some of the characters enough (namely Mikasa and Levi as well as Ymir and Krista solely 'cause of Yumikuri) that I didn't care about them being poorly developed, so it may be worth watching if all these characters get more focus later on.

Also, I just finished Kuzu no Honkai, so here are some of my thoughts on it... I doubt anyone will really care, but, yeah, still, I want to leave my thoughts on it somewhere... I thought that Akane's sudden transformation was waaaaaay too sudden... I felt that she really deserved some comeuppance for all the emotional pain she dealt to Hanabi and others, but, well, no one in this series really did receive a cruel fate or whatnot. I did not like that they spent two entire episodes devoted to Akane in which the main character showed up for less than a minute, but I did like her final resolution to stay away from Mugi. It would have been nicer if it hadn't been crammed into 22 minutes along with the resolution of all the other characters, but I still thought it was a fitting ending for her. As for the other characters... Mugi must've shown up for like 2 minutes in the finale so I don't really know where his story's going now. I didn't really hate him THAT much until after Episode 8 after he completely abandoned Hanabi and realized he had a savior complex, but now I do. He finally got over Akane, but it seems to me that his story ended a bit abruptly... but, in the end, who really cares about him. I do have to give KnH some credit for actually making me like the gothic lolita character. Moca annoyed me from the second I heard her freaking annoying voice, but she had the most well-adjusted ending out of all the scumbags in this show which I thought was fitting. Narumi... I don't even know how to feel about him since his motivations were barely revealed, but it appears that he has an Electra complex? More than a bit creepy, but, well, good thing he's happy, I guess. Definitely looks much sexier withut the glasses.

And now for the main reason I watched this anime in the first place... Ecchan! In the end, she didn't get the girl. I didn't really expect her to either so it didn't really faze me... where it does annoy me is when the writers tease yuri romance for the entire series and don't follow through it, but it was very clear from the start that their relationship was definitely not going to work out. I liked that she actually acknowledged that she was a lesbian as opposed to pretty much every other anime lesbian outside of yuri and even sometimes in yuri and I liked her distinctly non stereotypical characteristics. I think her only stereotypical trait was her distaste of men, but, really, I didn't really see that that much... though she did only interact with 2 men in the entire series, one of which (Mugi) anyone would be pissed at and the other of which is her incestuous cousin. Speaking of him, TV Tropes seems to indicate that the series hints that Ecchan might be considering dating him, but I didn't really see it. That scene at the end of 9 seemed more like confirmation that she would be leaning on him as a friend but certainly not as a romantic interest. Even that campfire scene in 12 was hardly an indication that she was starting to view him in that way and the hair flashback scene makes it clear that she still has lingering feelings for Hanabi even if she decided to give up on her. That hair scene was a nice touch, I thought. While she finally let go of Hanabi by getting rid of the hairstyle which Hanabi always liked, she is definitely still attached to her based on the fact that Hanabi also liked her new hairstyle. So, I have to give the show credit for NOT MAKING THE LESBIAN STRAIGHT IN THE END! WOW, WHAT A FUCKING REVOLUTIONARY IDEA.

So, in the end, I guess the main theme of the show was first love never works out and you shouldn't feel beholden to your first love... except when it does in the case of the teachers... yeah, I really did not like their arc, but I liked the rest of the series enough that their involvement in it hardly detracts from my love of the series. It felt like a more realistic, raw portrayal of romance than most anime would be willing to portray, although I admit that I would hardly know a thing about "realistic romance." I'm not really interested in romance, but if I ever do get involved in one, I sure as hell am not going to allow it to get this insane and disturbed. I guess that's a lesson I learned from KnH... though, yeah, nothing like this is ever going to happen in my life and, well, I'm completely fine with that.

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I suppose it depends on what you disliked about VD. This is more silly and has less sadomasochism but is also way lower on romance

It's just that the softcore porn scenes were way too much for me. When I first heard of "Soul Eater with lesbians by the creators of Sengoku Basura...? (Senran Kagura, I always confuse the two for some reason)," I was expecting SOME ecchi, but NOT FULL-ON FIVE MINUTE SEX SCENES. I did hear that it got rather serious later on, though I can't imagine that it stays serious for all that long with random sex scenes thrown everywhere. The sadomasochism though... well, I'll stay silent about that.

Lots of gropping & censoring, but nowhere as bad as VD in terms of porno level

There's an uncensored version out there. Which is about as porny as Valkyrie Drive

So, it's just as porny as VD but without actual yuri... hmmm... yeah, I guess I'll be skipping this then. You know what they say though, don't knock it 'til you try it... maybe I'll go ahead and give it a shot sometime. Maybe. Probably not... but maybe.

So, did anyone watch Sin Nanatsu no Taizai and is it any good? I've heard tell that it's pretty much Valkyrie Drive: Demon Edition and I could barely make it through the first episode of VD, so I doubt that I'll like this demon thing, but... I mean, IT'S YURI FOR GOD'S SAKE. Soooo, is it worth watching if I detested VD? Honestly, I'd probably buy the game if I had a Vita since I'm more willing to overlook fanservice in a good game than in a good anime, but that's beside the point...

Also, did the Yumikuri stuff happen yet in AOT? I'm seriously considering watching just the Yumikuri episodes of Season 2 and skipping everything else just like I did with the Usotsuki Lily manga (and which I did not do with Kuzu no Honaki, oddly enough)... though if S2 is an improvement over S1, I might be willing to watch the whole thing.

Speaking of Kuzu no Honkai, well, I finally got around to watching it months after it first caught my eye. Finished Episode 9 last night, and I gotta wonder... (spoilers for everything up to Ep 9) when did Hanabi ever look at Ecchan with a lustful gaze or regard sex with her as being any better than sex with Mugi or that random douchebag dude? I mean, she even said she was a virgin even after the events that transpired in Episode 4, so... yeah... I never expected the show to end yuri, far from it, but I thought that Hanabi seriously considering Ecchan as an option would have been pretty neat... gotta say though, I did like how they handled Ecchan and all that. Even though it was very clear that Hanabi was as straight as a... line (?), it was also very clear that she took Ecchan's feelings seriously throughout the whole thing. Ecchan acted like a despicable asshat in Episode 6, that's for sure, but she got some nice closure in 9. It sure is nice to have an anime character who openly acknowledges that they're gay as opposed to "well, i'm usually not gay, BUT I'M GAY FOR YOU, YOU KNOW?" I can only hope that they don't fuck it all up at the end by pairing Ecchan with the cousin... but, I don't know, she seemed to regard him as more of an annoying friend than anything, so I have confidence in them. The whole point of the series is unrequited love, so... LET'S KEEP YOUR LOVE UNREQUITED, SLIGHTLY CREEPY COUSIN, ALRIGHT?

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Transgender meaning You is biologically a male I'm​ sure some(most) yuri fan wouldn't like this kind of story but I understand if some transgender reader want to tag it trans.

I think the problem lies here since people, most especially yuri fans, really shouldn't have a problem with this. Giving it the Transgender and Yuri tags as some readers have already suggested would, I think, be the best way of dealing with this since I believe that it would both respect transgender readers and allow any douchebags to ignore the story if they would like it (yeah, calling people names is really the whole reason this thing started, but how can I resist...)

Also it's rare to see trans work in Japanese dooujins(except crossdressing if it count), yeah I know pito is not Japanese.

It is rare to see transgender characters in Japanese doujins, let alone Japanese anything, but just because they're rare doesn't mean that they don't exist at all. Wandering Son comes to mind. I don't really care much about Korean things (I probably should 'cause I'm Korean but whatever) unless they pertain to my interests (so anything with LGBTQ characters, basically), but I can't imagine that they're all that common over in that shithole and they certainly aren't in America either. Anyhow, my point is that just because they're rare doesn't mean that You isn't transgender. Lesbians certainly aren't all that common either, but that doesn't stop us from recognizing that lesbians are in some works of fiction, now does it?

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"but, you know, since she's sleeping around with some random girls instead, it's all good."
Nice double standards. If you think faceless generic female is good, then by the same logic a faceless generic male is also good, unless of course you have some weird bias going on, like the "females are more pure" bullshit...

I agree that the "females are more pure" argument is pure bullshit, and I also agree that my weird bias is a pretty bad double standard. I'm still not really sure why I'm okay with certain things like these (and more innocent things such as kabedons) when it ain't a male that's involved/"taking the lead" or whatnot, but I'd say it's more because I hate male characters than because I view women as being all pure and innocent. Well, I could get into this more, but I don't want this thread to be any more clogged up than it already is...

I guess it's time to bring all the doujins with faceless males raping girls from yuri series to Dynasty then.
Because the concept of quality of derivative works doesn't actually exist right?

As much as I love this place, I must say that plenty of the doujins on here are completely horrible. By completely horrible, I mean they range from, well, just not good but, admittedly, with good intentions at heart to just ridiculously disturbing and awful. I haven't been brave enough to read any of SOFTCHARM's or John K Peta's "works of art" yet, but, well, the point is that I don't think the people in charge of uploading stuff to Dynasty ever really cared about this concept anyway. They just upload whatever they want, which is why we have some het stuff here too like 14-sai no Koi (that's probably not the best example, but there are definitely some others that I forgot about). Not saying that's bad, of course... it's their site, after all, so they can do what they will with it. That kind of stuff... I'd presume that the staff would not want that kind of stuff on this site, so they simply don't upload it onto this site. Of course, my assumptions might be and probably am completely wrong or at least really poorly worded, so I apologize in advance if they are wrong and offend anyone in the staff.

Addressing this piece in particular, I'd say that this at least has more "artistic merit" than any of those kinds of doujins. I mean, let's just take a look at the facts: 1 - none of the characters are sexualized at all. You barely even see anything during the sex scene and it's handled fairly tamely, at least in my opinion. 2 - Well, it actually has a story with a well-defined conflict and some fairly philosophical things (of course, that's subjective). Personally, I thought You's thoughts on the lack of afterglow after her first time, so to speak, were fairly well done. Yeah, whether something has artistic merit is all subjective in the end, but I can state with confidence that this work definitely has more artistic merit than any of those pieces of trash.

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Disgusting. Not only does this insult You's character by portraying her as a cheap person who sleeps with some random girls, it also insults Love Live as a series by using a non-existent characters in a supposedly derivative work.
If this had a random boy instead, you'd all be screaming that it was "hetshit" and whatnot...

Heh, I can't deny that I would see this as hetshit or whatnot if she actually was sleeping around with some random dudes... but, you know, since she's sleeping around with some random girls instead, it's all good. I think calling it an insult to You as a character and the entire series is going a bit too far though. People can interpret characters however they want; even if their interpretation really makes zero sense, it's their own interpretation and there's hardly a need to be so outraged over it. Pito clearly loves Love Live, and she (I believe?) is by no means insulting the series by portraying You in this manner. Honestly, I never watched Love Live myself, so I don't really know how outlandish this interpretation of You is, but, well, it makes for an interesting read and that's really all that matters to me.

Sorry if this doesn't really make any sense, it's 2 AM here and I really should be going to sleep right about now... oh well...

(Italics mine.) One example of trans yuri. Mermaid Line chs. 6 and 7. I, at least, think it's really good. (And oh yeah, I kind of liked the chapter under discussion too.)

Thanks for recommending that series! Ch 6 and 7 (plus the others) were all fantastic; it's a shame that there ain't more yuri out there from this author, but, oh well, what can you do...

Wow, I had no idea that Love Live got a worldwide release and that there are some game-original characters... maybe they'll make an anime with all those new people some time. Still not really interested in it, especially since I'm already hopelessly addicted to one admittedly trite mobile game, but i suppose that it's nice that it's out there in case I ever want to give it a go.

This image just goes to show how much better Persona 4 and 5 would have been with a female protagonist option. And also that I really should get around to playing a Persona game...

So, it actually did take that route, huh? Certainly not opposed to it... I don't know how long I've been waiting for a harem yuri thing that's not porn, but, well, I guess this'll have to do for now.

Also, that credit image is so appropriate for the... events... of this chapter. Yuri-ism always chooses the best credit pics.

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Damn, I forgot this wasn't an all-girls' school. Well, at least the only guy who showed up in the entire manga (except Haruka's dad, now that I think about it) is leaving right after his introduction woooo.

Anyhow, nice to see more Yuzu x Kaede for a change! I always loved this pairing, and it's sure nice to see it getting some more attention.

Ah, so that's where that pic of that girl with the weird face came from... (the one where young Ayame is riding the panda and you-know-what happens). I forget who had that profile pic, but, well, I know that it was definitely someone on this site, at least.

Also, why is Sango's(?) hair suddenly white on Page 17? Is it just to show her shock or something like that?

Anyhow, it's been so long that I don't remember anything (I didn't realize that it's been more than a year since the last non-extras chapter, jeez), and it's also been so long that I've forgotten how much I missed this wonderful little thing. Thanks for bringing it back! I'm gonna have to reread the earlier chapters at some point, but "INDIRECTLY STROKING" and "MARMALADE" were enough to satiate my desire for more unconventional yuri.

I suppose it's time for Nobara to gallantly rescue Yukino from drowning and give her the classic resuscitation kiss! Make it happen, Harushion! Anyhow, these were some very nice chapters in my opinion. Ookami and Alice are absolutely riotous and learning more about them was great.

It looked all nice and sweet at first and then I saw the blood and then I was like "what the hell is going on here?" Still a nice picture though.

A manga that's literally called "She Gets Girls Everyday" is just subtext?? Japan, you've gone too far this time!

I was scared that they would end up plummeting off that cliff to their deaths as soon as she mentioned the bad road conditions... good thing that didn't happen. Another disaster happened, but, well, at least they didn't die horrifically.