Interesting forum, I shall join in.
I really new to this compared to many others (the join date on my account is pretty close to when I started). Even tho I knew about yuri being a thing I thought it was all like Strawberry Panic and Marimite which I attempted to watch and did not like (dont crucify me). Also Kannazuki, which I also dropped due to so much nonsensical crap I didn't care for in it (I did see the last episode not long ago, as well as their other versions of such characters from the same creator). Also saw lesbian characters in animes that I liked, but their mere existence was for comedy's sake. None of that got me into it, I just thought it was either way too melodramatic or just fanservice crap. I did watch Yuru Yuri but it was meh yuri-wise, was mostly comedy.
Then I found the little gem that is Kanamemo, the anime is not very good (manga is better)... but Yume and Yuuki, which were portrayed as a serious couple that deeply love each other (instead of fanservice), made it quite enjoyable. So I went into the manga which is being translated by Kawaii scans and in an attempt to find the site again I found this site. And through many comments found mangas that aren't here (e.g. Girls friends and other stuff, stuff in mangafox, etc).
I got obsessed and went through EVERYTHING that had tags on this site that interested me in 2 months... Hey, I had a lot of free time....
On a side note: I attempted to look for yuri in hentai and did a lot of searching and reading lists with short descriptions. Watched some and 99.99% of it is really HORRIBLE stuff, I wish I could forget it ALL! Except for Sono Hanabira, which is sugar-coated like crazy it made my teeth fall instantly, and it introduced me to the VNs.
Just to end my post, I guess the sweetness is what got to me (as well as flirty stuff), mutual love between the characters, specially when they express it in sex scenes (doesn't happen a lot... most look like 1 side is not really enjoying it...). Now I got 2 giant lists full of it. :D
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