You know Sol, you should be sharing some of these series with all this yuri. While I highly doubt they can pass up Marimite for pseudo-romance, or Simoun for actual canon lesbians, I'm interested.
This...pretty much is what i wanted to say. I'm interested too.
I saw some of a channel and yuruyuri but they was based on a 4 koma manga and was ...not what i look for in the romance genre...i've also seen a 'few cute girls do cute things' anime series appearing but again it's just...
Maria sama was, in my opinion, not just fantastic pseudo romance...it is probably one of the best romance anime titles i have seen. The epic melodrama over such trivial things, the music, the pacing... every time i've watched it it's never lost any of it's impact.(..i can't bring myself to abreviate it as marimite because it reminds me of that rancid sludge that some crazies spread on their toast or whatever..)
And Simoun is more than just a romance...it's an epic sci-fi romance with layered themes about war,religion, childhood, adulthood, innocence lost etc...and its far removed from something like natsuiro kiseki, if that was the sort of thing you(Sol) were referring to.
...but that's just my opinion...:P
Well just looking at last year there would be one proper yuri romance (altough it isn't very good) in the kuttsukiboshi OVA. Also easy too mention but non really romance focused like Simoun would be Moretsu pirates, Black rock shooter and Symphogear. Then there's a sea of more subtexty stuff like Saki A-Hen, Rinne no lagrange etc. Altough still nothing really like Marimite.
Also would recommend the currently ongoing Yuyushiki, altough its in similar style to yuruyuri/A channel.