My interest was sparked by the Sasameki Koto anime, I looked around for suggestions and watched (tried to watch) the most popular yuri (and shoujo ai). Also read the most recommended mangas Girl Friends (and other stuff by Moringa) + Sasameki Koto, nothing really gripped me.
I've always liked Anime (mainly shojo), and reading (mainly fantasy books). But I never read manga. Not sure why. One day I somehow discovered Fruits Basket the anime. I watched it, despised how it ended. Found out online it continues in the manga, so I started reading manga. From that I read and watched tons of things (ouran, school rumble, etc...) and loved them all. When looking for something new at one point Girlfriends was a recommendation. I'm not gonna lie, a romance about 2 girls seemed very interesting. So I read the first chapter. Next thing I know I'm reading the last chapter and then everything else by morinaga. Then I found Sasameki Koto, read and watched it. Then I found a huge list of mangas all yuri. I started reading through all of those, noticing most of them were linked here. And here I am... :) lol
I looked for the manga and found it on this site, where I noticed that most of the stuff is yuri.
http://dynasty-scans.com/series/kanamemo
I'm going to go read this tonight. I haven't ever. I came in late to most of this sadly so there are a lot of 'older' ones I am missing. And a lot of licensed ones I know nothing about.
I think it doesn't matter what someone likes or who is the person in question but I do find interesting the preconceptions around this genres. As a mexican male, Yuri was seen between my male friends as 'quick and easy' porn with the added bonus of not having naked guys to look at, female friends thought it was gross (amusingly, some of them were big Yaoi fans) but they were fine with it on small doses. Older people looked it as an abomination and sort of a gateway to homosexuality (?), very few are aware of the genre being as diverse and valuable as any romance story, the only difference is that the characters are women (I assume the same could be said about yaoi but I've never read any)
Very well said! :)
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