I see, thanks for the replies!

Watched first episode of Kanojo mo Kanojo out of curiosity and I have to say, I was positively surprised. It was so hilarious, I was crying from laughter. It's a really nice take on polyamorous relationship and so far doesn't feel forced and characters are likeable, or at least, have enough personality. But the most important thing, first gf actually openly admits being attracted to second gf, so there's also potential for some yuri. Going by opening, there'll apparently be 2 girls more, which I'm not that happy with, since I like the main trio. I guess I should at least wait and see if they'll be as likeable as 3 current characters, before judging it.

Watched first episode of Kanojo mo Kanojo out of curiosity and I have to say, I was positively surprised.But the most important thing, first gf actually openly admits being attracted to second gf, so there's also potential for some yuri.

Oh really. I only read the first part of the myanimelist summary so I only saw the "two-timing" part. After your post, I read the whole summary and think I'll check it out.

In other news (which is a few days old now), Ikki Tousen is getting a new anime. It'll be nice to see this again and for those who need a reminder of the yuri in it, Kan-u loves Ryuubi and we can probably expect some other stuff via fanservice.

Also, any yuri in the first two episodes of Higurashi Sotsu? No specfics since I'm still on Gou (they just entered the girls school).

Iruma-kun S2 ep 4 was dubbed. The character Eiko seemed to like the student president. Even the after credits scene showed her unable to choose between her and Iruma (who she has feelings for meaning the feelings she has for the president are more than just admiration).

Bakarina: a nice little play episode though it’s not entirely sunshine and rainbows.

Aquatope: The show we think could be yuri but aren’t sure yet. So, what does the first episode give us? Not much considering Fuuka and Kukuru only meet at the end of the episode, though they both have had a strange experience in the aquarium (not together). Kukuru is mentioned to care more about fishing and such then other things so I’m sure that will start to change. Also, the fortune teller and interesting kid remind me of the ones from Adachi and Shimamura, not exactly in how they act, just that there here.

Kanojo mo Kanojo: “So cute and big-boobed and irresistible!”. Once Nagisa mentions that she’d be okay with a threesome as long as it what Naoyo (the guy) wants. This causes Saki to add horny to the previous list and state “Even I want to be your girlfriend!”. Later when she sees that Naoyo set up the three futons together, Saki states he was trying to do something naughty, especially to Nagisa. When Naoyo denies this, Saki says “But if I were you, I totally would!”. Yeah, I think this and the first episode firmly establish that Saki does have some attraction to Nagisa. Nagisa might have similar feelings given her reaction to Saki tweeting that she wanted to get closer to her. Nice to have mutual love between the girls in a harem.

Strike Witches Road to Berlin (dub): Sanya and Eila ep last time and that’s always a treat. Not much yuri in ep 9, but a nice episode for Mina (and of course her episode eyecatch would have her holding Mio). Also, the dub version currently up is still censored even though the uncensored blu-ray is out.

Blue Reflection Ray: Ruka and Hiori had some fun watering the garden. Hiori teases Miyako about her talking with Saiki on the phone by saying that she had a crush on her. Another two girls have some nice interactions too. Miyako still wearing the same bracelet as Momo.

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Opera Girl! looks interesting so far and might have some potential for yuri, but I doubt it. Hanigare rip-off (The Aquatope on White Sand) seems good so far and have a lot of potential, mostly for good story, but also for yuri.

Anyone feels that in Bakarina S2 OP they toned down the yuri way too much? They only focused on the guys with no intimate screen time for the girls.

Anyone feels that in Bakarina S2 OP they toned down the yuri way too much? They only focused on the guys with no intimate screen time for the girls.

Not really, though I do get why you'd think that. Everyone has still shown interest in Katarina and we've had Mary moments in both ep 1 (calling out Keith for taking advantage of his situation while talking about doing the same thing) and ep 2 (trying to help get the cue card and offering to play the love interest of Katarina). Even the boys getting more attention during the play was only because Sophia wanted to help her brother get closer to Katarina which in turn will let her be close to Katarina.

In terms of the new characters, I think only the girl has shown interest in Katarina so far and we only just met her so it seems like we got more yuri to come.

Watched the first 3 episodes of Higurashi Sotsu. Good to be all caught up. In terms of yuri, nothing really since its focusing on being the answer arc for Gou. That said, we do have the opening. In the opening, we see both Rika and Satoko go in for a kiss, though of course stopping before actually doing it. Now having yuri stuff happen in an opening/ending and not having anything in the show is a thing that happens and that has happened in Higurashi before. Of course, this time we know from the ending of Gou and the confirmation by the director that Satoko loves Rika. The interesting part is Rika going in for the kiss. This could indicate that she feels the same way and a later shot in the opening shows her grab a falling Satoko possibly showing that she does want to redeem Satoko.

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I take back what I said about Opera Girl!. It has yuri potential after all. Two main leads hold hands in opening.

I don't think Aquatope is going to be yuri. There was no hint of it even in the first episode, and it would be quite a daring mid-story reveal to pull off in a big scale production probably involving the Okinawa tourism business.

(edit: not that I mind, Nettaigyo x Children of the Sea sounds good anyway)

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Love Live Superstar is out. Kanon seemed like a contrast to past Love Live main characters so that was a nice surprise..

I don't think Aquatope is going to be yuri. There was no hint of it even in the first episode, and it would be quite a daring mid-story reveal to pull off in a big scale production probably involving the Okinawa tourism business.

(edit: not that I mind, Nettaigyo x Children of the Sea sounds good anyway)

Could go either way. Just have to wait and see. I mean it was only the first episode so its still got time to be yuri if it chooses to be (like, kirakira pretty cure didn't have Yukari or Akira in its first ep (or at the very least not together, its been a while) but that didn't stop them from being a sweet couple later on and on the mangaka's twitter).

I get the idea of because Okinawa tourism business is involved that means yuri is a no go, but we have Uma Musume Pretty Derby which has the characters based off of real horses and look at all the subtext it has.

Watched Koyashi-san S2 first episode. It was fun, the animation is gorgeous (loved the fight between Iruru and Tohru). But I found the fanservice quite annoying, the close-ups on the boobs every two minutes made me roll my eyes so hard. I hope they will ton it down in the next episodes.

Ok, so since Higurashi Sotsu opening is suggesting Rika might have feelings for Satoko, let's look to the past to see how she feels.

In a bonus manga released along with the magical girl ova, Rika says she wants to kiss Satoko and calls her "my wife" (https://twitter.com/ohonipah/status/1414603903115661312).

Also, someone replied to a reddit post of this and said that Rika was gay in Hinamizawa Bus Stop (the the original script of higurashi later turned into a manga) (https://www.reddit.com/r/Higurashinonakakoroni/comments/oizavm/the_manga_with_the_higurashi_kira_bd_has/h5150de/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3).

Now, both of these cases are non-canon but they can give us an idea of whether we can believe the opening or not (like how the fact we knew Satoko was gay makes the opening almost kiss more meaningful rather than assuming its just a weird opening thing that means nothing)

Blue Ray Reflection delivers again this week.

Bakarina was also nice. Selena does love her fiancé so has hasn’t fallen for our favourite baka…yet. The scene with Mary and Allan was nice. I already considered all the characters to be equal in terms of there love for Katarina (though I prefer the girls), but this scene can serve to do that for people who still had doubt.

Hm, Aquatope. On one hand, the OP has a ton of romantic imagery between the leads (both female). On the other, we haven't seen much of that in the show itself, and one of the few male characters seems to have a crush on one of the girls. On the third hand, the other major male character seems to be into him

Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure just had Laura and Manatsu share a bed. Nice to have some more shipping moments and it reminded me of Nagisa and Honoka back in the original (though I do know sharing a bed has happened since then).

Aquatope finally had a little moment this week with the two main girls holding each others' cheeks while blushing and the girls just growing closer together. Still probably best to watch it like any CGDCT or magical girl anime and think "there might be yuri" and not "this will definitely be yuri", but it is nice to finally have a yuri moment.

The last Bakarina episode delivered on a promised hug and the ending will definately make this weeks episode interesting (still hoping that if Bakarina becomes less dense we get a harem ending since I can't choose just one of the girls).

The last ep of Strike Witches Road to Berlin is dubbed and the first ep of World Witches is now dubbed.

Dragon Maid is still dragon maid with its display of yuri. Enjoyable as always.

Higurashi Sotsu still on the answer arcs and no yuri. Probably won't get any till we catch up to Gou.

Idaten is airing and I think it was this thread that mentioned something yuri happening in the manga. Currently no yuri in the 3 episodes have aired.

I'm hoping after that the other members of the harem will get to kiss Katarina after this episode.

Also, in Kanojo mo kanojo once again has Saki calling Nagisa hot.

Lol. Now Magia Record adapts prologue of the game. In first episode of second season. Well it was technically changed, but it showed the most important part from prologue, that you were supposed to know watching entire season 1, so... gj? Also episode was mostly filler if you watched OG series, so I started skipping half-way through. I gave second season chance half, because it was so long since season 1, so I kinda got over my shock how bad this adaptation is and half from morbid curiosity to see how badly they'll fuck up rest of the story and what kind of changes they'll do in general. Hell, maybe it'll actually not be that bad! First episode didn't give great impression and almost made me feel like not bothering after all, but then I did really miss that story, so maybe I'll try and stuck with it...

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Stuff Nevri said

I feel like you've decided you hate the series and are working backwards from there? The episode was really good. Great cinematography! Solid animation! Good character writing! It's everything good about the series and little of what's bad

Hylarn posted:

The episode was really good. Great cinematography! Solid animation! Good character writing! It's everything good about the series and little of what's bad

No. I actually played the game and know how the story is supposed to go. Yes, episode would be good if not for the fact it's stuff we mostly saw in OG series, that doesn't really bring much to the story anime is telling about and that takes entire 1 episode from 13 episode run of series that already was rushed as hell in season 1 and they clearly have not enough time to tell rest of the story.

I feel like you've decided you hate the series and are working backwards from there?

Decided? I was defending season 1 for 12 weeks as it was airing, when most people were complaining about it. I played the devil's advocate, saying it's actually good. But when final episode aired, I was forced to admit, that adaptation is trash and it neither lived up to source material, nor managed to create something different that stands on its own. I made a entire wall of text explaining all my reasons for it, which clearly nobody read. I was so pissed at how they butcher my favorite arc of entire game and the reason I fallen in love with the story in the first place, I decided to not even watch season 2, so the fact I even given it a chance already show that I still have some soft spot for this story.

Aquatope progresses from matching keychains to uncensored handholding.

Bakarina: focus on the girls more this ep and Sophia telling a story where her and Catarina get married.

Aquatope: the girls getting closer and Kukuru asking Fuuka’s mother to let her stay (of course people have already interpreted the scene to be “I’ll take care of your daughter in marriage” and while it isn’t that, seeing posts like that brings me a smile and who knows. Maybe it will become that retroactively).

World Witches ep 2 (Dub): Waltrud Krupinski is still her prevy, lesbian self. Nice to see her again.

Kageki Shoujo: The guy Sarasa was texting was her boyfriend (rip yuri…? I wouldn’t call it yuri bait though since the series itself never really implied yuri. Again, look at Magical’s video to get an idea of the yuri to expect in this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7qO2tnOzI&t=861s). This does make Ai jealous though:

“I won’t let that frog [symbol of Sarasa’s boyfriend] outdo me. I wanna give Watanabe-san something she’ll love even more than those roses. After all, she’s the first friend I ever made.”

Hmm, wanting to have her love a gift from you more than her boyfriend’s. Interesting… though you could easily attribute it to her not having any friends before.

Dragon Maid: We got a kiss…in dragon form…while they were trying to kill each other (still counts).

Jahy-sama: Druj is Jahy’s loyal and loving masochist servant. So, there’s that.

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