But as it happens, I just came across a review of the first two volumes of this series at a long-established and well-respected yuri manga/anime website
Erica? Well-respected? Her opinions are trash, she is so biased and projects politics and LGBT real life stuff into yuri that most of the things she says are plain wrong or just dumb. As far as I'm concerned she is not a referent in the Western yuri community (and she is disliked by some yuri fans), maybe she is in Tumblr though.
For example, she is fixated on believing Yuu is asexual despite all the evidence against that statement, all because she wants asexual representation in manga.
Well, I know she’s done a lot on the translation side, and she’s the primary yuri manga person in Anglophone academia.
That said, it was her very unconvincingly argued take on YagaKimi that brought me to the Dynasty forums in the first place—I’m willing to listen to any serious argument about comics, but her review was so poorly grounded in the textual evidence that I wanted to find out what other people had to say about it. And now here I am.
As I said, to me the “yuri/not yuri” labeling thing is inherently an endless argument, usually little more than a parlor game that’s about as meaningful intellectually as the ones played by music fans who want to precisely define “real metal” or “real punk” or “real jazz” or whatever to prove their own superior authenticity.
It was the attack on readers that really took me aback—anybody attempting serious literary criticism who finds themselves writing the phrase “the kinds of people who” in a negative review needs to just hit delete and try again.
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