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I've only checked a few of these out so far, so I can't make any claims to the quality of all their stories, but just seeing the greater variety of styles, especially the increase in adult couples, in these yuri manga covers compared to 10 years ago, heck even 5 years ago, makes me so happy for how far the genre has come and excited for progress in the future. I'm always on the hunt for more authentic yuri manga, so please let me know if there are any I should read, or which of these I should be checking out first!
I cant wait for all the amazing takes from anime fans, once WataOshi starts airing, such as...
"Claire said shes obviously straight and likes Thane, this show is clearly baiting"
"Why are they talking about this gay stuff? THIS IS JUST POLITCAL PROPAGANDA, GET WOKE GO BROKE"
"[character x] isnt lgbt, actually"
AND MORE!
currently reading WataOshi vol. 3 bonus stories for the first time (SPOILERS AHEAD), and i gotta say:
somehow, this books take on queer representation is a perfect blend of "Everyone is Gay" escapist fantasy, and the depiction of how harsh and cruel reality can be for LGBT people
Yes, Claire and Rae get to have a wedding and their own kids, with fully supportive parents/in-laws. And Yes, everyone from thier friend group (except for like, two dudes) ends up being incredibly queer
But also...
the story does not pretend this world is all rainbows and sunshines for LGBT people, just becuase its a yuri romance. The world at large is still either ignorant, or openly hostile towards non-cishet people. The state and the church dont legally recognize Rae & Claire as married, even though everyone who knows them does.
Inori's depiction of LGBT issues manages to simultaneously be realistic, AND incredibly optimistic, and i absolutely love her for it
gfs at prom (who left early because they didn’t play blur)
Reading a yuri manga and because one of the main characters is from a rural area the translator made her a scot 😭😭😭😭 amsrbfjfnjdci I'm dying
Reading a yuri manga and because she's from "the country" (rural Japan) the fucking translators SHE SPEAKS LIKE A FUCKING SCOT 😭😭 I'M DYING ASMFBFNGN
Reading a yuri manga and because she's from "the country" (rural Japan) the fucking translators SHE SPEAKS LIKE A FUCKING SCOT 😭😭 I'M DYING ASMFBFNGN
I am severely disappointed in all my FYP’s to not have shown me the “If You Could See Love” manga. And that I had to stumble into it all on my lonesome.
If You Could See Love, aka Moshi, Koi ga Mieta Nara, is a completed yuri manga containing polyamory, an aromantic character, and none of the weird stuff!! :D Highly recommend for a quick and wholesome read
i wanna hold..hand with her..
okay BUT BUT BUT BUT HER-
i already love this manga
I always wanted to experience such a love
It makes me sad that probably I can’t 🥲
I guess I can be the Yuri couple's comedic relief guy sidekick that's constantly shipping them
Which ever month you were born in, will determine the type of anime you would live in.
January = Hentai
Febuary = Yuri
March = Sports
April = Horror
May = Supernatural
June = Harem
July = Yaoi
August = Sci-fi
September = Shoujo
October = Ecchi
November = Slice of life
December = Musical
Those Who Long for Yuri
Original: https://twitter.com/chizuna_n/status/1478196988210561030
Original: https://twitter.com/chizuna_n/status/1484719997117431815
Original: https://twitter.com/chizuna_n/status/1486902505380270082
Author: Nakajima Chizuna
Translation: SkyeKurisu
Typesetting: @hdittus01
DREAMS CAN COME TRUE
YOU CAN MARRY YOUR SISTER
LOVE IS REAL
im never getting over these two btw. it's just not happening. this is one of my favorite yuri ships of all time and im not joking
Does anyone have good yuri/gl/wlw recommendations?
Hi, I wanted to read some good yuri but I try to search recommendations online and none of them were for me
I'm not that into fluff things, I prefer something more complex and deep(?) For example I really enjoyed All of Mxtx works and Lost in the cloud.
Also I can take toxic relationships unless they are abusive
Anyway If anyone can help me with that I would be super happy
yuri nation pls give me good yuri anime recs but lesser known ones (i love bloom into you and kase san but everyone knows them) 🤗🩷
Commentary on aroace/lesbian “fujoshi”
CW: talk of porn (the good and the bad), sex, and gender. Pretty graphic language and imagery. Sex repulsed aroace people BEWARE.
I would like to start this off by saying I am an aroace lesbian. What does that mean? Simply - I don’t want sex, nor romance, but if I did, I know where I’d find it. I love WOMEN. All women. Any women. I also really like yaoi, and I’ve seen some minimal discussion about specifically women who love yaoi or BL, and I’d like to add my two cents.
Several people online seem to take “lesbians liking yaoi” as just a natural reaction to the overall market of fiction. That is to say, there’s not a lot of options. There is a side to yuri which appeals to women, yes. But the way I see it, it’s either magical girl or slice of life, or, written by a man. And most of the stuff written by men is porn - bad porn. Thus it doesn’t appeal to women who actually like women.
In the same vein there is hetero stuff, which some lesbian/aroace yaoi enjoyers say doesn’t appeal to them because the majority of it has a male/female dynamic that is skewed. Oftentimes the woman is portrayed as weak or perhaps just isn’t a correct representation of the lesbian/aroace consumer. So why even bother?
Anecdotal, but I have had this experience too. I have a hard time getting into any kind of hetero ship because the women are often unrelatable or worse - just uninteresting. I don’t like men, so why would I care if it was just some faceless dame and her super hot husband? I don’t give a shit about him.
I’ve found that I enjoy a lot of hetero ships from demon slayer. Some may find this contradictory because there has been some commentary on the usefulness or intrigue around women in demon slayer. I think the demon slayer women are very interesting, story wise and appearance wise, and they fit very well with the men I ship them with. That is to say - men in demon slayer are simps for beautiful, strong, independent women - and I eat that shit up.
Most hetero stuff, however, is victimizing the women. Knowingly or unknowingly. It’s sad that if I want to get my rocks off to Mitsuri x Obanai, I have to scroll through like eight pages of the same inflation, big tits big ass no tummy, fart porn all sourced from the deepest dredges of Apocrypha. In fact, most of the time if you have the balls to like a fictional woman enough to want to see her getting respectfully banged, the cisgender heterosexual gooner men have already beaten you to the punch - and now you see her with her face in a smelly man’s ass. (All real examples by the way)
So it’s not to say I don’t like yuri, or hetero, it’s just that if I want to see women getting railed - I’m very particular. As I should be.
Yaoi, some people on the internet say, sets the men it’s focused around on equal footing. Instead of the woman being the damsel or a plain sexual object, the uke and seme are usually just two dudes. Not to say there aren’t power dynamics in yaoi - just to say that those power dynamics don’t hurt my pride as a woman. It doesn’t victimize a girl for somebody else’s sick kicks.
Yaoi, at least the kind I read, also can have an element of one man (the uke) usually being pretty soft or feminine. Why? Well that’s a pure reflection of how I (and other people) view sex. There is the giver and the receiver, the top and the bottom, the dom and the sub. Not that those lines don’t get crossed - they do, all the time. But as good ol’ Tevye says about Anatevka… TRADITION! (Sorry. It’s 3 AM)
The way I see it, it’s a way of having that traditional dynamic (pretty soft bottom and strong handsome top) without victimizing a woman. I do the same with yuri ships - I absolutely love love love a stone top with a pillow princess. And also - and I say this with no sense of shame - femboys are cute. Women are the superior form. Soz. So it’s awesome to see a man invoking his feminine side. It’s not like it makes him any less of a man. No matter how many times my mom peers at my drawings of Cloud Strife and says, “She’s pretty.” It doesn’t change the fact that he is him.
Gender is a fickle thing. It comes and it goes. I used to have a very conservative view of gender, and even sexuality. I was a “gold star lesbian”, and wanted nothing to do with men (still do, irl). You know what changed me? You’re gonna laugh. My Hero Academia. Oh, did I say you were gonna laugh? I meant cringe.
It’s not what you think. Bakudeku actually traumatized me - not the ship itself but one story I read on AO3 that I now understand for the masterpiece of terror and grossness it is. I would drop it but I don’t want to draw any undue attention to it.
What changed my mind on gender was actually Tomura. It didn’t even happen on purpose, l didn’t see him and go, “Oh he’s pretty, let’s dump a little more estrogen into him”. I shipped him with Dabi, paired them off as two dudes gettin it on, and I was loyal to my m/m ships. I ignored the ones tagged “Trans Tomura Shigaraki” because my brain refused to compute it. But then… I ran out of male fics. Well ran dry. I was getting anxious. I needed my shigadabi fix and how to get it?
Well. Can’t be that bad for Tomura to have a pussy.
… huh. He’s cute.
Oh no.
And that’s how it happened.
Just like that, my worldview shifted. Proud to say I’m a lot more open to gender and sexuality, now. It’s sometimes hard to admit that I used to have such rigid views. It’s a bit embarrassing - but I was also 13. My Hero just gave me the push I needed to grow up.
I’ll wrap it up now.
If you’re a lesbian or if you’re aroace and you like reading yaoi - don’t feel bad. Don’t even question it. Fiction is fiction, we’re here for such a short time you might as well enjoy the things you consume, whatever that may be. It doesn’t make you any less of who you are. It might mean that you’re just a feminist. Or it might mean you have some issues with your gender you need to hash out. Or maybe it means you just like hot guys. Who cares?
Some people argue why lesbians and aroace people like yaoi so much. There are many different answers. I’m not really concerned with them, anymore, now that I’ve found my own. What does concern me is the amount of people who I assume are outside of fandom circles… never having heard of women (lesbian or not) enjoying yaoi or BL. Several reddit comments asked, “There are lesbians who like that stuff? I’ve never seen one.”
Lemme tell you, these people are missing something awesome in life. Yaoi written by women is like fucking crack.
Some of my favorite moments from the recently released volume of How Do We Relationship!
This might be my favorite volume yet because despite all the ups and downs they've been through, we get to see Miwa and Saeko have a really good, stable friendship. The cooking/snowball fight scene was so adorable 🥺 This "commentary track" seems to imply more heavily than others that they'll end up together, but for now I'm really enjoying the depiction of lesbian platonic intimacy.
The emotional consequences of Saeko's horrible middle school years were hard to read. Yuria taking care of her was really sweet. Yuria is a good girlfriend, though it's troubling that Saeko just wanted a head pat and didn't seem to talk to Yuria?? 😔 The trouble over their future in the currently serializing chapters was already brewing here. I think it's gonna come to a head soon, maybe as early as ch 105. I am worried for Saeko :(((
Saeko's mom coming to understand that her daughter will never be what she wanted, but rather will forge her own life for herself was I think a very real portrait of what good, supportive cishet parents of queer children have to struggle with. If only more came to the same conclusion...but I'm glad Saeko has her mom, and I'm glad this story has a parent who really wants to support their child.