Retro Yuri

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I'm pretty sure the light novels began in the 90s, so it's retro. It's surprising to see how the yuri scene has changed in the last seven years. I have actually met some yuri fans who don't know Marimite.

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Canon yuri and giant robots.

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>>2127119

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>>2120404
I think that's the one time I liked subtext that went nowhere and one of them married a guy, probably because the show was honest about it and it is an interesting situation.

The next Ikuhara heroine made a different decision, of course.

I remember being fooled into thinking You're Under Arrest was subtexty yuri because the OVAs were so gay. Even when the male love interests popped up, the series was still pretty gay.

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>>2127119
Even more canon in the manga precursors/versions.

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And speaking about ships.

Did Sailor Moon start the trend of magical girl anime being gay? Prior to it, most magical girl series focused on one girl and maybe a rival. Now they're all about magical girl teams and either have a lot of subtext or have a canon lesbian character somewhere.

I know Marimite was a major factor, if not the main factor, in yuri anime becoming a thing.

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>>2139750
Not sure if they were the first magical girl series to ever /u/ (with a happy ending for the canon couple, no less), but they do seem to be the first big/popular/successful (probably the key factor here) franchise to do so. They also seemed to help along the trend of larger girl-only teams, which automatically ups subtext.

>either have a lot of subtext or have a canon lesbian character somewhere.
It seems it's mostly back to subtext to me, though I have admittedly not been paying that close attention to the most recent spate of magical girl series. Honestly they should always have a bi/lez girl on the team, and the running joke could be figuring out which one it is.

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There's always the original Cream Lemon Escalation.

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This is pretty deep 1990s too I think (Drakuun by Manabe Johji).

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It was great twist when the seduced guard came back and continued to "cling" on the princess in the remaining 3 volumes.

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Hotest stuff was in volume 4 I think.

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They even used some half-assed censoring in the english release. Guess you can't show a snakegirl lick a horny princess in a christian manga.

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And last volume (5) is sadly completely untranslated.

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>>2139750
I've never watched it past the first episode, but I hear Majokko Megu-chan and her rival were subtext gay for each other all the way back in 1974.

Clamp ships it anyway.

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>>2139889

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Does this guy pass as retro already? He never changed since then.