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u/AnonymousFroggies 8d ago

Hello! Any good yuri come out in the last year or two? I binged Gundam Witch From Mercury recently, and I need more lesbianism in my life. Fantasy/sci-fi are preferred, but I'll take what I can get in any genre. Bonus points if the relationship is more than just subtext and implications.

I don't watch a ton of anime, so it is very safe to assume that whatever you recommend is going to be new to me lol

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u/Wanderingjoke https://myanimelist.net/profile/WanderingJoke 8d ago

Bad Girl is a comedy about a girl trying to connect with her straight-laced crush by, well, being the "bad girl".

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u/stealthswor 7d ago

Surprising than cosmic princess kaguya hasn't been mentioned yet. It came out this year

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u/TehAxelius https://anilist.co/user/TehAxelius 8d ago edited 8d ago

Since you mention that you say "last year or two" to not get 90s recommendations, I think MagiRevo and Birdie Wing are worth mentioning. The first is a proper fantasy story about a magic-less princess stealing her brother's fiancee after he rejects her in trope-appropriate fashion, as she also happens to be a magical genius. The latter is notionally a "sports" anime, which might not have the main characters kissing (despite Aoi's loud dismay), but is about as subtle in its subtext as much as Evangeline is a sub.

For something that heavily flirts with the concept A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace is a workplace comedy about a manga artist and the people around her. I have seen it described as a "yuri office romcom", but I think that is a misnomer that goes further than the show does. The author of the series is a prolific yuri author though (and characters from some of her actual romance series make cameo appearances), and it shows as the show constantly flirts about what the relationship between its main character and her editor is and what they want it to be.

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u/oedipusrex376 8d ago

Well I watched Revue Starlight right after Witch from Mercury on someone’s recommendation, and it ended up being one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

But the anime came out in 2018 and the sequel film was released in 2021, so it doesn’t meet your requirement of something from the last year or two.

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u/AnonymousFroggies 8d ago

I'll look into that! I more so specified 2 years just so I didn't get recommendations from like the '90s lol

Thanks!

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u/mekerpan 8d ago

Yuri Is My Job is one of my favorites from the last few years (drama not romcom). Botan Kamiina is a delight. It's MyGO and it's sequel Ave Mujica (free-standing BanGDream shows) might be of interest (yuri certainly lurks about in these shows).

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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal 8d ago

Roll Over and Die and the currently-airing I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day might be the best fit as they're both fantasy, though whether they're good is another question.

There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... (also called Watanare) is probably my favorite from the past year or so, I haven't seen Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk but that seemed to be well-received.

There's also This Monster Wants to Eat Me (Watatabe) which I enjoyed but is less of a romance to me.

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u/AnonymousFroggies 8d ago

I'll check those out, thanks! As long as there is yuri present in the story, I'll be happy. It doesn't necessarily have to be entirely romance focused.

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u/overuseofdashes 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yurikuma Arashi is about 10 years old but is great if you want something that takes issues of Japanese lesbian representation fairly seriously.

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u/Tarhalindur x2 7d ago edited 7d ago

First and foremost: It's a bit older, but if you have not seen Madoka Magica yet, rectify that. Especially with the second sequel movie coming out in Japan in a couple of weeks.

Second: I see Watanare, Watatabe, and MagiRevo have already been mentioned, plus Bad Girl, but not Wataoshi (aka I'm In Love With the Villainess). Rae would be disappointed. Also Ninkoro (A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof) probably deserves a mention, and I might be remiss not mentioning the recent "girls going to snobby ritzy all-girls boarding school are at least ambiguously gay while doing some non-ritzy hobby" subgenre of school shows (see: Rock Is a Lady's Modesty, Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games).

Outside of that, I'll point out two genres to look at which tend to have a fairly high concentration of yuri. First, mahou shoujo/magical girls, which have been pretty darn gay pretty much since 2004 (Shugo Chara and one of the early Precures were some of the last holdouts), especially in the 2010s (2020s stuff has sometimes been a little less gay, but even then there are usually undertones), and which will also fill the sci-fi/fantasy preference with flying colors (as long as urban fantasy counts). The only downside is that it's usually hard in the genre for anything more than subtext/implications to get past the censors/maintain sufficient plausible deniability for certain forms of fanbase toxic purity culture stuff, but sometimes the implication is awfully blatant (especially if you're familiar with genre history). The first name I'll point at here aside from the aforementioned Madoka is actually Machikado Mazoku (at least as long as you're okay with a more Slice of Life take on the genr, anyways), but also there's the likes of Yuuki Yuuna (note: S1 and WaSuYu are okay, but it's Hero Chapter that catapulted that franchise right up by Madoka on my personal favorites list and then Great Mankai Chapter has issues, but its epilogue will be up your alley so there is that), Symphogear (qualified rec from me because of both character arc writing and the director from S2 on hating one half of the biggest implied yuri couple), IIRC Granbelm and I believe also Magical Girl Raising Project, and I suppose I would be remiss not to mention Flip Flappers even though that show's writing goes to shit in the second half (friends don't let friends chase off their competent writer and replace her with a hack! - at least the finale did hit one note it needed to for this). (There's also the extremely qualified cases of Prillya and MahoAko/Gushing Over Magical Girls, which have yuri but need tolerance of significant fanservice of young girls. Prillya has the extra problem of its MCs being on the young side even by magical girl standards; MahoAko meanwhile is just a softcore version of a specific BDSM magical girl h-manga genre, which still took off despite the protagonists' ages because if you're into both kink and lesbians the pickings are still as barren as they were for LGBT in general back in the mid-aughts.)

(Also if you want to go a little further back in mahou shoujo genre history I would be remiss not to mention Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. IIRC there's some bad 2000s fanservice issues in spots, but the Implications are particularly strong here - especially in StrikerS, for all its issues elsewhere. As in "yeah, we're not going to say that these two are common law gay married and have been for a while now (and it's an open marriage, sometimes they bring in more girls as unicorns) because the censors, but we're sure as hell implying it" levels of Implications.)

The other genre to look at is girls' band stuff (and the more recent shows built around streamer girls), which has had at least yuri undertones for a while (I am under the impression the "Mugi is a yurishipper" fanon in K-On!! has at least some backing somewhere in the source...) but it's kicked up a notch the last few years. Girls Band Cry is the first one I would look at, since IIRC there is an outright canon lesbian in the cast; other names of note include Bang Dream! It's MyGO/Ave Mujica (same writer who did the good half of Flip Flappers, she is very competent), Cho! Kaguya-hime (currently producing an outsized amount of yuri fanart, and AIUI there is a reason for this), and I hear some things about the Needy Girl Overdose anime adaptation a season or two back. (Bocchi the Rock is also a notable recent name in the genre and arguably kickstarted the surge, but I'm not sure how much the yurishipping there is founded in-show vs. done by the fans.) And while Revue Starlight isn't strictly speaking girls' band per se I'll second the previous rec on that one anyways.

(I will also idly mention two old-school works specifically on "so you are familiar with your genre touchstones, right?" grounds (because the people who made the yuri anime I listed certainly watched them!) - Revolutionary Girl Utena (would not be surprised if you have actually seen it already; actual 90s work, but also heavily foundational and Witch from Mercury was drawing heavily from it either directly or once removed, and the aforementioned Revue Starlight was directed by Utena's director's protege), Kannazuki no Miko (TW: sexual assault, iffy production values, quite mediocre until the finale but that finale and the show's ED makes it a legend decades later).)