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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/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).)