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7->''"Yuri is a blessed thing. The refined and subtle actions, the warmth, of a world where only girls reside...yet also the pain of interpersonal politics and selfish intrigue. And finally, those strong emotional bonds before which no hardship is an insurmountable obstacle. Verily, a finely-honed mental and spiritual realm for transcending the crude conceptions of the male mind!"''
8-->-- '''Hanadera Keisuke''', ''Yuri Danshi''
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10Yuri (百合)[[labelnote:Translation]]("Yuri" means "Lily" in Japanese, as in the [[FlowerMotifs flower]].)[[/labelnote]] refers to a JapaneseMedia {{genre}} about UsefulNotes/{{sapphi|sm}}c [[QueerRomance romance and sexuality]]. Yuri works traditionally focus either on romantic or sexual feelings, but increasingly have both. Western fans will sometimes use the term ''"shoujo-ai"'' to refer to romance-specific, less-explicit works, while using ''"yuri"'' to refer to more sexually explicit work. However, in Japan, ''"shoujo-ai"'' often refers to [[LoliconAndShotacon girl-focused pedophilia]], and yuri is also known as "Girls' Love" ([[GratuitousEnglish in English]]), or GL, a term created in common with the more popular [[DistaffCounterpart male version]], "[[YaoiGenre Boys' Love]]" or BL.
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12Yuri is a genre distinguished by many tropes, stereotypes, and specific plotlines or interactions. The term "yuri" is so strongly associated with those tropes and stereotypes that some Japanese {{yuri fan}}s use a different term, like "bian" (short for lesbian)[[note]]"lesbian" and its abbreviated version "les" are often used and seen as pejorative in Japanese culture[[/note]], "Onna x Onna" ("woman and woman" (the x is usually pronounced as "to", "and" in Japanese)), or "Onna-doushi" ("women together") for works which are actually by/for lesbian women. Yuri is commonly an idealized and unrealistic portrayal of sapphic relationships, like most romance, and is not representative of actual sapphic people, culture, community, and experiences. This is, in part, due to the genre's high fluff content.
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14In UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, yuri stories and portrayal depend a lot on the target audience demographic:
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16* Yuri aimed at girls ("{{shoujo}} yuri") is commonly hyperfeminine and "pure" but may feature some degree of gender-bending or cross-dressing, with the {{bifauxnen}} in a more traditionally male role. In either case, it's usually focused on stories of [[FeministFantasy female solidarity]], idealized femininity and gender transgression, with physical displays of affection rarely going beyond hugging and kissing.
17* Yuri aimed at adult women ("{{josei}} yuri") is usually less stereotyped and fairly realistic, like most fiction aimed at adults. Many works in the demographic are targeted at actual sapphic women, which is why this type is often called "yuri for lesbians".[[note]]As previously noted, some readers use a separate term for "yuri by/for lesbians" to distinguish it from the more common types.[[/note]]
18* Yuri aimed at men ("{{seinen}} yuri") tends to emphasize (or overemphasize) sweetness, femininity, girlishness, [[TropesOfInnocence innocence]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness purity]], and {{moe}} generally. This type often shows a very romanticized or idyllic view of female adolescence or childhood. Alternatively, there are very explicit erotic stories focusing on [[GirlOnGirlIsHot fetishized]] lewd portrayals of sapphic romance or sexuality. These works also often fall under the CuteGirlsDoingCuteThings category.
19* Yuri aimed at boys ("{{shonen}} yuri") tends to only exist as a secondary or tertiary genre under the main focus/es (see "background/subtext" yuri below). Often portrayals of sapphic romance is subsumed under sapphic sexuality in these works, often working the fetishized GirlOnGirlIsHot.
20* Yuri aimed at fans of the genre ("[[YuriFan niche]] yuri") is found in specialized magazines where all the stories are about sapphic romance or sexuality. The first magazine of this type was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Shimai Yuri Shimai]], which was followed by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Yuri_Hime Comic Yuri Hime]] and many others. These magazines try to cater to as wide an audience as possible, and publish both "pure" and erotic stories, with young and adult characters, and in all sorts of settings.
21* "Background" or "{{Subtext}}" yuri is a cross-demographic type of yuri that has been gaining a foothold in Japan. These works portray female protagonists (often {{Action Girl}}s) in lasting lesbian relationships, without actually being specifically ''about'' these relationships. Though this element has the same status that a RomanceArc in non-romantic fiction does, such works are classified as yuri in addition to whatever their primary genre is.
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23Due to the Japanese's love for [[YouCantFightFate tragic stories of doomed couples]], a disproportionately large amount of yuri works, especially older ones, tend to end in [[DownerEnding sadness]], [[BuryYourGays tragedy]], [[HideYourLesbians obscurity]], or [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians audience-attracting sham]]. This is slowly changing and more fictional couples are allowed to have happy, committed, and {{canon}} endings as time goes on.
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25When a yuri work was made has a large impact of exactly what tropes it uses. Older yuri of the [[TheEighties 80s]], [[TheNineties 90s]], and early [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]] tend to be more rigid in their adherence to standard tropes. Recent yuri works tend to break the traditional mold much more often as the genre expands and gains more mainstream acceptance.
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27The most common tropes you find in yuri, especially older yuri, are the Senpai/Kohai dynamic, TomboyAndGirlyGirl, and TeacherStudentRomance. All three of these tropes can be cast in a particular light to make them appear to mirror or emulate heterosexual couples (see the [[Analysis/YuriGenre Analysis page]]).
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29This entry is for the genre specifically. Works should be listed only if they are released as, [[WordOfGod described]] as, and/or feature yuri. Couple-specific examples should only be listed below if they're the focus of the series. See also: SlashFic and CastFullOfGay. Compare and contrast PseudoRomanticFriendship. The {{Spear Counterpart}}s of ''Yuri'' are ''{{Yaoi}}'', ''Shounen-Ai'', and {{Bara|Genre}}, which feature male-male romance and sexuality.
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32%% A friendly note to fellow tropers:
33%% Even though the word "Yuri" redirects here and happens to also be the name of many famous Russian and Soviet men, both real (Gagarin, Andropov, etc.) and fictional (that guy from Command & Conquer), this is not a disambiguation page for them!
34%% Please do not list off all the alternate meanings of "Yuri" down here unless they are actually related to the Japanese media genre.
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38!!Links and Resources
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40* Our guide on how to SoYouWantTo/WriteAYuriManga.
41* [[http://okazu.yuricon.com/2008/03/02/okazu-glossary-of-terms/ A short glossary of yuri terms]].
42* Rachel Thorn's [[http://web.archive.org/web/20160308070309/http://matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/jaws/index.html "What Japanese Girls Do With Manga, and Why" essay]].
43* Website/{{Wikipedia}}'s [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_(genre) "Yuri Genre" page]].
44* An academic essay that discusses the history and looks at some modern stories can be found [[http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/2010/Nagaike.html here]].
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46[[folder:Subtropes associated with the Yuri genre]]
47[[index]]
48* AloofDarkHairedGirl
49* BaitAndSwitchLesbians
50* {{Bifauxnen}}
51* {{Bishoujo}}
52* BuryYourGays
53* BustContrastDuo
54* ButchLesbian
55* CastFullOfGay
56* ClosetKey
57* ComingOfAgeQueerRomance
58* ComingOfAge
59* DiscountLesbians
60* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale
61* DownerEnding
62* ElaborateUniversityHigh
63* EvenTheGirlsWantHer
64* EveryoneIsBi
65* FeministFantasy
66* FloralThemeNaming
67* FlowerMotifs (generally white lilies, alternatively roses)
68* FlowersOfRomance (ditto)
69* {{Gayngst}}
70* GayRomanticPhase
71* HairContrastDuo
72* HideYourLesbians
73* HomoeroticSubtext
74* IfItsYouItsOkay
75* ImprobablyFemaleCast
76* IntertwinedFingers
77* JustFriends
78* LesbianVampire (in fact, given this trope, it may not come as a surprise that there's a whole vampire yuri subgenre)
79* LetsJustBeFriends
80* LGBTAwakening
81* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine
82* LipstickLesbian
83* LovelyAngels
84* MasculineFeminineGayCouple
85* MasterOfTheMixedMessage
86* {{Moe}}
87* OneHeadTaller
88* OneeSama
89* OneGenderRace
90* OneGenderSchool
91* PseudoRomanticFriendship
92* PsychoLesbian
93* QueerEstablishingMoment
94* SecretRelationship
95* SingleTargetSexuality
96* SituationalSexuality
97* SkinshipGrope
98* StockShoujoHeroine
99* {{Subtext}}
100* TeacherStudentRomance
101* TomboyAndGirlyGirl
102* UnequalPairing
103* UnresolvedSexualTension
104* WholesomeCrossdresser
105[[/index]]
106[[/folder]]
107----
108!!Creators and Examples
109!!!This genre is specific to Eastern Asia. East Asian and {{Animesque}} media '''ONLY'''.
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111[[foldercontrol]]
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113[[folder:Prolific Creators]]
114[[index]]
115* Creator/ShunintaAmano:
116** ''Manga/{{Ayame 14}}''
117** ''Manga/TheFeelingsWeAllMustEndure''
118** ''Manga/NotForSale''
119** ''Manga/{{Philosophia}}''
120** ''Manga/TheStructuralFormulaOfFirstLove''
121** ''Manga/SweetGuiltyLoveBites''
122** ''Manga/YukemuriSanctuary''
123[[/index]]
124* Eiki Eiki and Taishi Zaou are best known for their BoysLove mangas, so their rare yuri projects show strong influence by yaoi conventions:[[index]]
125** ''Manga/HaruNatsuAkiFuyu''
126** ''Manga/LoveGeneXX''
127* Creator/MiyabiFujieda:
128** ''Manga/AliceQuartet''
129** ''Manga/ChattingAtTheAmberTeahouse''
130** ''Manga/IonoTheFanatics''
131** ''Manga/TheMikosWordsAndTheWitchesIncantations''
132** ''Manga/OtomeiroStayTune''[[/index]]
133* Shizuru Hayashiya: [[index]]
134** ''Manga/HayateCrossBlade'' plays the girls love up for comedy.
135** ''Manga/StrawberryShakeSweet'', a Girls' Love comedy manga about teen idols.[[/index]]
136* Shoko Iwami: [[index]]
137** ''Manga/{{Kanamemo}}'' is an {{anime}} and a {{Yonkoma}} {{manga}} where the majority of the [[ImprobablyFemaleCast all-female main cast]] are [[CastFullOfGay romantically inclined towards females]].
138** ''Manga/FlowerFlower''. A princess arrives in a foreign land to marry into their royal family, but rejects her betrothed as soon as he enters the room [[CrossDresser because he's dressed like a woman]]. She instead goes for the other [[{{Bifauxnen}} alleged prince]]. [[CultureClash Issues come up]] and HilarityEnsues.
139* Creator/MilkMorinaga:
140** ''Manga/GirlFriends2006'' is a modern classic of the genre with loads of {{Gayngst}} and WillTheyOrWontThey for its central pairing.
141** ''Manga/KissesSighsAndCherryBlossomPink'' is a collection of stories about the romantic entanglements of the students at a OneGenderSchool.
142** ''Manga/TheSecretRecipe'' is of a more comedic bent.
143** ''Manga/SecretOfThePrincess'', about how a broken vase ends up creating a lesbian relationship.
144** ''Manga/HanaAndHinaAfterSchool'' features a short, cute brunette and a tall, lithe blonde who become co-workers (after school), classmates, and eventually girlfriends.
145* Creator/AkikoMorishima:
146** ''Manga/TheConditionsForParadise'', about a LongDistanceRelationship.
147** ''Manga/HanjukuJoshi'', an erotic {{manga}} about a TomboyAndGirlyGirl who explore their first real relationship together.[[/index]]
148** ''Manga/TwentyYearOldGirlXThirtyYearOldMaiden'', about an adult TeacherStudentRomance. %%redirect to creator page
149* Creator/GoNagai. While not known mainly for it, has proven himself partial to yuri.
150** ''Anime/CuteyHoney'' is often very heavy on LesYay. The ''Anime/ReCutieHoney'' [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]] having the highest amount of LesYay, [[JustFriends almost]] crossing over into the GL zone.
151** ''Manga/DevilmanLady'' has a lot of implied and overt yuri dynamics.
152* Creator/{{Natsuneko}}. Has only written one-shots so far (see full list on her page).
153* Hiyori Otsu:
154** ''Aqua Blue Cinema''
155** ''Clover''
156** ''Orange and Yellow''
157* Kaoru Sudoo. Disappeared from the industry for five years due to health problems (leaving ''OKG'' unfinished), before finally returning in 2016 with a new (very NSFW) series.
158** ''08.04 AM Daydream''[[index]]
159** ''Manga/OtomeKikanGretel'' is an {{ecchi}} series set in an all-girls WizardingSchool.[[/index]]
160* Creator/JinTakemiya started working on original yuri doujin in 2007 and eventually debuted in Yuri-Hime, winning their Division Prize for her one-shot "All My Love and Lies" (later included in the ''Love Flicker'' collection) in 2009. Writing primarily in the SliceOfLife genre, Takemiya is incredibly prolific, and her works have been featured in every issue of Yuri-Hime since her debut.
161** ''Manga/ChouchouNannan'' (lit. "Call and Reply", which is a Japanese idiom for light-hearted flirting) follows a FourGirlEnsemble with way too many hidden {{Love Triangle}}s between them.[[index]]
162** ''Manga/FragmentsOfLove'', Takemiya's biggest work to date, follows Mika, a confident and serious high school girl with a [[LikesOlderWomen preference for older women]], on her daily life and relationships. The tie-in ''Love & Piece'' (sic!) serves as an OriginStory for the main plot's not-quite-BetaCouple.[[/index]]
163** ''Game'' concerns Chiriko, who finds herself the target of the ForeignExchangeStudent Rebecca's affections, because she happens to look exactly like her favorite DatingSim character.
164** ''Manga/GirlishSweet'' is somewhat of a ConceptAlbum: it follows several mostly unrelated couples, but with a few pervasive motifs (the author refers to it as her "Red Seifuku Series", after the school uniforms most characters wear) and themes (various allusions to sweetness and sweet things).
165** ''Manga/IrrationalUs'' stars two {{Office Lad|y}}ies sharing a very emotionally unhealthy relationship.
166** ''[=KiLa KiLa=]'' follows Saya, a {{Fangirl}} of the IdolSinger Ria, who finds herself falling in love with the latter's [[ShrinkingViolet insecure]] twin sister Mari. This story has thematic overlaps with ''My Beloved'' -- another LoveTriangle involving two sisters vying for affections of the same girl.
167** ''Love Flicker'' was Takemiya's first collection of previously published one-shots.
168** ''Perfume of Love'' is another ConceptAlbum, united by the theme of scents and aromas.
169* Akihito Yoshitomi. Is well-known for his contributions to the genre, though he tends to take weird approaches:[[index]]
170** ''Manga/BlueDrop'', although the anime is much less explicit with its Girls' Love than the first and third manga of the series. The second manga ''Tenshi no Bokura'' moves away from Girls' Love, as the focus is on a heterosexual pair.
171** ''Sisterism'' is a GL manga about two childhood friends falling in love with each other's little sisters. [[/index]][[NoYay Who are both 12]]. Although it's hinted that they're actually attracted to each other and misinterpreted their feelings.
172** ''Two and Two'' is a slightly different take on a similar setup, with two schoolgirl roommates discovering their attraction to each other only after they independently start dating older women. Both of whom are childhood friends, so [[LoveDodecahedron it's complicated]]. Also, at least one pairing is into [[PropertyOfLove domination/submission play]].
173* Creator/MochiAuLait started as a Pixiv artist whose popularity skyrocketed when her works had been translated to English. Since then, she's gotten a few manga volumes printed. Her stories are known for featuring a cute and funny OddCouple, one that is often [[SiblingIncest sisters]]. Mochi's series and one-shots overlap often, indicating they're all in the [[TheVerse the same universe]].
174** ''Webcomic/KasumiAndAcchan'', her first longer-running series, features Kasumi and Akari "Acchan" and two schoolgirls who start in an ambiguous relationship. Are they [[PseudoRomanticFriendship romantic friends]] or are they something more? They sure are flirty!
175** ''Manga/MetMySisterOnADatingSite'' is her second long-running series. Adult sisters Ayumu and Sayo end up connecting on a dating website and begin their incestuous relationship in earnest. [[spoiler:The second volume, published late 2017, indicates they're going to end up HappilyMarried.]]
176** ''Manga/YuriSummerKagayaInn'' is a springboard series originating from an earlier one-shot ''Yuri Family'' about a family of five sisters that runs a {{ryokan|inn}}. The series chronicles not only the relationships of guests (so far two Office Ladies and a Actress/Manga couple) but the seemingly incestuous interactions between the sisters.
177** ''Webcomic/TwinSisters'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A {{twincest}} shorter series about schoolgirls Otoya and Asane.
178** ''Fell in Love With a Girl 8 Years Younger'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just what the title says]], a story about two co-workers with an age gap. Currently on hiatus.
179** ''Manga/{{Unfaithful}}'' is about a young woman who cheats on her abusive girlfriend with her female coworker.
180** ''Video Rental Shop'' shows a female customer enamored with a female employee of a video rental shop. Currently on hiatus.
181** ''Manga/SorryButImNotIntoYuri'' deals with Itsumi Toudou trying to use a love potion to get her teacher to fall in love with her, only for her female classmates to drink it instead.
182** Note: Mochi has many many more works in the forms of one and two-shot type stories. For those, see her [[Creator/MochiAuLait creator page]].
183* Kodama Naoko:
184** ''Manga/NTRNetsuzouTrap'' is about two childhood friends who both have boyfriends yet can't keep their hands off of each other.
185** ''Manga/IMarriedMyBestFriendToShutMyParentsUp'' is a short series about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a young woman who decides to fake a marriage with her best friend so that her parents will stop trying to set her up with successful men]], and eventually falls in love with her.
186** ''Manga/DaysOfLoveAtSeagullVilla'' is a story about a woman who goes into self imposed exile after her fiancé cheats on her with her best friend where she has a chance encounter with a woman who becomes an integral part of her life.
187* Creator/NomnomNami is an indie developer of {{Animesque}} yuri games.
188** ''VisualNovel/ContractDemon'', about a female angel who summons and falls in love with a demoness.
189** ''VideoGame/{{KAIMA}}'', a short RPG in which pink demon girl Searina meets Illi, the lover of Princess Ezel who was killed by her brother Prince Vido, and teams up with her to take revenge on Vido and stop him from destroying the world, and possibly becoming Illi's SecondLove...
190** ''VideoGame/LonelyWolfTreat'' is a series of short, SliceOfLife RPG Maker games in which the titular Treat, outcast from the rabbit village and facing thier FantasticRacism, bonds with Mochi, the only rabbit to treat her well. Moxie, a fox who also receives prejudice from the rabbits, joins in and grows closer to Treat and Mochi herself.
191** ''VisualNovel/HerTearsWereMyLight'' involves romance between female anthropomorphisms of time and space [[spoiler: plus nothingness]].
192** ''VisualNovel/RomanceDetective'' is a detective-story styled version, in which the titular detective teams up with a cop to uncover the mystery behind a [[LoveIsInTheAir mind-altering aphrodisiac]].
193[[/index]]
194[[/folder]]
195
196[[folder:Anime adapted from Original Manga]]
197[[index]]
198* ''Manga/AkumaNoRiddle'' tells the story of Class Black, a group of high-school girls who are actually assassins competing to take the life of a classmate, Haru Ichinose, in exchange for having their deepest desire granted. However, one of the girls, Tokaku Azuma, finds herself curiously drawn to Haru, and ends up becoming her protector instead.
199* ''[[Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo Aria the Scarlet Ammo Double A]]'' is an action girl take on the genre.
200* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'' tells the eventual love story of high school freshman Yuu, who believes that she can't fall in love, and her senpai Touko, who loves her but doesn't want her love in return.
201* ''Manga/{{Citrus}}'' is a drama yuri manga of a lover/sister relationship between two [[NotBloodSiblings step sisters]], one's a gyaru adapting to her new conservative all-girls school looking for a het partner at first, the other an ice queen YamatoNadeshiko with daddy issues.
202* ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'' intertwines a Girls' Love romance with a HumongousMecha + MagicalGirl plot. After [[DemotedToExtra demoting]] Chikane and Himeko to extras in ''Anime/ShatteredAngels'', Kaishaku once again gave them the main role in ''Manga/ZettaiShoujoSeiikiAmnesian'', throwing an AncientConspiracy into the pot.
203* ''Manga/{{Fragtime}}'' is a [[YuriGenre yuri]] love story between Moritani Misuzu, a girl who has the ability to freeze time for three minutes a day, and Murakami Haruka, a popular girl who is mysteriously immune to her power.
204* ''Manga/GushingOverMagicalGirls'' is about a girl who admires Magical Girls more than anything, but after being duped into becoming a DarkMagicalGirl she winds up awakening to her sadistic sexual desires.
205* ''Manga/HappySugarLife'' is a highly dark and highly twisted take on the genre, involving a {{Yandere}} kidnapping a child under the pretense of love.
206* ''Manga/InugamisanToNekoyamasan'', a comedy manga with a lot of AnimalThemeNaming.
207* ''Manga/KaseSan'' is a fluffy lesbian manga with a slightly more realistic edge about a TomboyAndGirlyGirl becoming friends and then, slowly, awkwardly, lovers.
208* ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' has a LoveTriangle involving three lesbians with the added complication that the main character [[GenderBender used to be a boy]]. Its place in the genre is sometimes questioned, both because of its DiscountLesbians premise and because it ran in the {{Shonen}} magazine ''Dengeki Daioh''.
209* ''Manga/KonohanaKitan'': About fox girls working at a supernatural inn. It began life in the magazine ''Yuri Hime S'', and even after being relaunched in a different magazine, the romantic attraction between female characters is still clear. The most prominent pairings are Satsuki/Yuzu and Natsume/Ren.
210* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Office-worker Miss Kobayashi saves a dragon by removing a Holy Sword from it. As such, the dragon falls in love with the human woman and becomes her maid.
211* ''Manga/MiyukiChanInWonderland'', basically a LesYay {{Fanservice}} fest.
212* Franchise/SailorMoon: While not conceived as a yuri manga, has been claimed as such by yuri fans due to its long lasting impact and influence on the yuri genre. Particularly with Haruka and Michiru who are in love.
213* ''Manga/SakuraTrick'': Two girls try to keep their friendship unique and special. By kissing each other. [[OnceAnEpisode A lot.]]
214* ''Anime/StrangeLove'' is a ''weird'' mix of this and SexComedy staring a sexy redheaded schoolgirl who develops a crush on another female student after breaking up with her asshole rock star boyfriend.
215* ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'' is a Girls' Love series that combines SliceOfLife and a LoveDodecahedron.
216* ''Tachibanakan Triangle'' is a comedy series about an ordinary girl stuck in a love triangle.
217* ''Manga/UzaMaidOurMaidIsWayTooAnnoying'' concerns an ex-JSDF veteran named Tsubame Kamoi who becomes the maid of a half-Russian girl named Misha Takanashi. Given how Kamoi has a hard Lolita complex, she tries to become Misha's pal despite Misha's refusal.
218* ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' is an action manga that's heavy on the subtext about a teenage girl who begins to work with an ElegantGothicLolita sporting girl who fights monsters named Viruses.
219* ''Manga/WatatenAnAngelFlewDownToMe'': College student Miyako Hoshino becomes smitten with her younger sister's best friend went she brought her home. Spends her time making snacks for her in the hopes of having her dress up in some cosplay outfits she had made.
220* ''Manga/WhisperMeALoveSong'' about a girl falling in love with both music and her senpai.
221* ''Manga/WhisperedWords'' happily marries relationship angst with school life comedy.
222* ''Manga/YuruYuri'': a zany SliceOfLife series focusing on a group of middle school girls and their adventures. While the ShipTease between the characters is made much more explicit than the typical SchoolgirlSeries, most of the girls' crushes on each other [[AllLoveIsUnrequited are one-sided]], which like everything else is usually PlayedForLaughs.
223[[/index]]
224[[/folder]]
225
226[[folder:Original Manga]]
227[[index]]
228* ''Manga/{{Aido}}''
229* ''Manga/AfterHours'' by Yuhta Nishio is an adorable romance between the shy Emi, who has no direction in life, and the confident and impulsive DJ Kei.
230* ''Manga/BananaNoNana'' is another "background yuri" action manga, starring two [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend totally-not-lovers]] on a wacky fantasy adventure.
231* ''Manga/BloomerBlueManiacs'', a oneshot comedy yuri work.
232* ''Manga/BountifulBoobs'', a story of one girl who wants to have a friend, but that friend will be with her only if she's able to grope her.
233* ''Manga/BreastsAreMyFavoriteThingsInTheWorld'': Archery club member Ichihara Chiaki is a huge breasts fetishist who is obsessed with the well-endowed Harumi Hana.
234* ''Manga/CantDefyTheLonelyGirl'': A class representative is forced to do the requests of a delinquent girl so she continued to come to school in return for the teacher sending off a letter of recommendation to any school she wanted.
235* ''Manga/CheerfulAmnesia'': A story about a girl losing her memories of dating her lover for three years.
236* ''Manga/ChimidoroIceCream'': It's the touching love story of an uptight class rep and a half-zombie girl who needs the doki doki of kissing in order to keep her heart beating and stave off total zombie-ficiation.
237* ''Manga/{{Chirality}}'' is a {{seinen}} Girls' Love manga with a {{postapocalyptic}} soft-ScienceFiction setting.
238* ''Manga/ContractSisters''
239* ''Manga/ConvenientSemiFriend'': It's a love story about a flirty girl who loves making out with other girls and her scared-of-strangers roommate who wants to make out with her instead so she doesn't keep bringing strange girls to their dorm room.
240* ''Manga/CreoTheCrimsonCrises'', a supernatural {{shoujo}}esque Girls' Love manga with a slight cynical edge.
241* ''Manga/DandelionAmongLilies'' is a short manga about two women dealing with insecurities in their relationship.
242* ''Manga/DearBrother'' is one of the oldest and most influential yuri manga, about a middle-class girl who goes to a prestigious [[OneGenderSchool all-girls academy]], gets accepted to the school's elite Sorority, and has to deal with all the the drama that comes with it--including falling for one of the school's three [[SchoolIdol most popular girls]]. Many other yuri series that came after ''Dear Brother'' have been influenced by it to some degree, particularly those that take place at prestigious girls' schools.
243* ''Manga/DearNOMAN'' is a supernatural series about a girl who gets recruited for her ability to see ghosts and becomes the master of a noman named Bazu.
244* ''Manga/DoubleHouse'' is a yuri manga starring a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} hostess.
245* ''Manga/DoughnutsUnderACrescentMoon'' is about an OfficeLady named Hinako whose obsession with trying to be "normal" leads her to break down after her repeated failures to have a romantic connection with men. She's found by Satou, an older co-worker who shares doughnuts with her and ends up becoming her confidant.
246* ''Manga/AnEasyIntroductionToLoveTriangles'' (JP: ''Goukaku no Tame no! Yasashii Sankaku Kankei Nyuumon'') by "Canno": A twelve-chapter seinen series about three teenage girls who slowly develop into a throuple.
247* ''Manga/EbisuSanAndHoteiSan'', a WillTheyOrWontThey story about two [[OfficeLady office ladies]], one of whom is a {{workaholic}} perfectionist and the other a jealous {{tsundere}}.
248* ''Manga/TheEngagementOfTheDisgracedWitchAndTheCrossDressingPrincess'' is a story of a noble girl, Evris Bradley, who has control over dark magic. She is shunned by her family and feared by the commoners. She is deemed to be a 'witch', and her engagement to Prince Edward is annulled. Before her life gets any worse, she catches the eye of a Cross Dressing Princess, Ciel Alphard.
249* ''Manga/EvenThoughWereAdults'': A josei manga about a married woman who falls for another woman she meets.
250* ''Manga/FailedPrincesses'' features a GyaruGirl bonding with a plain-looking {{Otaku}}.
251* ''Manga/TheFedUpOfficeLadyWantsToServeTheGreatVillainess'': An {{Isekai}} manga about overworked OfficeLady named Natori Midori being summoned into the world of her favorite mobile gacha game as the familiar of the game's villainess Lapis Tenebrae.
252* ''Manga/FirstLoveSisters'', a {{shojo}} GL manga fairly typical to the genre but still a quality work in its own right.
253* ''The Flower and The Star'' is about the LoveHateRelationship between two table tennis players.
254* ''Manga/FuzoroinoRenri'' is a RotatingProtagonist manga about OppositesAttract.
255* ''Manga/{{Gamma}}'', an action-adventure manga that takes inspiration from all things SuperHero, from be it Western superhero comics, through {{Sentai}}, to {{Magical Girl}}s. The latter ones in particular are the focus of the manga's yuri subplots.
256* ''Manga/GirlFriends2006'', in which the [[GenkiGirl outgoing]] Akko and the [[ShrinkingViolet introverted]] Mari become friends. ''Good'' friends. Really ''really'' good friends.
257* ''Manga/TheGirlIWantIsSoHandsome'' is about a cute if somewhat klutzy girl and the female basketball player she falls in love with.
258* ''Manga/GirlXGirlXBoy'', a {{manga}} dealing with a {{love triangle}} between two girls and a boy.
259* ''Manga/GokujouDrops'' is for people who don't think Girls' Love uses {{Seme}}[=/=]{{Uke}} enough. Mixed with UnwantedHarem.
260* ''Manga/{{Gokujo}}'', that adds comedy and ecchi to the mix.
261* '' Manga/GoodbyeMyRoseGarden'' is a PeriodPiece set in UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain about Hanako, a Japanese woman hired as a maid by Alice, an English noblewoman who offers to introduce her to her writing idol- in exchange for an unusual request.
262* ''Manga/GunburedXSisters'': NaughtyNuns with [[ChurchMilitant lots of guns]] slay vampires. The series is mainly a GothicPunk action comedy whose major characters happen to all be lesbian women.
263* ''Manga/{{Gunjo}}'' is a dark and twisted take on the genre.
264* ''Manga/TheGuySheWasInterestedInWasntAGuyAtAll'' is about a gyaru girl developing a crush on a record store clerk and eventually learning that the clerk is her female classmate.
265* ''Manga/HanaAndHinaAfterSchool'' features Hana, a small, cute girl who likes cute, frilly, girly things. And also features Hina, a tall, lithe blonde who likes small, cute things. Unusually for a Morinaga Milk story, Hina is gay and knows it from the beginning. Unfortunately, she thinks it makes her weird, and a great deal of {{Gayngst}} results before she manages to get everything sorted (with Hana's help, of course).
266* ''Manga/HanaNiArashi'' is a SliceOfLife featuring two friends who are secretly dating.
267* ''Manga/HaruAndMidori'' is officially stated as being a yuri manga, although it's unclear whether Midori was in love with her old friend Tsugumi, whether she will eventually fall for Tsugumi's daughter, or whether she'll end up with a third party.
268* ''Manga/HelloMelancholic'': Asano Minato finds herself impromptuly joining a band of girls and began to fall for the leader Hibiki-senpai.
269* ''Manga/{{Hen}}'': The SequelSeries revolves around a {{Maneater}} named Chizuru Yoshida who [[LadykillerInLove falls head-over-heels for a female classmate]] and bumbles her way through trying to figure out how to act towards someone she has actual feelings for.
270* ''Manga/HerElderSisterHasACrushOnHerButSheDoesntMind'': Shima Sakura has a rather incestuous crush towards her younger sister Mai Sakura.
271* ''Manga/HinosanNoBaka'': Class President Koguma is made to perform odd tasks for her classmate Hino to keep her from skipping class.
272* ''Manga/HoneyCrush'' is a comedic take on the genre mixed with the supernatural.
273[[/index]]
274* ''Hoshikawa Ginza District 4'', is a TeacherStudentRomance yuri work.
275[[index]]
276* ''Manga/HowDoWeRelationship'' is about two girls in their freshman year of college exploring what it means to be in a relationship.
277* ''Manga/HuskyAndMedley'' chronicles the budding romance between the eponymous pair of high school students who attend an all girls school. BasedOnATrueStory, the real couple as of 2019 are celebrating a decade together.
278* ''Manga/ICantBelieveISleptWithYou'' An unemployed woman makes a deal with her landlady to pay back the rent she owes, resulting in the two gradually falling in love.
279* ''Manga/IDontKnowWhichOneIsLove'' After being rejected by her crush, a young woman enters college to get a girlfriend... and promptly finds that most of her new acquaintances are possible candidates.
280* ''Manga/IMarriedMyFemaleFriend'' is about two long-time female friends who agree to get married if they're still single five years after their Coming of Age Day ceremony. They make good on that promise and must work on making that relationship work.
281* ''Manga/IsMyHobbyWeird'' is a SliceOfLife mini-series about Maiko Fujiyama, who spends her morning commute [[CovertPervert staring up other girls' skirts]] to admire their buttocks. Which is how she meets Risa Tsuzuki, her ideal match[[note]]Maiko has a fetish for girls with firm, plump buttocks and she notes that the shape and muscle tone of Risa's is exactly the kind that turns her on[[/note]]. The story follows their sexual escapades and their blossoming relationship, using a mixture of comedy and light drama.
282* ''Manga/JunsuiAdolescence'', a {{manga}} that deals mainly with a relationship between a student and [[TeacherStudentRomance her school nurse]].
283[[/index]]
284[[index]]
285* ''Manga/KakeochiGirl'' is a {{josei}} {{manga}} about a woman meeting her first love again only to find out that she is currently pregnant and is planning to get married. A very {{gayngst}} story.
286[[/index]]
287[[index]]
288* ''[[Manga/KillingMe Killing Me!]]'' is a manga about Miyoko and Saki, two ordinary-seeming high school girls who are actually a vampire and a vampire hunter who are dead-set on killing each other... or rather, Saki is trying to kill Miyoko, while Miyoko just seems rather amused by the whole thing, as well as increasingly interested in the easily-flustered Saki.
289* ''Manga/KimochiNoKatachi'', a {{manga}} that mixes self-discovery, young love, and {{gayngst}} with much attention paid to realism.
290* ''Manga/KissAndWhiteLilyForMyDearestGirl'', a light-hearted series following several couples in an all-girl high school, with a {{Tsundere}} model student and a BrilliantButLazy loner as the main one. The author’s next series, ''Yasashii Sankaku Kankei Nyuumon'' ("An Easy Introduction to Love Triangles"), also a yuri series, focuses on a [[{{Polyamory}} polyamorous]] relationship between three teenage girls.
291* ''Manga/KoroshiyaYametai'' is about a female assassin who falls in love with a priest's daughter.
292* ''Manga/KuroganePukapukaTai'' is a love comedy set on a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era UsefulNotes/{{Imperial Japan}}ese warship.
293* ''Manga/KyouKaraYonshimai'' is about a trans woman named Kashiwa. Partway through the manga she falls for a woman and they start dating.
294* ''Manga/TheLastUniform''
295* ''Manga/Lemonade2014''
296* ''Manga/LonelyWolfLonelySheep'' is a short story about two girls who happen to have the same name and some serious self-esteem issues.
297* ''Manga/LoveMyLife'' is a gentle SliceOfLife story that delves into the gay culture of Japan as it follows the life of a young lesbian who had just come out of the closet.
298* ''Manga/ALoveLetterForTheMarchingPuppy'' focuses on a relationship between two girls at a military school, set in an AlternateHistory where women are allowed to join the military.
299[[/index]]
300* ''Manga/MakaMaka2003'' is a yuri {{hentai}} {{manga}} about two college aged girls.
301[[index]]
302* ''Manga/MangaNoTsukurikata''.
303* ''Manga/AMangaWithTooManyPremises'' parodies other yuri manga by trying to combine as many story premises as possible into one four-page manga.
304* ''Manga/MayasFuneralProcession'' is another one from the same era as ''Manga/ShiroiHeyaNoFutari''.
305* ''Manga/MissSunflower'' is about a high school girl falling in love with a young woman who owns a bookstore.
306* ''Manga/MrRightTurnedOutToBeAYoungerWoman'' is about a 33-year-old woman falling in love with a coworker who's ten years her junior.
307* ''Manga/{{Murcielago}}'''s protagonist tries to romance just about every girl she meets. Despite having a girlfriend.
308* ''Webcomic/MyBestFriendWhoILoveFellCompletelyInLoveWithMyVTuberSelf'': Teruko is in love with her best friend Sukoya, who is obsessed with a tiger-themed VirtualYouTuber named Doujima Taiga, who (unbeknownst to Sukoya) is Teruko in disguise. Teruko wants to tell Sukoya the truth (both that she's Taiga and that she's in love), but she's too much of an embarrassed coward.
309* ''Manga/MyLesbianExperienceWithLoneliness'''s autobiographical protagonist gains insight into her mental illness, resolving much of her issues through discovering her sexual identity.
310* ''Manga/MyYoungerSenpai'' is about a young woman with an unrequited love for her senpai traveling back in time 10 years, when she and her senpai were still in high school.
311* ''Manga/NamelessAsterism'' is about three girls who are the best of friends, but one harbors a crush on another.
312* ''Notes from the Garden of Lilies'' is about a shy, lone wolf otaku who finds herself being the object of interest by her classmate, the SchoolIdol, when said classmate finds a notebook containing story ideas for her next manga.
313* ''Manga/{{Octave}}'', a fairly realistic and mature Girls' Love manga.
314* ''Manga/Oddman11'', a lesbian version of ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' with {{Cute Monster Girl}}s.
315* ''Manga/OhanaHoloholo'', another more realistic manga about two adult bisexual women.
316[[/index]]
317* ''Manga/OkikusanWaIchatsukitai'' a young, beautiful, powerful exorcist, Hijiri Ryouyou, is haunted by the evil spirit Okiku whose sole objective is apparently to flirt with her.
318* ''Oniyuri-san and Himeyuri-san'' is about a StudentCouncilPresident [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl and her treasurer]] (who both happen to be school idols) in a secret romantic relationship.
319[[index]]
320* ''Manga/OtomeNoTeikoku'': Also known as ''Virgin's Empire'', a SliceOfLife series about school girls and their relationships, with more than a little nudity. Created by the author of the CultClassic ''Manga/MakaMaka2003''.
321* ''Manga/OurYuriStartedWithMeGettingRejectedInADream'' Tsukushi has a dream of her ChildhoodFriend, Hinoka, rejecting her LoveConfession in a dream.
322* ''Manga/{{Pieta}}'': A {{josei}} {{manga}} that contains a dark psychologic yuri story.
323* ''Manga/PoorPoorLips'': A GagSeries YonKoma with surprising depth about the lives of a rich, lesbian employer and her poor employee.
324* ''Manga/{{Plica}}'' is a slice-of-life four-panel comic about adult lesbians (so it's not really ''girls''' love, but...)
325* ''Manga/PrincessCandle'' is a historical fiction manga about a knight, protector, and eventual lover of the princess who tries to rescue her from an evil lord who wants to use her to make himself king.
326* ''Manga/ThePrincessOfSylph'' is a fantasy manga about a princess who recently lost her father and brother forcing her to take the throne in their place. However, she is forced to grieve on her own until she meets with a nun who provides her with support.
327* ''Manga/{{Prism}}'' is a manga about a girl who fell in love with a [[{{bifauxnen}} 'boy']] in elementary only for them to be reunited years later with the revelation 'he' is really a very pretty girl. Written by the same mangaka as ''Manga/{{Stretch}}''.
328* ''Rock It, Girl!!'' is a comedy drama series about an all-girl rock band. [[TheEeyore Kaname]] is busking on her guitar when she is heckled on the street by a strange girl who very rudely tells her [[SirSwearsALot her singing voice is shit]]. She's later recruited by a [[BunnyEarsLawyer music producer]] who bluntly tells her that while she has potential as a guitarist, [[ButtMonkey her singing voice on the other hand is dreadful]], and that she'll need to integrate a band if she doesn't want to squander her talent. Kaname meets the rest of the band, bassist [[TheStoic Katsura]], drummer [[GranolaGirl Haruko]], and the lead vocalist is a teenage prodigy called [[InsufferableGenius Seira]], who just so happens to be the very same girl who heckled Kaname before.
329* ''Manga/ARoomForTwo'' is about two girls with completely opposite personalities becoming roommoates and maybe more.
330* ''Manga/SakiShinohayuDawnOfAge'', an ongoing 2013 prequel spinoff of ''Manga/{{Saki}}''
331* ''Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'', a [[{{shojo}} shojo manga]] that follows the relationship between a schoolgirl who wishes to rely on no one but herself, and a self-proclaimed mermaid who must find true friendship in one month's time or she will fade away forever.
332* ''Manga/{{Semelparous}}'': An {{ecchi}} series about warriors who battle {{kaiju}} invading from an AlternateUniverse, with the talented rookie protagonist forming a BattleCouple with her veteran mentor.
333* ''Manga/SheBecomesATree'' is about a [[PlantPerson woman with tree parts]] who falls in love with her female coworker.
334* ''Manga/SheLovesToCookAndSheLovesToEat''
335* ''Manga/ShinozakisanKiWoOtaShikaNi'' About a girl who is in the closet... about being an otaku. And sure, she may have some weird fantasies about her friend Kaede, but that's just because she's so cute it's a crime that she should be an otaku. So Akina must save Kaede from that terrible lifestyle... and maybe get a special thank you when they're alone.
336[[/index]]
337* ''Shiro''
338[[index]]
339* ''Manga/ShiroiHeyaNoFutari'' is possibly ''the'' first girls' love manga.
340* ''Manga/{{SHWD}}'' is about two women who work at ''SHWD,'' a grizzled group of office workers-meet-special forces that fight the Dynamis, the organic anti-human weapons that still lurk the streets of Japan after a recent war.
341* ''Manga/SocialAnxietyVsYuri''
342* ''Manga/SorryButImNotIntoYuri'' is about a high school girl who tries to use a LovePotion to get her teacher to fall for her, only to accidentally end up attracting numerous girls to her instead.
343* ''Manga/StrawberryFieldsOnceAgain'': A time travel romance. A high school girl named Akira believes 3D romance isn’t for her only to encounter a girl named Pure who claims to have traveled from several years in the future and is her ‘Amore’.
344* ''Manga/StrayLittleDevil''
345* ''Manga/{{Stretch}}'' is a SliceOfLife series about two women living together. After the first few chapters, it becomes clear that their feelings for each other run deep. It's never explicitly stated if they're lovers, but that may only be a matter of time.
346* ''Manga/TheSummerYouWereThere'': Two high school girls agree to enter into a temporary pretend romance for the summer.
347* ''Manga/SuperwomenInLove'': The evil general Honey Trap falls in love with her enemy [[HenshinHero Rapid Rabbit]] and ultimately ends up switching sides to fight alongside Rabbit against her former comrades.
348* ''Manga/SwapSwap'' is about two schoolgirls with opposite personalities that can switch bodies by kissing.
349* ''Manga/SweetMagicSyndrome''
350* ''Manga/{{Tadokorosan}}'' features an OppositesAttract romance between a shy, introverted manga artist and a popular SchoolIdol.
351* ''Manga/ATimidWomanLongingForHerDeliveryGirl'' is about an introverted freelancer falling in love with the young woman who falls in love with the woman who delivers her packages.
352* ''Manga/TetragrammatonLabyrinth'' where the main couple are [[DemonSlaying demon slayers]] in 20th century UsefulNotes/{{London}}.
353* ''Manga/TokimekiMononokeJogakkou'': A highly {{ecchi}} series.
354* ''Tsubame Tip-Off!'' is a good example of a TomboyAndGirlyGirl romance brewing: the protagonist, Tsubame, is an insecure HugeSchoolgirl with low self-esteem and a penchant for messing things up by accident. However, one day she stumbles upon Ibis, a short dark-skinned blonde who's the star basketball player of Tsubame's school. LoveAtFirstSight (a onesided one... for now) occurs, and Tsubame accidentally accepts Ibis' offer to join the basketball club. From there on, Tsubame and Ibis form an inseparable couple (even if not yet an [[OfficialCouple official]] one). Also has tropes of GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga and is a case of ShownTheirWork: the author is a fan of the NBA and frequent comparisons to successful players are made. Newcomers to the sport need not be worried as explanations for just about every complex play are given out very generously.
355* ''Manga/UnderOneRoof''
356* ''Manga/UnicornAndTheLonesomeGirl'' is about a high school girl accidentally summoning a unicorn girl who was obsessed with virgins.
357* ''Manga/TheUselessSenpaiAndTheTalentedKouhai'' is about an inept third-year basketball player bonding with a talented first-year.
358* ''Manga/VampeerzMyPeerVampires'' is a love story between a human girl and a vampire.
359* ''Manga/WifeAndWife'' is the {{slice of life}} story of a young lesbian couple who have recently moved in together, serialized in ''[[Magazine/YuriHime Yuri Hime S]]''.
360* ''Manga/AWitchsLoveAtTheEndOfTheWorld'' is about two girls who attend a school for witches. Alice Keating, a prodigy and descendent of the school's founder, is assigned to be the tutor of Mari Muguruma, a strange girl who seems more human than witch. The two grow closer and learn about the secrets of the world of witches.
361* ''Manga/{{Yamanko}}'' is about a {{Tsundere}} cat girl and an androgynous girl with self-esteem issues, don't worry it's a comedy.
362* ''Manga/YouAreTotallyInLoveWithMeArentYou'': A schoolgirl's friend is in love with her, but she denies it by claiming that it was "normal."
363* ''Manga/YumeMitainaHoshiMitaina''
364* ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'': The main character ends up working at a café themed after an all-girls boarding school, and ends up becoming interested in her coworker.
365* ''Manga/YurikasCampusLife'': Yurika finds herself stuck in a whirlwind of lesbian romance and sex at her college campus. Why "stuck" is because while almost every female is really into Girls Love, Yurika herself is ''[[IncompatibleOrientation straight]]'' and desperately wants a boyfriend. But unfortunately for her, Yurika's economic situation and bizarre condition of [[OnlyHasSameSexAdmirers attracting only the same sex]] while simultaneously turning off guys make this dream impossible.
366* ''Manga/YuriotaNiYuriWaGohattoDesu'': A wallflower named Fuyu attends a prestigious, ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs''-type girls' academy to observe the beautiful yuri, but when a gaudy ''gyaru'' threatens everything she holds dear, Fuyu offers herself up as a distraction to preserve the sanctity of girls' love -- only to find herself being drawn into a romance with the gyaru instead.
367* ''Manga/YuriMoyou'' is a manga about four lesbian sisters and their love lives.
368* ''Yuzumori-san'' is a laid back yet slightly fidgety tale about the daily lives of a grade schooler and her high school friend.
369[[/index]]
370[[/folder]]
371
372[[folder:Original Anime]]
373[[index]]
374* ''Anime/BattleAthletes'', with the manga being more upfront with its Girls Love than the two anime series.
375* ''Anime/CandyBoy'' is a SliceOfLife series revolving around the relationship between [[{{Twincest}} fraternal twin sisters]].
376* ''Anime/{{ICE|2007}}'' depicts a {{dystopia}} in which all men have become extinct. A member of a paramilitary organization bonds with a daughter of a powerful family, as their respective factions [[EvilVersusEvil battle each other for control]] and the future of the human race.
377* ''Anime/{{Iczer}}'' is a darker {{horror}} variant, in which the titular warrior Iczer-1 teams up with a schoolgirl to thwart an [[AmazonBrigade all-female]] AlienInvasion.
378[[/index]]
379* ''Anime/KoihimeMusou''. Although it started off as a VN with few yuri elements, the anime adaptation exaggerated the latter and [[AdaptationDisplacement became famous for it]].
380[[index]]
381* ''Anime/{{Kuttsukiboshi}}'': A drama {{ecchi}} [[OriginalVideoAnimation two-episode-OVA]] about a schoolgirl with [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]], who has a crush on her new SecretKeeper friend.
382* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'', breaks series tradition by not only being the first mainline ''Gundam'' series with a female lead pilot but by also giving her a female love interest and co-protagonist. Notably written by Ichiro Okouchi who wrote the light novel adaptation of ''Utena.''
383* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is possibly the most famous Girls' Love series, even though the series itself [[HideYourLesbians never goes beyond hints]] between the main two characters.
384** ''Anime/AdolescenceOfUtena'' is less ambiguous than the series it was based on...[[MindScrew in that specific respect]].
385* ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' is set InAWorld where everyone younger than 17 is female.
386* ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi2'', a HaremAnime with a female harem lead and a small entirely female harem.
387* ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' is an ActionGirl series with subtext so loud, it might as well be ''text'', with no less than 3 official lesbian couples among the heroes. [[spoiler:Hibiki / Miku, Kirika / Shirabe, and Tsubasa / Kanade. Tsubasa / Maria is less obvious, and Chris is shipped by fans with everyone, but probably isn't interested at all due to her backstory.]]
388* ''Anime/ValkyrieDriveMermaid'' is a "beautiful girl sexy battle action" anime from the mind of [[VideoGame/SenranKagura Kenichiro Takaki]] and directed by Hiraku Kaneko. Girls infected with the Armed Virus are quarantined on a remote island. These girls are either Extars, who transform into weapons at the peak of their sexual arousal, and Liberators, who can bring out an Extar's hidden power.
389* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito''. Originally a VisualNovel, but it was the anime that brought the yuri subplot to the forefront. The VN has since suffered AdaptationDisplacement.
390* ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'', an anime by Creator/KunihikoIkuhara about bears who have risen up to eat humans and two bears who infiltrate as schoolgirls and are very keen to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything eat girls]]. Has ''very'' strong yuri elements - the first minutes of the show involve the protagonist declaring her love for her girlfriend, and the OP is filled with images of happy girls hugging while naked.
391
392[[/index]]
393[[/folder]]
394
395[[folder:Original Literature]]
396[[index]]
397* ''Literature/AdachiAndShimamura'' is a LightNovel series by Hitoma Iruma (author of ''Literature/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl'' and ''[[Manga/BloomIntoYou Regarding Saeki Sayaka]]'') about two girls who meet each other while both skipping class and form a friendship that slowly becomes something more.
398* ''Literature/TheExecutionerAndHerWayOfLife'' is a deconstruction of the [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Isekai]] genre. When beings are summoned from the world known as 'Japan', they are seen as potential threats to the world rather than saviors. The executioner known as Menou is tasked with executing the otherworlder Akari, but she is unable to due to Akari's power. This forces Menou to go on a journey with Akari which results in feelings between the two to develop over time.
399* ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'': Through a twist of circumstance, Misaki ends up becoming the deputy chairwoman (and fellow student)'s seraph (read: maid), and over time they grow closer to one another, developing a strong, possibly romantic relationship. There is also one other yuri couple in the story. J-Novel Club tags the series as yuri, as well.
400* ''Literature/ImInLoveWithTheVillainess'' is a web novel/light novel about a woman who finds herself reincarnated as the protagonist of an OtomeGame. As the title implies, she only has eyes for one of the main female rivals instead of the intended three princes.
401* ''Literature/LastAndFirstIdol'' is a MediaNotes/SeiunAward-winning "existential widescreen yuri baroque proletariat hard sci-fi idol story" by Gengen Kusano that was later grouped with two of his other Yuri works with sci-fi elements (''Evolution Girls'' and ''Dark Seiyuu'') and published as a collection. ''Last And First Idol'' is notable in that it is the first debut work to win the Seiun Award in 42 years and in that it started out as a ''Anime/LoveLive'' fanfiction.
402* ''Literature/ALilyBloomsInAnotherWorld'' is a "[[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnated in another world]]" story about Miyako, who is reincarnated as the protagonist of her favorite ''otome'' game, ''Drop Fantasia.'' But rather than pursue the original LoveInterest of the game, her heart is drawn to her favorite character, Fuuka Hamilton-- the original villainess of the game! When Miyako confesses her love to Fuuka and proposes that they run away together, Fuuka agrees, on one condition: Miyako must make her say “I’m happy” in 14 days.
403* ''Living As I Please As A Loli Demon King'' has the TrappedInAnotherWorld and {{Reincarnation}} crossed with GenderBender variety. Ryusei Homura is a healthy and very horny teen boy whose entire high-school class is summoned to another world without any kind of informed consent, is murdered by a class-mate, reincarnates into a female Demon King, and then has no issue sexing up any pretty lady she can get consent from, even if she's a bit [[SexualExtortion less than honest with her approach.]]
404* ''Literature/TheMagicalRevolutionOfTheReincarnatedPrincess'' is the story of two young women who will change the world forever with magiology that blends magic and technology together.
405* ''Literature/MakingProgressOnYuriBeforeTheDeadline'' story of a young girl who willingly outed herself as a lesbian to her friends only to end up as a social pariah, and she runs away. Thanks to her cousin, she ends up the live in assistant to a writer. Their relationship develops from there.
406* ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'' is often considered a yuri series, though it's more about {{Pseudo Romantic Friendship}}s between students in an all-girls high school. While none of the relationships go past {{subtext}} (with one exception in the backstory), it is nevertheless iconic of the yuri genre and has had a lot of influence on other yuri works.
407* ''Literature/OthersidePicnic'' is the story of two young women exploring the mysterious "Otherside," a realm where strange phenomenon and anomalies based around Japanese {{Creepypasta}} and urban legends manifest. While the series is primarily classified as a SciFiHorror, a major element is the developing relationship between Toriko and Sorawo, [[spoiler: one that explicitly becomes romantic by the third volume.]]
408* ''Literature/PleaseBullyMeMissVillainess'' is a combination of this genre and the RebornAsVillainessStory, where the "original heroine" falls in love with the "villainess" while the latter is UnknowinglyInLove for a long time.
409* ''Literature/RollOverAndDie'' is a dark fantasy novel taking place in a video game-like world. The protagonist, Flum, is sold into slavery due to having all zeroes in her stats, only to eventually discover she has the innate ability to use cursed weapons safely. Along with a fellow freed slave named Milkit, Flum works to reclaim her life while also stumbling upon a dark conspiracy.
410* ''[[Literature/{{Sexiled|2018}} Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!]]'' is the story of Tanya Artemiciov being kicked out of her adventuring party because her leader thinks she needs to start thinking about marrying and having children. While "venting" (casting Explosion spells in the nearby wasteland while cussing her head off) she accidentally awakens Laplace, the legendary Sorceress, and the two decide to team up so Tanya can have her revenge... all while Laplace and Tanya grow closer.
411* ''Literature/SideBySideDreamers'' is about Saya, a girl with an unusually severe case of insomnia, and Hitsuji, a girl with the ability to put anyone to sleep. In pursuing Hitsuji, Saya is brought into the fold of the Sleepwalkers, people who enter the realm of dreams to defend people from parasitic monsters know as the Suiju. Saya joins the fight, all the while getting closer to Hitsuji.
412* ''Literature/StrawberryPanic'' is set at a cluster of three [[OneGenderSchool all-girls' schools]]; naturally, the all-female cast only ever show romantic interest in other girls.
413* ''Literature/TaShiZhujiao'' stars Yu Ru Bing, a girl from the real world, being [[MediaTransmigration dragged into the world of a novel]] so that she can fix the BUG - the main antagonist Tang Han Qiu who won't follow the script. Yu Ru Bing instead joins Tang Han Qiu's company, becomes her biggest fan, and her best friend. Later on this friendship turns to (mutual) love.
414* ''Literature/TheresNoFreakingWayIllBeYourLoverUnless'' is a story about a socially awkward girl who tries to befriend the most popular girl in school to improve her social life. Much to her surprise, said popular girl ends up falling in love with her. Since she doesn’t want to be anything but friends, they start a match where each will try to convince the other that the relationship they envision – best friends or lovers – is the best for them.
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421* ''VideoGame/AfterIMetThatCatgirlMyQuestlistGotTooLong'': The focal protagonist is a Charm Witch that explicitly finds beauty in other women, and all of the game's routes focus on her romancing different female party members.
422* ''VideoGame/BlackCloset'', another Catholic school full of girls sighing over each other.
423* ''VideoGame/CorruptionOfLaetitia'': The main party members, who are all women, have RelationshipValues with Celeste that can be increased through story and optional events. If one of these values is high enough at the end of the game, the epilogue will show Celeste getting married to that character.
424* ''VideoGame/EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle'', a rare EasternRPG example.
425* ''VideoGame/HandInHand'' is a horror RPG Maker game where two schoolgirls, [[OddCouple one a delinquent and the other the orderly student council president]], become trapped in their school at night with mysterious entities who might be the spirits of the three kokeshi dolls kept in the school.
426* ''VideoGame/LuxarenAllure'', {{Freeware}} UsefulNotes/RPGMaker EasternRPG. It revolves around the relationship between TheChosenOne and her love interest, a student who became corrupted by cursed armor and turned to evil. The heroine's squire also forms a BetaCouple with a Naga.
427* ''VideoGame/NightsOfAzure'', an ActionRPG from Creator/GustCorporation revolving around the relationship between a Half-Demon Knight and the Saint she loves and protects.
428** Its sequel, ''VideoGame/NightsOfAzure2BrideOfTheNewMoon'', continues the trend with another Half-Demon Knight protecting her ChildhoodFriend from being sacrificed. This time, the game veers close to being a part of the HaremGenre with the Knight in question garnering the attention of other females.
429* ''VideoGame/OmegaLabyrinthLife'': All of the main characters are girls interested in other girls.
430* ''VideoGame/RabiRibi'' is a {{Metroidvania}} featuring many of the telltale tropes of a yuri story. The game has a nearly all-female cast, many of whom show romantic attraction towards Erina, the main character.
431* ''VideoGame/SakuraDungeon'' is an HGame example revolving around a [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]] dungeon master and a heroic female knight who team up to reclaim the dungeon from the new dungeon lord and stop her plans.
432* ''VideoGame/SamuraiMaiden'' is a game about a modern Japanese high schooler, Tsumugi, getting transported into a fantasy version of Japan during its Warring States Era, specifically during the Honno-ji incident and the assasination of Nobunaga Oda, but instead of waging war against the living, Tsumugi has to fight supernatural beings and prevent the resurrection of the Demon Lord. Yuri makes up a ''gigantic'' part of the core gameplay and most of the character interactions, with Tsumugi having increasingly intimate and affectionate exchanges with her friends Iyo, Hagane, and Komimi, up to explicit kisses and declarations of love.
433* ''VideoGame/ValkyrieDriveBhikkhuni'' is a Hack & Slash game part of the Valkyrie Drive Project from Producers Kenichiro Takaki and Hiraku Kaneko. Aside from the ImprobablyFemaleCast, yuri abounds with the female characters kissing to unlock their powers, among other incredibly close, intimate, and unabashed lesbian interactions.
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439* ''VisualNovel/AkaiIto'' is a Girls' Love VisualNovel with a heavy fetish for [[LesbianVampire vampirism]] and also goes very deep into Japanese mythology.
440** ''VisualNovel/AoiShiro'': The semi-sequel to ''Akai Ito'' which takes place in the same universe.
441* ''VisualNovel/ALittleLilyPrincess'' is a retelling of ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' with a yuri twist.
442* ''VisualNovel/{{Amaranto}}'' is also all about vampires (and schoolgirl lesbians).
443* ''VisualNovel/AtlachNacha''
444* ''VisualNovel/TheCurseOfKudan'' is a mystery visual novel about a high school girl attempting to discover the truth behind several urban legends while developing feelings for her cooking instructor or the president of her school's occult research club.
445* ''VisualNovel/EverMaiden'' is a SciFi visual novel depicting the lives of young girls in a remote institute created to save the remnants of humanity, using ThePowerOfCreation.
446* ''VisualNovel/TheExpressionAmrilato'' tells the story of a girl trapped in another world where the language spoken is based on UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage, and her growing relationship with a girl living in this new world.
447* ''VisualNovel/Flowers2014'' is a modern visual novel series with a classic, ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs''-style aesthetic, albeit with more overtly lesbian characters, and some light MysteryFiction elements.
448* ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'' is a light-hearted, SliceOfLife yuri visual novel based around a ghost lesbian couple recruiting a girl who can see them into helping bring together a number of other potential lesbian couples at their school. Unlike most yuri visual novels, this one feels much more aimed towards women. The art and character design style is more realistic and resembles fashion art more than {{Moe}}, and the game doesn't shy away from labeling the relationships as homosexual and dealing with issues like subtle homophobia.
449* ''VisualNovel/LadyInMystery'' is a Korean visual novel where a cross-dressing detective finds herself catching the eyes of four ladies during her quest to clear her family's name.
450* ''VisualNovel/LimitPanic''
451* ''VisualNovel/LoveBakudan'' tells the story of Haruka, a woman who ends up inheriting a bookstore specializing in erotica. She has six love interests that she can potentially hook up with.
452* ''VisualNovel/LoveIsStrange'' is a fangame of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' set in a LighterAndSofter AlternateUniverse wherein the protagonist of the original game must choose, between four of the original game's female characters, her partner for a photography contest.
453* ''VisualNovel/MaidenPanic''
454* ''VisualNovel/{{Mizuchi}}'' tells the story of a village girl who can either fall in love with an alluring shapeshifting snake or a friendly female monk. It's inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_White_Snake the legend of the White Snake]].
455* ''VisualNovel/NeNoKamiTheTwoPrincessKnightsOfKyoto'' is a mix of Yuri with UrbanFantasy, SliceOfLife and ConspiracyThriller that mostly focuses on the story of two lesbian couples.
456* ''VisualNovel/NightCascades'' is about two adult women who dated in college before a painful breakup now forced to work together to solve a mystery (and rekindle their romance).
457* ''VisualNovel/NurseLoveAddiction'' is about a 19-year-old girl entering nursing school who, depending on the player's choices, can develop a relationships with one of her fellow students [[TeacherStudentRomance or her teacher]].
458* ''VisualNovel/NurseLoveSyndrome'' is about a 21-year-old nurse at Yurigahama Hospital. Her romance options include two fellow nurses, three patients at the hospital, and the head nurse of internal medicines.
459* ''VisualNovel/OshiRabuWaifusOverHusbandos'' is about a female office worker obsessed with a "Husbando" from a mobile phone game, and a lucky fashionista that wants to become her real-life "Waifu".
460* ''VisualNovel/PerfectGold''
461* ''VisualNovel/RedLilies''
462* ''VisualNovel/SaveTheWorld'' is about an English-Indian woman who gets involved in an invasion led by a femme-presenting alien, with her main options being to either fight for humanity or to bond with the alien.
463* ''VisualNovel/SeaBed'' is a yuri themed mystery drama, with heavy psychological aspects. Unlike many other Yuri Visual Novels, it has a clear LGBTQ audience in mind, with its realism, mental health themes, and subdued character designs standing out.
464* ''VisualNovel/SisterlyBlissDontLetMomFindOut''
465* ''Solfege: Sweet Harmony''
466* ''Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo'' (''A Kiss for the Petals'') is presently considered the definitive Girls' Love {{Eroge}} series. It has had a {{hentai}} {{OVA}} based on it released.
467* ''VisualNovel/StarlightVega''
468* ''VisualNovel/StrawberryVinegar'' is about a slowly evolving crush between two 9 year girls, one of which is a demon.
469** A lot of Creator/EbiHime's works have elements of yuri. ''Asphyxia'' and ''Once On A Windswept Night'' are female-only cast VN's that have yuri elements, and ''Asphyxia'' even shares visual designers with ''VisualNovel/StrawberryVinegar''.
470* Creator/StudioElan basically focuses on love between women:
471** ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods''
472** ''VisualNovel/HighwayBlossoms''
473** ''VisualNovel/NationalParkGirls'' is unique as it doesn't feature any romance (besides BelligerentSexualTension) between the lead couple [[spoiler:until Episode 5.]]
474** ''VisualNovel/PleaseBeHappy''
475** ''VisualNovel/{{Twofold}}'' (published under their Bellhouse wing).
476* ''VisualNovel/ASummersEndHongKong1986'' is a RomanceGame between two young women of different backgrounds in UsefulNotes/HongKong during TheEighties. {{Animesque}} The game developers cite several anime of the 80s as artistic and aesthetic influences.
477* ''VisualNovel/{{Synergia}}'' is a {{Cyberpunk}} novel about a police officer falling in love with her new gynoid.
478* ''VisualNovel/YumeutsutsuReMaster'' is about a 21 years-old girl who is contacted by a video-game company in order to be engaged. She accepts in order find her sister, who works there, and to reconcile with her.
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484* ''Literature/StellarRangerDarkStar'' has the main romance and love triangle in the story fall between three {{Magical Girl}}s.
485* ''Webcomic/ChildhoodFriendYuri'' A oneshot Platform/{{Pixiv}} online manga about a pair of childhood friends reuniting by chance at college and how their friendship blossomed into love.
486* ''Webcomic/TheirStory'', an original online yuri manhua by Tan Jiu about a {{tomboy}} who falls head-over-heels for a girl at a neighboring high school
487* ''Webcomic/CrossHeart'', an [[OELManga original Spanish/English-language online manga]] by Ana-Christina Sanchez, about teenage girl named Haru who falls for the popular but aloof Kotomi. She soon learns Kotomi has [[DarkAndTroubledPast quite a troubled past]].
488* ''Webcomic/FlutteringFeelings'', an original Korean manhwa by Ssamba, is a SliceOfLife story about two Business University students, the average slightly immature Kim No-Rae and the beautifully captivating Baek Seol-A.
489* ''Webcomic/LilyLove'', from Thailand by Ratana Satis, follows the life of Donut, a college girl who doesn't believe in soulmates. A chance meeting with her new neighbor, Mew, led to friendship and grows into something much more.
490* ''Webcomic/Pulse2016'' is a Thai comic that's also from Ratana Satis, which is about a heart surgeon experiencing true love for the first time with a heart disease patient.
491* ''World Canvas'', by Godley Malabanan, is about Sera, who was born with the [[MagicalEye power to see the little pieces of soul people leave in their art]]. She takes an interest on an artist, [[BrokenBird Rhiannon]], upon finding out her power [[NoSell doesn't work on her art]]. Notable for being the first commercially published GL comic in [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Tagalog]].
492* ''[[Webcomic/MaganAndDanai Magan&Danai]]'', an original Chinese webcomic by ermuzibu, is a comedic SliceOfLife series about a {{tsundere}} woman and her girlfriend.
493* Webcomic/MoonlightGarden, It is a historical Korean webcomic about the love triangle between three girls written by Kang Unnie.
494* ''Literature/SantiagoNights'', an original English language light novel, about Lily Oda, a young werewolf mob enforcer and her human mate, Chelsea Heartfield.
495* ''Literature/TheseDays'', by goodboy64, is an original English web serial, focusing on Akiyama Lilly, who obtains super powers after her best friend, Haruko Rea, confesses to her. Things violently escalate from there.
496* ''Literature/HandsHeldInTheSnow'' is an English-language QueerRomance WebSerialNovel about two young women who meet, bond over books, and fall in love in a wintery fantasy city.
497* ''VisualNovel/LoveIsStrange'' a FanRemake of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' which jettisons [[SugarBowl all of the angst]] and makes it a full-on DatingSim between Max and the girl of her choice.
498* The Webcomic ''Webcomic/TheSecretsOfTheAfterlife'' defines itself as "yuri". Taking place in an all-girls environment, this story follows Anya and June, two teenage girls living together.
499* ''Webcomic/BelovedL'' is a Chinese webcomic about a thirty-four year old eye doctor who has a one-night stand that eventually turns into something more. Much to her horror, her partner turns out to actually be [[Really17YearsOld sixteen]].
500* ''Webcomic/WhatDoesTheFoxSay'' is a Korean webcomic about a love triangle involving three female co-workers.
501* ''Webcomic/MageAndDemonQueen'', an English fantasy webcomic by Godley Malabanan set in an RPGMechanicsVerse. It follows the love-struck female mage, Malori who, unlike other adventurers that seek to take the head of Demon Queen Vel, wishes to take her hand instead.
502* ''Webcomic/ILoveAmy'' is a webtoon written and illustrated by Unni
503* ''Webcomic/DokiDokiLiteratureGirls'' is a fan comic based on the psychological horror visual novel ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub''. In the story, the girls are the [[OfficialCouple Official Couples]].
504* ''Literature/FemaleGeneralAndEldestPrincess'' is a HistoricalFiction Chinese Novel, originally published as a WebSerialNovel; it stars a cross-dressing Chinese solider, Lin Wanyue rising through the ranks of the Chinese military during the Tang Dynasty, whose aim is to get {{Revenge}} on the Hun's who slaughter her family. It focuses on the blossoming relationship between her and ruthless Imperial Princess, Xian, as they navigate Chinese court politics together. It had been adapted into a radio-drama, as well as a Chinese {{Manhua}}.
505* The fanfiction series ''Fanfic/TokimekiPokeLiveAndTwinbee'' lives and breathes this trope, at least in the SliceOfLife styled Main Stories due to the fact that pretty much all of the girls in both the [[Anime/LoveLiveNijigasakiHighSchoolIdolClub Nijigasaki]] and [[OriginalGeneration Hinagiku]] sagas with two exceptions ([[spoiler:[[VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival Coco Miyashita]] and [[Anime/PokemonThePowerOfUs Margo]]]]) are all lesbian.
506* ''Webcomic/KarinDou4koma'' is about lesbian sorceresses and {{youkai}}.
507* ''Series/YuriOrAnother'' is about a college student reuniting with her childhood friend and finding she's developed an obsessive crush on her.
508* ''Webcomic/ShoujoMangaProtagonistXRivalSan'' is about a girl attempting to get together with a guy while her supposed romantic rival for his attention actualy pursues ''her''.
509* ''Webcomic/WinterBeforeSpring:'' A high school student is betrayed by the friend she had fallen for, and subject to a campaign of bullying; until a strong, cool transfer student blows into her life... and perhaps her heart.
510* ''Webcomic/WishYouWereGone'': A Korean Manhwa about two women who meet in a less then ideal situation when Guk-hwa confronts her boyfriend and his mistress Jang-Mi, but instead of hating each other Guk-hwa and Jang-Mi are instantly attracted to one another.
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