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[[File:lucia-sumire-bait.jpg|link=Venus Versus Virus|frame|[[Not What It Looks Like]]]]
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In the eyes of fandom, a show's major selling point is that its principals are [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]... but oops, it was just a [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] after all! The viewers have been [[Ship Tease|Ship Teased]]; and now that the writers got their attention, they can write more comfortable (to them) relationships. The lesbian [[Subtext]] may [[Bait and Switch Credits|not even last beyond the opening credits]].
The is pretty common in [[Moe|Bishoujo fandom]], where the [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] develops for a number of unintentional factors. One could say that [[Girl
Tends to raise the hackles of a show's [[Yuri Fan|Yuri Fandom]], who tend to crop up more infrequently, but also makes them paranoid in the long run. Any male friend of one of the girls becomes the [[Sword of Damocles]]; a possible route of escape for the writers via [[Last
An ironic result of this is making a relationship explicit can result in enough fuel for viewers who oppose the [[Shipping]] to simply scoff that any evidence of the pairing is "just [[Fan Service]]." The fact that a great many shows avoid [[Unfortunate Implications|portraying relationships in significant detail muddies it further: so many other shows cop out at the last minute, so why should this one be different?]] The writers won't ever [[Hide Your Lesbians|admit anything anyways]].
Outside of canon this trope is invoked a lot especially in H-doujins due to a rather persistent tendency for [[Most Writers Are Male|male writers]] to be intimidated by the idea of girls who don't find them sexually attractive (though generally only mildly). This is the reason why a disturbingly large number of popular lesbian characters and characters who are popular in part because of their [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|near lesbian tendencies]] are depicted in huge amounts of heterosexual porn with a random [[Author Avatar|male insert]] or more and very frequently in the form of rape instead of [[Girl
Compare [[Faux Yay]]. Related to the [[Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* While the original ''[[Maria-sama ga Miteru]]'' novels are a bit more lenient in [[Subtext]], the anime only has one canonical pairing, derailed when one member ''went off to become a nun,'' and when two girls are about to kiss, the camera cuts away as if it were [[Sexy Discretion Shot|something much more]] [[Harmful to Minors]]. This is especially unusual, as ''[[Portmanteau Series Nickname|Marimite]]'' is pretty much defined by its [[Girls Love]] fandom.
* ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]: Tokyo 2040'' spent its first half building the [[Sempai-Kohai]] relationship -- and [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] -- between Priss and Linna. The final half of the series drops this subplot like a hot potato for a [[Last
** Ironically, it was the original ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' [[OAV]] that gave rise to the mantra among many early anime fans that "All women in anime are lesbians. Unless they're bisexual."
* ''[[Nana]]'' has, at its core, the interesting relationship between the two titular Nanas: [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|one a tough punk-rocker, the other a girly girl who likes frilly fashion]]. Disappointingly, most of the manga depicts the two girls' relationships with comparatively bland or annoying guys, to the point where the carefully set up romantic tension between them is all but thrown overboard--which isn't helped by the fact that one of them {{spoiler|gets knocked up.}}
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== Cross-Media ==
* In the TV ''[[
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== Video Games ==
* Since your typical [[hentai]] [[Eroge|game]] has one or two major male characters and boatloads of pretty girls, the marketing images often involve multiple female characters looking mighty friendly, even if there's not even a romantic friendship between them in-game. For that matter, several games play up a romantic friendship between two girls and teasingly suggest that one of them may be gay for the other, only to eventually drop that subject without so much as a girl/girl kiss ever being shown. Obviously some authors do not agree that [[Girl
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