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[[File:girlslove.jpg|link=Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo|frame|Since homosexual males are called [[Have a Gay Old Time|"gay,"]] homosexual females should be called "ecstatic."]]
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* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: While not as popular as the other two couple type, teacher/student pairings can often be found within the genre.
In Japan, this genre is popular enough to have found its own mainstream publishing niche. The term "Yuri" was coined by Itou Bungaku, founder and editor of the magazine "[[Bara]]zoku", a Japanese magazine for gay men, wherein he termed men the ''barazoku'', or "rose tribe", and women the ''yurizoku'', or "lily tribe". Occasionally, some fans use ''shoujo-ai'' ("girl's love") and "yuri" to indicate different degrees of explicitness. However, in Japan ''shoujo-ai'' refers to [[Lolicon|liking little girls]]. In Japan, yuri is also known as "Girls Love" ([[Gratuitous English|in English]]), or GL, a term created for paralellism to the male version, "[[Boys Love Genre|Boys' Love]]" or BL. However, neither term has particularly caught on like ''yaoi'' and ''Boys' Love'' did, so "yuri" remains used for everything ranging from works that focus on the cute and sweet side of lesbianism to full-on [[Hentai]] whose selling point is lesbians.
This is the genre; couple-specific examples should only be listed below if they're the focus of the series. For yuri-style couples (and unrequited crushes) in other genres, see [[Token Yuri Girls]]. Also see: [[Slash Fic]], [[Everyone Is Gay]], [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]], and [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]].
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See also our guide on how to [[So You Want To/Write a Yuri Manga|Write a Yuri Manga]].
▲=== (Sub-)Tropes frequently associated with the genre ===
* [[Bait and Switch Lesbians]]
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]
'''This is a East Asian-only genre. Please limit examples to East Asian and [[Animesque]] media only.'''
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== Prolific Creators ==
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** ''[[Otomeiro Stay Tune]]''
* Shizuru Hayashiya:
** ''[[Hayate
** ''[[Strawberry Shake Sweet]]'', a Girls' Love comedy manga about teen idols.
* Shoko Iwami:
** ''[[Kanamemo]]'' is an [[Anime]] and a [[Yonkoma]] [[Manga]] where the majority of the [[Fundamentally Female Cast|all-female main cast]] are [[Cast Full of Gay|romantically inclined towards females]].
** ''[[Flower Flower]]''. A [[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess]] arrives in a foreign land to marry into their royal family, but rejects her betrothed as soon as he enters the room [[
* [[Morinaga Milk|Milk Morinaga]]:
** ''[[Girl Friends]]'' is a modern classic of the genre with loads of [[Gayngst]] and [[Will They or Won't They?]] for its central pairing.
** ''[[Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry
** ''[[The Secret Recipe]]'' is of a more comedic bent.
* [[Akiko Morishima]]:
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* ''[[Oniisama e...|Oniisama E]]'' is one of the oldest and most influential yuri mangas.
* ''Oniyuri-san and Himeyuri-san'' is about a [[Student Council President]] [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|and her treasurer]] (who both happen to be school idols) in a secret romantic relationship. [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|The title]] [[Flower Motifs|says]] [[Hime Cut|it]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|all]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Poor Poor Lips]]'': A [[Gag Series]] [[Yonkoma]] with surprising depth about the lives of a rich, lesbian employer and her poor employee.
* ''[[Plica]]'' is a slice-of-life four-panel comic about adult lesbians (so it's not really ''girls''' love, but...)
* ''[[Prism (manga)|Prism]]''
* ''[[Riddle Story of Devil]]''
* ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'' is a yuri [[Subtext]] [[Mahjong]] anime that holds the record as the series with the most yuri themed [[Luminescent Blush|blushing]]. One interesting note is that the anime plays its Girls' Love up more than the manga.
* ''[[Sasameki Koto]]'' happily marries relationship angst with school life comedy.
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* ''[[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou]]'': A main plot element falls into this.
* ''[[Yuri Monogatari]]'' is not a single manga but an annual anthology of indie yuri works. Also notable for containing yuri manga-style comics produced all over the world (so it's not "manga" in the strictest sense of the word).
== Original Anime ==
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== Video Games ==
=== [[Eastern RPG]]s ===
* ''[[
=== Visual Novels ===
* ''[[Amaranto]]''
* ''[[Akai Ito]]'' is a Girls' Love [[Visual Novel]] with a heavy fetish for [[Lesbian Vampire|vampirism]] and also goes very deep into Japanese mythology.
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* ''[[Maiden Panic]]''
* ''Safizumu no Gensou'', one of the first Girls' Love [[Eroge]]s.
* ''[[Shojokyuu
* ''Solfege: Sweet Harmony''
* ''[[Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo]]'' (pictured above) is presently considered the definitive Girls' Love [[Eroge]] series and the series has had a [[Hentai]] [[OVA]] based on it released.
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* ''[[Yukkuri Panic Escalation]]''
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* The manga ''[[Claudine]]'', written by [[Oniisama e...]]'s author [[Riyoko Ikeda]], is often classified as Yuri Genre. However, [[Averted Trope|this is a mistake]]. The main character, Claudine de Montesse, is actually [[
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Anime Genres]]
[[Category:Love Tropes]]
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[[Category:Always Female]]
[[Category:Truth in Television]]
▲[[Category:Yuri Genre]]
[[Category:Index]]
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