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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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== Prolific Creators ==
* Shuninta Amano:
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** ''[[Otomeiro Stay Tune]]''
* Shizuru Hayashiya:
** ''[[Hayate Cross× Blade]]'' plays the girls love up for comedy.
** ''[[Strawberry Shake Sweet]]'', a Girls' Love comedy manga about teen idols.
* Shoko Iwami:
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* ''[[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 ===
* ''[[Embric of Wulfhammers Castle|Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle]]'', a rare [[Eastern RPG]] example.
 
=== Visual Novels ===
 
== 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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* ''[[Yukkuri Panic Escalation]]''
 
== OtherAversions ==
* 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 [[Transsexualismtransgender]]: he searches for female love interests, yet identifies himself as male despite his female body. (And is referred as such by other characters: i.e, his [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] Rosemarie says that Claudine is "a true man, given a woman's body"). Therefore, it'd be technically incorrect to classify ''this'' particular manga as yuri; homosexuality and transsexualitytransgenderism are both LGBQT issues, but are very different.
 
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