C0S1M4

who's the science now, bitch?

[yuri-is-my-drug]

Best couple @^@/ just forget about sungji, she doesn’t exist. xD

[lesbibean]

Still in my feels

[anurablue]

Sumin and Seju.Their relationship was the purest when they were young. Too bad it turned out so wicked in the long run. First day of  the saphicmonth challenge by @sketchyneeks

I’ll be working on this challenge at my own pace, so, even if I don’t upload a new piece every day, I’ll still finish the whole 31 days, so be patient and wait for more sapphic couples. Also, I will be drawing different couples every time so, expect lots of different fandoms and drawing styles~~

[lesbibean]

excuse me while I die over these soft aesthetics

[sapphicbump]

Bleach Gals

When rewatching this show I noticed how canon those two are hhhhhhhhhh

[kisugay]

they’re so wlw it hurts good

[star-snail]

🐈‍⬛ 🐝 💕

[nozya-6]

[randomribcage]

Homuraaa

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Tiffany: The True Story of an Angel

[oniontaker]

This was one of the most requested reposts. Our main admin was able to find a working version of this from another person’s reblog. Here is the true story of an angel that has walked unnoticed among us.

These are the sketches of an artist’s experiences, on real-life happenings while living in Seoul. This has been up for years but has only recently come into international prominence after being highlighted on national television by Mnet WIDE.

This is the true story of his encounter with the trainee “Stephanie Hwang”, before she became Tiffany of Girls’ Generation.

Okumaya devam et

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Ultimate Yuri Anime List (ver. 1.0)

I will try to update it when I find something worth mentioning.

Very Yuri:

Pretty much self explanatory - shows that either shove gay in your face or make it impossible to claim it isn’t gay.

Adachi and Shimamura (Adachi to Shimamura)

It’s coming later this year (October 2020 if I’m not mistaken), so you gonna have to wait for it a bit. I decided to include it anyway, cause I want more people to know about it ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Sweet Blue Flowers (Aoi Hana)

I’m not a big fan of it (be it anime or manga), but many people liked it, so give it a shot.

Bloom Into You (Yagate Kimi Ni Naru)

(*￣3￣)╭  ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ

Blue Drop

This thing… oh, Gods, this thing… It’s overall a good anime, but you’re not gonna like the ending. 

Citrus

Don’t overthink this. Just go with the flow. Wish it had more seasons, tho, cause manga gets way better later. There’s still hope, I guess.

Flip Flappers

Amazing show, but be wary of this one episode that will scare the living hell out of you. 

Fragtime

The movie came out this year, I think. Personally I liked manga better. 

Destiny of the Shrine Maiden  (Kannazuki no Miko)

It’s considered classic among your fans, but being honest with you I goddamn hated it. That one guy getting in the way was infuriating. 

Kase-san and Morning Glories (Asagao to Kase-san)

Why suffer with Annoying Dude Getting In The Way Of OTP, when you can watch Kase-san instead? It’s everything you need from yuri anime. It’s fluffy, warm and just *chef’s kiss* (ᵔᴥᵔ)

Liz and the Blue Bird (Liz to Aoi Tori)

I love this movie. I’m in love with it’s visuals, music, story, everything. Would recommend having tissue box somewhere near.

Maria+Holic

You shouldn’t watch this unless you’re thick-skinned asshole who’s really hard to offend (like me), cause you will definitely not enjoy this. It’s this coarse satire that should be watched without doing much thinking. Has some great OP/ED songs.  

Miss Kobayashi Dragon Maid (Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon)

This would be awesome IF ONLY some plot points didn’t exist. You should give it a try, cause main couple has really great domestic lesbians theme going on, BUT there’re some problematic things. So just lets pretend that some things in this show never happened. Yeah.

Netsuzou Trap -NTR- 

Seen the show, read manga and with every second watched and every page red I kept asking myself why the fuck am I doing this to myself. It’s like “everything wrong with yuri in anime/manga” in one title. 

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena (Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Adolescence Mokushiroku)

Will turn your brain into pudding when you try to figure out wtf is going on. And where those cars come from. And why is there a car wash… But unlike it’s predecessor (show Utena) it doesn’t fuck around and straight up gives you The Gay.  

Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne (Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi)

Gore. Long episodes - 45min each. Dark. Still have to finish this, so I can’t tell you more for now.

Sakura Trick

They kiss a lot. A Lot.

Whispered Words (Sasameki Koto)

It’s fun to watch, but sadly ends right before the story really kicks in. Manga is better, but it’s still worth to watch, preferably before reading manga.

Izetta: The Last Witch (Shuumatsu no Izetta)

Very gay gals flying on huge guns.  

Strawberry Panic!

It’s a classic. It’s this bunch of overly dramatic lesbians locked together in a catholic school. If you grew up on telenovelas like me, you gonna love it. 

Love To-LIE-Angle (Tachibanakan Triangle)

Episodes that last about 3 min and make it nearly impossible to see anything. But it’s very ecchi. And very gay. There’s also a manga.

Yuri Kuma Arashi

Some people hate it, some people love it. I’m the latter. It’s very abstract, but I really enjoyed it. You gonna like it if you liked Utena. 

YuruYuri

（╯°□°）╯TOSHINO KYOKO!!!! First 2 seasons are comedic gold, then it’s less funny since other studio has taken over, but it’s still funny show to watch when you have a bad day. 

Schrodinger Yuri:

Couples/characters who are kinda vague about being gay, but there’s high chance they are (or are confirmed elsewhere). 

El Cazador de la Bruja

taco,taco, taco-su oiishi taco-su iketeru taco-su a Ami-igo ta-co-su ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ  Aside from that goddamn song that will imprint itself on your brain for eternity, this show has one of the healthiest yuri couple in whole anime world. 

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die (Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu)

Silly show with dramatic lesbian screaming about her love for a girl from Idol group. Because of some plot point I’m not really sure if it’s the romantic kind of love, however.

Konohana Kitan 

This is one of my favorite shows out there. There’s a lot of myths and folklore stories and I, for one, love it.  

Maria Watches over Us (Maria-sama ga Miteru)

Listen, this is classic. It has all that all-girls catholic school where apparently everyone is gay for their senpais. No kisses or anything (some lewd h*nd h*lding at most), but it was 2004 and some of you weren’t ever born yet. Gays had it harder back then. Still it’s borderline impossible not to see them as a very lesbian lesbians.

Mikagura School Suite (Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku)

This show is.. fine. It’s okay. You gonna watch it and forget about it the same day.

Ms. vampire who lives in my neighborhood (Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san)

Cute show about a school girl and vampire girl living together. it’s just fun to watch.

New Game!

This thing is borderline “will queerbait you into oblivion”, but there’re some things that I find difficult to dismiss as just platonic gals beint absolutely not in love pals. Also I wish there was some all-women game dev company, I’d sell my soul to work there.  

Princess Principal

Steampunk lesbians! YEAH!

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Magical Girl: Prepare to Cry Edition. This is a must-watch, but prepare yourself for existential crisis and crying your eyeballs out. Homura is the best! 

Revolutionary Girl Utena (Shoujo Kakumei Utena)

Less mindfucky than Adolescence Mokushiroku, but at the same time, they are more shy with Utena and Anthy being in love with each other. A lot of sword fighting, BADASS sword fighting.  

Sabagebu!

This is so dumb that it stops being dumb and become funny instead. Not much of yuri action, but you have girls with guns, so I know at least some of you will be interested ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Saki

Mahjong Lesbians

Violet Evergarden Side Story: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (Violet Evergarden Gaiden: Eien to Jidou Shuki Ningyou)

Being able to put Violet Evergarden movie on a goddamn YURI list is like a dream. There’s no real gay couple or anything, but Violet goes to all-girls school and makes everyone question their sexuality. In the book it’s confirmed that Isabella is in love with Violet, so it’s the only reason it’s not on the “will queerbait you into oblivion list”. Nevertheless, first half is so fucking gay that I have no words to describe it. The other half is your typical “I can’t see cause I’m crying” Violet Evergarden. 

Will queerbait you into oblivion:

Supergirl/Once Upon a Time of anime…

Amanchu!

The level of queerbait this show pulled should be illegal.

Sound! Euphonium (Hibike! Euphonium)

Do I even have to say anything?

[kinavu]

u know he had to do it to em

[karazrel]

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Kakegurui Meta: Dissecting the S2 Ending

My general reaction to the first episode of Kakegurui’s second season is this: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vSe-mmw

I had an entry about how the first episode manages to screw up in medias res, but due to both the entry getting lost and high demand, I’m going to answer the question about the first episode that I have actually been asked: “What the **** is up with that ending?”

Good question. I’m going to look at this ending, almost frame by frame, and see what I can find. 

This ED starts with what I’ve been calling the “holy trinity” of Kakegurui: Yumeko, Kirari, and Mary. These are the three characters that are almost guaranteed to get merchandise. While I could get into things like how every element on the chart is present in these characters’ designs, the most obvious reason these three show up everywhere is mere seconds later: 

Boom. Primary colors. (Note that they’re spinning, too.) 

After that, we’re presented with some slightly ominous forest imagery, including a spider web (more on that later) and pine trees. We briefly see Yumeko lying on the ground, spliced with this image: 

It took me a while to identify what kind of snake this was. While the closest real snake is a cobra, the fang looks a little long, and the proportions aren’t perfect. Cobras get a lot of chimerism in art. Artists like putting other snakes into cobra art to make them more intimidating. (Cobras, by themselves, are kind of adorable.) It’s meant to be some kind of venomous snake, is the point. 

 Yumeko walking through a forest with butterflies quickly follows. While this might not seem sinister in itself, one, we were literally just blasted with a dead Yumeko and a snake skeleton. Two, take a good look at these butterflies. 

Anime really likes blue butterflies, doesn’t it? In this case (and in one of my favorite anime ever), blue butterflies are a death omen. These particular butterflies look ghostly. There aren’t many swallowtail varieties that are bright blue, and none with white bodies. 

The butterfly has a number of meanings in Japanese culture. The association of butterflies with metamorphosis is universal. In Japan, they are linked with both lovers/marriage and young women going from girls to women. While those are valid - keep that in mind - they were not what came to mind immediately, especially given the foreboding, morbid imagery. 

There is a third, lesser-known meaning of butterflies that simmers beneath the collective subconscious. Both the Greeks and Japanese treat butterflies as disembodied souls. In Greece, the soul, “psyche”, is drawn with butterfly (also “psyche”) wings. Japan, likewise, has butterflies representing the soul as it enters the afterlife. N.B. that both death and marriage are important transition points, tying in with the butterfly’s metamorphic symbolism. 

Shortly after that, we see Yumeko approach a completely still version of Kirari. I’m not sure if this is a statue or what, but I get a vibe from it. This…isn’t right, regardless of if Yumeko is actually humping a sculpture or not. 

Then Yumeko does the same thing with Mary, only even more sexual. Again, there’s a definite Uncanny Valley effect: 

I cannot stress how creepy this should be. Kirari and Mary look dead, plastic, or otherwise unnatural. I mean no offense if those are kinks for any of my readers, but here, I can tell it’s meant to be off-putting. 

After kissing Mary, Yumeko vanishes into flowers. Her soul leaves her body. This could be either death or ecstasy - not the drug, but the idea of being outside of oneself. 

I took this cap for two reasons. One, what a trip! It may be psychedelic in the literal sense. Two, the song’s name, “Alegria,” means “joy” in Portuguese. 

Now, one more shot of the trinity…

…and putrefied Yumeko. 

Then it’s over. I don’t blame people for being confused. What’s all this mean? 

The answer might be a spoiler: the Election Arc has been restructured as an attempt to kill Yumeko. I mean this in both a literal and metaphorical sense. 

The current theory (that I’ve posited on my Discord server) is that the Election Arc will be structured like this: 

>Finger Guillotine 

>Nim Type Zero (which involves poison)

>Tax Game (because we have to) 

>Tower of Doors (or “jump off of this five-story building.”)

Note how all of these, with the exception of the Tax Game, have nasty consequences. They also all involve Yumeko in some way, shape, or form. I usually see Yumeko as a problem because she isn’t written well, but I do understand that she’s supposed to be the protagonist.  Focusing the story on her makes sense. 

The idea of killing Yumeko is in the manga as well, by the way: 

For those of you who are wondering where this was in the manga, it was right before the Tower of Doors. Y’know, the thing that was supposed to close out the first season, but didn’t for reasons that seem to fluctuate depending on whom you ask. 

There are a bunch of other small hints that the election has been repurposed. The arrangement with the families is different. Rei has a lot of hype, but all she’s done is open the door and name names. There’s no explicit targeting of Kirari like there was in the manga. If they’re trying to tell a slightly different story, I’d say go for it…

…if they hadn’t butchered in medias res, literally one of the oldest tropes known to man, horribly in that first episode. More on that next entry. 

So, what all is the ending? It can be interpreted in multiple ways. The title “Alegria” suggests a happy interpretation, despite the sinister imagery. Regardless of how you interpret it, you have to admit: it was better-planned than the first one. 

[c0s1m4]

i’m scared 

[fuu-kei]

Episode 1:  賭ケグルイ XX

[standardcarnations]

Que comience el shippeo! Ayer Martes 18 término después de casí tres años esta genial historia, donde esta chica que hacía de “mal tercio” se robo mi corazón desde el momento en que la vi. Por lo mismo me alegra saber que en algunos meses la protagonista de esta nueva historia sea Seju, supongo que si hubo un pequeño salto temporal debido a que su cabello ya esta bastante más largo a como lo tenia antes, pero me muero por saber aun muchas cosas, ¡necesito datos! quiero saber el nombre de la chica misteriosa y si realmente tendrá relevancia en todo lo que sigue, su edad, nacionalidad y una de las cosas más importantes… saber si es enana, de estatura media o una gigante, porque Seju de por sí era la más alta del trío… dudas, dudas. Por lo mismo no queda de otra que dibujarla como uno imagine no más   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Ojala los meses pasen rápido para poder volverla a ver c:

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We all know how much you’ve fought and how much you wished to survive. We’re going to miss you deeply, we already are, and we will cherish what you’ve created for us. Fluttering Feelings is really important and dear to me and to many others and it will always be. You can create your stories for the angels now. Rest in peace, Ssamba.