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some more yuri ship doodles ❤️♀️♀️
Which old woman yuri is the best
Which old woman yuri is the best
Hanayo and Yoshiko (Hana monogatari)
Kya and Lin (The Legend of Korra)
Vinnie and Reenie (The league of gentlemen)
Zofia and Rozalia (1670)
Dr. Kureha and Tsuru (One Piece)
Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle) and Yubaba (Spirited Away)
quite the selection. feel free to theorize on how on these relationships would even work
tag: @hazelthewolfo (not a standard poll but i'll tag anyway)
はなものがたり
Hana Monogatari
Volumes 1-3
Laudna calling Imogen her "sister".
This is giving me Yoshiya Noboku fictions vibes.
At this time in Japan (1900-1950) it was common for schoolgirls to have "special friends" they called "sister" and some of them were actually in romantic relationship and even killed themself together to not break up (if you are interested and you know Japanese I recommand Hana Monogatari) !
Anyway let's not give up, not right now, not this month.
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Hana Monogatari begins at the funeral of Hanayo’s husband. The first interaction in the series is between Hanayo and her granddaughter, who
Homage to Yoshiya
In my last post I discussed the place of Sweet Blue Flowers in the overall history of the yuri genre, and how it builds and comments on previous works in that genre. That begins even before the story itself begins: chapter 1 is titled “Flower Tale” in homage to Flower Tales (花物語 Hana Monogatari), a 52-story series of “class S” fictions written by the lesbian author Nobuko Yoshiya in her early twenties (from 1916 to 1924).
Yoshiya lived the last of years of her life with her partner Monma Chiyo in the coastal city of Kamakura. As it happens Kamakura is also the city in which Sweet Blue Flowers is set. In the afterword to volume 1 of the Japanese series (page 190 of the Viz Media omnibus volume 1) Takako Shimura describes a trip she and her editor took to Kamakura to get reference photographs on which to model various buildings portrayed in the manga. They try to visit Nobuko Yoshiya’s house, now a museum, but unfortunately find it closed.
Shimura’s frustration is echoed by those wanting to read Yoshiya’s work in English. At this time only one Flower Tales story is available in an official English release: “Yellow Rose”, translated by Sarah Frederick. However, Frederick is working on a larger book project focusing on Yoshiya and her influence, and hopefully she or someone else will see fit to translate more of Yoshiya’s work.
Although it doesn’t exactly follow the standard class S/yuri template (among other things, its focus is on a teacher and her student rather than on two students), otherwise “Yellow Rose” fills the bill: it features an intense relationship rendered in somewhat purple prose, a relationship that ultimately collapses under the weight of family responsibilities and societal strictures. One of the key questions in Sweet Blue Flowers is whether the protagonists can escape that fate, as Yoshiya herself did.
