Forum - View topicFlagship josei and shounen yuri titles?
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Raftina
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We have examples from the other two demographics.
Shoujo: Maria Watches Over Us (Marimite), the prototypical girls love series. Set in an all girls catholic school, the system of pairing an older student with a younger leads to many different pairs of romantic relationships amidst the school life. Seinen: Strawberry Panic, a distinctly more physical and more overtly lesbian series than Marimite. Made for the older male audience, it is complicated by a school wide competition to find the best girl pair. Shounen and josei seem to not have such infamous titles. Perhaps Kashimashi, but it only features a love triangle, not the epic school wide girls' love in Marimite and Strawberry Panic. Is there simply no title in these demographics just yet, or am I missing something? For one, Marimite's demographic is listed as female on Wikipedia, which might mean it crosses into the josei demographic. |
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Key
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While I can think of series with distinct yuri content which fall into the josei and shonen categories, I can't think of any that could fairly be classified as "flagship" titles for those classifications.
Blue Drop is one candidate for shonen. (The manga it was based on was originally published in a shonen anthology mag, anyway.) It does mostly take place in a traditional boarding school environment but also has heavy sci fi and even action elements. It has a decidedly different feel to it than most other yuri series, though, so it might not be representative. My-Otome, which is often considered yuri even though it equally features hetero romantic relationships, would probably classify as shonen (it was an anime original) and is probably more representative of the way that shonen series use yuri content. For josei? Simoun is one possibility. (I'm making a bit of an assumption about its status as josei based on its manga adaptation appearing in a yuri-focused anthology whose readership is primarily women and the more mature themes the series deals with.) |
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