Yuri-han!

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

2011-12-03T21:22:00.002+08:00

Pre-ordered all three limited edition Blu-ray/DVD/CD sets

Pics of volume one here

Chirality

2011-01-18T21:44:00.002+08:00

Just finished reading the two-volume B5 edition. Next: find time to listen to the drama CDs.

Fushigiboshi no Futagohime

2010-10-30T14:10:00.001+08:00

Very sweet series with some slight yuri subtext (at least for me). Ending theme duets by the princesses' seiyuu and lots of hand-holding.

Chikane & Himeko, sold out

2009-12-11T19:13:00.002+08:00

Wasabi Toys finally sold their Chikane and Himeko figures at a recent sale. From 3300 pesos each down to 1300-something. Totally missed it.

At least I managed t buy the Sega Prize figures of Yoko and Nia from Gurren Lagann at Jebb's.

Cheeky Angel

2009-11-08T15:18:00.001+08:00

Gotta love the Miki/Megumi relationship.

You're Under Arrest (Tagalog dub)

2009-06-16T20:23:00.003+08:00

Natsumi and Miyuki are played by Pinky Rebucas and Kathyin "Teng" Masilungan. They were also Ursula (Utena) and Angie (Anthy) in Ursula's Kiss (Enoki Films USA's alternate title for Revolutionary Girl Utena). Wonder if it's just a coincidence. Not like they'd deliberately play up the yuri subtext.

D.C. ~Da Capo~

2009-05-14T19:39:00.003+08:00

Miharu seems a little too attached to Nemu. Then there's the girl who wanted to date Mako.

R.O.D the TV

2009-05-08T12:43:00.003+08:00

Since Animax-Asia started re-running the Geneon dub on weekdays last week (the back to back Sunday episodes weren't convenient for me), and I spotted DVD volumes 2 and 5 cheap (500 pesos each, still sealed) in one of the toy shops in Shoppesville, I decided to bite the bullet and won an eBay auction for the limited edition of volume 7 (less than $35 total, still sealed). Just need to find the best deal for the rest of the series.

Of course now I'm probably tempting fate, and suddenly a cheap thinpak re-release will be announced.

Maria Watches Over Us

2009-05-04T14:14:00.002+08:00

Animax-Asia just finished re-running season 2 (11pm, Sunday), but will be showing season 1 (and 2) again at 10pm, weekdays, starting May 20 (replacing Jigoku Shoujo S2). Next Sunday will have Paradise Kiss at 11pm, and not Marimite S3 OVA like I expected. Need to watch the S3 DVDs.

My Code Name is Charmer

2009-04-30T19:34:00.000+08:00

This is one of Narumi Kakinouchi's lesser-known works. Got both English-translated volumes cheap a few weeks ago.

Volume 2 has the heroine Naomi going all akogare over Kaede ("Even though I'm a girl, I think she's hot!"). Yuriest bit is the school nurse heavily implied to (exclusively?) prefer girls.

H manga yuri

2009-03-08T15:26:00.002+08:00

I've noticed that in newer, less-censored tankoubon by my favorite H manga artists (Satoshi Akifuji and Tamako Kimio) there's also little to no yuri. At least I still have their older stuff that has yuri.

Special A

2009-03-08T15:14:00.001+08:00

Akira seems pretty attached to Hikari, and has an awful lot of fangirls.

Sisters

2009-03-07T21:59:00.002+08:00

Meg and Jo in Little Women. Eleanor Campbell and Monica Mildrake in Emma. Mikage and Tomomi in Miracle Girls. Tarta and Tatra in Magic Knight Rayearth. Just a little hint of yuri.

Mai and Ai in Twin Dolls/Twin Angels was a little more gratuitous

Marimite S2

2009-02-15T16:51:00.003+08:00

Finally finished watching the DVDs. Disc four was a little too melodramatic (the Sachiko/Yumi tiff wouldn't have happened if they'd just talked like souers should), but the end makes up for it.

Couple of errors. Double-entry for Yumi/Kana Ueda in episode thirteen's English credits. More annoying was the inverted subtitle colors for Special 6; black with yellow outline and black (not transparent) background, which made me think they were setting up a gag about the lighting. Fortunately turning off the subs made it watchable, though I had to remember the translation beforehand or grok the scene on my own.

EDIT: The inverted subtitle colors were just a playback glitch on my DVD player. Worked fine on my laptop, then on the DVD player after reinserting the disc.

Wandaba Style

2009-01-04T15:51:00.002+08:00

Susumu's mother asked the Mix Juice girls if they wanted her body, when what they actually wanted was to go back to Earth. Of course the girls loudly proclaimed their heterosexuality.

Azumanga Daioh

2009-01-02T13:42:00.001+08:00

Currently up to episode 14 of the Tagalog dub. Nice bit of "self-yuri" by having Michiko Azarcon as Kaorin and Sakaki. Also seeing a a bit of Kagura/Sakaki.

Maria Watches Over Us~Printemps~

2008-12-21T06:57:00.000+08:00

Got Marimite S2 yesterday, but haven't watched it yet.

Mai-HiME

2008-12-18T23:51:00.000+08:00

Finished watching the Tagalog dub on Monday. Really wish I'd grabbed the Shizuru/Natsuki swimsuit figure set a year or two ago, but I hadn't seen the show yet. The karaoke scene was great yuri fodder; Midori and Yukariko are latent lesbians if their drunken passes are anything to go by. Yukino/Haruka had the slightly more bittersweet resolution that I expected of Tomoyo/Sakura.

Ending's a bit all too conveniently wrapped up, but it suits the show.

Old school yuri

2008-12-18T23:17:00.000+08:00

Never finished watching Simoun. I like to say that it was because of the fansub typography, but I can watch H anime with Hong Kong bootleg DVD subtitles, so it's really because I don't care about the characters. By the ninth episode that's a huge stumbling block. I'll get the boxset from Media Blasters...eventually. Meanwhile I'd rather buy Ramen Fighter Miki from them.

The kind of yuri I like is probably considered too fanservicey or not yuri at all by some. Like Miyuki-chan in Wonderland. Corvette trying to seduce Mimu in Idol Project. B-ko's unrequited love for C-ko. Nova/Hikaru in Magic Knight Rayearth.

Recently saw Kimagure Orange Road episode 42 for the first time. Must've missed it on Star Phoenix channel way back when, assuming they aired it at all. Sumire was a Madoka fangirl before Akane in the OVAs.

Still haven't seen Oniisama e, but given the high quality of Osamu Dezaki/Akio Sugino works, it's a given I'll watch it, yuri or not. One of the Black Jack OVAs had a hint of yuri; not sure which came first.

And of course there's Cream Lemon. Escalation did Japanese lesbian Catholic schoolgirls decades before Marimite! Pop Chaser and Star Trap mixed yuri and science fiction, two of my favorite things. After School XXX had one of the hottest yuri threesomes ever; unfortunately it counts as two girls raping the third, since they blackmailed her into it. I don't believe in calling rape "non-consensual sex" in porn/erotica.