gay and lesbian... taboo?

[u&t]

Originally Posted by hunterx

you need a healthy dose of airmaster.

Thank you very much but no. I'm not getting near a fighting anime unless world + dog claims it's the best thing since sliced bread.

At least Maria-sama ga Miteru seems to have the basic premises of a standard shoujo. Thats enough to get my attention.

[Kensuke]

Maria-sama ga Miteru preview showed that it has a lot of shoujo-ai (but of course I could be wrong) so count me in watching this one.

[Pandora]

Oniisama E (story takes place in an all-female school as well) appears to be the predecessor of Maria-sama ga Miteru. So those who are interested in shoujo ai should check it out.

[Super strokey]

whoa? there are lesbians in Sailor moon? I assume none of the scouts right and that it is just implied lesbians too?

[Tzurial]

Originally Posted by Super strokey

whoa? there are lesbians in Sailor moon? I assume none of the scouts right and that it is just implied lesbians too?

mm..unless thats sarcasm Ill just say this.. uranus and neptune -arent- cousins

now that I think about it, I know lots of anime/manga with shounen ai but I have barely come across mch shoujo ai...I dont know if its because Im so into yaoi that Ive been missing out on the otherside of the spectrum or whether its just not there. The only place Ive noticed heavy amounts of girlxgirl is hentai but ofcourse that isnt about the 'relationship'. Hmm..where do dick girls fall under?-cough cough-

Aaaaanyway, I dont see much anime/manga revolving around gay or lesbian relationships, but theres blatant refrences to it in -alot- of anime. I dont know how you could miss it. Since anime is really the only media I see from japan..I have no idea how accepted it is there

[babbito2k]

I myself am quite interested in Maria-sama ga Miteru. It looks very ambitious. I found the first episode to be quite portentous and dramatic ^_^ . I am also happy to see some classic presentation devices (like the title page) being brought back in the show, it's nice to see the link with what has gone before.

Here is a list of anime and manga titles for what is known as yuri/shoujoai (lesbian themes): http://www.yuricon.org/symg.htm

Note that these are titles mostly written by women; this is nothing to do with hentai or male fantasies or whatnot. I have read or watched as many of these titles as I could get my hands on and enjoyed most of them.

I would add Brigadoon to the list of anime tainted with shoujoai. Marin the main character and her best friend are very close.

Although this is not the manga forum I will mention to people who are eager for more yuri/shoujoai that there is a growing body of fan-translated manga now available. lililicious, which is 1/2 of the maria subbing team, is doing most of it.

[ChibiDusk]

El Hazard
Oh, me loves this one!

[flightless]

Well for yuri there's Miyuki-chan In Wonderland, which a friend of mine unknowingly brought to a birthday-sleepover party... it's interesting, and pretty good because about a dozen not-necessarily-les girls watched it through to the end.

and a good shonen-ai/yaoi manga and OVA is Fake ... lots of violence in it as well - the main characters are NYC cops. There's also Angelic Layer (the main relationship is incest, but there are also male/male and possibly a female-likes-another-female relationships).

Oh, and I can't remember the name of the anime, but the main characters are Chihuaya and Kagetsuya (angels). The anime is only shounen-ai, but I've read that the manga is very different (something about liking your gender being outlawed because hardly anyong was reproducing in the race of Angels).
Ah! Duh,
It's called Earthian.

[Minagi]

Maria-sama ga Miteru is NOT about lesbians! *sigh* I signed up for this forum to just say this. If you want to see Mari-Mite yuri stuff, go shuffle through some hentai doujinshi on Mari-Mite; the anime itself has nothing that even suggests anything dirty in it... it's more about everything clean and pure.

The characters in Mari-Mite develop strong bonds, but it's that of friends, classmates, and sisters. No girl in the anime tries to marry another girl or anything... if anywhere in Mari-Mite, girls gets intimately close, it's in "Ibara no Mori (Book 3 of Mari-Mite, the novel series)" which seems to have gotten skipped over.

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by Grifis

I think they need to release more shonenai.

Grifis

And I would add a HELL YEA! to that!

Now Battle Athletes and Battle Athletes Victory has a very cute lesbian character who has a crush on the lead character but they end up as "just good friends" But (especially at the end of ep 2), they have a lot of fun with it.

[Foetida]

Originally Posted by Minagi

Maria-sama ga Miteru is NOT about lesbians! *sigh* I signed up for this forum to just say this. If you want to see Mari-Mite yuri stuff, go shuffle through some hentai doujinshi on Mari-Mite; the anime itself has nothing that even suggests anything dirty in it... it's more about everything clean and pure.

The characters in Mari-Mite develop strong bonds, but it's that of friends, classmates, and sisters. No girl in the anime tries to marry another girl or anything... if anywhere in Mari-Mite, girls gets intimately close, it's in "Ibara no Mori (Book 3 of Mari-Mite, the novel series)" which seems to have gotten skipped over.

The fact that there's nothing dirty in it doesn't mean there can't be any lesbian love. Yuri porn is something else than lesbianism.

And frankly, I do think some of the characters have feelings for each other that go beyond friendship. Rosa Gigantia and Canina even kissed for crying out loud, but of course they only did so because they are like sisters! According to your theory this would also mean every hetero couple in anime that did nothing more than kissing is not in love but are good friends unless they get down and dirty.

Sure.