[Tiamat's Disciple]

Originally Posted by Succubus Evaligan

I sorry say this but males only think in hentai and more hentai.

I find that a little offensive to be honest. I know a lot of guys (myself included) who like yuri because it usually tends to have excellent stories and character development behind them. Noir, El Cazador de la Bruja, Maria-Sama for example.

I'm not saying that guys don't like the girl on girl undertones, especially in manga like SP, cause we do. However it's not really right to say guys only like yuri for hentai

I think that yuri is not very popular in USA because the boys.
Example: Strawberry Panic is seinen?
No. Maybe Josei-yuri... but... Seinen?

Strawberry Panic was made by a women and for womens.
I think that USA confuse the yuri with the USA lesbian porn made by males and for males.

Actually SP is seinen, the author behind the novels and manga has said so herself. Also demographs don't mean squat, just because a series is seinen and aimed at men, dosen't mean women can't enjoy them. Two of my Ex's faves are Tokko and Anne Freaks, both of which are seinen. All demographs are used for is to show at which general audiance a piece is aimed for. Also the creator of SP is a fairly famous seinen author

Finally, SP was made by a women, true, howeever it was aimed at men. Yuri in Japan is 99% aimed at men, where yuri love among girls is actually lower than the guys. In Japan girls tend to go more for the Yaoi/shounen-ai stories more than the yuri.

You need to remember that almost all manga is aimed at the japanese audience first, so they're created to please the japanese audience more than the western one. Only a few manga have been made to appeal to both directly, the latest being the Witchblade anime, and Witchblade: Takeru manga.

Ultimatly though whether a series is made for boys, girls, women or men is irelevant, if you enjoy it you enjoy it. If you don't you dont.