[NoSanninWa]

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

On the one hand, Hazumu did not have some simple "sex change" operation. He was reconstituted as a girl from the DNA in each cell on up. He is certainly a girl in every physical aspect. If girlxgirl=yuri, then this is definitely a yuri show. I have no expectation at all of Hazumu being changed back into a male.

For all we know this was done on purpose and the alien was lying about not being able to change Hazumu back. At any rate, the most important part of Hazumu, her mind, is just as male as it was in the first place. Though I will express some doubts that Hazumu's mind was ever very male.

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

Spoiler for NoSanninWa's classification of yuri shows, including plot-spoilers:

I really don't see girls ending up together as the way to determine if a show is yuri or not. I don't think they end up together in Oniisama-e or Utena or Marimite, but those are clearly favorites of the yuri community (and among my favorites, too). I may be wrong, but I also don't think Kannaduki no Miko is a favorite of theirs (it certainly isn't a favorite of mine)

Whoa. Please don't misunderstand me. I didn't mean that the girls have to end up together for it to be yuri. MariMite is undeniably yuri, but it is left competely vague if the girls have any romantic feeling at all.

I only meant that the writers invariably lack commitment. In almost all yuri, either the feelings aren't clearly spelled out as romantic, they don't end up together or else a girl isn't really a girl. These things are true, but I never meant to imply that it isn't in the yuri or shoujo-ai genre.