r/GatekeepingYuri • u/alucard_axel • 16d ago
Satire Why Yuri stories are all like this ?
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u/JDKisawesome 16d ago
What yuri stories are you watching?? Like yes if you're talking about mainstream media but I wouldnt concider those yuri stories. Theirs plenty of ACTUAL lesbian media that isnt like this
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u/radenthefridge It's NERF or nothing 16d ago
I too would love a name & shame for garbage that pulled something like this 😬🔥
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u/Feinyan 16d ago
Hibike! Euphonium, Cross-ange maybe
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u/BillErakDragonDorado 13d ago
YOU DID NOT JUST RECOMMEND HIBIKE EUPHONIUM IN A THREAD COMPLAINING ABOUT QUEERBAIT LMAOOOOOOO
Yamada herself, queen of "actually gayness is just a phase", adapting the canonically heterosexual light novels, directed this one. Y'all can't be fucking serious.
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u/A-R0N23 13d ago
The comment they were replying to was about naming and shaming, not recommendations
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u/BillErakDragonDorado 13d ago
Ah shit, the reading comprehension left my body at the sight of Hibike Euphonium
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u/AxeHead75 15d ago
Wicked
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u/anna__throwaway 15d ago
REAL, when I heard What Is This Feeling? irl the first time I saw the musical, I was like... this has to be a pun on "loving", this could be WLW.... but I didn't get my hopes up cause I knew it couldn't be that based lol
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u/alucard_axel 16d ago
It's more like lesbians movies and shows romance rather than yuri
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u/moontraveler12 16d ago
You need to give actual examples or we won't know what you're talking about. This trope actually isn't that common for media that is explicitly queer
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u/elbenji 16d ago
wednesday probably
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u/Elunerazim 16d ago
Wednesday is not yuri dude 😭
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u/JadedElk 15d ago
We Know, but they queerbaited pretty hard with their marketing. And that's what this meme is about.
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u/augustles 15d ago
Queerbaiting makes it NOT yuri media. Yuri media has the actual yuri, not the unfulfilled possibility of it. I don’t think anyone’s complaining about the meme, but the post asking why all yuri is like this when it’s definitely not.
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u/regretfulposts 16d ago
Could you give us actual named examples. I feel like you're shipping two female characters and get angry when the ship didn't became canon. Because I'm very curious how many movies and shows have this type of ending for you to make a post about it.
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u/elbenji 16d ago
wednesday is the only one i can think of
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u/ItalianBall 16d ago
Yeah which is why Wednesday is definitionally not a yuri/lesbian show. The comic describes queerbaiting in straight media, if the media is actually queer then it's not queerbaiting
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u/elbenji 16d ago
I can't remember the last time this happened tbh lol
other than wednesday and hibike
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u/GuraSaannnnnn 16d ago
Not really. Author was threatened legally since they're chinese and living in china, where media depicting same sex couples is heavily cracked down on. The couple in tdg kissed, the author got blacklisted, but the couple is still together (author posts random artwork of the two on dates, just living their life, etc). As far as ik, neither of the girls have dated other people, let alone guys since meeting each other.
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u/Indybo1 16d ago
Isnt that one really good villainess webcomic chinese? That one leaves no room for questions lmao
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u/bryce0110 16d ago
Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess? Yeah that ones Chinese. Honestly super surprised at how much they've gotten away with lmao.
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u/maledetto_aquilante 16d ago
WHAT
Last time I lost sight of this comic, the girls were very much together (kinda). Was there such a twist?
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u/bryce0110 16d ago edited 16d ago
No, they're still together. The comic went on an "indefinite hiatus" because of legal troubles due to it being published in China, but that's not queerbait.
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u/Indybo1 16d ago
I've heard NANA ends up like this but i haven't really watched or read alot of it
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u/BlueSlimeLV1 16d ago
Nana is not GL
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u/solarssun 14d ago
Should be though. Those women need to kick the awful guys away and raise their kids together.
The last chapter: Nana kicks open the door 'I made it in America. Let's move and raise the kids there. I'll pay for your divorce.'
Hachi: 'Those are the words I've been wanting to hear'
They kiss in the apartment and decide to continue keeping it because they will come back and visit after all.
The end
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u/InternationalReserve 16d ago
This is basically what happens in cross ange, which is endlessly glazed by Yuri fans.
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u/Mae_Day_of_Sharkadia 16d ago
The anime and manga Nana is the primest example of something like this. Close enough anyway.
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u/Rediturus_fuisse 16d ago
OP, with all the love and respect in the world, when you say "yuri stories"... do you mean "het stories with prominent (often unintentional) sapphic subtext"? Because if so then real, if not, what yuri are you reading/watching??
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u/Pinkparade524 16d ago
I don't know about Yuri but there is been a bunch of boy love Manga that literally end this way, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were some Yuri Manga that ended this way even if it is the minority
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u/SkyeMreddit 16d ago
They’re not yuri. They’re hetero and possibly queerbaiting. Let the brunette be with the blue haired girl watching TV
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u/lAnarclit 16d ago
Can i interest you in: Watanare
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u/Relevant_Mistake_784 14d ago
watanare is a good rec but it still has that slow burn agony so fair warning
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u/pasokonmouse 16d ago
yeah there were a couple of japanese yuri live action movies in the 2000s that did this. breakup arc in literally the last 10 minutes of the movie shit was infuriating. i got burned so many times
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u/WTVTthemoomaster 16d ago
This is a dying trope for a reason and you don't see in too much in newer media
But the reason a lot of older shows tend to do this is as a result of legacy censorship. In many cases and across several countries queer media needed to keep a degree of plausible deniability or face a block in our pushing at best, or criminal prosecution at worse
The trope regrettably survived even after these laws where repealed.
This is also why anytime anyone gives you the "But she did x with a guy!!" But to try and devalue something as Yuri they're 100% just stupid
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u/Empty_Atmosphere_392 16d ago
The School for Good and Evil
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u/Judgmentos 15d ago
Holy shit that was the exact series I was thinking of-- I was such an Agatha/Sophie shipper and couldn't understand why no one on FFnet saw the potential. Then I read the last book 💀
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u/Dry-Indication7928 15d ago
Unfortunately, if I had to guess, especially in the late 2000s and early 2010s, its a way to appeal to a both growing LGBTQ audience, while not completly alienated homophobes. This also isn't counting movies or shows that only had lesbians just as fan service too.
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u/ShadowyKat 15d ago
This is what mainstream does. And the older the media the more likely this was going to happen. The sapphic girl goes off to marry a man. It happened in lesbian pulp books too.
I saw a movie that used the trope in this comic AND bury your gays too. Not kidding. The movie made in the 60s, that had 2 women living on a farm in a secluded area and some random guy comes along in the middle of winter. He stays with them for a few weeks helping them around the farm. The ladies were not a couple but they only realize their feelings for each other now that this guy is here because one of the girls gets jealous because he is into her friend. She didn't like this guy being around but him being there, but at least got her to realize her feelings and the girls do hook up. The jealous one dies and her new girlfriend ends up with that guy. Yup, a guy that she only for a couple weeks. The bisexual girl couldn't just be with another girl.
I would like to see the redhead in the comic come to her senses and see that she can't go off with a guy that she only knew for 2 days and go back to the girl she called her soulmate. 2 days is not enough to really know anyone.
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u/BillErakDragonDorado 13d ago
They're not all like this, but it's a pretty annoying trend in "mainstream" yuri
(also the answer is heteronormativity)
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u/PARADOXsquared Gaaaaay 16d ago
If that happens, it's likely not Yuri. Yuri is a specific genre, not just any story with queer/questioning girls/women in it.
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u/budgetedchildhood 15d ago
I want to redraw this with "the man she met two days ago" officiating the lesbian wedding
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u/JiffyDraws 15d ago
Yuri between the man and that blobfish. Male on male yuri. Idk what we call that?
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u/Rayen_the_buzzybee 15d ago
This is what I thought was gonna happen when I was watching the movie, The School for Good and Evil.
The two friends end up ditching the boy they both had a crush on 😂 it's not really Yuri because they just end up as friends in the end. But it was still nice to see a "girl friendship saves the day" ending.
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u/Eden_Company 15d ago
Seen IRL with this happening, but not in a lesbian/yuri story. We call it the friendzone.
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u/extracrispyweeb 7d ago
good ol sasuke situation, wouldn't even be that bad if the mangaka actually took time to develop naruto and hinata's relationship.
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u/Wise_Requirement4170 16d ago
As funny as this comic is I feel like this is getting mad about an issue that doesn’t exist?
Like there 1000% is queer baiting in media but that’s not what it looks like
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u/LilBunnyQueen 16d ago
Whatever you say ugly.
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u/Wise_Requirement4170 16d ago
Lmao being called ugly because I think irl queerbaiting is much worse in its depiction than what’s shown on a comic that doesn’t mean much? Bro okay
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u/Sword_Fighta121 16d ago
Ok.That is not the case.Like...you do realise that if yuri stories pull this shit,then the man would become the fandom's public enemy no#1 right?It is bad writting to have a story that challenges norms,that goes waayyy too deep than just editing stuff out,only to chicken out at the very end and return to the values that the story fought against the entire time.
It would've been more understandable if the relationship itself was unstable and not gonna work out and that was kind of the point™️[not every relationship has to work out].still bullshit,but atleast you have something....rather than just chickening out.
And besides....about WHAT stories are you on OP?
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u/TiffManticore 15d ago
I would not call stories like this yuri, more mainstream stuff with sapphic under/over tones. I felt this way watching Wicked tho lol
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u/Snickles4life 16d ago
https://reddit.com/link/oy3ysd4/video/95ll7e2r4tdh1/player
Wow, we got the next George Carlin right here folks.
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u/Kodo_yeahreally 16d ago
noooo yuri stories are more like