Yuri is a branch of manga that deals with girl romance. The genre was originally targeted toward girls, but there is a male-targeted branch as well.
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Yuri (which literally translates to “lily”) encompasses everything from hardcore sex to school girl crushes where hand-holding is as far as it goes. The genre traces its roots to the early 1900s with the works of Yoshiya Nobuko. Nobuko wrote the first Japanese lesbian literature just as interest in same-sex attraction began being studied in Japan. At the same time, the first all-girls school was founded. One event brought same-sex female relationships to Japanese attention: in 1911 two Niigata Prefecture school girls killed themselves because their love for each other was forbidden. It was the first recorded case of lesbian love suicide in Japan. Five years later, Nobuko wrote her best selling girls fiction, Flower Tales, that focused on girl romance.
The first manga to feature elements which will become the mainstay of yuri was published in 1972: The Rose of Versailles. It was also the first manga that included yuri elements to be available in the US. It follows Oscar, a girl who dresses as a boy and leads Marie Antoinette’s palace guards.The manga can’t be classified as yuri, but it laid the foundation for the future of the genre.
Yuri is a school guardian who walked by Rose and Dimitri when they come back from the chapel. Dimitri asks him when he laid new wards and Yuri answers that he did so a few days ago. He was one of the guardians who fought with Rose as a 'Strigoi' in her field experience, along with another guardian, Jean, and Dimitri. He fought alongside Rose and Christian Ozera when the Strigoi were attacking.
Okay, let’s take a time out for a moment. Yuri isn’t considered homosexual literature in Japan. Japan has a strong stigma against homosexuality. Girl romance is even considered a normal thing school-girls do. Once a girl grows into womanhood she is supposed to leave such immature things behind. At the least, she can indulge memories and such feelings with manga (Mind you, this comes from my research and not my own views).
Yuri falls into what is called tatemono honmono. The phrase refers to the space between how something appear and how it really is. Yuri appears to be lesbian literature, but in the Japanese sense it is just a fantasy world. This attitude is starting to change, but lesbianism isn’t something discussed in polite conversation.
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When it comes to relationships there are 2 categories that yuri (and yaoi for that matter) fall under. The first are “pure” love relationships; this is a passionate form of friendship. The other is ome no kankei; which is a more physical relationship. In the case of yuri, “pure” romance involves sisterly vows to be with each other until death. Ome relationships have a more negative view. They tend to involve one masculine woman taking control of the other woman. The lovers’ suicide of 1911 was thought to be a result of ome no kankei. Although, “pure” relationships are also recognized as having this danger. The girls’ suicide was simply used as a reason not to publish ome manga or pursue ome relationships.
For both males and females, it was thought same-sex desire was a step in adolescence that ended “normally” with heterosexual desires. This is why yuri wasn’t considered lesbian literature. Rather, it is normal school girl behavior on the path of growing up.
From the American perspective, lesbianism is more acceptable and even a bit of a fetish for males. Yuri geared toward guys plays into this. The ‘net is full of yuri images that seem more slanted toward straight male desires than female desire. These types of yuri stories and images fall into the ome category, “abnormal.”
Yuri has helped girls that lean toward lesbianism come to terms with themselves. For many (perhaps most) readers, yuri is manga that features cute, touching love stories. Stories that can be freeing since they don’t deal with the usual heterosexual concerns and conventions.
References
Ryder, C. (2008). LOST IN TRANSLATION. Advocate, (1017), 49-53.
Suzuki, Michiko (2006). Writing Same-Sex Love: Sexology and Literary Representation in Yoshiya Nobuko’s Early Fiction. The Journal of Asian Studies. 65. p.575. doi:10.1017/S0021911806001148.
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Yuri. Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_(genre)
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