the yuri has always been doomed.

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  @newlynova · 3 months ago (edited) · pinned

  Hey everyone, thanks for watching &amp; being here. A couple of things:<br><br>MISINFORMATION CORRECTION: Class S literature is banned temporarily in 1941, not 1936. Apologies and thanks to @AC-dk4fp for the nod!<br><br>I’ve also gotten a bunch of comments critiquing my lack of inclusion of Revolutionary Girl Utena, another dark, doomer magical girl show, this time with a canon sapphic couple. I did learn about this in my research and plan on watching it soon since it sounds like…RIGHT up my alley for obvious reasons. Some of you guys are just recommending it &nbsp;(thanks for that) but others are fairly wondering why I didn&apos;t talk about it here.<br><br>I ended up not using it for this video because I made the decision to narrow my thesis to focus mostly on media with modern day mass Western audiences. I can’t speak to how RGU was received in the 90s, and it HAS had a lot of artistic influence on other, later animation. But in the modern day it’s a cult classic that lacks the continued dominance in Western fandom I see in the other shows I discuss in this video. You can see this a little bit in the amount of people who logged ratings for it on MAL in comparison to Madoka Magica—72,000 vs. 821,000. <br><br>That’s just my opinion of course, and it&apos;s not me saying at all that it wasn&apos;t a critically important and subversive series in yuri history. It&apos;s more that this video is not quite on yuri history, overall, so much as it is on modern day conceptions of doomed yuri in Western fandom. More than likely I’ll still be mad at myself for not making room for it when I do watch it considering how many of you love it and have tied it to this video haha but that was my rationale. I had to draw the line somewhere or I would have worked on this for another 3 months and it would be 2 hours longer &lt;/3 Which is probably appealing to some of you but I think would have actually killed me. Like I would be dead.<br><br>With that said—if the comments I’ve gotten are anything to go by, I’d strongly recommend checking it out if you’re looking for more yuri during this trying time and you&apos;re willing to engage with a darker, grittier piece of media 🙏 And a sincere thank you to everyone reminding me to check it out. Now that I am free from the chains that have bound me to my desk making this video….perhaps it is time.

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  @queenoffabulous2156 · 3 months ago

  I got so locked into the Madoka magica lore I forgot we were talking about yuri

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  @m.c.lizard9838 · 3 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciY9IM8a-GU&amp;t=1945">32:25</a> as someone with a degree in Japanese culture and language, and I do hope someone sees this and my comment isnt just left to the darkness, it is insane that these double suicides would even be debated to be not about the inevitable end of a romantic or at least queer platonic relationship at least some amount of the times it happened. Double suicides are famous in Japanese culture to be between doomed lovers, often called love suicides (they even had a word for it, 心中 shinju), you can just look at Edo-period kabuki and clearly see that there would really have to be a connection, but the complete and utter denial of wlw relationships that defies all logic marches on…😅

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  @mynti6662 · 3 months ago

  my girlfriend and i will be consuming this masterpiece over dinner bc we are not doomed yuri 🙂‍↕️

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  @mckenna4405 · 3 months ago

  Babe, wake up, I&apos;m crying over Class S relationships and the grief of lost unknowable human experiences again

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  @bellaspelman3189 · 3 months ago

  “Her very best friend” is now my new trigger word thank you

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  @sarah_mfaller7362 · 3 months ago

  subplot of this video: how sapphic sexuality is unable to be directly talked about and yet is portrayed as somehow more transcendent and meaningful by only being discussed in metaphor of combination of soul / self (waterdrops) and achievement of otherworldliness (spells)

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  @bettefics · 3 months ago

  Lexi: &quot;this is not academic, i tricked you&quot;<br><br>Lexi: <b>explains federal codes in two countries, details media censorship and explicitly cites academic articles to support her arguments</b>

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  @lucidfujo · 3 months ago

  as a lifelong shipper myself, the phrase &quot;wHy dOeS iT hAvE tO bE gAy&quot; is so triggering. makes me want to start biting.

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  @moose1277 · 3 months ago

  JUST WHEN WE NEEDED HER MOST, SHE RETURNED WITH A TWO HOUR YURI VIDEO, EVERYBODY CHEERED

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  @Maeeson · 3 months ago

  Yuri is like feminism: if the only option is to be a feminine wife/homemaker, &nbsp;its a problem, but when autonomy and choice is given, the CHOICE to be a wife/homemaker may be desirable to some. <br>Same with yuri, if doomed is the only allowed option, it looses its meaning, but if it is one option of many then it brings so much more meaning.<br><br>Anyways, this is one of my favorite videos &lt;3 its so well done, and it is going in my &quot;favorite long videos&quot; playlist

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  @k88cak3 · 3 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciY9IM8a-GU&amp;t=896">14:56</a> &quot;when will this be gay again?&quot; to understand yuri, ya gotta understand the concept of femininity and the tragic tug and pull between desire, passion and societal pressure

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