Re: Call Of Duty Yuri
Roseanne Gennett
Yuri, a genre of Japanese comics, animation, and related media focusing on lesbian themes and content, is unlike the four main demographically focused genres of Japanese media. Without a single, discrete source, yuri is the product of disparate creators and audiences with conflicting needs, tropes, and conventions of storytelling.
Yuri can describe any anime or manga series (or other derivative media, i.e., fan fiction, film, etc.) that shows intense emotional connection, romantic love, or physical desire between women. Yuri is not a genre confined by the gender or age of the audience, but by the perception of the audience.
Erica Friedman has lectured at MIT, University of Michigan. Harvard University, Kanagawa University and others. She has written about Yuri for Japanese journal Eureka and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. She also reviews Yuri anime, manga, and related media on her blog Okazu, which turned 15 years old in August 2017. Support her writing on Patreon!
As yuri continues to get queerer, the existence of trans people in these stories would be one way to provide validation for trans readers in their gender and sexuality while also helping cis people understand and internalize our long standing place in the sapphic community. Yuri works featuring trans characters do exist, though their history is complex and they remain relatively few.