Welcome to Pike’s All Girls Yuri School. Today we’re talking about Yuri as a Genre vs. Yuri as a Vibe. Yuri as a genre is when something is specifically marketed as yuri and the relationship is usually explicitly stated. A very popular example would be the manga Bloom Into You. It’s about a romantic relationship […]
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