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yuri
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fiction genre involving intimate relationships between female characters
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- lesbian literature
- Named after
- female
- Main subject
- lesbianism
- Image
- CroesusXIncarna.jpg
- Said to be same as
- girls' love
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- hashtag
- Yuri
- native label
- 百合
- topic's main category
- Category:Yuri (genre)
- Commons category
- Yuri (genre)
- facet of
- lesbian literature
- opposite of
- yaoi
- different from
- girls' love
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Encyclopedic overview
An example of yuri-inspired artwork. Works depicting intimate relationships between school classmates are common in the yuri genre.
Yuri (Japanese: 百合; lit. "lily"), also known by the wasei-eigo construction girls' love (ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), is a genre of Japanese media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters. While lesbian relationships are a commonly associated theme, the genre is also inclusive of works depicting emotional and spiritual relationships between women that are not necessarily romantic or sexual in nature. Yuri is most commonly associated with anime and manga, though the term has also been used to describe video games, light novels, and other forms of literature.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “yuri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.