I started binge watching this series while looking for more Class S type stories. I'm thoroughly enjoying but it seems like the anime did not fully cover all the light novels, and the anime was the only media translated into English. That itself is a pity of course, but I'm glad we got something at least.While Class S type stories aren't exactly yuri, this can be discussed here, right?
Marimite LNs are mostly translated. And they aren't that hard to read do your Anki
>>4514563I gave up on learning Japanese, with the time I will spend learning the language I would rather just play vidya. Maybe if I was still in college I would continue my classes but work gets in the way.
>>4514037Marimite does have some explicit yuri in it. But only for certain couples. It is considered a bridge between Class S garbage and yuri for a reason.
>>4514037>this can be discussed here, right?It's literally recommended in the /u/ stickyHaven't watched it in a few years but I remember it being really comfy and Sei is still the greatest player among anime lesbians
>>4514037Read Dear Flowers that Bloomed in the Days of Yore
That's not what Class S means. Nobuko Yoshiya, the most famous writer of those stories, was an out lesbian and frequently wrote about sexual love affairs between girls. Her characters will frequently sooner commit double suicide than allow anyone to separate them.
>>4514935People twisted the meaning (for their own convenience). Class S can be seen in a similar way to what tentacles were in the first place, an anti-censorship measure, but that was lost over time, since Class S was the only way they could show love between girls and certain people wouldn't complain about it.
>>4514935Nobody wants to read stories where lesbians commit lovers suicides. This is a limitation of the era, not something the romanticize.>>4514941Class S is defined by censorship and Japanese society being garbage to women and especially lesbians. It doesnt matter if you consider it "twisted", it just reflected the reality of the situation. It's just depressing, unsatisfying, shitty defeatism. Lesbians who can only stay together as a "phase" and either have to choose death or marry a man after those youthful days are over.It's good that Class S died and everyone who is trying to bring it back should be punched int the gut till they vomit up their organs. Yuri exists beyond those limitations of the past.
>>4514948>>It's good that Class S died and everyone who is trying to bring it back should be punched int the gut till they vomit up their organs.The problem is when people confuse bait with Class S, when the latter can be considered a genre in itself, the former is simply bad writing and an author/director being a son of a bitch who pretends he is being intelligent or directly thinks he knows what he is doing.
>>4514951Class S isnt bait, because the negative outcome was the default. Nobody reading a Class S work expected anything good from it, especially the more commonly popularized Class S garbage from the 60s-80s.And I very much consider Class S badly and lazily written. You can only read "And then they gave up their 'childish' feelings for each other and got married to men" so many times until it becomes clear that there was no value to this expression. This doesn't address the struggles of lesbians in a meaningful way, especially when repeated ad nauseum. The main attraction to people who read that shit is that vague ephemeral feelings of a """"pure"""" relationship before moving on to reality.Yuri is capable of doing anythingh Class S did without getting stuck in its stifling niche.
