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Re: F/f things you're currently into

[(Anonymous)]

Revue Starlight! When I saw the preview for it I assumed it was an Ikuhara production, but no, it's just heavily inspired by his style. It's about a magical realism boarding school fight club where the winner is promised a mysterious but eternal power, but instead of being a wide-ranging meditation on gender and sexuality like Utena was, it's specifically about show business and the way women are expected to compete with each other, and it's considerably more light-hearted. And there are no boys! The only male character is the talking giraffe orchestrating the whole thing! And there are four basically canon f/f ships and I love them all!

Re: F/f things you're currently into

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds promising, how old are the characters though? I find it hard to get into shows with teenagers at my age lmao

Re: F/f things you're currently into

[(Anonymous)]

They're teens, unfortunately.

Re: F/f things you're currently into

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen people talking about this show, but I've been kind of reluctant to give it a shot -- in your opinion, does it ever actually manage to transcend the otakubait vibe those character designs give off? Between the all-female cast and the fact that I've been seeing ads for the live-action stage show(?) plastered up all over Ikebukuro, I assumed it was yet another "girls being cute and/or suffering for the benefit of the presumed-male viewer who's going to imagine these characters as his waifus and ideally buy tons of merch" a la Madoka, Love Live, etc, and those franchises tend to really alienate me in a way that Utena did not.

Re: F/f things you're currently into

[(Anonymous)]

It's seinen like Madoka and Love Live, not shoujo like Utena, so if you're super turned off just by knowing that the primary audience is male then it's not recommended. Imo I would say that yes, it does transcend that - it's more substantial than Love Live and not exploitative like Madoka - but since I'm the sort of lesbian who actually manages to enjoy some through-and-through otakubait for the yuri bait, I may have softer judgement than you do.

Re: F/f things you're currently into

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly if you're not into the soft girls idol content, I'd pass. I liked Utena because none of the girls were what you call soft by any stretch of the word. Its not the worst show but if you're not into that type of stuff it really does have that much else.

Re: F/f things you're currently into

[(Anonymous)]

I think calling the pairings "basically canon" may be a bit of an exageration? Outside of Mahiru's failed indirect kiss making it clear that she has romantic interest for Karen, I felt like for most of the characters it was put in a vague enough way to let it be seen as friendship for the japanese viewers who'd want that.

I may be missing a bit of context though because some of the episodes I watched didn't have subtitles for the lyrics of the songs during the duels and ending themes.

There's been a lot of great Maya/Claudine fanarts anyway! I should check out if there's fics too.

Re: F/f things you're currently into

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, there's no onscreen kisses and that's definitely for a (not great) reason, but I don't think it's a stretch to say that the way the various couples talk about how they belong to each other is... the sort of thing you'd have to be very determinedly against the existence of lesbians to read as platonic.