Started playing SAO Last Recollection, and it’s going pretty well so far
Read 3 volumes of 田所さん | L24?? and while I wasn’t strictly timing myself, I finished vol 3 in less than an hr. So not bad for reading speed.
Have been putting off 転生王女と天才令嬢の魔法革命 4 | L32 a bit the last few days, cuz I’ve been kinda tired out (and also fell down the yuri history rabbit hole)
Fell down the rabbit hole reading more history of yuri stuff. The ones I liked or that had some useful info:
- 「百合」ジャンルの歴史と現在 前
- 『水星の魔女』を終着点とする、百合作品の変遷、および作中における恋愛観（セクシャリティ観）の変遷｜SF研究会（慶應義塾大学公認学生団体）
- 百合の現在位置——『やがて君になる』に辿る百合漫画史論【再録】｜東京大学百合愛好会
- 百合漫画の歴史を教えてください。百合というジャンルがありますが、起源はいつにま... - Yahoo!知恵袋
slight rant
In general I’m noticing that there’s a lot of gaps. Like “Class-S happened, 花物語, now let’s jump to the 70s”, “shoujo magazines / 少女小説 were a thing, now let’s jump to the 90s”, “マリみて, Sailor Moon, and Utena happened, now let’s jump to the 2000s”, "shoujo sect and some other stuff, now let’s jump to 2010s/2020s and be detailed)… It’s much harder to find stuff that talks about what might have influenced.
One or two of the articles did actually get into 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2k a lot more, and talk about stuff like “these works clearly inherited from マリみて and also influenced yuri that followed after then”… But what influenced マリみて (the answer acc to something I read the other day is probably くりいむレモン which is from 『エスカレーション ~今夜はハードコア~』- which I don’t recommend looking up, unless you want some really messed up porn)
So anyway that gets a bit frustrating… that there’s so many gaps. Eventually I’ll have to reread the English links that were good, and do some digging again starting from there. But in the meantime I’m gonna try to find interviews and stuff with various authors - starting with マリみて and 青い花.
I’m probably gonna give Sailor Moon manga another try in the nearish(?) future, and eventually Utena, since they’re historically important for yuri. Will be nice to finally be familiar. Not sure if I should try Utena anime or manga first
