With Sono Han­abira ni Kuchiduke wo trans­lated, I thought back to my fun time with Aoi Shiro and grabbed it in a flash. Well unfor­tu­nately things didn’t go as I would like— the game ended up dis­turb­ing me in under ten min­utes. Why? Because this is no yuri romance story, it’s almost pure yuri H, with two really per­verted girls nonethe­less and prob­a­bly more H text than story writ­ing… Really, the cute title and soft color pal­lette fooled me. But it’s been a long time since I’ve dis­liked a yuri story and that got me thinking—

I wish I had an onee-san like Yuki-chan

Most peo­ple clas­sify yuri as a pri­mary genre, like romance or action (as opposed to secondary/tertiary gen­res, like psy­cho­log­i­cal, school, etc, which are more like descrip­tor tags). This implies it’s amongst the main rea­sons to watch a show, and that if you don’t love yuri then you can’t enjoy the show. To date I’m still not com­pletely sure of this view. Yes, I’ve picked up yuri for the sake of it being yuri, but is yuri the tar­get that I’m look­ing for? Or, is yuri merely a medium of deliv­er­ing what I really sought? I’m reminded of what ETERNAL said:

Yuri, like all set­tings and devices and what have you, is sim­ply a premise.

Maybe when I sought yuri, I’m sim­ply look­ing for a really cute romance with an ele­gantly refined atmosphere.

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