Yuri 101 | Birth of a Genre, Birth of a Nation

Yuri would not be the genre it is without Yoshiya Nobuko and the Class S movement. In this video, which is perhaps a tad too much like a history paper, we'll be going into why. Support me on Patreon: Or send a one-time donation through Ko-Fi: Transcript: Sources: Makoto, Furukawa, and Angus Lockyer. “The Changing Nature of Sexuality: The Three Codes Framing Homosexuality in Modern Japan.” Women's Journal. English Supplement, no. 7, 1994, pp. 98–127. JSTOR, Maser, Verena. “Beautiful and Innocent: Female Same-Sex Intimacy in the Japanese Yuri Genre.” Universität Trier, Fachbereich 2, Universität Trier, 2015. Buffington, Robert M., et al. A Global History of Sexuality: the Modern Era. Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Suzuki, Michiko. “Writing Same-Sex Love: Sex