2012 Yuri File
“To hand you back your cassette,” Akira said. She’d been keeping it—keeping Yui’s things, keeping Yui—like a talisman. “And because if you offered me a playlist, I wanted the first song to be a lie or a promise.”
The prolific American voice actor Yuri Lowenthal contributed to several major anime and game dubs in 2012, including Barnaby Brooks Jr. in Tiger & Bunny and Yosuke Hanamura in the English dub of Persona 4 The Animation . 2012 yuri
Most lists forget this one, but it is vital. While the main plot involves a woman and a ghost, the subtext and the emotional maturity of the female lead set a tone. More importantly, 2012 gave us (Note: Yuri on Ice would come four years later, but the search keyword confusion is real). In Natsuyuki , the depiction of a strong, independent female gaze paved the way for how women would be written in later Yuri titles. “To hand you back your cassette,” Akira said
At first glance, it seems like a strange temporal marker. Why 2012? Was there a specific comet passing through the lesbian romance genre that year? Did the Mayan calendar predict not the end of the world, but the beginning of a specific era for girls’ love? in Tiger & Bunny and Yosuke Hanamura in
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