Yuri Recommendations

My defintion of yuri vs shoujo-ai:

It's a yuri anime if there's very obvious lesbian innuendos between characters or outright confessed feelings. They openly talk about their feelings for each other more or less. This also includes kissing, actual relationship establishment, sex, etc.

For something to fit into the shoujo-ai category, it's gotta be an anime that you can tell they're more than friends, but it's never explicitly stated or acted upon.


Yuri AMVs

I Wish I Was A Lesbian

Cardcaptor Sakura - funny and, like the anime itself, yuri is mentioned

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Yuri Hentai

Kuttsukiboshi OVA
This is only 2 episodes long, but it's so hot n heavy. They play rough if you know what I mean ;).

Sono hanabira ni kuchizuke wo.
So this is another hentai ova...I don't remember where I downloaded it from, but it's 226 mb on my laptop. Some of the youtube links don't have it in its entirety (or w/ english subs) probably due to the graphic nature. And I remember parts of what I downloaded not running smoothly on my comp, which sucked, but well most of the episode ran ok.

Also I'd recommend the eroge game, maybe would be better after the ova, but depends on whether or not you want to know their relationship's background or not. If ya like that one there's 7 other lesbian eroges under downloads and the same title. I've been through 3 and 1, they're both decent. Beggars can't be choosers right?

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Yuri Anime

Kannazuki No Miko
This one is very good. It goes hetero-ish for a bit (though still lesbian goodneess), but the climatic lesbian stuff is fantastic! It's got action with mechs too.

Blue Drop
This is also on netflix if you have that. Personally I thought the English dub on netflix was good, and it's a different experience to hear a yuri anime in English. A lesbian anime with supernatural themes? Sign me up :).

Yuru Yuri
I put this in the yuri category cause they openly talk about liking each other or there's a bit of lip action. One of my favs jut cause hilarity and randomness with yuri.

Koihime Musou
Shin Koihime Musou
Shin Koihime Musou Otome Tairan
So this one was originally a harem eroge game, but it's so much better as a yuri. I've been slowly but surely playing through the eroge and so far it doesn't hold a candle to the anime.
This is basically Samurai Warriors meets awesome lesbian-inclined women. Only disappointment is the unrealistic lack of gore when they're slashing people with halberds, but ah well. If you want a yuri that isn't slice-of-life, this is one of the few.

Sasameki Koto
So this one is probably my second favorite yuri anime of all time. The only problem with it is the anime doesn't conclude the story. When that happens, start reading the manga at chapter 12 according to someone on the interwebs. I think the entire manga is finally completely scanlated into English finally! So prepare to have direct, critical hits on your feelings due to the beautiful depiction of the woes and joys of love :). 

Aoi Hana
This one's suffers similarly to Sasameki Koto, the anime doesn't end the story and it continues in the manga. Not entirely sure, but I think the anime covers volumes 1-2 in the manga, and in vol 3 continues. Also the main characters of both those animes seem kinda similar to me. Ah well I still enjoyed it. Though I just saw that maybe the people scanlating it dropped it? ;_; might be cause the manga got licensed on jmanga...son of a...now I'mma have to buy it. Pff...

Kanamemo
This one has an actual yuri couple established in it! *le gasp* The world's coming to an end! Otherwise this one's very cute. Just fair warning though that there's a raging pedo pervert of a woman that you'll either find funny or annoying.

To Aru Kagaku No Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
Love the OP/EDs of this anime. So bear with the first 5 episodes and enjoy the excessive/obsessive fanservice (you'll see what I mean by obsessive). The story starts getting way more interesting and a really cool villian shows up. Plus Misaka is amazing I wish I could be like her. Also found out they're making another season soon YES!

Maria Holic, Maria Holic Alive
You can't take this one too seriously, you really just can't. I find the random humor hilarious and the dynamic of Kanako, the raging perverted lesbian, and her foil Mariya to be just...freaking awesome. Objectively speaking this anime's kinda stupid, but for some reason its charm still gets you to like it. I'm working on a fanfic for this series and I've got one chapter up so far. I'd definitely give it a try. Oh it also has the best ED song/visuals ever.

ICE

Yuyushiki

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Shojo-ai anime

Puella Magi Madoka Magica
If you like shoujo-ai/yuri and you haven't watched this series, you have sinned. Repent and Godoka will spare you. It's probably my fourth favorite anime of all time. It's a magical girl anime that totally deconstructs the genre. Give it 3 episodes and you should be hooked by that point, and that's when it starts getting dark.

Upotte
You could argue this one into the yuri category probably. It's pure, unadulterated fan service and guns. Also masturbation. That's all I'm going to say; enjoy *grins*.

Strike Witches

Natsuiro Kiseki
This anime has one of the best shoujo-ai plot devices ever in I think episode 2. So brilliant I looove it. Such a joy to watch, yet the ending's bittersweet...

Squid Girl
Yes the title's stupid, but give it a chance and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. So this is my #1 favorite anime of all time currently, I've written a fanfic about it and I have tooons of other fanfic ideas ready to be written for this series. I've got 14 pages of info and ideas for this series.

The yuri possibilities are fantastic, at least I think so. If you aren't liking it, wait until you at least meet Sanae; she's quite the bold character.

A Channel
There are songs sung every ep for no good reason, but you can skip over them safely usually. This one's just so charming and I love Yuuko.

Azumanga Daioh
It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I find the humor randomly stupid and I love the yuri undertones between the two teachers in this one. Also I can recommend a bunch of good fanfics for it as well!

Lucky Star
Really boring and slow, but Konata/Kagamin is the best and there's tons of doujins for them. For the best shojo-ai experience I would recommend just watching the OVA. The only reason to watch the series' episodes is to sort of get more of an idea of how awesome Konata and Kagamin are together.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha English sub, English dub
In my opinion, give this an episode to get used to the voices of the dub. Nanoha's voice starts off awful, but as episodes progress she stabilizes it. Watching it subbed was hard for me cause I think the voices are too sweet sounding and I really enjoy the English dub's spin on otherwise underwhelming dialogue translation. I watched it dubbed w/ English subs and comparing the two, the dub said what the sub said, but better. Problem with getting used to the English dub on this though is Nanoha Strikers isn't dubbed in English. :-/ I'm not lookin forward to the switch, but I'm enjoying it enough to bear through it like with Super Gals. Ah love that anime, not really shojo-ai, but sooo funny and girl-centric with themes of girl power and screw gender roles.

It finally starts getting more interesting in episode 5, so get to episode 5 at least to see some shojo-ai happenings. If you're still not impressed, I guess you can drop it at this point.

K-ON!
This is the anime that started my foray into being lesbian. Watch it in Japanese, the voice acting is so much better. I'm not sure I can entirely recommend season 2 because it's kinda disappointingly boring. What made season 2 worth it was there was lots of shipping between two characters when the all-girls school decides to put on Romeo and Juliet though :3.

Serial Experiments Lain
This anime's a mindfuck and does have a slight yuri sidebar to it. The art style is very distinct and unique style. It also has a very interesting message about modern society's internet culture and its effects.

Haibane Renmei
I haven't seen all of this one yet, but I've been wanting to. Not sure how much shoujo-ai is in it. I remember seeing some of it in anime club and it was interesting. Made by the same people who brought us Lain, so some mindfuck occurs.

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Yuri manga

Girl Friends
Think you can find volumes 1-3 on like mangareader or somewhere, but this one was good, very interesting how the love blossoms.

Renai Idenshi XX (some depicted nudity/sex, not terribly detailed or much though)
Holy crap this is probably one of the best yuri mangas I've read. It's still ongoing and the scanlators take forever, but I was fangirling like crazy the whole time. It'll leave you reeling for days thinking why isn't there more, WHY?!