If anybody's avoided watching Sailor Moon for being "too male-gazey", I'm judging them. Just sayin'.
Some more magical girl recs: Tokyo Mew Mew (where they protect the Earth from aliens with Science!) has a canon (if one-sided) lesbian thing going on within the team. Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (where she exorcises demons on behalf of God, although [spoiler]) has a cute and heart-tugging dynamic with the heroine and her angelic sidekick, plus the super-tropey, subtext-heavy "obsessed detective who will catch our hero-thief at all costs!" dynamic.
And for people looking for something shorter, less filler-y, and maybe with some psychological drama, I can't rec Black Rock Shooter enough. It's kind of like if Utena had the school parts and the magical-dueling parts happening in parallel universes, plus the fight-scene choreography and visual surrealism of Madoka, and beautiful animation in general -- and all of it fueled by grade-A lesbian angst.
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Re: F/F in anime/manga
Date: 2013-06-12 02:33 am (UTC)Some more magical girl recs: Tokyo Mew Mew (where they protect the Earth from aliens with Science!) has a canon (if one-sided) lesbian thing going on within the team. Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (where she exorcises demons on behalf of God, although [spoiler]) has a cute and heart-tugging dynamic with the heroine and her angelic sidekick, plus the super-tropey, subtext-heavy "obsessed detective who will catch our hero-thief at all costs!" dynamic.
And for people looking for something shorter, less filler-y, and maybe with some psychological drama, I can't rec Black Rock Shooter enough. It's kind of like if Utena had the school parts and the magical-dueling parts happening in parallel universes, plus the fight-scene choreography and visual surrealism of Madoka, and beautiful animation in general -- and all of it fueled by grade-A lesbian angst.