I remember being really really into Miaka/Yui, especially since Yuu Watase said that Yui is a lesbian and was in love with Miaka, and only redirected these forbidden feelings into trying to steal Tamahome--out of jealousy for him being close to Miaka in the way she wanted to be. So there's very, very good grounds for that.
Other FY femslash ships--Yui/Soi, I mean it was pretty explicit that the Seven Stars have pretty much no choice to be in love with their priestess, and word-of-god lesbian priestess Yui has one female priestess, who also happens to have the only power of buff magic which conveniently requires sex to apply. I mean YES PLEASE.
And on the other side, I've realized what I didn't quite get on first viewing--that Nuriko was absolutely a trans woman, and the whole "I tried to live my dead sister's life for her" was a pretty bullshit excuse. Like, lots of people grieve siblings without thinking, "A chance to take on the gender identity I always wanted!" (I know taking on a dead person's identity as a way to honor them is a more popular Japanese media trope, but still.) Nuriko wasn't faking being in love with Hotohori either (I know gay != trans, but not completely sure Yuu Watase knows this), and used female first-person pronouns (atashi) for herself. She seemed pretty exclusively interested in men, and it was only the "seven stars MUST love their priestess" thing that made her fall in love with Miaka, and since Miaka was (ostensibly) straight, that threw her whole gender identity into doubt and I think really messed with her head. Plus there was honestly something quite transphobic about the way she recanted her misguided trans ways and promptly died. And then her crush married a cis girl who LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HER. Add to that that Yui also had a team of six boys and a girl--so did Miaka, her girl was just trans. So I really came to ship Miaka/Nuriko but where Miaka is the one to maybe explore her heteroflexibility/bisexuality instead of forcing Nuriko to alter her gender identity to be with her.
Also BLUE I adore Blue. I think my only ship for her was with Cheza since there weren't a lot of female characters in the series...though with Cher could be interesting too? But I love Cheza/wolves in general, though I could see how some people would be squicked by the potential power imbalance. (The same is kind of true for Yui/Soi and Miaka/Nuriko.)
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Re: F/F in anime/manga
Date: 2015-03-25 07:12 pm (UTC)I remember being really really into Miaka/Yui, especially since Yuu Watase said that Yui is a lesbian and was in love with Miaka, and only redirected these forbidden feelings into trying to steal Tamahome--out of jealousy for him being close to Miaka in the way she wanted to be. So there's very, very good grounds for that.
Other FY femslash ships--Yui/Soi, I mean it was pretty explicit that the Seven Stars have pretty much no choice to be in love with their priestess, and word-of-god lesbian priestess Yui has one female priestess, who also happens to have the only power of buff magic which conveniently requires sex to apply. I mean YES PLEASE.
And on the other side, I've realized what I didn't quite get on first viewing--that Nuriko was absolutely a trans woman, and the whole "I tried to live my dead sister's life for her" was a pretty bullshit excuse. Like, lots of people grieve siblings without thinking, "A chance to take on the gender identity I always wanted!" (I know taking on a dead person's identity as a way to honor them is a more popular Japanese media trope, but still.) Nuriko wasn't faking being in love with Hotohori either (I know gay != trans, but not completely sure Yuu Watase knows this), and used female first-person pronouns (atashi) for herself. She seemed pretty exclusively interested in men, and it was only the "seven stars MUST love their priestess" thing that made her fall in love with Miaka, and since Miaka was (ostensibly) straight, that threw her whole gender identity into doubt and I think really messed with her head. Plus there was honestly something quite transphobic about the way she recanted her misguided trans ways and promptly died. And then her crush married a cis girl who LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HER. Add to that that Yui also had a team of six boys and a girl--so did Miaka, her girl was just trans. So I really came to ship Miaka/Nuriko but where Miaka is the one to maybe explore her heteroflexibility/bisexuality instead of forcing Nuriko to alter her gender identity to be with her.
Also BLUE I adore Blue. I think my only ship for her was with Cheza since there weren't a lot of female characters in the series...though with Cher could be interesting too? But I love Cheza/wolves in general, though I could see how some people would be squicked by the potential power imbalance. (The same is kind of true for Yui/Soi and Miaka/Nuriko.)