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For example, the tanbi magazine Allan ( アラン, Aran) began publishing Yuri Tsūshin ( 百合通信, "Lily Communication") in July 1983 as a personal ad column for "lesbiennes" to communicate.

While not all women whose letters appeared in Yurizoku no Heya were lesbians, and it is unclear whether the column was the first instance of the term yuri in this context, an association of yuri with lesbianism subsequently developed. "lily tribe") in reference to female readers of the magazine in a column of letters titled Yurizoku no Heya ( 百合族の部屋, lit. " Rose Tribe"), used the term yurizoku ( 百合族, lit. In 1976, Bungaku Itō, editor of the gay men's magazine Barazoku ( 薔薇族, lit. White lilies have been used since the Romantic era of Japanese literature to symbolize beauty and purity in women, and are a de facto symbol of the yuri genre. The word yuri ( 百合) translates literally to " lily", and is a relatively common Japanese feminine name. Although yuri originated as a genre targeted towards a female audience, yuri works have been produced that target a male audience, as in manga from Comic Yuri Hime 's male-targeted sister magazine Comic Yuri Hime S.Ī white lily, the de facto symbol of the yuri genre The genre gained wider popularity beginning in the 1990s the founding of Yuri Shimai in 2003 as the first manga magazine devoted exclusively to yuri, followed by its successor Comic Yuri Hime in 2005, led to the establishment of yuri as a discrete publishing genre and the creation of a yuri fan culture.Īs a genre, yuri does not inherently target a single gender demographic, unlike its male homoerotic counterparts yaoi (marketed towards a female audience) and gay manga (marketed towards a gay male audience).

Manga depicting female homoeroticism began to appear in the 1970s in the works of artists associated with the Year 24 Group, notably Ryoko Yamagishi and Riyoko Ikeda. Themes associated with yuri originate from Japanese lesbian fiction of the early twentieth century, notably the writings of Nobuko Yoshiya and literature in the Class S genre. Yuri is most commonly associated with anime and manga, though the term has also been used to describe video games, light novels, and literature. While lesbianism is a commonly associated theme, the genre is also inclusive of works depicting emotional and spiritual relationships between women that are not necessarily romantic or sexual in nature. " lily"), also known by the wasei-eigo construction girls' love ( ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), is a genre of Japanese media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters.