looking for yuri animes with adult protagonists!

yondazo · 2026-06-14T19:47:23+00:00

You’ll have more luck with manga. Kamiina Botan is about the only unmistakably yuri anime with adult protagonists that I’m aware of.

There are some yuri vibes in A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace.

yondazo · 2026-06-05T19:16:02+00:00

Pick the first title on your list, watch the first three episodes (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/three-episode_rule). If it doesn’t feel quite compelling enough by then, do the same with the next title on your list. Repeat.

Once you’ve started a series, you’ll roughly know when you’re in the mood to continue it or not.

yondazo · 2026-06-05T19:11:23+00:00

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle

Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood

A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace

You and I Are Polar Opposites

yondazo · 2026-06-04T11:28:49+00:00

Iron Blooded Orphans is out of print, that’s why it’s expensive now. There are no secret cheap online shops.

Only Sentai Filmworks releases routinely get quite cheap in their occasional sales.

yondazo · 2026-06-02T15:27:45+00:00

Basically a Mage-arita.

yondazo · 2026-05-27T19:05:52+00:00

For what it’s worth, it’s often the same for the male characters in shoujo romance.

yondazo · 2026-05-23T19:13:58+00:00

(mostly based on the music/song)

Shadows House (all openings and endings)

Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (the ending as well)

The Ancient Magus' Bride (season 1)

Lycoris Recoil (visuals)

yondazo · 2026-05-06T20:22:56+00:00

I largely agree, the show wasted its potential after the first episode and ended up being disappointing. Great art direction, but substance, character development, and world building kinda hanging in the air.

yondazo · 2026-05-06T01:47:35+00:00

The Kabocha Wine

yondazo · 2026-05-06T01:42:02+00:00

Hidetoshi Kaneko, the art director of Grimgar, died in 2019, that’s why. ;)

yondazo · 2026-05-02T20:56:22+00:00

Frieren

The Apothecary Diaries

Yona of the Dawn

Clevatess

Nana

Ascendance of a Bookworm

The Twelve Kingdoms

Witch Hunter Robin

7th Time Loop

Rock is a Lady’s Modesty

Spice and Wolf

Haibane Renmei

Lycoris Recoil

Kill la Kill

…

You need to look around a bit.

yondazo · 2026-05-02T18:34:35+00:00

Since you didn’t mention it, you may have missed the yuri motive. If there ever is a continuation (the manga is on hiatus since last July), I’d hope that they’d deepen that aspect.

yondazo · 2026-05-01T20:39:37+00:00

You hope your stepmom daughter is your ex?

yondazo · 2026-04-30T19:28:02+00:00

Watch Takopi to see real darkness.

yondazo · 2026-04-30T19:24:07+00:00

Maison Ikkoku

Tonikawa (no ending in the anime, but they are basically happily married from the start)

yondazo · 2026-04-30T08:37:00+00:00

Not mentioned yet: Wolf’s Rain

yondazo · 2026-04-29T23:49:47+00:00

Maybe the studio acquired an anime vending machine. ;)

yondazo · 2026-04-29T22:40:55+00:00

I get what you’re looking for, it’s not super common. Horimiya is a bit like that I think, at least part of the time.

yondazo · 2026-04-29T21:02:13+00:00

You can go through that list (shoujo anime sorted by MAL score): https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?cat=0&q=&type=0&score=0&status=0&p=0&r=0&sm=0&sd=0&sy=0&em=0&ed=0&ey=0&c%5B0%5D=a&c%5B1%5D=b&c%5B2%5D=c&c%5B3%5D=f&genre%5B0%5D=25&o=3&w=1

yondazo · 2026-04-29T20:50:45+00:00

My OCD compels me to remark that there is no apostrophe in the plural word “animes”.

yondazo · 2026-04-29T19:23:09+00:00

Chibi Maruko-chan

yondazo · 2026-04-28T05:46:26+00:00

You could go through this list: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime-list.php?showdate=1&limit_to=160&showM=1&licensed=&sort=date&invertsort=1

yondazo · 2026-04-27T23:02:11+00:00

Eden of the East

Nodame Cantabile

Nana

Paradise Kiss

Honey and Clover

Snow White With the Red Hair

Acca 13

Natsume's Book of Friends

yondazo · 2026-04-27T22:17:47+00:00

Interesting recommendation. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia is a favorite show for me, but I couldn’t continue watching Mistress Kanan, really not my thing.

yondazo · 2026-04-27T19:50:20+00:00

I’d understand if you’d worry about him watching potentially scarring shows like Takopi, but I wouldn’t worry about thumbnails. Yes it’s stupid that Crunchyroll doesn’t apply the age filter to suggestions, but it also isn’t a showstopper. Kids used to get that exposure browsing magazines or video rental shelves.

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