Yuri Anime: Top 30+ Yuri Anime of All Time
This list covers the best 30 yuri anime shows for you to watch and enjoy. If you are new to the genre of yuri anime, it can be defined as content focusing exclusively on girls love involving both sexual and non-sexual romantic relationships between female characters. Yuri anime is not restricted only to female target audience, as there are sub-genres such as shounen and seinen that are meant especially for men to watch and enjoy. Quite many shows on this list can intersect with different types of sub-genres depending on the specific characteristics of their storyline and what kind content they show during the scenes of the movie. Some of the well-known shows in the yuri category are Sakura Trick and Yuru Yuri. To explore the genre of yuri anime in the best way, we recommend you to start watching from the top of the list to find out which ones you personally think are the best ones.
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Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid
Each of the series revolves around girls who have been infected with a mysterious virus known as the A Virus (Armed Virus). These girls are divided into two classes; Extars (Ekusutā), who can transform into weapons when sexually aroused, and…
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A Kiss for the Petals
Set in St. Michael’s Academy (Mikajyo), the games follows the yuri relationships and romance between various girls. While most of the games focus just on a single couple, some of the newer titles feature multiple couples. The uniforms for the…
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Sakura Trick
Haruka Takayama and Yū Sonoda were inseparable during middle school, but upon entering high school, they end up being seated on opposite sides of the classroom. Having to spend time with more friends, the two decide to make their relationship…
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Kuttsukiboshi
Kiiko Kawakami is a high school girl who secretly has telekinetic powers. The only person who knows of this is her friend, Aaya Saitō, who she has a crush on. One day after Aaya helps train her to use her powers, Kiiko leans in to kiss a sleeping…
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Strawberry Panic!
The plot of Strawberry Panic! revolves around the lives of the adolescents who attend one of three affiliated all-girl schools which share a campus and dormitories. The schools are: St. Miator’s Girls’ Academy, St. Spica’s…
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Candy Boy
Yukino and Kanade Sakurai, twin sisters and native from Hokkaido, move together to a student residence in Tokyo to attend high school leaving their younger sister, Shizuku “Shi-chan” with their parents. Sakuya Kamiyama, a first year…
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Shoujo Sect; Innocent Lovers
The story revolves around the main protagonists Shinobu Handa and Momoko Naitou. They have known each other since childhood and Shinobu fell in love with Momoko from the first day they met. Now enrolled in an all-girl high school, Momoko has…
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Riddle Story of Devil
At a private girls’ boarding school, Myōjō Academy, thirteen girls are transferred into the academy’s “10th Year Class Black”. Of these thirteen students, twelve are assassins from various backgrounds who are all tasked…
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Vandread
Set in a universe where humans have colonized the galaxy, and in one star system, men and women are completely segregated (on completely different planets: Mejere by the women, Taraak by the men) causing the gender war to be more than just a…
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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
The storyline follows Nanoha Takamachi, a nine-year-old Japanese girl attending elementary school, who lives with her parents and her older siblings. Nanoha’s regular daily life ends when she rescues an injured ferret who reveals himself as a…
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Sasameki Koto
Sumika Murasame is a high school girl who is in love with her female best friend Ushio Kazama, but is unable to confess how she feels as Ushio only likes girls she considers to be “cute” and “small”, while Sumika is tall and…
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Seikon No Qwaser
The story chronicles the school lives of Mafuyu Oribe and Tomo Yamanobe at the Japanese Eastern Orthodox school St. Mihailov Academy where they have endured persecution and isolation from other students led by the daughter of the current…
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Kannazuki no Miko
Himeko Kurusugawa and Chikane Himemiya are two high-school girls at the prestigious Ototachibana Academy in the fictional Japanese town of Mahoroba. They are also the reincarnations of the solar and lunar mikos. When their ancient enemy the Orochi…
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YuruYuri
Taking place at the fictional Nanamori Middle School in Takaoka, Toyama,[1] the series revolves around the daily lives of the Amusement Club (Goraku-bu), consisting of Akari Akaza, her childhood friends, Kyōko Toshinō and Yui Funami, and her…
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RIN – Daughters of Mnemosyne
A mysterious tree known as Yggdrasil would often appear in the world of the humans, releasing many small orbs into the human world. A small proportion of the orbs are special ones known as “Time Fruits”. If a Time Fruit enters a female,…
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Canaan
Two years after the events of 428: Shibuya Scramble, Maria Ōsawa and Minoru Minorikawa are dispatched as reporters to Shanghai in order to cover the upcoming Shanghai NBCR International Anti-Terrorist Conference. Prior to their current assignment,…
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Noir
The series follows the story of two young female assassins, the Corsican Mireille Bouquet and the Japanese amnesiac Yuumura Kirika, who embark together on a personal journey to seek answers about mysteries concerning their past. At first, they seem…
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Blue Drop: Tenshi-tachi no Gikyoku
The decisive factor in the Arume’s victory is the use of biological weapons and a modified version of an alien toy called Emiru Force[4] (Emiru Fōsu).[5][6] Along the years, the remnants of this weaponry have become dangerous creatures which…
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Simoun
A war breaks out between three nations Simulacrum, Argentum, and Plumbum over Simulacrum helical motor technology that powers the airships known as Simouns. Two fleets of the Simoun, Chor Caput and Chor Tempest, stumble upon a huge Argentum airship…
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica
In the fictional city of Mitakihara, Japan, a middle school student named Madoka Kaname and her friend Sayaka Miki encounter a small, cat-like creature named Kyubey. It offers a contract in which a girl may have any wish…
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Yuri Kuma Arashi
In the anime version, humans have created a Wall of Severance to separate themselves from the bears, who grew violent and attacked humans after a far-off planet known as Kumaria exploded, turning into a meteor shower that fell upon earth. Two bears,…
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Burst Angel
In the near future, due to an unusual rise in criminal activity, it has become legal to possess firearms in Japan so lawful citizens can protect themselves. At the same time, the government established the Recently Armed Police of Tokyo, whose…
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Maria-sama ga Miteru
Maria-sama ga Miteru’s story revolves around the students of the Lillian Girls’ Academy and is character-driven, focusing on interactions between the characters rather than any sort of ongoing plot or goal to attain.[3] When the story…
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Love Live! School idol project
Honoka Kōsaka is a girl who attends Otonokizaka Academy (tonokizaka Gakuin). When the school is scheduled to be closed due to a lack of applicants, Honoka becomes determined to save it. Honoka goes to UTX, where her little sister planned to go for…
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Revolutionary Girl Utena
Utena is seen as having conflict with the staff of her current school and they call in her aunt, who is an interior decorator. Utena’s friend Kaido is introduced and the two seem to have a strong friendship. It is then explained that Utena may…
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El Cazador de la Bruja
A fateful encounter between Ellis, a fugitive girl with amnesia, a troubled past, and supernatural powers, and Nadie, a feisty bounty hunter, leads to the two of them traveling south together in search of the key to unlocking Ellis’s past. The…
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Hibike! Euphonium
The Kitauji high school concert band club had at one time participated in national tournaments and was a champion school, but after the club’s adviser changed, they had not been able to even participate in the qualifying tournament. However,…
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Shoujo Kakumei Utena
Utena is seen as having conflict with the staff of her current school and they call in her aunt, who is an interior decorator. Utena’s friend Kaido is introduced and the two seem to have a strong friendship. It is then explained that Utena may…
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Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl
At the start of Kashimashi, a young high school boy named Hazumu Osaragi declares his love to classmate and close friend Yasuna Kamiizumi, but she quickly rejects him. Dejected, Hazumu climbs Mt. Kashima and is killed when an alien spacecraft…
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Sweet Blue Flowers
At the start of Sweet Blue Flowers, Akira Okudaira, who is an entering high school student into Fujigaya Girls Academy, becomes reacquainted with her childhood friend Fumi Manjōme whom she has not seen for ten years. Fumi is attending Matsuoka…
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Inugami-san and Nekoyama-san
Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san is a Japanese four-panelyurimanga series by Kuzushiro, serialized in Ichijinsha‘s Comic Yuri Hime since November 18, 2011. It has been collected in six tankōbon volumes as of July 2018. An anime television series…