Both yuri and yaoi have a few unique problems with their genres when it comes to the depiction with same sex couples. In yaoi, they do enjoy their predatory relationships. However, yuri has a different problem – how they end the series. For some reason, there is a love affair among yuri creators in Japan by having their ending be just terrible to the fans. Either someone ends up dead, or worse, one party just grows out of being attracted to girls. How insulting to lesbian anime watchers to basically be told that your love is a dalliance of youth, right?
Well, let’s find some yuri anime series that actually end in the satisfying way that most people usually want a romance series to end – happily.
Best Girl’s Love Anime With Happy Endings
Strawberry Panic
As a series about a bunch of girls at a girls’ school, you weren’t wrong to get vibes that the characters would end up “graduating” their attraction to girls at the end. However, you actually would be wrong! In fact, if you like happy, satisfying, albeit it a bit cheesy romance endings, then this is the finest of the yuri genre.
Whispering Words
Whispered Words is an interesting yuri anime wherein the characters don’t beat around the bush with their love of women. However, they do beat around the bush with how much one likes the other. The ending to the anime is, well, it’s not the squee-inducing romantic ending you might crave, but it does technically break the trope. The manga gives you a little more of what you crave, though.
Bloom Into You
Bloom Into You is a newer show and unique for addressing the old standard of growing out of same sex attraction. The anime ends well enough, but if you want your happy ending with your adult lesbians alive and in a good relationship, you need to read the manga or present your sacrifice to the gods for a second season.
Citrus
Seeing as Citrus is unlikely to get a second season, you will be pleased that the anime itself ends as you would hope a romance anime does. It is happy enough and conclusive enough. You would get more if you read the manga, but you don’t need to either, which is nice.
Yuru Yuri
It feels a little bit like cheating by including a comedy series, but if you don’t take your plot very seriously, you can’t have an unhappy ending. This is also a great choice if you don’t want a heavy drama romance, but rather just want to watch girls flirt with each other.
Sakura Trick
This is another comedy focused yuri series but it does take a more serious look at the relationship when it needs to. The anime ends nicely as a romance anime with the option to continue with the manga to see an even more conclusive ending. It’s nice to get the laughs but also get the legitimate romance.
Candy Boy
Deceptively named, but one of the more visually nice yuri anime series (which seems to be a trend with newer yuri entries), Candy Boy will not disappoint with its ending. It doesn’t go too overboard with its drama and wraps things up in a sweet way. Like a candy bar, ya’ll.
Do you have any more yuri anime recommendations where the couple ends up happy at the end? Let fans know in the comments section below.
I d say that no matter what Chikane and Himeko and Himiko and Koan had the happy ending.
Though might be a regular anime (albeit the most amazing of all times), lets not forget Sailor Moon not only for the amazing LGBT+ representation, but because Michiru and Haruka did have a happy ever after and yuri actually officially started with them!
it’s y’all, not ya’ll…
How on Earth is Kase-san not on this list? Like… it’s the “title image”! And still not included in the list?! Both the Anime and the Manga have happy endings – at least if this list is the bar for happy endings.
I have to disagree to most of your choices. Whispering Words left me MAD about the “ending”, where nothing happens (NOTHING, not even a kiss) and where the relationship didn’t even start. The reason is that the manga was not even halfway when the anime was made. So it’s an extremely unsatisfying anime to watch. This prolem plagues also Bloom Into You (no ending, anime made halfway into the novel story and romance barely started). Sakura Trick ends just like it started: kissing in every episode without any relationship developement. Citrus has an acceptable ending, even if the story just starts in the last episode. The only anime I recommend in this list is Strawberry Panic. It has great plot, drama, character developement and a birttersweet ending that leave you satisfied.
I would also like the say Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid also has a happy ending
BRO ISFG I DONT TRUST ANY RECCOMADATIONS COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO WOULD RECOMEND CITRUS GET THIS BOREDLINE INSEST SHIT AWAY FROM ME
FOR REAL THO i was like ohh sounds nice yeah yeah and when i reached citrus i went HUH??? THATS NOT THE WHOLESOME SHOUJO AI IM LOOKING FOR
This isn’t a list for wholesome yuri, this is actually a list of modern yuri that escaped the homophobic yuri tropes that often resulted in women “growing out” of liking women after their school years or one party just straight up being killed off in order to not have to portray two girls in an established romantic relationship at the end.
For more on the trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BaitAndSwitchLesbians
But anyway, wholesome yuri is actually a pretty good idea for a whole separate article! Which, yeah, would not include Citrus as I view it as a more fetishistic approach lesbian relationships.