honoka and nagisa arent in otona precure because it would be hard to write around them when their only believable future is one where honoka is a brilliant and respected scientist at one of the top pharmaceutical labs in the nation and nagisa is her trophy wife who had a firey and controversial college lacrosse career before retiring from the scene to pursue her last blistering scraps of social relevance as a livestreamer, where she maintains a moderately successful following as the japanese equivalent of jerma
For the record, Saki is “only” engaged and isn’t married off yet, but I agree, neither Saki nor Mai should be heterosexual. Seeing those two on screen at the same time is the highlight of the show for me, and I never even watched Splash Star!!
Bonus subtext points to Toei for titling the latest episode “Their Bond” (as in, SAKI AND MAI’S bond) yet half the episode was about Saki being uncomfortable speaking her mind to her fiancé…
saki being married is actually pissing me off more than it should be. we never even see her supposed fiance on screen nor do we hear him talk. he's just a random man toei slapped with saki for the sake of... heterosexuality ig?? when mai was RIGHT THERE and saki had more chemistry with her.
“Why did the writers make this girl straight? What has that boy ever done for you?? It’s painful to watch. At least make her bi and let her notice the girl friend that’s been supportive all along…”
*cough cough* I’m sorry but I saw Mashiro and Sora wearing white dresses in the first image and I immediately thought they were getting married… save me from shippers’ brainrot
I’m sorry but I just noticed that Majesty is just going hippity hop like she’s sitting on a swing when everyone else is leaping forward!! Majesty why are you so cute like this whyyy
Yuri as a genre has been built around a set of tropes and styles and motifs, you can watch a show where someone may not explicitly say "i am a lesbian for you" but you know these girls are in love because of how it plays with the standards and archetypes of the genre that were established decades ago. So it always annoys me when people do this whole "is it yuri or just vibes" thing. Im sorry they're not scissoring on screen but I promise you yuri is still yuri.
“You need to tell them how you really feel!”
“Tell them you don’t want them to leave! That you’ll be lonely! That you want to keep living with them!”
“It’s okay to cry!”
“It’s okay to be unreasonable!”
“And then, I’m sure...”
“... you’ll be able to say goodbye with a smile.”