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[14][15] History[edit] Before 1970: Class S literature[edit] Writer Nobuko Yoshiya, whose works in the Class S genre significantly influenced yuri Among the first Japanese authors to produce works about love between women was Nobuko Yoshiya,[16] a novelist active in the Taishō and Shōwa periods. [17] Yoshiya was a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the early twentieth century Class S genre. [18] Her works popularized many of the ideas and tropes which drove the yuri genre for years to come. [19] Class S stories depict lesbian attachments as emotionally intense yet platonic relationships, destined to be curtailed by graduation from school, marriage, or death. [17] The root of this genre is in part the contemporary belief that same-sex love was a transitory and normal part of female development leading into heterosexuality and motherhood. [20] Class S developed in the 1930s through Japanese girls' magazines, but declined as a result of state censorship brought about by the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. [21] Though homosociality between girls would re-emerge as a common theme in post-war shōjo manga (comics for girls), Class S gradually declined in popularity in favor of works focused on male-female romances. [22] Traditionally, Class S stories focus on strong emotional bonds between an upperclassman and an underclassman,[18] or in rare cases, between a student and her teacher. [23] Private all-girls schools are a common setting for Class S stories, which are depicted as an idyllic homosocial world reserved for women. Works in the genre focus heavily on the beauty and innocence of their protagonists, a theme that would recur in yuri. [24] Critics have alternately considered Class S as a distinct genre from yuri,[25] as a "proto-yuri",[26] and a component of yuri.
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