Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-2.96.106.45-20131022215901/@comment-71.200.43.43-20140605152458

Just found this link on TV Tropes, and I felt like adding my own reason for shipping the yuri pairings: when I first heard of this series, it was only the Red trailer. What did that trailer tell us? Well, that it would be anime-style, and would focus on a group of girls who can kick ass. I don't know about you, but that kinda sounds like a magical girl series to me. And my only experiences with magical girls prior to this series (hell, even now) have been:

Mai HiME (which featured at least two lesbians, with most other girls getting plenty of les yay fanservice)

it's AU spin-off Mai Otome (where the girls would lose their powers if they had sex with men, thereby making other women their best option for romance or sex)

and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (to quote TV Tropes: "[The show] is popular . . . for depicting what is essentially a happy, successful lesbian couple that then becomes a happy, successful family unit")

So I assumed when I saw the trailer that it might follow suit with what seemed to be a running theme in magical girl animes, and thus came into the show with yuri goggles placed firmly over my eyes.