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this is what i'm talking about: series like evangelion and sailor moon, that type of thing. those individual tropes in combination are popular right now because yagakimi was influential. a trope becomes codified when an influential work takes it and makes it popular. of course these individual tropes always existed because characters with these characteristics have always existed in this genre. Other than that, I'm glad yuri has overall evolved to be way better than what it was before xD I think the only true positive aspect of the show back then was it was one of the few blatantly gay animes airing at the time. Hahahaha thinking back on it, Strawberry Panic was a hoot and the fandom back then was really fun with a bunch of fan material and memes, but it was definitely a series not to be taken seriously. I suppose it ends with a big confession scene if that is your thing. If you say so, if there were positive aspects to that show I certainly do not remember them anymore. Mister, we could use a lead like Shizuma Hanazono again. This sounds very insulting towards the C64. It was like the Commodore 64 of yuri manga (and the anime was far better than the manga). Hey, Strawberry Panic was a hoot, with the occasional effective scene. Just like how the first series that came to my mind when thinking of those tropes was Strawberry Panic (unfortunately hahahahaha). I actually think it's kinda funny how you can tell what generation people became yuri fans by the examples of series they first think of. I think people just think of Sayaka first because Bloom Into You is a lot of this generations' first introduction to a proper 'school girl yuri' series. I actually feel like Honami doesn't resemble Sayaka at all aside from the 'seemingly unrequited love' part. It has a lot of common tropes as well (I mean what school girl yuri series doesnt?), but aside from the unrequited best friend role (which a lot of series have), this has a completely different theme, story and character relationship. I don't really feel like this series is similar to Bloom Into You at all. Like you said, it's how Bloom into You was executed that made it good, but yeah, hard disagree on these being tropes created by/made popular by Bloom Into You. What Bloom Into You did well was give a more realistic and deep portrayal to these tropes.

The tropes you listed can all easily be found in say, Strawberry Panic lol. I feel like all these tropes were already very popular in older yuri stories, waaay before Bloom Into You. those last two are the barrier to their relationship, that's where their character arcs are. but they're specific in that it's a senpai/kohai relationship, there's love at first sight (basically), one of them doesn't really understand love, and the other has trauma and doesn't want her love to be reciprocated.

the touko and yuu characters, they have an uncertain dynamic for most of the story-and sure that's common enough, this is literally a staple of romance stories. it's those tropes that i'm talking about, the sayaka character, a watchful best-friend who's one leg of the love triangle and whose love is doomed to go unrequited. i think at its core the themes are pretty clear and straightforward, and i think the way they're executed on is what makes the story so good, is what gives it such complexity and depth. i agree, bloom into you doesn't like, revolutionize storytelling with its themes or anything. Indeed, they don't even need to be well executed either. This is not a bad thing, stories do not need to be unique to be good and/or enjoyable. What it does is tie a lot of those preexisting themes together and does them well in the span of a single narrative. Bloom Into You is a well written and deep series but it doesn't do anything thematically that other series haven't done in the past. Honestly I don't think this is true at all.

New tropes have definitely been codified.