Lesbische anime

Lesbian anime — also called yuri anime, GL anime, or WLW anime — is animated content centered on romantic and sexual relationships between women. The catalog on this page collects every yuri animation currently streaming on Yurivan: 90s and 2000s OVAs that defined the genre, classic adult hentai from publishers like Pink Pineapple, modern uncensored releases, and the niche subgenres (catfight anime, magical-girl yuri, succubus and futanari shorts, supernatural yuri) that print yuri rarely visits.

What separates animated yuri from manga is rhythm. A scene that takes three pages of panels in a manhwa unfolds in real time on screen — the breath, the held glance, the cut to a hand on a thigh. The best lesbian anime uses that medium difference deliberately: silence does work that text can't, voice acting carries subtext, and animated movement lets intimate scenes flow rather than freeze. For broader context on how the medium fits alongside print yuri, see our lesbian anime guide and our yuri terminology glossary for the language fans use to talk about the genre.

Yurivan's lesbian anime catalog leans heavily on the OVA tradition — Cream Lemon, Cool Devices, Bible Black Origins, Kisaku, La Blue Girl Returns — alongside more recent releases. These are full episodes, not clips. Adult titles are uncensored where the original release was uncensored, and clearly tagged so you can filter for what you want. Adjacent tags include hentai, ova, classic, vintage, magical-girl, and succubus.

Below: every lesbian anime currently on Yurivan, sorted by popularity. New episodes added regularly. All content depicts adult women (18+). If you came here looking for SFW yuri animation specifically, our best yuri anime of 2026 roundup covers the year's mainstream releases.