Strawberry Panic

Name: Strawberry Panic
Genre: Animation, Drama, GL
Released: 2006
Cast: Ai Shimizu, Hitomi Nabatame, Mai Nakahara, Junko Noda, Chiwa Saito

🇯🇵 Japan · 2006 · Drama Series · 26 episodes

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Nagisa Aoi is a new transfer student into one of the three prestigious all-girls Catholic high schools on Astraea Hill: a school called St. Miator (the other two are St. Spica and St. Lelim (known in the anime as Le Rim, for some reason). While getting totally lost on her first day, she stumbles into a clearing with a tree, and also into a girl with long silver hair. Nagisa is immediately smitten with the girl, Shizuma Hanazono, otherwise known as the Etoile of the three schools (the most idolized girl). Shizuma, after picking up a figurine dropped by Nagisa, kisses her on the forehead, leading to Nagisa fainting. After waking up in the school's infirmary, Nagisa then meets her new roommate, Tamao Suzumi. Things, however, will be getting a lot more complicated for the new student than just that.

Why watch it

One of the defining yuri anime of the 2000s — and a gateway that opened up English-language yuri publishing, serving as a flagship when Seven Seas launched its yuri line. Twenty-six episodes across three girls' schools on Astraea Hill, still referenced as a genre classic.

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