Not that guy, but probably because it usually makes the characters less realistic and relatable, and takes attention away from the rest of the story. They tend to lack substance like any other cutesy romance story. Hetero romance stories have a wide spectrum from vapid bullshit to just being a side element to a significant plot, but the few GL stories I’ve tried tend to be basically 90% yuri fan service, just cute girls doing cute things. There’s more meaning in Flip Flappers than Sakura Trick, if you get what I’m saying. But Urasekai Picnic or that poison butterfly thing I’m fine with.
Because this story is a slice of life, there’s a risk that the comfy camping outdoorsy moments and introvert character development gets eclipsed by moeblobs making googly eyes at each other after accidentally brushing hands.
I am biased.
That's cause the one thing English animated entertainment fans have done actually makes sense but is hard to objectively do.
The Japs just put all the cutesy girls doing cutesy things together in a passionate way under the "yuri" umbrella,where as the English fellas were the ones who coined up "shoujo ai" to show the purely cutesy friends doing cutesy things together and using "yuri" for actual romance/intimacy between the girls.
Case in point,
Quadruplets and
Chevaliere would both be "shoujo ai",the former is on the extreme end of them merely being siblings whilst the latter is on the opposite extreme end due to them sleeping naked under the same bed.
As for "yuri",that'd be
The Summer You Were There and
Bloom Into You,the former really shows what love can(but also can't)do,whilst the latters' own author stated it wasn't a lesbian story,it was a story about finding out what love actually means,which includes something that undeniably secures the lesbian part.
If you want a real good direct contrast with this series,then obviously you have
Laid-Back Camp but there's also
Lets' Eat Outdoors!,the former is just cutesy girls glamping in style so much that they'be become beacons of Japanese tourism whilst the latter is just a lonely girl cooking girl finding a lonely camping girl n' comin' together.
All romance is a wide spectrum,the gender simply dictates who is doin' who,so if these two car campin' buds get it on like Donkey Kong,that'd be great,if they vow to stay together forever(in one way or another),that'd be great,and even if they never actually go beyond the best of besties,it'd still be great since the comic would have to run long enough to make that meaningful.
Regardless,this goin' to be great!
