If you like big mechs or gay women you owe it to yourself to watch the recent lesbian gundam anime, Gundam Witch from Mercury. It’s a sort of modern staple.

I don’t have many yuri recs (simply because a lot of the foundational works remain unadapted).I can suggest watching K-on, Sound Euphonium, and Bocchi if you like music or girls doing literally fucking nothing while making music.

It’s not a staple like the slice of lifes I just mentioned but the recent yuri anime Kamiina Botan Blooms Like a Lily When Drunk is a big collage art project that really shows how different directors and animators storyboard and adapt the same source material. Each episode has a new director, so you get different uses of the same visual space. I think it’s a good way to see what kinds of art direction are taken in modernity and potentially find new directors you might like. Also, it’s gay as fuuuuck and about adult college students which instantly bumps it up a million points.