In gender rebels — when uke and seme switch: yaoi’s top 10 reversi manga, I ranted about the lack of reversi in yaoi and my desperate desire to know why, why, why?! Well, at this year’s Yaoi-con, I had the awesome opportunity to ask Tateno Makoto (creator of Yellow, Hero Heel, and Blue Sheep Reverie) why there’s…
women of the world love yaoi My favorite box on the WordPress stats page is the flags list — the hits on your site by country. Since my site’s all about stories of boys who fall in love and boys who have sex with each other — a rather taboo topic in many parts of the world…
What was it like at Yaoi-Con? Well, Mamuro5254 will be more than happy to show you, in this video that demonstrates what happens when a videographer with serious skills, equipment, and love for yaoi is set loose in a crowd… The video highlights some of the con’s best cosplay and includes an artfully edited dance performance…
SonicJKevin put together a fun, funny video of cosplayer play from the weekend, including his moments with Reika. I think you’ll enjoy…
Cosplay? At Yaoi-Con? Surely you jest… Okay, okay, here are a few of the fun folks wandering around the con… Want to find your own? How about a little game of Where’s Waldo? Here gather the cosplayers, standing in line for Yaoi-Con’s Cosplay Contest and Masquerade. What? They aren’t all dressed up? Of course not… this…
This weekend at Yaoi-Con, the winner for both for comedy and overall best AMV was Vivifx’s “Ship Happens”, and let me just say, watching this in a ballroom crammed full of fujoshi and fudanshi… well, I’m pretty sure they heard the laughter up on the hotel’s 9th floor… In truth, I’m not usually that into AMV’s, but if…
Isn’t shipping Legos is a bad sign? At a family gathering, the clan’s children were happily watching “The Lego Movie”. As an involuntary viewer, I, on the other hand, was discovering that I had underestimated my capacity for experiencing boredom. And then, when Good Cop/Bad Cop was onscreen (yes, his head spins around inside his helmet, and he…
New to BL? Well, you’ll be running into some odd slang, like seme, noncon, shipping, bara, animix, and shotacon. So I’ve put together a handy little guide to yaoi-speak — the jargon of yaoi: a guide to fujoshi slang. An experienced fujoshi/fudanshi? Won’t you visit the jargon of yaoi page, and let me know what terms I should add or where I’ve…
(and now we bring you a brief interruption to the top 10 (25) listing series…) yaoi immersion program In just over a month, the weekend of September 12th, those of us with access to the U.S.’s West Coast have an opportunity to spend three days in a hotel packed full of fujoshi and fudanshi.…
…and who reads it? The short answer: yaoi (or boys’ love, BL, or shounen-ai) is a genre of Japanese stories that features boys falling for, and quite often having sex with, other boys. It can be found as manga, anime, drama CD’s, live action movies, novels, and even video games. Contrary to what you might expect, yaoi…
the joy of yaoi 