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…
a joyful yaoimas In Japan, where less than 1% of the population is Christian, Christmas really isn’t a religious holiday — and that’s great news for yaoi. On the surface, Japan’s Christmas looks a lot like the modern commercial American Christmas. Glittering lights, decorated evergreen trees, wreaths, presents with big shiny bows, reindeer, and Santa. Basically,…
WARNING: Um, so a few of the pics here are a bit more graphic than what I normally post. There was just no way around it. truth vs. fiction: fiction wins In Yaoiland, many deliciously, delightfully unrealistic things happen. However, it’d be boring to join yaoi’s critics in debating whether that’s a good thing or…
too hot to handle? The reversible (or switch or reversi) couple is probably my favorite pairing. When a couple trades sex roles — the pitcher becoming the catcher and vice versa — it’s such a pleasing violation of yaoi conventions. If there’s one basic move in yaoi that both ratchets up the sexy and pushes gender boundaries, it’s the act of throwing the roles of seme…
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 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 