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…
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…
gentle? What is a gentle schoolboy yaoi mood? It’s when you want to read BL where highschoolers fall for their classmates, in stories that are emotionally easy to digest. In other words, you’re craving stories of sweet love and romance, without the darkness or angst of noncon, physical/emotional abuse, or taboo relationships. That’s right, these stories…
Alright, I admit that video clip isn’t yaoi, sadly, but I can’t help using it — after all, a dish that can inspire this much enthusiasm, in both anime and yaoi manga, is worth trying out, right? a curry of your own I hope my first curry post convinced you that Japanese curry is a…
hey baby, I’ve got some tasty curry at home… wanna come over? More than shoujo’s chocolate, in the world of yaoi, curry is an effective tool of seduction, a way to get into a man’s pants. Thus, it’s something yaoi taught me to love —after all, I always root for characters’ successful seductions. Before I read manga,…
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…
Welcome to some moderately geeky reflections on Japanese. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m absolutely, completely fascinated by the differences between Japanese and English. I love how Japanese twists my brain into pretzels, and I love that manga, anime, and drama CD’s offer glimpses into the brain-twisting nature of Japanese. But today isn’t really a pretzel day. Today is pure play. adoption and…
What? Yaoi doesn’t have any male fans after all? But I was so looking forward to meeting them! Well, it turns out that if I do they won’t be “fundashi”, because (as I recently learned) the name for male fans of yaoi isn’t actually “fundashi” — despite the fact that you can search for fundashi on the…
top 25 BL: the final chapter And here we are — at the finish line! I started out with the intention of giving you a Top 10 yaoi list, but due to my straight up inability to pare down, here are the final five of what ended up being a Top 25 BL manga (and anime and…
the joy of yaoi 