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…
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…
welcome back to the tour! Today our manga span the years from the mid-90’s to hot-off-the-presses 2014. We have hosts, college students, novelists, even anti-terrorist agents. Five more titles to add to the “yaoi’s got something good for any mood you’re in” list. If you haven’t seen them already, check out the first three installments,…
among yaoi’s best, part 3 of 5 In our previous two installments we sampled ten manga by eight skilled mangaka, most of whom have significant bodies of work worth exploring in depth: top 10 (oops, 25) yaoi manga, part 1 Nitta Youka, Yamane Ayano, Shimizu Yuki, and Yoneda Kou top 10 (oops, 25) yaoi manga, part 2…
previously… In top 10 yaoi manga, part 1 (which is actually a top 25, because I have virtually no yaoi self-control), I made it through the first five manga, featuring works by Nitta Youka, Yamane Ayano, Shimizu Yuki, and Yoneda Kou. Today we’ll be visited by four mangaka who include the most hard core on this list…
top 10 yaoi – the best boys’ love manga … is what I’d like to say. It’s what I was going for, but that’s not how it turned out. I mean, really, how can a hopeless fujoshi actually reduce the best of yaoi to 10 titles? I am defeated. Utterly. However, if you’re wondering what…
the joy of yaoi 