A Brave New World

Tomorrow I will go to my first class of the semester. Yeah, it started last week so sue me. They weren't very precise about it either. Stupid coordinator girls. I hate your glasses.

It should be a known fact by now that I rather enjoy boys love manga. And since I have admitted to being a delayed reaction still-in-denial pervert, that should goes to show that I have a high tolerance (of the drooling level) towards the genre's graphic contents. In anime, rare as they are, the smut are toned down considerably. If you see movements in the anime, it meant that in the manga everything is in full detail. So if you are not a seasoned reader, it will gross you out and call us fangirls perverts. Nothing new, really.

When choosing a title though, it's easy to guess what explicit level the contents are based on the age rating.

Ages 13+ = You are lucky enough to see kissing as the most 'graphic'. Other than that it's probably shonen-ai, and not yaoi.

Ages 16+ = Kissing. For certain. Maybe smut scenes, but either it's only a suggestion of it, and perhaps only showing the upper body or none at all. Rest assured that they do not show parts for this age group.

Age 18+/Mature : You will see parts and other things in full detail. Well, as full as the author let on, but yes, there will be full-body smut and ...well, need I say more?

As for me though, I overrid all three age groups hehehehe.

If choosing online, the criterias are as follows: Shounen-ai, Soft yaoi, Yaoi, Hard Yaoi. Let me pair them up with the age groups.

Age 13+: Shounen-ai, soft yaoi (authors: Hotaru Odagiri, err...)
Age 16+: soft yaoi, yaoi (example authors: Hasumi Toui, Ohya Kazumi)
Age 18+: Yaoi, Hard Yaoi (example authors: Nakamura Shungiku, Minami Haruka, Youka Nitta)

Publishers may get confused sometimes and are not sure how to label them correctly, but who can blame them? But between June and Blu, I prefer Blu. Books are smaller and steamier hehehehe. On that note, I noticed none of Minase Masara's books are licensed while Hyouta Fujiwara is like the darling of the American publishers.

I can just imagine the amount of hits I would get from people looking for yaoi stuff ending up here. Sorry to lead you astray, but go to Here or Here if you're a fan of Minase Masara like me :D.

So far, the most graphic have been confined to manga and to clear up the misperceptions, yaoi and hentai are not in the same category. Yaoi are primarily boys love, featuring a malexmale relationship and is only graphic in manga. It should be noted that the main audience are girls above 16 years old. The age groups are higher than the shoujo variety, therefore you do not see yaoi fans squealing like an adolescent at every gay couple they encounter. On the other hand, hentai features heterosexual relationships and gives graphic contents at all times. If it doesnt have a smex scene it is not hentai. The biggest difference is that the audience are primarily guys. If you have seen any hentai anime, you would notice that it always have a girl giving head to a guy. The girl would be so charmingly cute, would have the face of a ten year old, but is actually 16. Another big difference is that, yaoi always have romantic story lines. 80% of hentais are meant only to have the audience ejaculate at least once throughout the story. And I find it hard for girls to ejaculate, seeing as we lack the right appendage.

Therefore, I find it highly descriminating that guys can enjoy hentai and it's normal while girls can't enjoy yaoi because it's 'not normal'. It's because it's not normal that girls enjoy them. Fans of yaoi are always ex shoujo fans but then we got tired of seeing the big-eyed energetic bright and happy schoolgirl chasing the angsty handsome guy in class, get hurt, and get incredibly happy just by being rewarded his 'shy, warm smile'.

Makes me sick.

After the streams of shoujo where girls throw themselves at the handsome guys who would break up with them unless they agree to have smex, I rather enjoy seeing guys fumbling over themselves. It's a sort of revenge. After all, reverse-harem genres get kind of old and dry with the same heroine over and over again.

And why do shoujo titles have to go on for so many volumes anyway? Why can't they just wrap it up in one or two tankoubons?

Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy Hana-Kimi and Ouran High School Host Club, but as usual, the stoicisim of the intended's personality just irritated me after a while.

Anyway.

I have always wondered if they would make a Jdrama out of boys love mangas and apparently they do. I was still trying to figure out if I can calmly watch as two men kiss. Real people, and not anime. And given the acting skills of Japanese actors, or idols, (and no MatsuJun cannot act! Even the 3/4 of the F4 could act better than he could.) since it won't be too far-fetched to assume that these actors do more than just act. Like singing and modelling. I could probably take shounen-ai, but yaoi?

And just as I was pondering this, several titles hit me. For instance, the Takumi-kun series was made into a Jmovie. I don't know the actors. Totchi probably knows. But I don't care. But seeing as how it was Age 16+ it would probably only contain kissing if ever. While I quite like intimate interraction, I wonder if they will go so far as kiss. I saw guys kiss before and it quite unnerved me. My boundaries havent included that yet. After all, because it was not normal and entirely fictional that girls like yaoi. It is common knowledge that real-life gays are not like those boys in yaoi mangas. You didn't think we didn't know that did you?

I am surprised at myself that I managed to get this far using only one uncommon japanese word. You can easily find out what a tankoubon is though.

While I'm at it, I absolutely loath those blogs where people use incomprehensible street language to type. Seriously. It just shows your level of intelliegence, or lack thereof. The former is truer. Dropping the occasional Japanese words like 'dakara' and 'gomen ney' doesn't make it look like you actually know Japanese. It just makes you look like a wapanese (Japanese wanna be). It irritates me yet I still go visit these blogs to mentally make fun of these people. Because let's face it, putting other people down makes you feel superior. I am a mean person and that's what mean people do. So suck it up.

Ta'ra!