Comments on: Boys’ Love, anybody?

By: B.

B. — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:38:04 +0000

Well, I agree and disagree.
Yes, Shonen-Ai doesn’t… agree with everyone, but it isn’t morally wrong to many/most people (unlike yaoi or pedophelia, as mentioned, which some have very strong feelings against). I, personally, have no problem with the genre, although there are certainly more tasteful ways of portraying it…
As for examples, I only have seen the Ouran series, which I believe is really just a “fanservice” in itself. To answer your question, if Haruhi hadn’t been a girl, the whole storyline would have been different. After all, it is in the first episode (to go by the anime) that all of the characters learn to like her and it notes that they all saw she was a girl.
I do, however, have to state that when you speak of the cliches in roles, you say so as if this only partains to gay relationships. It is sometimes very blatant, but it must be recognized that this is not uncommon in “straight” relationships depicted in manga/anime.

Well, I haven’t much else useful (as if all of that was) to say,
So my only suggestion would be: yes, there are things that you will find annoying or that you disagree with, but you can aavoid those things if you’d like.
Thank you.

By: CatzCradle

CatzCradle — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:54:21 +0000

I usually dislike most yaoi and I’m also really picky. But there are only two yaoi series I like, one is as you know, the Tyrant Who Fall in Love and t Okane ga Nai (No Money). Unlike other yaoi, It’s more realistic becuase the uke doesn’t fall in love with the seme no matter how many times they do it (He’s straight). It is also hilariously funny while the main couple shares a complicated relationship.

All I’m saying is how about trying out the manga for at least three volumes before giving your verdict?

By: rawr

rawr — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:17:34 +0000

i like yaoi/shounen ai because i like seeing guys open to each other..and all sweet and stuff…but i hate seeing hot anime guys with girls…b/c it just reminds me of how i cant get a super hot guy like that…

plus, when theres two guys, its double the fun! since you can see two guys being open, kind, etc

By: Uzumaki

Uzumaki — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:09:14 +0000

Shota is about 1/100th as scary as the loli fetish that is being embraced and encouraged among anime fans, Japanese and otherwise.

By: bordge

bordge — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:13:15 +0000

THEY LICENSED TYRANT BEFORE I READ IT!!! HUHU….

anyway….i stumbled on your blog thru googling for some ouran.

yah i like ouran too… and most especially yaoi. actually thats why i watched it, thinking it was some yaoi anime that’ll save me from boredom but well… it has its tendencies and suggestiveness. i also like the fact that the whole anime is so much like a “Revolutionary girl Utena meets Fruits Basket” with all its metaphores and humor. ive seen the 21st episode in youtube and i still cant absorb the fact that haruhi is a girl. i bet im not the only one who could say “she doesnt look like a girl at all”. and im simply amazed at how human hikaru and kauru (well kaoru molsty) are.

i work in our schools publications office and i have to admit my workplace is very similar to the host club…not that we’re hosts… but its fun to compare the characters to my real life friends due to similarities in personality.

By: Saria

Saria — Tue, 23 May 2006 16:28:13 +0000

>>”…where *he* asked…”

T^T But I’m a GIRL…

I am still not sure if I like Haruhi better as a girl or a guy. Having her as an apathetic heroine does provide for some pretty awesome mild tsundere, though, in the sense that seeing her indifferent composure melt into love-love mode will be most interesting.

Basically, OHHC rocks. The end.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Tue, 16 May 2006 05:28:00 +0000

Ooo! Hopeless Sensei visited my blog! =D

Yeah stereotypes can be only carried so far … am reading Fake and Gravitation now. Fake was only okay … dislike the art a bit, but the story is okay. Average actually. Though Sanami Matoh manages to cook up the UST pretty well

By: hopeless

hopeless — Mon, 15 May 2006 11:58:22 +0000

I adore Ouran in a way that I’ve seldom felt. I’m not a fan of yaoi, apart from the obvious mainstream shounen-ai titles like Loveless and Gravitation, but Ouran is just so amazingly good at making fun of it my lack of knowledge in that area doesn’t really matter.

I agree with you that the genre of shounen-ai (and shoujo-ai, for that matter) is rife with clichés – the wild, cheerful and weak one and the passive, manipulating one, or the younger innocent one and the dark horse, or the one who gives love and the one who doesn’t return it. I’m sure it puts many off the genre, since these stereotypes can only be carried so far.