Women like man on man action because it satisfies their homoerotic desires. How? Most women like yaoi that features a feminine man and a masculine man. Female viewers tend to relate to (see themselves in) the feminine man, and they’re attracted to the masculine man.

Basically, yaoi gives woman a chance to be a man, and have an intimate relationship with another man. Weird, huh?

“do they even realize what REAL gay relationships are like? yaoi manga is romance written for girls– kind of like lesbian porn for guys, it’s pretty far away from reality!”.

I cant speak for every yaoi fangirl in the universe but I have discussed this before with a few of my friends who are YFG’s as well and we Know it is fantasy Often very dark and over dramatic.

And Dont agree with alot of the trashy “non-con” (as it is dubiously titled) plots.

But i think the same can be said for Heterosexual manga/hentai, it is extremely unrealistic. i can see by your post your’e intelligent and i dont mean to patronise you, but the common assumuption that yaoifangirls believe what theyre reading as a given, gets to me. thankyou

I have seen a some people comparing him to Doumyoji from Hana Yori Dango, only one person actually said that Tsukasa ended up changing his behavior, the rest just compared the two. That is why I liked Tsukasa better than Ryoki. They both basically started out the same, but Tsukasa actually changes. He gets kinder to Tsukuchi, he doesn’t mind her having friends that are males, hell all of his friends hang out with her! He doesn’t mind that he isnt on her mind all the time and nor does he demand it. And Tsukuchi is an ok heroine, I wanted to smack her sometimes for wanting to go with whatshisface, even after he admitidly used her to get his ex jealous. But she had a freakin backbone! Ryoki does not change, he does not want Hatsumi around other males, does not even want her to think about them, makes her choose between him and her family…I mean the list goes on.

I found some reviews to be particularly disturbing. One of them stated that Ryoki never really hit Hatsumi except for the slap and he never severely hurt her. Huh? I’m sorry, but to me, a playful hit does not hurt. You clearly see her clutching her head many times after he hits her on the head. And the little drawing of a band-aid often means that whatever it was hurt the person who got hit. I know its meant to be comical, but it still hurts. Also, he does severely hurt her. He puts her down all the time, mentally abusing her. And blames everything on her when he gets mad and acts like an abusive jerkwad. Mental abuse is just as bad, if not WORSE than physical abuse. So yes, he did indeed severely harm Hatsumi. And like I mentioned before, he forced her to choose between him and her family, that is abuse right there in the first degree. If you notice the pattern of abusers, they always try and push the victom away from their families. Why? Because then the victom can’t leave them. “Who are you going to run to? Your family? They despise you! I’m the only person who has ever cared about you!” Its entrappment and Ryoki does it to her. Also, the comments on saying “Its just a story” If you haven’t noticed, a lot of teens, kids and sometimes adults, try to imitate stories. They draw from them. So a message from a story, can be a very dangerous thing if taken the wrong way, more than people realize.

As far as Hatsumi is concerned, yea I agree that the girl has no backbone. And when it looks like she finally may grow one, it all turns out to be a farce. Pissed me off.

I was pissed at the ending, not only because Hatsumi ends up with Ryoki, but because there is no closure. A lot of the conflicts are not even resolved. I mean Azusa still wants revenge, which he plans to do by most likely harming Hatsumi again to get to Ryoki, he does not learn to let it the heck go. Shuuichirou never learns his lesson (this was Ryoki’s father). Shinogu, well the ending to his part was all just…blah. I think I would have been happier if he went off wandering somewhere. I’m happy with Akane and Subaru, I loved their relationship and it was one of the things that made me keep reading. And the ending…”This is my home” that just sucked. I was like…huh? Did Onemanga.com not load all of it or something because that can’t be the end.

Overall, the story, besides Ryoki and Hatsumi’s relationship…and characters..and them being the main characters, was ok. I did not like the lack of character devlopment, but the story itself, aside from the things above I mention, was compelling and interesting. Honestly, I think I would have liked a shorter manga about Akane and Subara as the mains and everyone else as the sides. Also, I think Hatsumi should have choosen herself.