#Yaoi girl living on a Yuri world

[creepy-scrawl]

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[miss-scrawl]

Imma gonna do a vinil for my phone case wich one of these you like more???

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Propaganda:

For Orufrey: "They're tragic wlw who have devoted their lives to each other since they were kids. They live together, they cook together, they're raising four girls together and they're doing the best they can. Olruggio would do anything for Qifrey if Qifrey would just Let Him 😭 but Qifrey is dead-set on protecting Olruggio and keeping him safe and in the dark no matter what it costs... i cant 😭..."

"Man I don't know they just have the vibes. They have toxic yuri energy but they are two grown men. They've known each other since their apprentice days and have stuck together ever since. Qifrey's main magic type was something he took up because Olruggio proposed that he learned to control the water he feared. They live together away from most of society with Qifrey's four apprentices, living the sapphic cottagecore (ateliercore???) dream. Qifrey, due to the fact that his eyesight is very much failing, something which is very problematic when it comes to witches, who need their eyesight more than most, is getting very desperate to get all he lost to the Brimhats, the witches who took one of his eyes and his memories, and Olruggio ends up noticing this pursuit and is implied to have done this more than once. Qifrey does not want Olruggio to know about both his failing eyesight and his goals, so he ends up completely wiping Olruggio's memory of those things, and laments that Olruggio is a kind person, and one who would most likely forgive him again, but also one who would try to save him, even when he didn't want to be saved. He also apologized right up until the moment Olruggio's memories of his secret were gone. In general I think chapter 40 is the somewhat toxic guy yuri chapter ever. I'm very tired so I do not know how to explain any of this, I just thought "wow Orufrey reminds me of this one poll I saw on Tumblr" and then spent three days straight hunting for your blog before completely forgetting my reasoning for Orufrey being yuri right before I submitted this."

For Joongdok: "Well first of all Yoo Joonghyuk has a whole arc that is transfem coded as hell (has a power/technique that can technically only be used by women but somehow he can also use it, for a time he even turns into a woman to wield it and it's. Actually just let me get the quote "The ines of the face had changed but it was clearly Yoo Joonghyuk. No, it was even more than before.") that just kinda happens,, and doesn't get brought up again but anyway. Second of all just look at them. You see the vision. Also a bonus observation is that these two often get shipped in a poly ship with Han Sooyoung and whenever I see people make a "regular couple, yaoi couple, yuri couple, I see no difference love is love" meme with them the combination of which pair among these three is which of the categories is always different"

Note: This submission also mentions Han Sooyoung, but I decided to count this polyship submission as guy yuri as well.

"They love each other, they pretend they don't care for each other but all their actions prove they care too much, if you remove someone from the trio then the resulting duo is extremely dysfunctional, as evidenced by more than a million words of canon. Is it technically guy yuri? Well, Han Sooyoung is a woman, but in a way she's one of the guys. Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk are men, but the text heavily hints that Yoo Joonghyuk is a trans woman who's just too busy and stressed out to transition yet, and Kim Dokja has just never thought about his own gender a single day in his life. They made the world for each other, they went back in time countless times and waged countless wars for each other, they wrote and read and lived a story, their story, for each other and that's what saved them all. The way Han Sooyoung writes Yoo Joonghyuk's story to save Kim Dokja and loses herself in the process, the way Yoo Joonghyuk voluntarily lives the story to the point of losing himself too and even forgetting why he originally decided to do it, the way Kim Dokja read Han Sooyoung's story which was Yoo Joonghyuk's life and that's how he found himself, they all took so much from each other and gave so much of themselves to each other, this is all very yuri."

"they're so yuri you have no idea. they have every staple of a yuri ship. unwavering devotion. waiting dozens or thousands of years for each other. dooming themselves and the world for each other. so much yearning. i also see them genderbent a lot (including inn canon in the case of yjh) and they're right both of these people are women. i genuinely can't even see them strictly as men at this point they're just yjh and kdj and they are yuri do you understand."

"they're so yuri. the abscense of yuri is the presence of yuri etc etc. these two guys are all ABOUT abscenses. also one of them is a part time woman. the other guy is a guy but like in the same way a square is a rectangle. anyway they're so guyyuri to me. bonus points also because they have a mutual girlfriend and when she's present they're girlyaoi but that's not relevant to this specifically"

[is-this-yuri]

Is yuri the lack of men, or the presence of women? Could a boygirl and a girlboy in love be both yaoi and yuri? 🤔

Yuri as a genre is something that typically depicts girls. Sometimes you'll find a GNC girl in yuri, but that's about as far as I've seen it taken. Generally speaking, yuri as fiction is only possible with girl characters.

In the real world, however, labels are flexible. They suit the user as a way to communicate something to the rest of the world. Gender is a unique internal experience that is different for everyone, and some who don't feel comfortable with the label of 'girl' still feel close to the expression or experiences held by those who are comfortable with the label; close enough to consider their love for girls a lesbian kind of love. The same is true for boys and their love.

Regardless of what you call yourself, or who says you can or can't use whatever label, YOU are the one who decides how to use language to describe your experiences. It may take explaining, and it may be something you can only talk about with people who will understand, but it is true and pure as long as it feels right to you.

The lack of men is not nessecary for yuri. Not only do many yuri stories include men on all parts of the spectrum of acceptance for their lesbian co-characters, but occasionally in real life you may find a gender fluid person who identifies as a man at times, but always as a lesbian. There are girls who are so close to being boys they go by he/him pronouns. There are men who relate to the lesbian experience more than the straight male experience, such as trans men who have actually been lesbians. These people are all individuals with complex inner lives and if they choose to use a particular label, their reasons should be respected and understood.

Conclusion: If you think it's yuri, it probably is.

[ladyloveandjustice]

In a just and equal world, Sukeban Deka would be as well know and memed on as the Devilman manga, it's just as edgy and melodramatic and honestly has way MORE ridiculous moments to meme on. And it's toxic yuri is actually more explicit that Devilman's toxic yaoi, girls kiss, there's an evil sadist lesbian with snakes and whips, all that. It's amazing.

But alas. It is about a girl and also an old shoujo, so Western anime fandom does not know or care about it.

...I'd also complain about it never getting a full anime, but it DOES actually have a live action television series and three feature films, the latest of which was made in 2006, and two video games. Anime fans just don't watch those and to be fair, neither do I.

Still it's been a while. I'd love a Devilman Crybaby style anime to bring it back into the public eye like it deserves.

or at the very least for the manga to actually get an official release or at least at least can someone fully scanlate it.

[homoeroticbetrayal]

Iconic Homoerotic Betrayal: Round 1

Round 1 Directory

Context:

Homura/Madoka

"(Spoilers) Homura has fallen in love with Madoka, and made a wish to be able to protect her earlier in the series. This gave her time travel powers and made a groundhog day scenario. Later in the series, Madoka attains godhood by wishing to save all magical girls, and this is her as a goddess coming to bring homura to girl heaven. As she grabs Homura’s hands, Homura instead uses magic to split Madoka, into her as a human, and as the Law Of Cycles. (other name for god) She takes the power of the Law of Cycles and makes a new world were she can be with Madoka forever. (Please watch the show for better context, its so good and I’m very bad at explaining.)"

"It's been a long time since I've seen it, but IIRC, Homura betrays Madoka at the end of the film out of love ("love") for her and basically undoes the ending of the original series and becomes a demon in order to save ("save") Madoka from her original fate. It's unique because it's a betrayal that's done "selflessly" (at least from Homura's POV) for the sake of the person being betrayed"

Ryo/Akira

after an entire manga of trying to defeat demons to save humanity together, including having akira fuse with a demon to be strong enough to defeat them, ryo regains memories he didn't know he lost and is revealed to have been on the side of the demons all along, and everything has been part of his plan to eradicate humanity. and ryo had akira become the titular Devilman in order for him to be able to live on in that world of demons he wanted to create, because he loves him (yes, canonically). naturally akira won't stand for that, and they fight to the death and it's all very tragic.

but i suppose a specific betrayal scene in this context is that ryo broadcasts akira's part-demon nature on tv to use him to make humans all kill each other out of fear that anyone could be a demon?

anyways it's very iconic, if there's a morally dubious/secretly on the opposing side gay guy in love with the protag in a piece of jp media since 1974, there's like an 90% chance it was directly or indirectly inspired by devilman. lelouch from code geass? ryo. kaworu from nge? ryo. komaeda from danganronpa? ryo.

also pretty pretty please use the original manga iteration, im so sick of seeing crybaby everywhere. (Mod: In case these two wins can someone send me a good image from the og manga for next round? I haven't read it and google is giving me more fanarts than og.)

[kessyathena]

Kessy's Recommendations

A little while ago a friend who's into Little Witch Academia asked for recommendations and I immediately suggested Magic User's Club. It's one of my go to's and a great show, but it's pretty obscure these days. That got me to thinking about all the other great OVA's I've seen that everyone's forgotten. So here's a selection of my favorites from the golden age of OVA's (1980's -2000's). If you're looking for a thread that connects these, my personal tastes run to character driven stories. I've tried to emphasize titles that are easy to access, mostly ones that are free on Youtube.

Assemble Insert: 1989, 2 eps.

comedy, superhero, idol, mad scientist, police

The city is being overrun by a mad scientist and his mecha equipped gang, so what's the overworked underpaid police force to do? Obviously, hold a competition for the next big idol! Err, I mean superhero to save the city. Wait, is there a difference? Maron really wants to know, since she's the (un?)fortunate winner of the competition.

All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (Bannou Bunka Neko-Musume): 1992, 6 eps.

comedy, catgirl (sort of), android, superpower, evil corporation

Ryuunosuke just wanted a pet, so when the minions of his overbearing mother accidentally kill the stray kitten he'd picked up his father does the only sensible thing: transplant the cat's brain into the experimental android body he's got in the back seat of the car. Ryuunosuke's new "big sister" is cheerful, energetic, able to bend steel beams with her bare hands, and overly fond of fish and sunbeams.

Nuku Nuku got a TV reboot and a second unrelated OVA called Nuku Nuku Dash, but the original OVA is definitely the best version.

Dragon Half: 1993, 2 eps.

comedy, fantasy world, WTF am I watching?, dragon girl

Mink is the child of a dragon mother and a human father. (Don't think about it too much.) Her father was formerly the champion of the evil king, who still bears a grudge. So there are evil minions, a guy named Dick Saucer who can't decide if he's a singer or a swordsman, a princess who's half slime, the finger water squirter of DOOM, and Beethoven! Don't wait for it to make sense, just enjoy the ride.

Plastic Little: 1994, 1 ep.

action, scifi, space opera, fanservice, yuri subtext

Tita and her galant crew make a living in the pet shop trade, capturing exotic animals in their planet's ocean of clouds for export. One day Tita runs into a beautiful young woman being pursued by a group of uniformed goons. Impulsively deciding to help the stranger, Tita and her crew are drawn into a military conspiracy to wreak havoc on the colony. Naturally, there's a caped villain, high speed chases, battleships, and ridiculously unsafe walkways over a vast chasm.

Elf Princess Rane (Yousei Hime Ren): 1995, 2 eps.

comedy, WTF am I watching?, magic, yuri subtext, idiot protagonist

Well, there is a plot to this one, but describing it would take too long, make no sense, and miss the point. Rane is a frenetically paced, gag after gag wild romp into hilarity and the absurd. There are fairies from another dimension who only speak an unintelligible language, a scheming corporation, a large group of identical sisters, and a protagonist so obsessed with treasure hunting he sees it everywhere to the point of being oblivious to what's in front of his nose.

Magic User's Club (Mahoutsukai Tai!): 1996, 6 eps.

comedy, romance, school life, alien invaders, magic, unrequited love, yaoi

The Earth has been invaded by aliens! However, the aliens are content to sit in their giant spaceship while observing humanity with robotic probes. So when Sawanoguchi Sae joins her school's club of neophyte magic users and the club president declares that they're going to defeat the aliens with magic, she's nothing but enthusiastic. And a massive klutz. What hope do they have considering that the rest of the club consists of Sae's best friend who only joined for Sae's sake, a vice president whose main interest is his crush on the president, and a freshman who frequently skips club activities to go on dates?

There is also a very good 13 episode TV series which is a direct continuation of the OVA featuring the same cast and hijinks but with a change in tone, not the least because the aliens are gone.

Birdy the Mighty (Tetsuwan Birdy): 1996, 4 eps.

action, school life, undercover aliens, conspiracy, gender bender, body sharing

Tsutomu is your average school kid out for a stroll one evening when he runs into a man running for his life from… something. The man turns out to be an alien in disguise and the something, well let's just say it radically changes Tsutomu's life as he's drawn into a conspiracy involving interplanetary criminals. A Federation Officer named Birdy Cephon shows up, but due to reasons he winds up having to share his body with her.

The series got a TV reboot called Birdy the Mighty: Decode. In my opinion, the original OVA is better.

R.O.D: Read or Die: 2001, 3 eps.

action, superpowers, secret agent, yuri subtext

Yomiko Readman is your average substitute teacher… Okay, no she isn't. She's absolutely obsessed with reading: her home is filled with stacks of books. She also has the ability to manipulate paper in any way she wishes, turning ordinary stationary into shields, weapons, giant flying paper airplanes, and so on. And she has a side job as a secret agent. So when a group of superpowered villains threatens the world, agent "The Paper" swings into action. Immediately after one of the bad guys steals her book!

ROD also has a TV series that has the same setting but completely new characters and plotline. The connections to the original OVA only gradually become apparent.

Murder Princess: 2007, 6 eps.

action, fantasy world, action girl, body swap, yuri subtext, lost technology

Alita and Faris are from such different backgrounds that you'd never expect them to meet. Alita is the princess of the kingdom of Forland and has lived a sheltered life in the capital. Faris is from a tragic background and survives on her wits and her skill with a sword as a bounty hunter. However, one night there is a palace coup and Alita is forced to flee for her life into the dark and dangerous Ellend forest, where Faris is hunting monsters for the price on their heads. The two literally run into each other and straight off a cliff. During the fall, the shared near death experience causes them to switch bodies. They're forced to reluctantly team up to defeat the coup and uncover the forces behind it.

Electromagnetic Girlfriend (Denpa-teki na Kanojo): 2009, 2 eps.

drama, mystery, romance

(Note: "Denpa" literally means "electromagnetic wave," but is colloquially used to mean "crazy" in much the same sense as "tin foil hat.")

Juuzawa Juu is a high school delinquent. One day a girl he's never met comes up to him and declares that he is a reincarnated king and she is his servant and knight. Despite Juu's best efforts to get rid of her, she continually follows him around. As if this wasn't enough, there's a serial killer stalking the town, and Juu suddenly finds himself caught up in the case when he's the one to find the body of the latest victim: one of his own classmates.

[chaoscheebs]

So I've gotten into visual novels a bit more recently, do you have any recommendations? I've been a gamer all my life but vns are kind of a blind spot for me. Maybe some of the more popular ones on the DS and a handful of PC ones are about all I know.

Most of the ones I've played are adult ones (i.e. have sex scenes in them), but I can give some recs if that's not an issue.

All Ages:

-Jack Jeanne for the Switch is a really solid one and for something that includes hiding the protag's gender (she's in an all-boys school for theater), it doesn't fall into weird/horny tropes about it? Like no "oh no someone walked into me changing oh me oh my" nonsense, for example. Plus there's some characters that read very trans/gender non-conforming and I am living for it.

It's very slice-of-life, very pretty, and if you like/can work with stat-building dating sims and the rhythm game sections, I'd recommend it!

Guys Who Like Ladies (not all-ages):

--Princess Waltz is like my favorite VN of all time, it's so fucking good. It's about this (seemingly) normal dude who ends up entangled in this other magical world's tournament to pick a bride for the prince of a country in said other world, and boy howdy for something that is aimed at straight male audiences it is REALLY GAY (affectionate/positive).

The main "girl"? The prince. Who reallyreally comes off as a trans dude. It is awesome.

There's all sorts of cool fights, girls in cool/cute outfits, the "token loli" acts her actual age and is probably one of the most mature of the lot (god i love Suzushiro), it has Lun-Lun, the second best proper girl, yaoi fangirls, and a cute lil' dragon man.

I will provide a quick warning tho': it contains (accidental, they had NO IDEA beforehand) incest, potential adoptive sibling banging, and depending on how you see Chris, potentially misgendering. :c

If you can get past that, tho', it's fantastic and has a bangin' soundtrack.

--9-nine is a urban fantasy-ish multiverse-spanning mystery series in 5 parts: 4 for each girl and one extra epilogue game that wraps up the loose ends nicely. It also contains cool action scenes, has a great cast of characters, and even makes a Wild Arms 2 reference, which cements it in my heart forever.

Each game is a route, and while you could skip one and still get the story (and you might want to, one of the games focuses on the protag's main full-blooded sister who, uh, yeah, they eventually bang), but each part connects to the next and gives you more information to piece together, and it all comes together wonderfully. ;A;

Also, the male lead has a face, is voiced, and has a personality, which is a rare triple-crown in the VN world when it comes to het-focus stuff.

9-nine also has an "all-ages" cut, which can be found on Steam, if that makes a difference.

QUEER SHIT FUCK YEAH:

--Ne no Kami is a yuri VN which is in two parts (with a loosely-connected "prequel" that is plot-light called Sacrament of the Zodiac and has a successor plot-heavy series that has one part out called Watamari, all of which are yuri stores) and IT. IS. SO. FUCKING. GOOD. It and Princess Waltz battle for my heart for the number 1 spot.

The protag is a "normal" girl named Len, who gets drawn into this secret war against the ayakashi thanks to a mix of her childhood friend coming back into her life and her parents up and disappearing on her, and it gets... the actual images are never graphic in the violence sense, but it gets a bit brutal in the fight scenes. Which fucking rule.

It's a good balance of slice of life and battles (and girls kissing other girls of course) and the music fucking rules.

There is also an "all-ages" cut on Steam.

--No,Thank You!! is a BL VN, and it is also really good, but really fucking heavy and I have to give several caveats before recommending it. There is references to (and at least one on-screen instance of) rape, references to in-universe snuff films, non-consensual body modification to the point of body horror, drugs, and child trafficking, tho' everything mentioned past the rape is never shown on-screen.

If your can get past all that, you're in for a wild fucking ride. Haru is the (openly bi!!!!!) protagonist, who seemingly got amnesia in an accident saving this middle-aged man, and so the middle aged man, who is the protag of his own story that's interwoven in the background as he searches for his missing son and dips his toes into some Serious Shit(tm) as a result, sees to it that Haru has shelter and a job until he recovers.

Also, yakuza and a secret underground society that does Seriously Fucked-Up Shit(tm) are all interwoven into the plot, especially the latter.

Also Hiroyuki is best boy I make the rules.

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Anyway, that should be a pretty good starter kit. I'd also throw in Yume Miru Kusuri, which is a more grounded in realism story, but also it's really meta and not a good starter VN (... although it was MY starter VN, please give me a route for the canon gay dude in a fan disc I am begging you). It also. Um. Deals with heavy subjects (bullying, drug use...). So maybe see how you feel about these before that.

[hottakehoulihan]

I'm considering a differentiation in nomenclature: yuri and yaoi fiction distinct from queer fiction from love stories distinct from other queer relationship fiction.

But I haven't worked out the details of what word would go with what. So I'll ramble on it for a moment while it's fresh in my head.

It's just...in some WLW or men-loving-men (I'm avoiding acronym puns) stories, the story is set in a world where queerphobia doesn't exist. Women date and get married to each other, nobody bats an eyelash, and nobody spends months or days agonizing about whether they might be gay because that's as important as wondering if you like maple syrup on waffles.

And in other WLW / queer stories, part of the story is the characters overcoming their own internal resistance, gauging whether the person they're attracted to is safe to approach and if so how to do so, dealing with the queerphobia of family/friends/authorities, and even coping with systemic queerphobia.

And the queer-accepting world of the first sort, which is the sort of comforting escapist fantasy (approbation x3) we need and want sometimes, where flavor-of-queerness doesn't matter because people aren't scummy about it and while we're at it we also don't have nazis it's a romance story but without all the depressing ugly bullshit and instead with representation of a sort; a blanket to wrap around oneself and squee.

Valuable and needed.

Then there's an actual exploration of the bullshit society has; showing life-as-reflected-in-art so you get multiple perspectives on what is because that's ALSO representation, and that's part of what art is needed for.

And then there's the fact that stories need conflict and love stories need (no pun intended) friction or else there's...not really a story it's just "Little Red Riding Hood went to her grandmother's house and grandmother was fine and the wolf was her friend and all three had a nice dinner and lived happily ever after." (Cute, but only because it's a novelty.)

And I adore the friction (still no pun intended). Cherry Magic wouldn't have the delicious erotic suspense if it weren't set in a world where queer pairings were more difficult in all the aforementioned ways.

This ain't just true about queer pairings. I'm fond of My Queen both despite and because of its absurdity, and it's a fun TV show in which a 33yo high-level professional finds herself pursued by a 25yo gentleman and he's great but she's totally (initially) not okay with the age gap (and she's Taiwanese, and it's an older show, so the bullshit women have to deal with is more enhanced in some arenas)

...and of course there's a reason we've got the "meet hate" trope, the "it was all a misunderstanding!" trope and so many others; you need some reason for the leading pair to not snap together instantly like rare-earth magnets.

(I think it was Ebert (his negative reviews were once a guilty pleasure of mine) who said something like "if you have a meet-cute, they might be together in two hours. If you have a meet-hate, they'll be together in 45 minutes")

Back-of-the-envelope, I'm considering using yaoi/yuri for the trope-heavy "but can a girl love a girl!?"

"queer-friendly love stories" stories where romance decisions are as low-orientation-consequence (as they are in Dragon Age / Mass Effect games, where some characters are pan, some are unavailable, and some only go for specific gender and/or background) as seems plausible to ever reach IRL.

"Queer literature" (or cinema or some other potentially pretentious-flavored indicator), which reflects life as it is or was, and where the happy conclusions are those that happen because of judicious placement of "The End".

IDK.

It is to be strongly desired, a world where (as in an Arthur C. Clark book a friend of mine kept stealing from the school library) there's no societal expectation driving the need to even have the distinction represented by the word "queer" because they're as par for the course as finding out what foods someone likes or won't eat.

But there is something lovable and titillating in the queer stories where folk are struggling through the various plinko of internalized phobias and ignorances, and those of society, in order to finally get some wonderful handholding or sex in.

Yeah, I'm not satisfied with any terminology choices. Gonna abandon that for a bit. Reminds me of a quote:

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." - Joseph Joubert

There's more to say (something I pulled from Contrapoints (yay!) and her choice of name), but I'm reaching diminishing returns on trying to chew down to it so I'm putting this blag entry to bed.

But anyway, there's romance in the friction, there's friction in the romance, and there's beauty in queer fiction that has queer friction and there's beauty in queer fiction that has only the ordinary romantic friction and allows queer romance to be as free from phobia as we'd desire.

And maybe it's good we don't have names for all the flavors.

Gonna go back to my WLW monster+Jewish Gal romance now. : 3 ...and then to my high-stakes overdue chores. : /

[yellowbluemoonshine]

Do you read manhwas ?? If so then which one?

Yeah, I read webtoon/manhwa and manga a lot.

I am not really fan of manhua but there are exceptions for that one too, for example; 'Your Dream is Delicious' was one of my exceptions for me because i love characters. I love it.

I dont have specific genre to read one because you can never know which story has good characters and well written plotline but i generally prefer to read;

Yaoi- But i cant enjoy the story, if sex is only thing or main focus.

Romance- The reason i love romance because i love series that focus on relationships the most, though i hate when 'romance is the only focus' or when lovers act like they only care about each others but still, at least, story explores the interaction between characters.

Fantasy- I dont mind slice of life but sometimes its fun to explore supernatural or fantasy world.

Psychological- What can i say, psychology is my favorite thing because i dont enjoy shallow-typical characters, i want to know more about them, thats how i can get into story and enjoy from it. Though, its hard to find well written one.

Horror- i think every story needs a little/small horror element.

Shounen ai- Unlike yaoi, slowburn romance when characters get to know each others first works better because two strangers having sex and magiclaly falling in love is so unrealistic to me. Not to mention, most of them are romanticized toxic relationships without consent, i hate it.

Shoujo ai- I mean, there is no difference for me between shoujo ai and shounen ai, if its well written. Though, its hard to find good yuri too.

This doesnt mean i dont read other genres but i usually read those ones the most. I read reencarnation stories too but most of the mare cliche, its hard to find good one.

The thing is; Its been years since i start reading manhwa, I dont remember which ones i read because i read a lot and i still read.

But i have a few favorites, unfortunately i dont remember everything i read so just a few faves of mine.

Bastard;

Genre; Crime, mystery, psychological, horror.

I enjoy this story a lot.

A Joyful Life;

Genre; Slice of life, shoujo ai, romance, drama

I love main characters and the interaction between them.

Stagtown;

Genre; Horror, mystery, supernatural.

Recently, it has finished, i really enjoyed the horror elements of the story.

Pyramid Game;

Genre; Psychology

Both story and characters are good. Another 'win the game/war' type of story but its about more mental struggle than psychical one. If you love stories with tension, you might like this.

King's Maker;

Genre; Shounen ai, yaoi, history.

Main focus isnt romance. Its about changing the kingdom they live in.

The Best Smell;

Genre; Shounen ai.

Just adding here, cute shounen ai story, though art c/should've been better. Not necessarely my fave but i am just adding here because i dont remember other stories i read.

Her Shimchang;

Genre; Shoujo ai, romance, history, supernatural.

I keep rec.ing shoujo ai, even though i hardly read one, (i usually read yaoi/shounen ai). I often end up hating most the things i read so its rare to find a story i love from beginning to the ending and this one is one of them.

Hooky;

Genre; Fantasy, adventure.

It has very cute art, and storyline. I love when characters go to adventure, discover the world around them, interact with others. Though i didnt enjoy the second part os tory, still worh it though and i love the twins and their relationship the most.

I Love Amy;

This one isnt necessarely my fave because story is new to me but i find the story, characters and art interesting enough to mention it. Its about yandere girl who fall in love with the girl she considered love rival, lol. I love the fact that they actually give yandere girl a character and story and allow her to learn true love.

I read so many good stories, especially romance, yaoi but these ones are the ones i remember right now.

Bonus; I also read Dr Frost, The Guy Upstairs, Like You Maybe, Sugar & Spice, High Class Homos, Fictional Skin, Tower of God etc on webtoon app. Others i read on random websites, there are too many to write it here so for now, thats it.

[creepy-scrawl]

I left my nicotine addiction just to replace it w yaoi..

Like Im so fucking stressed and have like 8 fucking tabs on myreadingmanga and whenever I have a min free I go there to read sasunaru djs so desesperately like I'm doing coke on a dirty bathroom☠☠☠

[missmastectomy]

Hey ^^ Can I ask you about your opinion about yaoi and yuri and if or how do you think it effects people? I was trans myself and realized that me and some other trans, now also detrans people had a lot to do with that topic in our early teenage years and we came to the conclusion that these topics had an impact on us and our identitys. It didn't "turned us trans" but it strengthened the feeling about being a boy/girl. It was kind of like a dream we could escape while having to deal with actual physically and psychological problems that caused our gender dysphoria and dysmorphia (Like endometriosis, misogynie etc.). When I look back I just wish I've hadn't uncontrolled internet excess and wouldn't have seen stuff like that. I was totally too young and should have seen several doctors and psychiatrist instead...

I think it can definitely contribute, because the men and women in anime are these young, very idealistic figures that don’t usually represent how people are IRL. Personally I was never into yaoi and didn’t read a lot of manga, but I know there’s a LOT of trans men who heavily project onto gay male relationships. Trans women definitely do the same for yuri.

Ime the trans women obsessed with yuri are usually porn addicts or at minimum have an unhealthy view of women that’s been heavily influenced by porn and phonographic yuri content. I think this is true to a much lesser extent for trans men who ID as gay or bi though - in that case, I think a lot of them want love from men and there’s a draw to literally *being* a “man” to acquire that love, since so many portrayals of women in straight relationships are often misogynistic or shallow.

Generally, most young trans identified people are heavily into fandom. I was super into Harry Potter and stuff, for me it was just my escape as a lonely teenager, but that along with all my friends being trans identified just caused me to live in a fantasy. And when I interacted with people, it was in a very social justicey bubble. I actually think a big part of my detransition was influenced by me coming out of my shell and getting out into the real world. Unfettered internet access and lack of socialization is a huge cause for the explosion of trans identity in young people.

[engshoujosei]

Sailor Moon

18 volumes (singles, Mixx/Tokyopop), 12 Volumes (singles, Kodansha); 10 Eternal Editions (Kodansha), Naoko Takeuchi Editions (Kodansha, ongoing)

Licensed by Tokyopop (expired), then Kodansha

Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi (Sailor Scouts), and together, they fight the forces of evil!

Won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo in 1993.

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (1992, Different Settings) / Vol 1, Chap 1 (2014) Ends at Vol 18 End

Related Series

Codename Sailor V (Prequel, licensed)

Status in Country of Origin

18 Volumes (Complete) 14 Shinsouban Volumes (Complete) 10 Kanzenban Volumes (Complete)

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20th Century

30th Century

Adapted to Anime

Adapted to Live Action

Animal Sidekick

Apocalyptic Future

Award-Winning Work

Beautiful Artwork

Character Growth

Chosen One

Classic Manga

Clumsy Protagonist

Cross-dressing

Crybaby Protagonist

Death of Loved One/s

Family

Fated Lovers

Female Centric Plot

Female Fighter/s

Feminism

Friendship

Fully Adapted to Anime

GL Subtext

Goddess/es

Greece

Hidden Past

High School

Huge Cast of Characters

Important Non-Romantic Relationship/s

Lesbian Character/s

LGBT Character in Non-Yaoi/Yuri Manga

Magic

Middle School

Monster/s

Mother and Daughter

Multiple Couples

Mythology

Older Male Lead

Openly Gay Couple

Partial Nudity

Reincarnation

Rivals Become Friends

Royalty

Saving the World

Science Fantasy

Sudden Appearance

Teamwork

Time Paradox

Time Travel

Video Game/s

Weak to Strong

[roobylavender]

I can't explain why but this is one of the most stupidest and braindead tweet I ever read. There's a word I'm looking for to describe this absolute lunacy but can't seem to recall it

https://twitter.com/7Negative_Creep/status/1761708314235174926?t=EZpuzxh9ZSl6wfM_WN-wnQ&s=19

5k likes too... the world needs to end already I can't live with these man-obsessed creatures any longer

Alright the tweet that I was talking being the most stupidest shit I've ever read got deleted but it was something along the lines of: "why do fujos get the rep for being the most obnoxious people ever when yuri elitists seem to never shut up about how yuri is somehow so much better than yaoi for whatever reason and almost act like they have moral high ground for liking girls kissing over boys kissing" something like that It was response to this tweet ⬇️

ok so interestingly i am finding out now that tweets can be embedded into tumblr posts so that's new! but yeah i saw the tweet you were complaining about before it was deleted and lol. it's insane how the lack of f/f content to begin with is so easily demonized when sapphic fans express criticism at potentially being overtaken in their own spaces. god forbid women react to the exaggerated obscurity of women in fandoms overtaken by yaoi

[perasperaadastratoday]

My girlhood and anime (sexism rant?)

I have recently been thinking a lot about my own journey with anime ever since I got into it as a little girl.

DISCLAIMER: Everything I say in this post is anecdotal, just things I've observed and experienced. Also, I am NOT Japanese, and in no way do I intend to insult Japanese culture or pretend to understand the complexities of Japanese culture. This is from my perspective as a girl who grew up in Europe.

Ever since I was introduced to anime I immediately subconsciously noticed that Shonen (anime and manga aimed at boys) especially Battle Shonen was valued higher than Shojo (anime and manga aimed at girls). Shojo was often belittled and made fun of for being stupid, less intelligently written and too focused on romance. Shonen, on the other hand, was always praised and seen as the "correct" anime.

I want to keep it clear that NOT ALL SHONEN anime and manga has badly written female characters.

I discovered anime and manga just as I was approaching puberty, I felt alienated by the way women and girls were written. The gaze always lingered on the female body (usually always with a tiny waist and huge boobs), panty shots and tons of sexual harassment jokes. One of the first words Japanese words I learned was "Hentai" - Pervert (good thing I didn't google that)

I struggled so hard to relate to most of the female characters in most of these mangas/animes. Sometimes I even hated them. To be fair I had intense internalized misogyny at that point. This was also at the time when I started figuring out that I, a girl, could also be attracted to other girls, which added to the confusion. If I was also attracted to girls, then why was I not attracted to the girls in anime and manga? I tried to read Yuri manga, but felt nothing.

Like many other girls before me, I soon discovered Yaoi and BL and my world changed. While the genre does objectify and fetishize gay men, I didn't even understand that back then. One of the things that appealed the most to me about Yaoi was that there was no female character involved. Instead of being objectified by men, I was now the one "in power". I became a full on fujoshi and practically LIVED through these fictional gay men, even to the point where I wanted to be one.

Looking back, I keep wondering how much gender can affect our experiences of a piece of work. I wish I understood what it was like to grow up with Shonen anime and manga for a boy.

I'll make a part 2 maybe, I just wanted to share some thoughts.

[creepy-scrawl]

Yaoi Girl Living On A Yuri World