My thoughts on yaoi, let me tell you them.
I love how every vaguely scholarly article and blog about yaoi says the same thing and acts like it's new information. Did you know that yaoi isn't realistic? That it's female fantasy that has a lot of parallels to straight romance in shoujo? That in a lot of series, the reader is supposed to relate to the uke? (Sidenote: I find this really annoying because it usually makes things *cough cough* seem one-sided*) That girls liking yaoi is kind of like guys liking lesbian porn? Holy buttsecks, Batman, I sure didn't!
I seriously might have to start a blog about yaoi manga from a fangirl's perspective but actually intelligent. I want a movement in which fangirls that are witty and intelligent becomes the norm instead of everything on the internet about yaoi being either "EEEE KAWAI DESU" or scholarly outsider. Or just mean. Not that I'm claiming to be particularly witty and intelligent, but it would be a start.
So, brushing up on my yaoi history:
The first manga with BL undertones was Moto Hagio's The November Gymnasium in 1971.
The first BL manga was Moto Hagio's The Poe Clan, which began in 1972.
The first BL manga with sexual content was Keiko Takemiya's Poem of the Wind and Trees, which began in 1976.
But what I'm wondering is what was the first yaoi manga to be, you know, porn?
(I enjoy this tag and am now using it as my general BL/yaoi tag.)
I seriously might have to start a blog about yaoi manga from a fangirl's perspective but actually intelligent. I want a movement in which fangirls that are witty and intelligent becomes the norm instead of everything on the internet about yaoi being either "EEEE KAWAI DESU" or scholarly outsider. Or just mean. Not that I'm claiming to be particularly witty and intelligent, but it would be a start.
So, brushing up on my yaoi history:
The first manga with BL undertones was Moto Hagio's The November Gymnasium in 1971.
The first BL manga was Moto Hagio's The Poe Clan, which began in 1972.
The first BL manga with sexual content was Keiko Takemiya's Poem of the Wind and Trees, which began in 1976.
But what I'm wondering is what was the first yaoi manga to be, you know, porn?
(I enjoy this tag and am now using it as my general BL/yaoi tag.)