The Comicon Report
I went to Torino Comix yesterday, with the usual suspects (Lu&Arm, Simo and Rico)and spent a much needed 4 hours talking about books, mangas, the horror that is Stone's Alexander and most of all *not* thinking about the thesis of doom. Almost
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Oh, yesssss! In the post above the term shonen ai (boy's love) is linked to its definition in wikipedia, if you're interested. That's the way I first got into the whole man-on man idea. It's difficult though to find really good stories, maybe because our tastes are a bit less...over-dramatical that the jap's seems to be (although you wouldn't say that looking at some fanfiction) or maybe it's the fact the the clear cut divisions of roles in the couple -seme and uke, with one all manly and protective and the other something creepily close to a woman with a penis, at least in some stories. A bit like eromenos and erastes, to give you a rough idea- can be a disturbing. Or that most of the stories that arrive in Italy are not much more than porn with a cliched plot :P
I would suggest CLAMP's works, which are not exacly shonen ai per se, but have clear homoerotic themes (like Tokyo Babylon, X1999, Clover and Lawful Drugstore)both in subtex and canon. Plus incredible artwork, and very enjoiable plots ^_^
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