calibration263: oh, did i tell u, my AIM client has a built in dictionary
Voiceless Rain: You did now
calibration263: its soo cool
calibration263: it has almost n e wrd u can think of
calibration263: .... and all i have to do it move my cursor over the wrd
calibration263: ......for example.......
calibration263: The word Yaoi was originally used to refer to fan manga (such as doujinshi) that focused on homosexual relationships between male characters, especially two bishonen - the manga equivalent of slash.
The term is an acronym derived from the Japanese phrase ('' yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi ''), meaning "no climax, no resolution, no meaning." Its target audience, readership and creators are almost exclusively young to middle-age women.
Nowadays, the term is often used in a general way to refer to male-male sexual or romantic content anywhere in the galaxy of anime, manga and fan fiction based on these; usually of a more hard-core nature than shonen-ai.
The term "BL (Boys' Love)" is more often used in Japan than the term Yaoi. There exists a large mainstream market for Boys' Love comics in Japan, as well as a flourishing doujinshi market (see shonen-ai).
Over the years, gay-themed comic strips inspired by and referred to as yaoi have been adapted as a sub-culture in North America, with writings and art displayed on websites devoted to it. Notable American yaoi comics include the web comic ''Boy Meets Boy'' by K. Sandra Fuhr, hosted on Keenspot.
Some common subjects of the American yaoi subculture include:
The boys of Gravitation; Kaworu and Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion; the characters of Gundam Wing, especially Heero and Duo; the boys of Wei Kreuz and Gensomaden Saiyuki, Kyo and Iori from The King of Fighters; Sephiroth and Cloud from Final Fantasy; Subaru, Seishiro, Kamui, and Fuuma from X/1999; Naruto, Sasuke, Neji from Naruto; and Yzak, DearkaAthrun, and Kira from Gundam SEED. Generally speaking, if a series features bishonen, it will be featured in yaoi.
External links'
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http://www.yaoicon.comcalibration263: very scary, some of the wrds the dictionary has.............
Voiceless Rain: Oh my god
Voiceless Rain: That's AWESOME
calibration263: yah, i like to see wut wrds it has, so if there's some random wrd i dont think it has, i jst see if its underlined
calibration263: yah, it has megatokyo also
calibration263: Megatokyo is an online manga drawn by Fred Gallagher (a.k.a. "Piro"). Gallagher does the artwork, story, and site design. Rodney Caston (a.k.a. "Largo"), wrote the scripts for the first year or so of the story (Fred Gallagher edited them), but now it is entirely Gallagher's strip. Gallagher was laid off from his day job in late 2002, and as of 2004 he does the strip full-time. The comic began on August 14, 2000. The comic is named Megatokyo after its domain name, because the former script writer already owned this domain, yet had no real use for it yet.
The comic arguably popularized L33t to the mainstream of the Internet. The origins of L33t are not precisely known.
Megatokyo follows the story of two Americans, Piro and Largo (mostly based on the real-life Piro and Largo), who wind up in Tokyo, Japan after an incident at E. Much of the early humour is based on video game humor and inside jokes, as well as culture-clash issues, although the style has changed somewhat over time and now features aspects from a great number of different anime and manga archetypes: whilst Largo fights off the threats from zombie hordes via his Beowulf cluster, with an angelic Boo (a hamster of ''Baldur's Gate'' fame) trying to moderate his somewhat excessive behaviour, Piro's life has become similar to a dating-sim, with Seraphim (modelled on the author's girlfriend, and now wife) chastising him from upon his shoulder for his incidental run-ins with young women. Also residing in the house is Ping, a confused robotic PlayStation 2 accessory capable of becoming someone's dream girlfriend - or throwing buses if enraged.
All strips are available free of charge from [
http://www.megatokyo.com/ megatokyo.com] as well as in the books published by Dark Horse Comics with ISBN 1-59307-163-9, ISBN 1-59307-118-3 and ISBN 1-59307-305-4. (At one point I.C. Entertainment (formerly IronCat) produced a book collecting the strips now included in Volume One. However due to a breakdown in talks between Megatokyo and I.C. Entertainment, Dark...
calibration263: XD
calibration263: i wonder....
calibration263: yuri
Voiceless Rain: Woooow
calibration263: Yuri (sometimes known as ''shojo-ai'') a jargon term amongst otaku for lesbian content, possibly sexually explicit, in anime and manga, or in fan fiction based on such. In Western media the term femmeslash would be used.
Voiceless Rain: Bwahaha. Not as much info as yaoi.
calibration263: not as big of a deff as yaoi.....
calibration263: omg, wtf!?
Voiceless Rain: xD
calibration263: shojo-ai
calibration263: no!
calibration263: nuthing
Voiceless Rain: xD
calibration263: shoujo-ai
Voiceless Rain: Bwahaha.
calibration263: nothing
Voiceless Rain: Yaoi pwns.
calibration263: w/e
calibration263: shoujoai
calibration263: shojoai
calibration263: nothing, nothing, nothing
calibration263: omg
Voiceless Rain: xD
calibration263: *Object Management Group, the consortium responsible for the CORBA architecture
*Internet slang for:
**Oh My God
**Oh My Gosh
**Oh My Goddess
**Oh My Goodness
calibration263: XD
calibration263: deff for omg
Voiceless Rain: xD
calibration263: ohh, i wonder......
calibration263: hentai
calibration263: ''Hentai'' () is a Japanese word used outside of Japan, mostly in western countries and several English-speaking countries, to refer to Japanese animation ("H anime"), comic-book-style magazines ("H manga"), and computer games ("bishojo games", hentai games) with explicit sexual or pornographic artwork (see Japanese pornography).
calibration263: still not as much as yaoi!?
calibration263: omg
Voiceless Rain: xD
Voiceless Rain: Yaoi > all
calibration263: omg, i know, how GAY
Voiceless Rain: Literally.
Generally speaking, if a series features bishonen, it will be featured in yaoi.
So true.