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winterspel

Interesting article!

Aug 16, 2006 10:27

[Warning: Sexually explicit discussion of cultural customs in historical Japan found in the comments. Proceed at your own risk.]

Many thanks to icajoleu for forwarding this to me! :) I love that my friends keep an eye out for my crazy interests...this article is short but addresses a few different interesting ideas.

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ina August 16 2006, 15:25:23 UTC

This article really really raises my urge to go back there and raid the shelves for JE doujinshi. XD

The commercial manga yaoi market is strong in Japan too and published authors have no problems drawing and selling doujinshi for their own and other's work.

Translated yaoi manga sell well in the US and Europe, as do other mangas, so I don't understand this sentence: Many lament the fact that businesses that have done so well with manga have failed to translate that success into profits in the American market.

Japanese manga publishers own American manga publishers. (VIZ is owned by Shueisha)

winterspel August 16 2006, 15:34:45 UTC

I see very decent sections of mangas in mainstream bookstores nowadays, so yes, that is a bit surprising.

Btw, I do like some comics and graphic novels (particularly the darker, more horror/fantasy ones as opposed to superhero comics), and I have been wanting to try out manga - I only know about them. If you read manga, can you recc any (yaoi preferably, but really I just want a good story w/good characters and good artwork). If not, I may end up tossing this question out to the flist at some point, because I prefer reccs rather than just jumping into something unknown.

ina August 16 2006, 16:16:13 UTC

I buy a fair amount of manga each month, German translated, but here are the ones that are available in an English translation too ( ... )

winterspel August 16 2006, 16:42:02 UTC

WOW, you are beyond awesome! Thank you so much for such a great list of reccs! I have heard of Kizuna (who hasn't, right?). :)

I have not yet gotten to Kimi wa Petto...I have been planning to start Strawberry on the Shortcake next, to stay in Takki theme. Should I try some Jun instead?

winterspel August 18 2006, 10:33:38 UTC

Could I ask you one more thing?

Of these, which is the most romantic? :) I don't even know if that is an appropriate question for the genre, but I'm hoping.

And one more question (sorry) - what is the difference between yaoi manga and shounen ai manga? IS there a difference?

I have a lot to learn...

ina August 18 2006, 11:07:14 UTC

I am always happy to answer questions. XD

Purely my opinion, but I think Fake is the most romantic. Yellow too.

But maybe you should ask your friendslist too, it's always a good idea to get more than one opinion. XD

In western fandom yaoi often refers to the explicit kind and shounen-ai to the not so explicit one. If it stays with kissing it's shonen-ai. Or if the actual feelings between the male characters stays unspoken, but it seems that there are more than friends.
But all the terms are very ambiguous. It differs between Japanese and Western fandom, between publishers in both countries etc. Boys Love (BL) is used too.

winterspel August 18 2006, 14:31:54 UTC

Thank you very much for all the information. :)

At some point I probably will ask the flist for more reccs, because you're right, more opinions can always help.

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