Comments | winterspel: The World of JE from the n00b POV, Part 2: Boys in skirts and yaoi

winterspel

The World of JE from the n00b POV, Part 2: Boys in skirts and yaoi

Jun 18, 2006 07:22

NOTE: The following discusses slash and boy/boy pairings. If this offends you, please do not read.
( The World of JE mystifies me...a discussion of 'yaoi'and JE marketing )

je, yaoi, j-boys, akanishi jin, shounen ai, nakamaru yuuichi, picspam: kat-tun, kat-tun, ueda tatsuya, kamenashi kazuya, kaizokuban, picspam, tanaka koki, j-pop

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yaoi_brause June 20 2006, 14:54:28 UTC

Aww...the screencaps are so pretty o.o Thanks a lot for posting them~
xD Uaah Jin looks nice in a skirt *bwehe* and Kame´s kimono-outfit *__*
...But where are screencaps of my Junno-Darling? o.o How mean..xD

winterspel June 20 2006, 15:02:15 UTC

I'm glad you like the caps! I had to struggle to get them looking even halfway decent. The reason there are none of Junno is just because I had a hard time grabbing anything decent of him! I'm so sorry...I think the cameramen tended to focus their longer shots on Jin & Kame, so it was easier to cap them. Most of Junno's shots were all in motion so they came out very blurry. :(

yaoi_brause June 20 2006, 15:10:25 UTC

Uah I didn't intend to make you apologize o.o
But I´m glad to know that you tried :D
Aahh... I can´t help but starring at the lovely caps... It´s definitely their fault if I'll get a bad mark in my english class-test tomorrow xDD~

Uaah I just noticed your icon x3

seiwei July 14 2006, 03:30:22 UTC

Girls are who JE tries to sell to, so they do whatever they can to provide enough fanservice to catch the girls' attention. Yaoi appeals to girls. I mean, cmon, one pretty boy = good, two pretty boys = extremely better, two pretty boys molesting each other = major nosebleeding right there. It's shameless and vulgar, but we aren't complaining at all XD. In fact, it's better this way. Notice that everytime a JE boy is paired with a girl in a dorama, fangirls all over the world hate the girl ( ... )

winterspel July 14 2006, 03:49:15 UTC

Sorry for going back to read and comment on old posts, but I couldn't help myselfThere is absolutely no need to apologize! I tag and link these things so that I and others can find this stuff again, and I really want to hear from people who might have more experience and knowledge than I do ( ... )

seiwei July 17 2006, 02:38:45 UTC

LOL I'm not that experienced in JE and I'm not Japanese. I live in Minnesota, actually ^__^. I'm fascinated by them, is all. I think I only got into it near the end of fall semester 2005.

In the west, I think it's still NOT COOL to put two guys together in a romantic/sexual scenario unless they are clearly indentified as being gay and even that isn't completely mainstream yet

You know what...I totally agree with you o__o! I can NOT see myself googling at two american guys, even if they are gay, and JE boys are not gay at all. But then again, my friend Brianne's friend Bridgette does have an obsession with Canadians.

I do wonder how these guys feel about being portrayed this way, about doing fanservice, about their own girliness. I wonder how it affects them to be in this environment through their adolesence and into adulthood.Err...my thoughts on this are they like the attention it brings them XD. Or they wouldn't have joined JE in the first place. Sure, they were young getting into it (Kame was 12 when he joined JE, and Ueda and ( ... )