/report!: yaoi, yaoi everywhere

[rageprufrock]

Come one, come all (no, seriously), /reporters! After several geologic eras of my incubating whatever disease killed Gwyneth Paltrow in Contagion, we're finally back to Sunday evening posting! This week mklutz and I are joined by Lianne Sentar of Sleep Is For The Weak to talk about yaoi, boys love, some of its history, some of its many questionable and delightful facets, to give the curious or the nostalgic recommendations, and then we spend some time advocating mklutz's future career in audio porn.

(Fair warning to listeners, as a natural result of the subject matter, we talk quite a bit about dubious consent and nonconsensual sex.)

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• Read Bukiyou na Silent here. (NC-17)

• Read Haru wo Daite Ita online here or here. (Exuberantly NC-17; attempted non-con later in the series.)

• Buy Wild Rock here.

• To purchase FAKE, go here, to buy Eerie Queerie, click this, pick up Antique Bakery here.

• mklutz's manga-ka of choice is Naono Bohra.

• To check out manga-ka Toko Kawai, click here. Specific titles of Toko Kawai: Cut (dark but satisfying); Cafe Latte Rhapsody (super sweet); In the Walnut (amazingly classy)

• Check out Tyrant Falls in Love here and Little Butterfly (by same mangaka as Tyrant and Bukiyou na Silent, super sweet) here.

• Approach Maiden Rose with caution here.

• For those ready to try Japanese Drama CDs, here's the SUPER BEST OMG English-language sharing forum and community for BL drama CDs.

And! Last but definitely note least: to look into these Tokyo Demons shenanigans, click here.

Comments

some unsolicited recs

[fojee]

Gah! Bad flashbacks to Ai no Kusabi and also that yaoi with the seme buying the uke at an auction and they have sex with the uke always crying... God I don't even want to search for it. The thing is, I mostly go into yaoi for angst in small doses. And end up going back to slash where the fandom is richer and plottier.

Still I wanted to list a few of my favorite manga/manhwa/anime:
*Ensemble (Korean manhwa. The art's pretty unique. Gender-bending and also plotty. Hmmm. Not sure if it counts as yaoi.)
*Zipper Up Boy (short and dub con and angsty)
*Komatta Toki ni wa Hoshi ni Kike! (the name of which I always have to look up. Not so much yaoi as the shounen ai version of Hana Kimi, also my most favorite manga ever! Lots of angst, lots of fluff. No porn, though.)
*Totally Captivated (Korean manhwa. Angsty too.)
*R.O.D. (Um, femmeslash? Book-love?)
*Skip Beat! (Which is het. Yes, het, but no actual sex yet. And is about acting and taking revenge on assholes who take you for granted.)

Anime/manga fandoms are really small, except maybe for Naruto, who is still my favorite character in all of media. I think I went through Prince of Tennis (MomoRyo and Inui/Kaidoh) very quickly and Ranma 1/2's very few Ranma/Ryouga fics. That's about it. Why is that? I wish I could write stories on the manga above, but something's stopping me... Like I feel I can't improve upon it?

Re: some unsolicited recs

[ravelqueen]

also that yaoi with the seme buying the uke at an auction and they have sex with the uke always crying

just to make the flashback worse (and damn it someone reminded me of the whole ungodly plot of Zetsuai here) I think the one you are thinking of is Okane ga Nai (No Money) because I think that is the most famous one of that particular trope (I don't doubt there are many, many of them out there)

little trivia regarding that, the uke is canonically said to be 18 but they still didn't release it in Germany (even though it apparently has a huge fan-following), because they refuse to print underage porn and they don't care if they say he's 18 if he looks like 12, which is awesome way to stay on message imho

Re: some unsolicited recs

[fojee]

Yeah, it does sound like Okane ga Nai. I remember it eventually gets to be more romantic, but I just could not get past that uke's crying face.

Re: some unsolicited recs

[ravelqueen]

I discovered Okane Ga Nai at exactly the point where I started to develope standards XD and that was sooo rapey and had this horrible power imbalance (and crying so much crying). Also apparently we were supposed to think the uke was Jesus (in the sense of sooo wonderful and kind and forgiving blahblahblah)