/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

[unjapanologist]

K is the white-haired rock star, yes. His brother raped the soccer player somewhere in BRONZE. K, on the other hand, raped the then-girlfriend of the soccer player back in Zetsuai. I don't even remember if he had a reason for it, or if he was just mad at her for existing. (This is the character who cut off his own arm because he didn't want to do kendo anymore and he wanted his family to stop whining at him to take it up again.)

It's... not really fun to realize how screwed up that stuff I used to love as a teenager really was. I have very fond memories of Kizuna (Kai and Masa mmm), so I'm kind of afraid to revisit it and discover it was actually all sorts of terrifying or something.

[ravelqueen]

I don't even remember if he had a reason for it, or if he was just mad at her for existing.

If I remember his obsessive behaviour correctly her existing was a totally valid reason.

I really think though that you can re-visit Kizuna without fear. The first volumes are a bit wonky, so those ones can be skipped. I think the only really fucked up thing was the rape scene which is just WTH Kodaka, why did you think that is a good way to introduce a character that we are supposed to like?!

She took a big break between I think vol. 3 and 4 to work on Kusatta and it shows in the art style and the story, because then we get our first major arc with Yakuzas and everything.

I don't know how far you've read, if you remember reading it as a teenager, but you know she finished, right? And it's a totally cute way to end it, absolutely worth it (and especially if you like Kai and Masa the last volumes are a must read!)

[unjapanologist]

Yeah, I know she finished and I remember at least paging through the magazine with the last chapter, but I don't think I ever got around to really reading the last couple of volumes all the way through. I'd dropped out of reading a lot of BL by that time, and the urge has come back only fairly recently.

Right. Shopping time!

(Oh goody, KKH. Funniest thing in forever.)