gentle? What is a gentle schoolboy yaoi mood? It’s when you want to read BL where highschoolers fall for their classmates, in stories that are emotionally easy to digest. In other words, you’re craving stories of sweet love and romance, without the darkness or angst of noncon, physical/emotional abuse, or taboo relationships. That’s right, these stories…
too hot to handle? The reversible (or switch or reversi) couple is probably my favorite pairing. When a couple trades sex roles — the pitcher becoming the catcher and vice versa — it’s such a pleasing violation of yaoi conventions. If there’s one basic move in yaoi that both ratchets up the sexy and pushes gender boundaries, it’s the act of throwing the roles of seme…
top 25 BL: the final chapter And here we are — at the finish line! I started out with the intention of giving you a Top 10 yaoi list, but due to my straight up inability to pare down, here are the final five of what ended up being a Top 25 BL manga (and anime and…
welcome back to the tour! Today our manga span the years from the mid-90’s to hot-off-the-presses 2014. We have hosts, college students, novelists, even anti-terrorist agents. Five more titles to add to the “yaoi’s got something good for any mood you’re in” list. If you haven’t seen them already, check out the first three installments,…
among yaoi’s best, part 3 of 5 In our previous two installments we sampled ten manga by eight skilled mangaka, most of whom have significant bodies of work worth exploring in depth: top 10 (oops, 25) yaoi manga, part 1 Nitta Youka, Yamane Ayano, Shimizu Yuki, and Yoneda Kou top 10 (oops, 25) yaoi manga, part 2…
previously… In top 10 yaoi manga, part 1 (which is actually a top 25, because I have virtually no yaoi self-control), I made it through the first five manga, featuring works by Nitta Youka, Yamane Ayano, Shimizu Yuki, and Yoneda Kou. Today we’ll be visited by four mangaka who include the most hard core on this list…
top 10 yaoi – the best boys’ love manga … is what I’d like to say. It’s what I was going for, but that’s not how it turned out. I mean, really, how can a hopeless fujoshi actually reduce the best of yaoi to 10 titles? I am defeated. Utterly. However, if you’re wondering what…
the joy of yaoi 