What was it like at Yaoi-Con? Well, Mamuro5254 will be more than happy to show you, in this video that demonstrates what happens when a videographer with serious skills, equipment, and love for yaoi is set loose in a crowd… The video highlights some of the con’s best cosplay and includes an artfully edited dance performance…
Here we have the final AMV’s honored in the 2014 Yaoi-Con AMV contest. While they weren’t specifically BL-focused, these AMV’s of K Project and Princess Jellyfish were still fujoshi/fudanshi crowd pleasers. For your viewing pleasure… BecauseI’mBored’s K Project AMV: “Hot Blooded” and BecauseI’mBored’s Princess Jellyfish AMV: “Poor Unfashionable Souls” Yep, that’s right! BecauseI’mBored won 2 prizes at Yaoi-Con this…
For all the Sekaiichi Hatsukoi fans out there, we have the final BL-themed award winner at Yaoi-Con this year: Mad World Productions’ heart-achingly tender take on Takano and Ritsu, “A Lullaby for the Lost”. Enjoy! Don’t miss the other Yaoi-Con 2014 award-winning AMV’s: Best AMV and best comedy: “Ship Happens” by Vivifx Best technical AMV: “The Story…
Want to experience (or re-experience) 4 1/2 minutes of the beautiful angst of the 2012 Ai no Kusabi anime? You’ll find it here in the winner for best drama AMV at Yaoi-Con 2014, made by Tigrin/359172. Don’t miss the other Yaoi-Con 2014 award-winning AMV’s: Best AMV and best comedy: “Ship Happens” by Vivifx Best technical AMV: “The Story Goes…
Are you a fan of the Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru anime (aka The Betrayal Knows My Name)? If so, you’ll want to check out Desdemona’s UraBoku AMV. At Yaoi-Con it won the judges’ award for Best Technical AMV, and when you watch it, you’ll see why. It was the first AMV they showed at…
SonicJKevin put together a fun, funny video of cosplayer play from the weekend, including his moments with Reika. I think you’ll enjoy…
Cosplay? At Yaoi-Con? Surely you jest… Okay, okay, here are a few of the fun folks wandering around the con… Want to find your own? How about a little game of Where’s Waldo? Here gather the cosplayers, standing in line for Yaoi-Con’s Cosplay Contest and Masquerade. What? They aren’t all dressed up? Of course not… this…
This weekend at Yaoi-Con, the winner for both for comedy and overall best AMV was Vivifx’s “Ship Happens”, and let me just say, watching this in a ballroom crammed full of fujoshi and fudanshi… well, I’m pretty sure they heard the laughter up on the hotel’s 9th floor… In truth, I’m not usually that into AMV’s, but if…
Welcome to some moderately geeky reflections on Japanese. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m absolutely, completely fascinated by the differences between Japanese and English. I love how Japanese twists my brain into pretzels, and I love that manga, anime, and drama CD’s offer glimpses into the brain-twisting nature of Japanese. But today isn’t really a pretzel day. Today is pure play. adoption and…
What? Yaoi doesn’t have any male fans after all? But I was so looking forward to meeting them! Well, it turns out that if I do they won’t be “fundashi”, because (as I recently learned) the name for male fans of yaoi isn’t actually “fundashi” — despite the fact that you can search for fundashi on the…
the joy of yaoi 