am I the only one who feels like so many of the popular straight manwhas have super similar stories???
Like it's always either "I am a duchess, back in my old life I died a tragic way but I am reborn/gone back in time and now I will marry this influential man!" or anything about royalty/high society in an older time, either "I am an ordinary office worker and the CEO fell in love with me/I accidentally started going out with the CEO!"
Or I am a villainess who got placed in this book after I got in a car accident
It’s tiring
finally someone said it
It's weird though that most of them arent completed haha I keep searching for completed ones but nothing... I feel like it's a new trend or something because there arent many old ones (I am talking about the reincarnation ones)
This type of story is popular nowadays, some are good but its kinda getting repetitve
Sorry I accidentaly replied directly to your comment
Huh？
yup but i love it
I've only ever really read tamen de guchi, and I'm finding it really hard to find some other yuri that suits my taste ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I'm not really into the catholic girl school trope where every girl is gay n all they do is bang, I'd like to find some sweet and wholesome stories about lesbians being cute ヾ(❀u◡u)ﾉ~
This one is cute too ^^ http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/magandanai/
thank you very much!!
Just curious ~(＾◇^)/ ヾ(*ゝω・*)ﾉ
i go on here to look and see if there’s updates everyday so…often? daily if im not too busy w life :’-)
ahaha same, glad to know I'm not the only one!!
Used to read yaoi (and occasionally yuri) daily, but now it's more spontaneous. I'd say every few weeks.
Im so busy I don't even have time to eat, how do I have time to read. Nowadays I just hang around the mangago homepage. Check out the reccomendations people post and add em on my list to read later when I have time. Who is in college and have time to sleep, raise your hand, because not me.
seems reasonable!! I wish I was like you sometimes (￣∇￣")
That means you're making efforts in your studies!! very good!! (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Everyday / everytime if I got freeitme or get up . It really addicted
A college student who wasted too much time on yaoi
Good thing u r not like me
I will stop reading tho , ... ┗( T﹏T )┛
ahaha, what matters is that you're having fun!!
I tried looking it up on google but all I got were posts about how yaoi and yuri is disgusting... ┗( T v T )┛
It's Shounen Ai
Shounen Ai is mostly just fluff stuff, kissing, hugs and sometimes they dont even kiss at all! and Yaoi is the one that mostly has alot of hardcore stuff specially sex someone correct me if I'm wrong ╮(￣▽￣)╭
aah okay!! thank you!
ooh so that's the difference between the two!! thank you so much!! <3
yaoi is a manga that focuses on the sexual aspect between two boys, whereas shounen ai is focusing more on the romantic side between them. the lines have been slightly blurred nowadays, so most just say if there's straight out sex (like dick showing) it's yaoi. and if there's not sex/not direct sex (is mentioned but not actual visible or not a main part of the story) it's shounen ai. lmao correct me if i'm wrong
Keep in mind that the shounen-ai and yaoi designations are outdated terms that are continually used in this community, but in Japan, it all falls under the BL (Boy Love) category. And it makes more sense to put it under the umbrella category of BL because there is absolutely no clear delineation separating shounen-ai and yaoi content anyway. For instance, take Castle Mango where there is a lot of heavy sexual tension but very little in sexual scenes. They eventually have sex, even if its brief, and not as explicit as say, Harada or Zaria, so does that make it shounen ai or yaoi? Are we seriously going to define a series by how much explicit sex is depicted?
It's all romance between two male characters sometimes involving very explicit sexual content. Trying to rank and categorise series based on the degree of sexual content seems almost insulting to the manga-ka and his/her work.
But technically most of the answers have been correct in the context of how the terms are used in the BL reading community, but honestly, I think we should all make an effort to stop using yaoi and shounen-ai designations. If manga-ka in Japan don't see it that way, neither should we.
No, not really. shounen-ai can have sex scenes too, but it's easy to tell if it's shounen-ai if they do cut scenes. my best example of shounen-ai sex http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/slow_starter_ichikawa_kei/mf/v02/c011/2/ also, vassalord.
Actually yhe best way to know if a manga is shounen-ai or yaoi is WHICH MAGAZINE it got published. It's the same for josei and shounen. Fans just conveniently stick whatever "genre" they think a manga is but this is the real meaning of those terms.
also i have no idea how you are searching but the wiki definition is always at the top.
I just really love huge height differences.. (^Ｏ^)
Preferably with the uke being the one smaller!!
Sign Language and Himitsu No Shiro Yo
Omg salaam!! (≧∀≦)
Basically most of the yaoi lmao
would prefer something that doesn't have a lot of angst, and is completed! straight, bl and gl are all good