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General / Question about the yaoi/shoune-ai genre listings
« on: November 08, 2005, 02:44:13 PM »
I know this is a bit of an unpopular opinion, but with the recent removal of shounen-ai and the excitement it is has caused... it's been bugging me.
Shounen-ai as a genre refers to a very specific type of manga produced in the late 70s/early 80s that has long been considered dead in Japan. Shounen-ai is not the softcore equivalent of yaoi, which is what the old fanlisting stated it as, and what most of the applicants seem to feel it is. Nor is shounen-ai just the Japanese words for Boy's Love. BL is the all encompassing term for male/male work that includes anything from the G rating to hardcore pornography and is actually refered to in Engrish.
How do you reconcile the wrong usage of the term with the fanlisting?
And this brings up another question that was posed to me and that has been niggling at my brain. Is Boy's Love/BL an approvable genre listing?
Shounen-ai as a genre refers to a very specific type of manga produced in the late 70s/early 80s that has long been considered dead in Japan. Shounen-ai is not the softcore equivalent of yaoi, which is what the old fanlisting stated it as, and what most of the applicants seem to feel it is. Nor is shounen-ai just the Japanese words for Boy's Love. BL is the all encompassing term for male/male work that includes anything from the G rating to hardcore pornography and is actually refered to in Engrish.
How do you reconcile the wrong usage of the term with the fanlisting?
And this brings up another question that was posed to me and that has been niggling at my brain. Is Boy's Love/BL an approvable genre listing?