Are you a Yaoi fan or a Yuri fan? [Archive]

PururinEleven

12-16-2007, 07:21 PM

So what's the point of this thread, besides you being a perv and trying to get info on our personal lives?

nikitia

12-16-2007, 07:23 PM

we have a couple of threads on this...i just cant be bothered to look for them again
edit:
anyone like yaoi/shonen-ai?? (http://messageboard.tokyopop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=456&highlight=yaoi)

Shonen-ai/yaoi manga (http://messageboard.tokyopop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58&highlight=yaoi)
What are some good Yuri series? (http://messageboard.tokyopop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7486)
jst to name a couple

Tajtan

12-17-2007, 11:51 AM

So what's the point of this thread, besides you being a perv and trying to get info on our personal lives?Ja, cuz if this person looked in almost any other thread they wouldn't get that info anyways? :rolleyes:

:p I vote for yaoi!!!

TheBohemian

12-17-2007, 12:27 PM

How come if I wanna vote for yuri i have to vote for shojo-ai, too? :mad:
That's some booty poll you got there. D:

Tajtan

12-17-2007, 02:12 PM

Suck it up like a man, Bo, and just do it.

TheBohemian

12-17-2007, 02:14 PM

Nooooes, you can't make me! :p

StrongNerd

12-17-2007, 03:37 PM

So what's the point of this thread, besides you being a perv and trying to get info on our personal lives?

I just want to see how if there are an equal number of fans, or if one fanbase is bigger than the other.

TheBohemian

12-17-2007, 03:59 PM

You'll never know for sure, since yuri fans, though obviously creepy, are very secretive and quiet by nature, so they won't vote.

WhistleBlower

12-17-2007, 05:20 PM

I'm a Yaoi fan all the way.
It's not that I don't like Yuri though, I just like Yaoi much better.

Silvarea

12-18-2007, 10:23 PM

You'll never know for sure, since yuri fans, though obviously creepy, are very secretive and quiet by nature, so they won't vote.

Since when?? but then I like both.. and for me it's really simple I love Yaoi .. Then one day I was thinking how I let Fan Service bend me out of shape.. But, I like Yaoi oh wait then everyone should find their happiness. Ha, but that has nothing to do with why I like both so Down with Fan Service!!

Cuperos

12-19-2007, 06:17 AM

isn't that pretty much a disguised demographic survey?
(being general)
yaoi fans are for gay guys or girls
yuri are for gay girls or guys

TheBohemian

12-19-2007, 06:21 AM

Since when?? but then I like both.. and for me it's really simple I love Yaoi .. Then one day I was thinking how I let Fan Service bend me out of shape.. But, I like Yaoi oh wait then everyone should find their happiness. Ha, but that has nothing to do with why I like both so Down with Fan Service!!

How many guys do you think have their yaoi collection on their bookshelves? In their colsets, under their beds, I've heard a lot, but on the shelf? Not so often. ;)

Crab13

12-19-2007, 09:22 AM

I like Yuri/Shoujo-ai better as the stories are better.:) :Robo:

Aratos

12-19-2007, 09:35 AM

I like Yuri/Shoujo-ai better as the stories are better.:) :Robo:

Cartoon smut has a story, nowadays?

Crab13

12-19-2007, 09:50 AM

Cartoon smut has a story, nowadays? My only question is have you tried any of this stuff??:confused:

nikitia

12-19-2007, 12:22 PM

isn't that pretty much a disguised demographic survey?
(being general)
yaoi fans are for gay guys or girls
yuri are for gay girls or guys
umm no
Cartoon smut has a story, nowadays?
i never would have noticed, i skip to the good parts ;)

i'm an equal oppertunest myself =3 yaoi is just easier to find reading wise.

Aratos

12-19-2007, 01:36 PM

My only question is have you tried any of this stuff??:confused:

Have you?

Crab13

12-19-2007, 06:03 PM

Have you? I have seen some Shoujo-ai titles. To name some like Candy Boy, El Cazado de La Bruja, Kasimasi: Girl meets Girl, Kannazuki no Miko, Maria-sama ga Miteru, and Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito come to mind. As to henti or Yuri titles I have not seen any worth the time to talk about as of yet.:)

TheBohemian

12-20-2007, 04:46 AM

And if you're looking for a real plot, you'll be a long time in waiting. =/

Aratos

12-20-2007, 04:48 AM

Yes, well, I assumed that from my use of the word "smut" that it would be obvious I was referring to yuri.

Tajtan

12-20-2007, 05:17 AM

Cuz yaoi has no "smut?" :confused: I prefer the yaoi story ones, but I've bought some that I was unimpressed with.

Aratos

12-20-2007, 11:34 AM

I meant as opposed to shoujoai, Taj.

Suranime12345

12-20-2007, 12:42 PM

i dont enjoy yaoi but i appreciate its existence. does that count?

WhistleBlower

12-21-2007, 10:13 PM

I'm pretty sure that Yaoi is mainly written by and for women so there is plot alot of the time (as far as I know). It's alot like Shojo (In alot of cases but not all) but with more of the good stuff and two men.
Because it's already sort of a risque genre, alot of pure smut is out there but I like to tell myself that it contributes to the greater good. ._.

YamPuff

12-22-2007, 04:20 AM

:3 I think you all already know.

But on the subject, I really like shoujo-ai, but I have a harder time finding good shoujo-ai than shonen-ai. There are a lot of big, popular shonen-ai titles, a wide variety of genres (fantasy, adventure, drama), some are really smutty, some just have a kiss or two, etc. When it comes to shoujo-ai you'll be really hard pressed to find something in between total innocence and complete hentai. And I'm not just referring to what's been licensed. Shonen-ai just seems to be more popular and as a result there's more of it out there, more to choose from.

@WhistleBlower: Yaoi with plot? lol. :biglaugh:

Aratos

12-22-2007, 05:17 AM

When it comes to shoujo-ai you'll be really hard pressed to find something in between total innocence and complete hentai. And I'm not just referring to what's been licensed. Shonen-ai just seems to be more popular and as a result there's more of it out there, more to choose from.

Altho it helps to know where to look (http://www.yuricon.org/).

I'm pretty sure that Yaoi is mainly written by and for women so there is plot alot of the time (as far as I know).

You know, that sounds borderline sexist to me.

Tajtan

12-22-2007, 05:50 AM

You know, that sounds borderline sexist to me.Toast, I've seen what whistleblower wrote numerous times in magazines and manga regarding yaoi.

Aratos

12-22-2007, 05:55 AM

And that makes it any less sexist in its connotations?

YamPuff

12-22-2007, 06:42 AM

I don't see why its sexist; things that are geared towards men differ from things geared towards women. Although I wouldn't have used plot as example, instead, when its written by women for women, yaoi or yuri, it usually has a larger focus on love.
Altho it helps to know where to look (http://www.yuricon.org/).
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Aratos

12-22-2007, 06:44 AM

I don't see why its sexist; things that are geared towards men differ from things geared towards women. Although I wouldn't have used plot as example, instead, when its written by women for women, yaoi or yuri, it usually has a larger focus on love.

Ding ding ding! Give her a coconut! "The plot has a different focus" is a fair argument.

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YamPuff

12-22-2007, 06:52 AM

D:< I'll have that coconut now, please.

Aratos

12-22-2007, 06:57 AM

Coconut? I know of no coconuts.

HisakiNami

12-23-2007, 04:04 AM

I chose both...

Love is love, and anything that has a great storyline and awesome animation, I will watch.

:heart: :heart: :heart:

KHgirl

12-23-2007, 12:34 PM

I'm a yaoi fan myself, but I find it hard to find yaoi. All I ever find are shonen-ai such as Gravitation, Loveless and Eerie Queerie. I'm a big yaoi fan, please don't call me a perv for it, but I can never find any. Though on Amazon I did find one called Othello that I wanted to read.

Silvarea

12-23-2007, 04:57 PM

How many guys do you think have their yaoi collection on their bookshelves? In their colsets, under their beds, I've heard a lot, but on the shelf? Not so often. ;)

I can't say I don't know any guys that have it out where I can see it.. In fact I don't know any guys that even have anime .. But then I'm not social so..

Tajtan

12-26-2007, 08:53 AM

KHgirl

12-28-2007, 09:32 AM

There's a very short anime of Embracing Love. The same with Kizuna (a short anime). Both are good manga as well.
Oh thanks. I got that Othello manga for Christmas. It was good but way too short. Not enough yaoi or story. Actually, my grandma got me a bunch of shonen-ai and yaoi for christmas and never realized what it was.

Tajtan

12-28-2007, 11:00 AM

Actually, my grandma got me a bunch of shonen-ai and yaoi for christmas and never realized what it was.This.......is so incredibly funny!!!!!!!! I wonder what the person ringing her up at the register thought. I bet she even got a clerk to help her find the ones on a list I'm assuming you gave her. lol!!!!!!!!!!

KHgirl

12-29-2007, 09:04 AM

This.......is so incredibly funny!!!!!!!! I wonder what the person ringing her up at the register thought. I bet she even got a clerk to help her find the ones on a list I'm assuming you gave her. lol!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, she ordered it online for me. But when I got it, I tried hard not to laugh.

PururinEleven

12-29-2007, 11:33 AM

I chose both...

Love is love, and anything that has a great storyline and awesome animation, I will watch.

:heart: :heart: :heart:

I feel the same way about it, only in a much more perverted sense. >.>

Zetsuteen15

01-06-2009, 05:56 AM

Yuri. They are always hotter. Although Yaoi has a bigger fanbase, and I am exposed to it daily by my brother, (who reads it to annoy me.) I do not firmly stand by one, but yuri would win if I had to choose.

LovelessYaoiAi

01-08-2009, 05:26 AM

I'm a girl so, yaoi all the way.

fuyou

01-08-2009, 06:42 AM

So far Yuri/Shoujo-Ai won. I am a fan of neither but I read both. but I do find that Yuri is harder to find in the web or maybe it's just the circles that I am in don't supply it?

Vicious

01-08-2009, 05:23 PM

I am a fan of neither but I read both.
...wut. Then why read it if you're not a fan?

As for me, I'm a fan of neither and I don't read either. However, I don't MIND it either. If a reader reads either, I couldn't care less except wonder.

fuyou

01-09-2009, 06:49 AM

...wut. Then why read it if you're not a fan?

As for me, I'm a fan of neither and I don't read either. However, I don't MIND it either. If a reader reads either, I couldn't care less except wonder.

Ah, I read it and realize that they sucks aka they don't have what I am looking for.