Allons Gai: Be-Boy magazine in French « A Face Made for Radio: Helen McCarthy... - 0 views
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The Anime Encyclopedia points out that porn usually leads mainstream genres in the adoption of new delivery technologies. Japan usually leads Europe and America in just the same way.
「見ないで!私たちの秘密の花園 ボーイズラブ大特集」 番外編 - 0 views
BLスタディーズ - 「ユリイカ」 - 0 views
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やおい論、明日のためにその2。
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腐女子同士の絆
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ロボと人外をBLに!
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ユリイカ2007年6月臨時増刊号 総特集=腐女子マンガ大系 - 0 views
コミュニケーション不全症候群 (ちくま文庫): 中島 梓: 本 - 0 views
文化の社会学 (有斐閣アルマ): 佐藤 健二: 本 - 0 views
Girl Reading Girl in Japan - 0 views
ceitean: demographics in animanga fandom - no, really, they're important - 0 views
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The age issue is something I don't usually see addressed in discussions about animanga fandom, at least in a way that isn't derisive. Obviously there are plenty of fans who aren't in the range of the general anime marketing demographic (which is another topic about the way US companies frame animanga), but after the huge boom in popularity/marketing push in the early 00s, the majority of animanga fans have been pre- to late-teenagers. And there is no group in the world that is as uneducated, inexperienced, and defensive about sexuality/gender/cultural issues than pre- to late-teenagers. Better yet, most of those fans in this particular corner of the internet are girls, who are not only inexperienced, but are also the demographic most likely to be scared of their own sexuality. There's meta floating around of the 'why do we slash?' variety, and one of the proposed ideas was that some fans use slashing as a way to explore sexuality without making it personal. It's the best description of a Yaoi FanGurl I've ever heard.
Moe and the Potential of Fantasy in Post-Millenial Japan - 0 views
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If kawaii, or the aesthetic of cute, is the longing for the freedom and innocence of youth, manifesting in the junior and high school girl in uniform (Kinsella 1995), then moe is the longing for the purity of characters pre-person, manifesting in androgynous semi and demi human forms. This is called 'jingai,' or outside human, and examples include robots, aliens, dolls and anthropomorphized animals, all stock characters in the moe pantheon. A specific example would be nekomimi, or cat-eared characters. More generally, in order to achieve the desired affect, moe characters are reduced to tiny deformed 'little girl' images with emotive, pupil-less animal eyes
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I argue fantasy characters offer virtual possibilities and affect
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Moe is also used by fujoshi, zealous female fans of yaoi, a genre of manga featuring male homosexual romance. However, the word moe indicates a response to fantasy characters, not a specific style, character type or relational pattern. While some things are more likely than others to inspire moe, this paper will focus mainly on the response itself rather than the forms that inspire it.
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