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This really isn't a bad show, and if it were a DVD it would be Rental Shelf. It just falls into a category of shows I'm not overly fond of, somewhere between Ceres, Celestial Legend and Descendants of Darkness. (And by the way, I like Gravitation…)

Yaoi Fangirls defending their honor ITT

I could be wrong, but...nah. I'll just assume anyone who claims otherwise is lying to save face.

Reading a summary would not have dissuaded me, although reading a review would clearly have steered me away from the title.

...but the only Japanese live-action porn I'm familiar with seems pretty innocuous. I go to aggregator sites like, say, Xhamster or Xvideos and click on the Asian or Japanese categories. Pretty much all you get are normal sex clips. But I have no doubt there is some pretty freaky stuff out there. Anyway, I like the Asian stuff because the women generally don't abide by the "clean-shaven" look that has lamentably taken over NA porn. On the down side, the, uh, "actresses" involved have a disconcerting habit of sounding like 10-year-old girls being tortured/murdered while simulating throes of passion. So yeah, it usually sound off for me.

I personally prefer YnM to Gravi, because the connection between Hisoka and Tsuzuki was so much more impactful to me than Yuki and Shuichi (even though the latter is the only official couple).

P.S. I was initially interested in Uraboku until I heard the whole bit about "Character X being Character Y's reincarnated female lover." I find that kind of plot twist grating. It's like they want to have a m-m romance on the surface but insist on tinkering with it so that it's not really gay (because X has a "female soul" or whatever. Bleh.). Probably the same reason (some) yuri fans turn their noses up at the cross-dressing boy/sex-change plots.

poonk wrote:

P.S. I was initially interested in Uraboku until I heard the whole bit about "Character X being Character Y's reincarnated female lover." I find that kind of plot twist grating. It's like they want to have a m-m romance on the surface but insist on tinkering with it so that it's not really gay (because X has a "female soul" or whatever. Bleh.).

But it is not really accurate to say that BL and yaoi is gay anime/manga. It is more a genre of romance that involves two men that you can't really accept as a reflection of true-to-life homosexual relationships.
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Fujoshi (I'm not one) have their fantasies and reasons for reading BL and that's fine, I have the type of fantasies that satisfies my type of content which is that girly-boy, crossdresser, gender bender gets the sexy guy type stories that are still actually quite uncommon. I fangasm over those.

I do understand that BL is not representative of actual gay comics, so I didn't mean to imply that. My point was that I saw this reincarnation plot device as a "copping out" based on my expectations of a title I thought was directed at my fanbase. Having read your post I thought about it a little and realized that I spoke out of a bit of personal disappointment-- this was the only non-sequel I was eyeing this season and it turned out to be not my thing. But maybe instead of complaining about it as a disappointment (imo) for a BL title I should instead view it as a sort of a gender-bending romantic drama. I can dig that.

Blood-'s post, where he mentions Xvideos, is entirely about Japanese live-action porn. I thought it was blatantly obvious that Xvideos was a porn site. What did you think was going to be on the site?

What the hell are you guys talking about? I looked up xvideos thinking it was something weird and it turned out to be porn and I had the volume turned up all the way and one of those sex pop ups came up all loud. I haven't been scared like that since the Maze game. Screw you guys man put up some not NSFHome labels up next time.

I actually thought Blood put the Xs in there to censor himself so others wouldn't look them up.