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NEWS: WAaI! boys in skirts Magazine to Launch in Japan


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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:33 am Reply with quote
Wow, that sounds creepy any way you look at it. As well as bizaree.
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Brand



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:42 am Reply with quote
I guess Japan shouldn't surprise me anymore but, wow lol wtf?
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darkchibi07



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:45 am Reply with quote
Ohhhh joy, traps. One of the few ways to make yaoi for the male otaku.
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Takeyo



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:50 am Reply with quote
So it's just a crossdressing shota magazine? Is it supposed to be pornographic or something less explicit?
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bendomolena



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:58 pm Reply with quote
japan is still as weird as ever
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darkchibi07



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:04 pm Reply with quote
Takeyo wrote:
So it's just a crossdressing shota magazine? Is it supposed to be pornographic or something less explicit?


I doubt it'll be outright pornographic, but I can imagine some of the stories can go borderline. Shocked
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:09 pm Reply with quote
As strange as this is though, I have seen much stranger products come out of Japan.

The concept of gender bender and cross dressing isn't new and has been done several times already. In fact several gender bender series have been licensed in US, but usually those series weren't creepy or other wise disturbing.

What will Japan think of next? Crime fighting grand parents? Well I think that one has been before though.
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Fronzel



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:11 pm Reply with quote
It's a trap!
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Nemo_N



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:21 pm Reply with quote
CROSS-DRESSING WILL DESTROY MANKIND

I don't get what's so weird about this.
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Altorrin



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:07 pm Reply with quote
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
What will Japan think of next? Crime fighting grand parents? Well I think that one has been before though.


Cyborg Grandpa G. It has been.
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:44 pm Reply with quote
darkchibi07 wrote:
I doubt it'll be outright pornographic, but I can imagine some of the stories can go borderline. Shocked

Though I don't consider this publication to be intrinsically problematic, I expect its content may nonetheless be legally dubious in certain places outside Japan.
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minakichan





PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:04 pm Reply with quote
Oh Japan.

Is this for guys or girls? Funny how a drawing of a girl becomes 100x sexier just by writing that it's really a guy for some people.
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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:00 pm Reply with quote
IT'S A TRAP! Laughing
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MaxSouth



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:04 pm Reply with quote
if some people interested in boys who look and/or dress like girls, then why there should not be magazine for that audience?..

nothing really creepy or weird about it...

even for those who are not interested in the subject it could be great one-time experience, because in some cases that cross-dressing or cross-looking can be really, really funny... when cross-dressers/cross-lookers do not really look like girls... Laughing
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BleuVII



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:52 pm Reply with quote
Wow. I mean, I heard that the latest Harajuku trend for guys was skirts, but this just weirds me out. I mean, it's okay to have it in a story, but to have a manga magazine DEVOTED TO IT?!
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