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rizuchan
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I mean, fujoshi's love for the male seiyuu isn't really that different from the female idol seiyuu other than there seem to be a lot more veteran and older male seiyuu. (Most seem to be in their 30s and 40s, and apparently Takehito Koyasu, who will be 50 next year, still makes the top 20 male seiyuu.)
...Well, that, and you don't hear much about fujoshi trying to stab Ono Daisuke in the face at his handshake events. |
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CharonCaori
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BL doujinshi in Japan usually only cost a few dollars. Between 300-800 yen for the vast majority, unless it's rare, or in color, or by a famous author. That import tax sounds insane! |
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Stuart Smith
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They still do it to this day. Listen to the fangirls scream everytime the actors touch each other or do something like pelvic thrusts.
It's not so much import tax as it is price gouging and markup from less reputable websites. Mandarake is the best place since they sell most doujinshi for 500-1500 yen while other sites sell them for 20-80 bucks each. I've seen some Pocket Monsters and Detective Conan doujinshi get marked up as high as $400 USD. -Stuart Smith |
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Lemonchest
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I remember years ago when a Thai ladyboy show came to town. It was full of 30+ women & you could tell when the clothes came off no matter how far from the tent you were. That vid reminded me of it. |
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Suena
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As someone who went to quite a lot of work to try to screencap some butts (don't ask) in All Out!!, there were surprisingly few 'good' butt shots. It's wild that it has a reputation for derrieres, but in reality it rarely makes them a focus of the frames. At least, I'm sure it has nowhere near as many of as much as Keijo(!x8). Apparently it doesn't require much fanservice from male characters, for a show to get a reputation of there being a lot. |
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Hoppy800
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$400 for doujinshi? I've seen them go for about $100, but not $400 and it makes me wonder if there is a collector's market or something for them. I can see anime discs costing $400+ secondhand if rare or are a set of new anime BDs at retail but not a single doujinshi. |
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poonk
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belvadeer
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I wonder how many of them were going, "Oh my gosh, look at their butts."
That's funny. I remember watching Kuuga online with friends a couple of years ago and I must have either missed that scene or I wasn't thinking about it that much. |
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poonk
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belvadeer
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That explains it. I missed a small handful of the starting episodes. No wonder it didn't look familiar. Thanks poonk, I think I have some catching up to do. |
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Herald Of JOJO
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Wow. I'm currently watching Kuuga right now. I really didn't know that little factoid. That's awesome!
Also, poonk, I'm bad at reading subtext. Are there actually more of these moments in Kuuga or rather throughout the franchise? Another thing I'd like to know, how are people able to identify subtext in anything? Is subtext intentional on the part of the creators or is it based on interpretation by viewers? Last edited by Herald Of JOJO on Fri Dec 23, 2016 8:19 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Lactobacillus yogurti
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I, on the other hand, belong to the other side... People who can't stand yaoi/shounen-ai because of the fans. Now, I don't want to start a fight with the denizens of this forum (this is not directed at you, I promise), but... Having been a fan of one of the most successful sports manga/anime series in the world, and seeing how women were literally drooling over said characters (with the consequent shipping), it annoyed me.
All I could think of is "if they're not pairing them with their own Mary Sue OCs, they're pairing them with each other. Dammit, why can't they just let a character be single?" And in Latin America, there were some really infamous Mary Sue OC cases, but that's a story for another day. It just felt to me like they were turning things as innocuous as friendship into some kind of gratification... Like some kind of platonic masturbation. Please excuse the terms I used, but considering that they do it for the sake of pleasure, it works in a psychological context. It'd be sort of like seeing women ogle two gay guys making out... Only that in real life, they'd be annoyed, I reckon. Or women writing BL between real people (which already happens). Reminds me of how some men like watching lesbian porn. All in all... It's not that the idea of two men (be it real or fictional) being together disgusts or irks me (to you gay/bi men in the world, you do you and be happy!). It's the fujoshi drooling like bulldogs over it and being so fanatical about pairing single characters that irks me. Just let the canon be canon, please. End of rant. Lactobacillus yogurti expects being banned now. |
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Rivailloli
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As someone who is into BL, I'd say the article just about covers everything. I've never gotten into male idol shows (though I've enjoyed a few), but sport shows have been a constant interest of mine! To be honest though, shounen series like Naruto is where I got my first ships from. Sasuke and Naruto were just too perfect together!
I thank the fujoshi in Japan for creating this huge boom of content. I've done some stuff, like buy BL manga/anime over here, but there is only so much one guy from the west can do!
I understand the complaint when they ram it into your face and fight over pairings with you, but if they're just shipping characters in their own little corner of the internet why so much disdain? It is really easy to avoid shipping art if you 1.) don't use tumblr (because that seems to be where female fans congregate) and 2.) follow the right people on twitter. Also about why people are into shipping? I don't know what to tell ya'. It's fun. That's about it.
People in general have disgusting fetishes and kinks. If you think it's only mostly fujoshi who go on and on about their fixations then you haven't spent much time on places like MAL, Deviantart, and /a/. Hell, even on ANN plenty of guys talk about their fixation on lolis. People wanna single out fujoshi because they're women who tend to be open with their sexuality and I feel that due to how repressed women's sexuality has been it's this huge "nasty" shock when they talk about it, but literally, it's exactly what men have been doing with their sexuality for years. People within the BL fandom can be gross, but they're really not even close to being the majority. It's just we focus on negatives more than anything. |
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Lactobacillus yogurti
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It's more the "But they're so cute together vs. They're goddamn 12-year-old kids!" what rubs me the wrong way, and especially when they want you to share their fetish. I had to block a former friend of mine because of that, and later she called me a bitter bitch who didn't understand love. *Sigh*. Again, I avoid shipping because I never use Tumblr, I quit DeviantArt and I only use Twitter to follow news. It's hard being a grumpy old fan. |
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darkchibi07
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So is there a counterpart term of fujoshi for someone who likes bishoujo girls and shipping them? Or does it not exist yet?
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