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NEWS: Seven Seas Starts Yuri Line

FeralKat wrote:

Unholy_Nny wrote: This is the first strike in the war against yaoi! DOWN WITH CREEPY YAOI FANGIRLS! AND ON WITH THE CREEPY YURI FANBOYS!

Exactly!

I love it when people read something on the first page and immediately rant about it. Thereby missing the rest of the discussion which pretty much completely negates the validity of the rant. I find that funny. Brilliant as well. Had you read the rest of the thread before posting, you'd have already known that it was a random troublemaker already silenced, and is in no way reflective of the rest of the threads participants.

I'm sorry though, I guess you just wanted to rant and feel mighty for a second. You even appeared to go through the trouble of registering just for the occassion. Way to overreact.

Nice blanket statement about how yaoi fans are apparently perfect by the way. Like none of them hate and flame yuri. I'm sure you know every yaoi fan personally then? Such wishful thinking.

Feel free to read the rest and then come back and join the actual discussion.

I read the entire thread slowly, but he still irritated me. Sorry, but if some random person jumped at the start of the thread and made demeaning comments to yuri for no reason, wouldn't you be irritated?

And I know not all yaoi fans are perfect.

But to me, fanboys are quicker to flame yaoi for no reason at all. And, fanboys also flame fangirls all the time. It makes the whole fandom look bad.

I go to two other forums where same arse goes and flames them all, trying to yuri-ize them.

Really, really angers me. But hey, I know not all fanboys are obnoxious just like all fangirls aren't. I don't mean to lump you all into a category. It probably sounded like I did, but I didn't mean to. Sorry sorry sorry sorry.

Actually I used to post here a while back and people who post here may know me from other forums, but I didn't want to ruin my pretty reputation. I knew people would get mad at my post, so I just decided to disguise myself. I usually try to be polite and nice, but people still get mad at my anyways, even when I am all apologetic. So I just figured scrap the fluff and go blunt since people get angered anyways. Or perhaps I just say the wrong thing all the time. *sighs*
Sorry, I'm just a stuffy puppy. Excuse my hateableness. Forgive me!!

cyrax777 wrote:

i don't care what people say but if its 2 women and there relationships as the main plot point or part of the main plot somewere its a yuri series.

This is not an opinion, this is a fact, and the way it is.

These are yuri series that end up their way in the shounen and seinen section of japanese shops (yes male oriented yuri manga/light novels).

Kashimashi, Strawberry Panic, Tetragrammaton Labyrinth, and Saigo no Seifuku, all of these end up in the male oriented sections of japanese shops.

well I have had people come up to me and say unless its marketed towards women it wasnt yuri.

All's forgiven, just think ahead more next time.

cyrax777 wrote:

well I have had people come up to me and say unless its marketed towards women it wasnt yuri.

Who told you that is either lying to you, or just doesn't know anything.

There are shounen/seinen yuri manga, and there are shoujo/josei yuri manga.

IMO Yuri is much better than BL. The stories seem much more realistic and are written , usually, from a females perspective (as opposed to BL written by women to make men more like women). Don't get me wrong here; I do like some BL manga (mostly doujinshi pairings only) but it seems as if the whole thing is about physical attraction as opposed to emotional (like Yuri).

I totally forgot to ask back when this thread was first born, but why are they releasing these titles in the 5 7/8” x 8 1/4” format anyway? Please tell me it's because you want to keep the images the original size but put a border around the edges. (I've nearly had to tear some manga apart to read lines because the image goes deep into the fold. )

Also, if the Strawberry line is successful (fingers crossed!) does Seven Seas Entertainment have plans to include any OEL material in the future?

Was the decision to call the line "Strawberry" because you expect Strawberry Panic! to be the biggest success? Whatever the reason, it's a good name. Strawberry's are seen by many as a very sensual food item.

Richard J. wrote:

I totally forgot to ask back when this thread was first born, but why are they releasing these titles in the 5 7/8” x 8 1/4” format anyway? Please tell me it's because you want to keep the images the original size but put a border around the edges. (I've nearly had to tear some manga apart to read lines because the image goes deep into the fold. )

We're still working to sorting out the technical parts of that question.