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Hey, Answerman! [2006-06-23]

Uh, I don't know where I should post this but, what happened to this weeks The Click? Or am I missing something and not looking in the right place?

Truthfully, that type of question is better represented as an opinion and should have been directed more as a rant than an actual question to be answered, because there is no way to answer that question without adding in the answerer's own personal bias.

I wrote for you a rant about how europe has much better manga titles that the ones in USA and that USA is flooding the market with all these goth manga and shojo and for the action fan there are a few titles counted by hand.

Dargonxtc wrote:

Uh, I don't know where I should post this but, what happened to this weeks The Click? Or am I missing something and not looking in the right place?

It's out this week, actually. It'll return next week or the week after.

I'm with Ichigo on 20th Century Boys! I really want to read that one! I heard a rumor that Urasawa won't let it be lisenced until Monster has finished it's English language run, but it's probably not true.

And again, Gravitation and other shonen-ai is not yaoi.

Speaking as a computer professional, I have to say there is no way to completely censor your kid's internet viewing and still have it be useful. And it is very useful. Nowadays, by junior high school, they almost have to use the net just to do homework. Still, there is a simple way to mostly control what they view. Until they are mature enough to handle things themselves, have their only computer access in the middle of your traffic pattern. For my children this meant the computer was between the family room (tv and books) and the kitchen. Either parent might wander through at any time. Not to check up, just for some munchies, but they could be looking over your shoulder almost any time. Now that the youngest is 16, they all have laptops and wireless. By now they've already been raised properly (I think they have) or it's too late to worry anyhow.

Speaking as a computer professional, I have to say there is no way to completely censor your kid's internet viewing and still have it be useful. And it is very useful. Nowadays, by junior high school, they almost have to use the net just to do homework. Still, there is a simple way to mostly control what they view. Until they are mature enough to handle things themselves, have their only computer access in the middle of your traffic pattern. For my children this meant the computer was between the family room (tv and books) and the kitchen. Either parent might wander through at any time. Not to check up, just for some munchies, but they could be looking over your shoulder almost any time. Now that the youngest is 16, they all have laptops and wireless. By now they've already been raised properly (I think they have) or it's too late to worry anyhow.

Ashkah wrote:

Truthfully, that type of question is better represented as an opinion and should have been directed more as a rant than an actual question to be answered, because there is no way to answer that question without adding in the answerer's own personal bias.

ichido reichan wrote:

I wrote for you a rant about how europe has much better manga titles that the ones in USA and that USA is flooding the market with all these goth manga and shojo and for the action fan there are a few titles counted by hand.

It was submitted as a rant. (Just wanted to point that out)

Speaking as a computer professional, I have to say there is no way to completely censor your kid's internet viewing and still have it be useful. And it is very useful. Nowadays, by junior high school, they almost have to use the net just to do homework. Still, there is a simple way to mostly control what they view. Until they are mature enough to handle things themselves, have their only computer access in the middle of your traffic pattern. For my children this meant the computer was between the family room (tv and books) and the kitchen. Either parent might wander through at any time. Not to check up, just for some munchies, but they could be looking over your shoulder almost any time. Now that the youngest is 16, they all have laptops and wireless. By now they've already been raised properly (I think they have) or it's too late to worry anyhow.

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And again, Gravitation and other shonen-ai is not yaoi.

I still call it yaoi. It's not that I'm uninformed of the term's origins (yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi"), exact meaning ("no climax, no punch line, no meaning") or what have you, but it's the most commonly understood umbrella term for all manga dealing with male homosexual themes written for girls. Sure, a lot of people get picky about it only being used for hard porn, but just as many anime and manga fans just don't know any better and call all of it yaoi because they're unaware of other terms that define the porn level like shounen ai and BL. When I talk about "yaoi" to casual anime fans, they immediately know what I'm talking about. When I say shounen ai, slash, BL, or other lesser known terms, I get raised eyebrows. DMP's "Yaoi Manga" line has both hard porn and fluffy shounen ai, so most people just think it's an umbrella term and I play along. I have to say I find it rather elitist people when I see situations like this unfold:

Girl A: What'd you just buy?
Girl B: OMG it's Gravitation OMG. Yaoi yayayay!
Girl A: That's not yaoi, it's shounen ai.

Gravitation is not shounen ai, and it's not yaoi. Shounen ai means child porn in Japan, and that isn't the case here. (If the same situation unfolded for Loveless, then yes, it would be shounen ai.) Yaoi is still used in Japan, but it's a derogatory term for doujinshi. It's BL! BL really is a cover-all for all boy-on-boy comics for girls, so why hasn't it caught on yet? Let's all make the world a better place and only use the term BL when talking about “this kind of stuff”. If it's porn, call it hard BL. If it's a fluffy teen-angst romance, call it soft BL. See how easy that is? Screw the stuff about BL being a part of NAMBLA; most people I've met don't know Boys Love is a word for pedophilia in North America until they it up on Wikipedia.

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And again, Gravitation and other shonen-ai is not yaoi.

I still call it yaoi. It's not that I'm uninformed of the term's origins (yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi"), exact meaning ("no climax, no punch line, no meaning") or what have you, but it's the most commonly understood umbrella term for all manga dealing with male homosexual themes written for girls. Sure, a lot of people get picky about it only being used for hard porn, but just as many anime and manga fans just don't know any better and call all of it yaoi because they're unaware of other terms that define the porn level like shounen ai and BL. When I talk about "yaoi" to casual anime fans, they immediately know what I'm talking about. When I say shounen ai, slash, BL, or other lesser known terms, I get raised eyebrows. DMP's "Yaoi Manga" line has both hard porn and fluffy shounen ai, so most people just think it's an umbrella term and I play along. I have to say I find it rather elitist people when I see situations like this unfold:

Girl A: What'd you just buy?
Girl B: OMG it's Gravitation OMG. Yaoi yayayay!
Girl A: That's not yaoi, it's shounen ai.

Gravitation is not shounen ai, and it's not yaoi. Shounen ai means child porn in Japan, and that isn't the case here. (If the same situation unfolded for Loveless, then yes, it would be shounen ai.) Yaoi is still used in Japan, but it's a derogatory term for doujinshi. It's BL! BL really is a cover-all for all boy-on-boy comics for girls, so why hasn't it caught on yet? Let's all make the world a better place and only use the term BL when talking about “this kind of stuff”. If it's porn, call it hard BL. If it's a fluffy teen-angst romance, call it soft BL. See how easy that is? Screw the stuff about BL being a part of NAMBLA; most people I've met don't know Boys Love is a word for pedophilia in North America until they it up on Wikipedia.