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NEWS: Crowdfunding for Gay Dating Sim Fantastic Boyfriends' English Version Launched


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brucepuppy





PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 2:57 am Reply with quote
Doesn't look interesting. probably because i'm never a fan of burly men. but still, the artwork style leaves little to be desired
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wohdin



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 3:17 am Reply with quote
Well, I didn't expect to see this on ANN. Next it'll be on Kotaku, and then my head will explode lmao.

brucepuppy wrote:
Doesn't look interesting. probably because i'm never a fan of burly men. but still, the artwork style leaves little to be desired

It's called bara, and it's clearly not for everyone. But the bara genre has an absurdly large fanbase. Practically the entire cross-section of the "gay male" and "otaku" cultures, even.
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Cetais



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 7:11 am Reply with quote
Bara still have a quite big pejorative meaning in Japan, so I invite you to use th term "gay". Bara is pretty much a term made in the west, and they just says "gay" at the place of bara in Japan.

Thought, "bara" started to get a bit more used there in the last two years.
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Tomibiki



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 12:40 pm Reply with quote
Are you playing a 12 year old??? Like seriously, if the dude on the front cover is supposed to be the male hero, he can't be pushing more than 15 lol.
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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 1:01 pm Reply with quote
Tomibiki wrote:
Are you playing a 12 year old??? Like seriously, if the dude on the front cover is supposed to be the male hero, he can't be pushing more than 15 lol.
It's not pedophilia if it's gay.
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Hameyadea



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 1:57 pm Reply with quote
Paulo27 wrote:
Tomibiki wrote:
Are you playing a 12 year old??? Like seriously, if the dude on the front cover is supposed to be the male hero, he can't be pushing more than 15 lol.
It's not pedophilia if it's gay.


Actually, for it to be pedophilia, there need to be sexual urges that are recurring repeatedly over the course of 6 months, and if the subject of the sexual arousal is under 13.

DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition)'s criteria for pedophilia (go to page 3) is...
DSM-IV Criteria for Pedophilia wrote:
Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors
involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 or younger).
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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 2:02 pm Reply with quote
Sooo it's a gay type of game which is for males and not a BL game for female? -_- no wonder I don't see bishounen,uke,seme, and moe. Maybe I'll try playing it for fun
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zeo1fan



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 2:53 pm Reply with quote
Izu ☻ wrote:
Sooo it's a gay type of game which is for males and not a BL game for female? -_- no wonder I don't see bishounen,uke,seme, and moe. Maybe I'll try playing it for fun


A game about gay men that's actually for gay men? Why, that's almost as ludicrous as a story about women that's actually for women, or a story about men that's for men. That is to say, not at all.
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Romuska
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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 3:17 pm Reply with quote
Between this and the Massive manga anthology it's nice to see bara material finally getting some official distributions outside of Japan.
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Just-another-face



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 3:18 pm Reply with quote
This is a game that needs to happen here. Teenage boys going after teenage girls is so outdated and dull.
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TsunaReborn!



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 3:35 pm Reply with quote
Paulo27 wrote:
Excuse me, ANN? Gay? I'm offended, it's homosexual, you monkeys.


Really, you are making an issue out of the use of gay? It's not an issue, don't make one out of it; I doubt gay male is offended by being called gay... If people ask for my sexuality I don't say "I'm homosexual".

Anyways, I'm not a fan of bara but I'm thinking of throwing a bit of cash at this to help support something, that looks quite fun, aimed at the LGBT community.
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zeo1fan



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 3:57 pm Reply with quote
TsunaReborn! wrote:
Paulo27 wrote:
Excuse me, ANN? Gay? I'm offended, it's homosexual, you monkeys.


Really, you are making an issue out of the use of gay? It's not an issue, don't make one out of it; I doubt gay male is offended by being called gay... If people ask for my sexuality I don't say "I'm homosexual".

Anyways, I'm not a fan of bara but I'm thinking of throwing a bit of cash at this to help support something, that looks quite fun, aimed at the LGBT community.


Same. When people ask my orientation, I don't say: "I'm a homosexual." That's so clinical; it makes you sound like a robot.

(Also, hi, Tsuna :3)
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TsunaReborn!



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 4:09 pm Reply with quote
Yo zeo1fan, it's been a while!

I know, to me it's not a natural way to respond. Also the initialism LGBT, used by gay rights groups, has a G for gay. If it wasn't politically correct then gay rights groups wouldn't use it. Wink
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zeo1fan



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 4:15 pm Reply with quote
TsunaReborn! wrote:
Yo zeo1fan, it's been a while!

I know, to me it's not a natural way to respond. Also the initialism LGBT, used by gay rights groups, has a G for gay. If it wasn't politically correct then gay rights groups wouldn't use it. Wink


Yeah; I've actually never heard anyone denigrate the term 'gay' as a descriptor. So that comment was pretty surprising. It's not even like it's a slur, either.
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TsunaReborn!



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PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2015 4:19 pm Reply with quote
And even when someone tries to be offensive by saying "you're/that's so gay" it fails pretty badly these days; there is no weight behind it because it's such an accepted term in today's society.
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