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What is yaoi?

Yaoi, also known as Boys Love (BL) or shonen-ai, is a media genre depicting romantic and homoerotic relationships between males. This genre blossomed in Japan in the ’70s as a literary genre. When originally consisted of derivative works developing from parodies of original anime and manga stories. However, it gradually transformed into an umbrella term for other forms of fiction. Such as anime, movies, dramas, and fan-works, featuring homosexual relationships.

As a genre, yaoi is both lusted by hordes of fans worldwide and widely criticized by others. Despite facing a lot of criticism and controversies, over the decades, the genre has established itself as a force to be reckoned with.

The Fujoshi/Fudanshi Fandom

Fujoshi (腐女子) is the term used to refer to the female yaoi fandom that emerged in the early 2000s among manga and anime fans in the online community. Fujoshi can be loosely translated as ‘rotten girl’. The word ‘rotten’ here is used in a self-deprecating manner that symbolizes the somehow immoral or inappropriateness of the genre in the mainstream culture of women who take pleasure in consuming media depicting sexual and romantic relationships between men. 

Despite most fujoshi being heterosexual young women, the fandom is diverse and includes people of all genders, ages, and sexualities. Male fans are called fudanshi, meaning ‘rotten boy’. 

Yaoi vocabulary

Riba (seke) –  characters with mixed traits of semes and uke, and that be both submissive and dominant in the relationship.

Seme – refers to the ‘top’ or the one that penetrates the ‘bottom’ during sex. Usually portrayed as the character with the most masculine features and the one with the more dominant personality.

Tsundere – A character that initially shows off a moody and harsh personality and sometimes violent tendencies, but that gradually shows a sweet and gentle side.

Uke – character with the most docile and submissive personality and the ‘bottom’ in the relationship. Physically, he is presented as being more graceful and feminine. 

Yandere – a character with possessive and obsessive personality that will do anything to be with their crush or love interest.

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