So pretty! 🥺💙💜

and the only reason is because there is NO SEX, I'm going to have to shake somebody. REALLY? Two jaded salarymen close to forty is going to be tagged shounen ai? *Shounen* ai? Because they didn't have sex in front of your salad? Be serious now, I'm begging.

shoujo than anything else. But I have read shounen ai with sexual scenes before, although 9/10 times it's usually surrounded by sparkles and flowers and very angular kisses iykwim.

Anyway my point it, if I see another child complain about manga tagging like, "oh no, this is shounen ai, not yaoi"

Shounen ai meanwhile developed somewhat differently. Literally, it means "young boys love", and is considered more a sub-genre of shoujo manga that depicts a love story between two bishounen or "beautiful boys". While shounen ai typically seems "softer", it's because its style is more close to

manga or sports manga). It did usually have sexual themes and there are entire papers about why this is and what it means for female sexuality, given as fans of the genre are also largely female, but it was not a requirement of the genre.

There used to be a time when the two were interchangeable. Originally, yaoi stands for "yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi" meaning "no climax, no punch line, no meaning". It came from doujinshi culture and was applied to derivative works from popular, typically heterosexual material (such as shounen

A cutie! 😭💖

Late to this but I'm glad it went okay!

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