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Glossary, by Steve Pearl starbuck@cybercomm.net with numerous
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48 Manga: yaoi ^[$@$d$$$^[(B
Abbreviation for "yama-nashi ochi-nashi imi-nashi", which can be roughly
translated as "no climax, no resolution, no meaning". The characteristic
feature of yaoi manga is male homosexual love, usually between characters
from well-known stories. It is also known as "shounenai" ^[$B>/G/0&^[(B
(boys' love) or "shotacom" (regarded as the opposite of "lolicom"). The
yaoi phenomenon closely parallels the growth of "slash" fan fiction in the
West.
Yaoi more or less began in the early '80s, after the publication of the
magazine June. (Strictly speaking, June is a "tanbi-kei" ^[$BC?H~;e^[(B
magazine.) Today, there are several yaoi manga magazines, but doujinshis
still account for the greatest proportion of yaoi in print. It is believed
that doujinshis of the shounen soccer manga Captain Tsubasa were largely
responsible for the growth of yaoi. As a result, Comiket is currently
dominated by yaoi doujinshis, although yaoi doujinshis are thought to have
already reached saturation point, according to a chairman of Comiket.
Mainstream publishers are increasingly turning to yaoi anthologies to
compensate for the declining sales of gekiga-based lady's comics.
Nakajima Azusa (aka Masuyama Norie) is an important novelist and essayist
specialising in the yaoi/shounenai genre.
See also:
o Yaoi Magazines List (from Puff).
o Susan Schnitger's Slash FAQ
<ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se:/pub/blake7/misc/>
o The Alternate Universes of Women's Fan Fiction - an appraisal of
"slash" fandom. Many of the observations are also relevant to the
yaoi genre. <http://bhasha.stanford.edu/~cherny/slash-cut.html>
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