“Japanese for Fujoshi” Far From Rotten…

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Fujoshi watchers (to say nothing of fujoshi students of Japanese) have been marvelling at the advent of a “Japanese for fujoshi” textbook for the Chinese market.

The textbook, produced for Chinese devotees of homosexual romance, covers the basics but also takes care to cover the essentials of yaoi vocalbulary, such as “I want you” (“あなたが欲しい”), “Don’t bite” (“噛むな”), and of course “Because you do it continuously every night, no wonder your body is wrecked!” (“連続で毎晩するから、体が壊れるわけだ”).

Lessons are delivered by the five vowels, each handily anthropomorphised as a bishonen archetype (or a little shota in the case of “O”):

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Japanese who have encountered it seem prepared to endorse its value as a serious textbook, perhaps more than can be said for many of the manga-themed English textbooks aimed at Japanese.

The tome is reportedly available now throughout China, Hong Kong (where it is published) and Taiwan.


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    Avatar of HouseLife
    Comment by HouseLife
    05:41 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.4)

    Right.

    That's it.

    I'm out...

    ...

    But I did laugh pretty damn hard at the three chosen examples' escalation.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:13 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    LOL! how bad are your eyes injured, sir? HOLY-!
    FIRST AID RIGHT NOW! HURRY!

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    Comment by gundam4ever2

    It encourage education and pervertedness so I'm all for it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:12 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    education and pervertedness?

    It encourages neither considering the target audience and the genre.

    All it encourages is rotten girls to continue being rotten. and we all know how good that is for the future of the female otakus, right?

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    Comment by yuriphoria
    07:32 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (-0.3)

    I dunno what Sankaku sees wrong with perverted women.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:41 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.9)

    Perverted women and rotten women are two different things.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:21 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    008.jpg -> Shin Sekai no Kami (New World's God) = Yagami Light

    Comment by Anonymous
    Comment by Anonymous
    07:11 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.3)

    My...
    I type the url of sankaku, i press enter, the site loads and the first word i see is "fujoshi"...

    must be a fucking bad day.

    But seriously? they actually make this kind of shit?

    dammit my eyes! must get out of here quick!

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:36 02/06/2012 # ! Drivel (-0.7)

    YAOI FACT 1:

    finds need to protest all things gay = secretly gay

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:40 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    REALITY FACT 1:

    Yaoi fangirls like you will never get married and are always trolling.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:48 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    That's harsh man. they can get married, it's just hard for them to find a guy who'll tolerate and get past that hobby.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:59 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.3)

    http://huggykissypirates.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/fujoshi_01.jpg

    I don't need to say more xDDD

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:42 02/06/2012 # ! Drivel (-1.0)

    yaoi fangirls is the same as yuri fanboys. Why boys hate the girl who like yaoi ?

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    Comment by entropy13
    09:45 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.4)

    "yaoi fangirls is the same as yuri fanboys. Why boys hate the girl who like yaoi ?"

    No, they aren't.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:02 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    Lol no you idiot, yaoi fangirls are far from being the same as yuri fanboys, it's like the complete opposite <_<

    Comment by Anonymous

    Wow, someone made that many accounts to downvote all of these?

    Comment by Anonymous

    REALITY FACT 2:

    One in every ten guys is gay. Four in every ten guys is bisexual, respective has had homosexual experiences.

    This is from a study based on what guys were reporting, so the actual numbers are likely higher.

    So if there are ten commenters defending their sexuality here, well...

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:59 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    INTERNET FACT 123456789:

    having a fucked up hobby and needlessly trolls about it = very ronery

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:46 03/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.8)

    REALITY FACT 3:

    @Reality fact 2:

    Your statistics are so dumb and ridiculous they don't even make fucking sense.

    the US's homosexual percentage is 4% combined and including closeted ones, that's what recent studies say.

    as for bisexual, there's barely any bi guys, but there's a fuckton of bi girls.

    Comment by Anonymous

    There's the same number of bi guys as bi girls. Basic biology, fuckwit. It's just that society is so ridiculously homophobic still that they'd rather not touch a guy at all than face the consequences - from BOTH the straight and gay communities, being bi.

    http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/duberman.html

    And it's not 4%, it's 'between 4 and 10%', according to wikipedia.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:58 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    LMFAO! Kinsey report, good going retard.

    The Kinsey report is nearly 60 years old (1948).

    http://www.truenews.org/Homosexuality/homosexual_myths_and_facts.html

    http://www.thephora.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-32028.html

    You're an idiot, you really are, fucking toxic twat.

    Comment by Anonymous

    "LMFAO! Kinsey report, good going retard.

    The Kinsey report is nearly 60 years old (1948).

    http://www.truenews.org/Homosexuality/homosexual_myths_and_facts.html

    http://www.thephora.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-32028.html

    You're an idiot, you really are, fucking toxic twat.
    "

    Are you seriously using religious/anti-gay sites and conspiracy nut forums that only cite studies done by anti-gay organizations. Organizations with no peer reviewed science. The same organizations countlessly debunked and labelled as psuedo-science as a source, then calling people retarded? Oh lawdy we got a terrible troll over here.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:42 06/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    @Anon troll 20:53

    If you got anything better you atheist memetard fuck then go ahead and show us, fuckwit.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:57 02/06/2012 # ! Drivel (-0.7)

    Ooo... gay is butthurt lol!

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:57 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wtf...
    Your comment creeps me out for some reason.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:11 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    Obvious gay troll is obvious.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:01 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    You typed the URL of sankaku? Does your Commodore 64 not have bookmarks on the browser or what?

    Comment by Anonymous

    Just as a kindergarten teacher sings the alphabet song, this makes learning fun. I won't complain.

    Probably the only disadvantage to this is having a creepy smirk on as you recall things when taking the review test.

    Comment by Anonymous

    China will need a lot of homosexual men... Due to sex-selection abortions, there are now 120 men for every 100 women in China.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:42 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    What on the seventh fucking hell are you talking about?
    China has the largest gay population of all countries, it's certain that more than 6% of china's popuation is homosexual.

    "China will need alot more homosexual men"
    No, it needs alot more homosexual women.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Oh my god, 6%! That's almost as much as 6.1% in the USA!

    Although not nearly as much as the 40% bisexuality rate - that is, guys reacting sexually to other men - reported in studies.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:51 03/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Not really, The recent studies say it's 2% in the USA.

    and i think you should go burn or delete those studies your reading, and when you're done with that, go jump off a cliff.

    "40% bisexuality rate" My arse.
    though i believe there's a large amount of bisexual females.

    Comment by Anonymous

    http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/duberman.html

    And the number of bisexual females os the same as the number of bisexual males.

    And 2%? The most recent numbers are 10%! Where do you get your data from?

    Though I have to admit I borrowed 6.1 from Britain.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:02 03/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Most recent numbers? Dude, That's the kinsey fucking report, it's fucking outdated and invalid, and it's over 60 years old.

    Stop being an immature twat, accept the facts and move on.

    http://www.truenews.org/Homosexuality/homosexual_myths_and_facts.html

    Comment by Anonymous

    The most recent National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (USA) survey says 8 percent of male identify themselves as gay or bisexual.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:09 04/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    @ Anon 02:54

    That Survey isn't valid, Look up new recent homosexuality surveys of 2012.

    Also, even if you combine the 8% homo-bi-trans men, with the 7% homo-bi-trans women, you'll still get some around 2-4%.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:47 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    How did this turn into a talk about homosexuals?

    Yaoi and homosexuals are two completely different thigns despite the themes.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Macho man just wants to flaunt machismo all over the internet, especially in bashing gays.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:10 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    And you want to flaunt homophilia all over the internet, especially through trolling.

    Comment by Anonymous

    homophilia > homophobia

    Comment by Anonymous

    men who watch yaoi = gays.

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    Comment by fqsdqsdqsd
    15:10 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    I personally never heard of a man watching yaoi.

    however there is Bara for gay men. just a little bit extinct.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:22 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    I have a gay friend who watches yaoi. Not all of them like the heavy muscled disgusting looking bara types.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:49 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    But yaoi is more female oriented, you know, the bishounen fluffy shit with sparkles and flowers lol.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:59 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.7)

    http://huggykissypirates.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/fujoshi_01.jpg

    This sums it all up.

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    Comment by Adom Jensom
    12:47 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (-0.3)

    I don't understand why virgins like to hate on female geeks, they're the mirror image of male otakus. They should be working together to get Ishithara and other fascists the fuck out of Japan.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:05 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    First of all, just because you're a virgin does not mean every male otaku is. second of all, female geeks and fujoshi (yaoi fangirls) Are not the same, sure, female geeks are the counterpart of male otakus, but fujoshi aren't, they're female geeks with "different" interests.
    Third, don't blurting out bullshit.

    Thank you very much.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:06 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Stop blurting out bullshit.*

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    Comment by Adom Jensom

    Nice grammar fail, and I'm not a virgin but you don't have to believe me.

    An anime fan is an anime fan, why bother demonizing one group you don't like? Ishithara wants to ban everyone's cartoon porn, so they should work together.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:59 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    Yeah, an anime fan is an anime fan, but saying fujoshi's are the mirror image is plain dumb and ignorant.

    I never heard of anyone trying to ban "cartoon porn" before, although it's reasonable if they did try to ban yaoi, despite it not being "cartoon porn".

    Anyways, go do your homework, grammar nazi.

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    Comment by HouseLife
    15:10 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    @Adom Jensom

    If that is a serious question, then I can bring up a potential insight.

    Recognizing a group as being different is one thing, but by and large the part that is a detriment to the subculture of Otaku is the small minorities who are most vocal. Much like the loudest morons on this board who will so simply declare some game or anime as pure shit without giving merit to its good parts.

    You can speak all you wish about not judging people for their social inabilities, but if it came down to you being around said people, you would say the opposite in almost every case, and they don't want to be around others almost as often.

    It's a self-fulfilling downward spiral where they selfishly believe they're special and everyone else just 'doesn't get it' while completely ignoring factual, true things about who they are such as hygiene and their attitudes about reality and those around them. It's all based on psychological wounds from the past, but eventually it's time to face who you are as a human being.

    Put simply, it's not our job to unfuck them, they have to unfuck themselves. We can help them along the way, but assholes who cling to their assholiness as some form of treasure and then wonder why nobody likes them or enjoys their attention-whoring (or the reverse, seclusion) are shunned by their own devices, not because everyone 'doesn't get them.' So many US High School Otaku are the loudest and most obnoxious people for no good reason, and combine that with their overall lack of knowledge of life in general mixed in with a smug sense of self worth at being 'outcast' and you have an asshole on gangly legs.

    One can be mature and confident in their fandom without being an asshole about it. I have wall scrolls, figures and more games and anime than nearly all my friends combined and it's very noticeable around my place, but I'm not known for it. It is a part of me. I can also have back and forth discussions about things I like and dislike without making it somehow gospel, and give things a second look based on other opinions. It's the people who don't even give any thought to an opposing opinion who decimate any sense of intelligence or reason to interact with them, and unfortunately, gamers, otaku and teenagers fill out that demographic rather heavily. Combine all three... well that was covered above.

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:07 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Why would you want to distract people with Ishihara ? Why bothering with him. Oh, hater is gonna hate, understand ?

    Comment by Anonymous

    And not all fujoshi are virgins, so what?
    And 'different' tastes, okay. You know what else is a 'different' taste? Yuri, virgin extremism, lolicon, moe. Isn't it a bit ridiculous to discriminate based on your preference in porn?

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:12 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    "they're the mirror image of male otakus"
    Wow sir, i'm offended.

    No seriously, i'm a male otaku, and i don't remember ever going around trolling on forums and make gay pairings out of male characters <_<

    So i'd apperciate if you don't group us with them, saying they're the mirror image of us is very, very, fucking offending on many levels.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:01 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Real Otaku don't call themselves Otaku.

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    Comment by Adom Jensom

    U mad.

    Otaku and fujoshi both mate with pillows, that makes them similar enough in my book.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:57 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    @14:01 "real otaku" is a poser talk.

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:03 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    "U mad.

    Otaku and fujoshi both mate with pillows, that makes them similar enough in my book."

    Wow a memetard. not worth the attention but here's my two cents.

    Go burn that book of yours, now. right now.

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    Comment by Adom Jensom

    You want to burn books, and I'm the nazi. Classic Anon scrub logic.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:08 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    You still here, Adom Tardsom?

    Comment by Anonymous

    And I'm offended about being compared to a smelly virgin NEET whose only romantic experience is a dating sim.

    Ah well. It's not like I'll have have the opportunity to be 'rejected' by you from your basement.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:48 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Guys liking Yuri = Perfectly fine
    Girls liking Yaoi = Homg God!

    ...Whaaaaaat. I'm a fujoshi and... Well, I'm perfectly fine with you guys liking Yuri no matter how much you guys aren't fine with me liking yaoi.

    It'll only be irony/hypocrisy if I 'ew' at you guys liking yuri.

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    Comment by The REAL Lamberto
    05:49 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Nice going destroying Adam Jensen's look and giving it a super-low quality, Adom Tardsom.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:55 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    You would make random gay pairings out of females though. Because lesbians are hot.

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    Comment by Bakadomo
    11:00 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    @10:55
    Well, i personally wouldn't make unncessary lesbian pairings, and if i did, i'd be sure not to flaunt it for the sake of annoying others (Although for some reason, people seem to not mind Yuri as much as Yaoi).

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    Comment by Yarodomo
    17:24 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    @Anon 02:48

    Yuri is mainly for the females, do your homework before you blurt out utter nonsense.

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    Comment by shiroki
    14:32 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.7)

    Mirror image of (every single) male otakus (categorically), no.

    Mirror image of those yuri-only-nothing-else extremist/virgin hunters who rage and tear up their entire collection of the series at the slightest hint or an imagined implication their favourite character is having or might have had a boyfriend, maybe.

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:04 02/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.7)

    What shiroki said, couldn't have said any better myself.

    Male otakus are far from even being compared to fujoshi.

    Comment by Anonymous

    I recall that in Gravitation the lead male - the blond one - had a string of girlfriends, and nobody burned the books.

    And in most of the fujoshi bait series the characters do have prospective love interests.

    So no.

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    Comment by HouseLife
    00:25 03/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.4)

    Fujoshi are delusional about things like girlfriends in obviously yaoi books. Doesn't matter if they had/have them, in their minds it's temporary. I've mentioned it here before, but years ago a girl I knew insisted all Gundam Wing guys were gay, no matter what. It was on in English on Toonami at the time, and she just kept saying they were all gay. I wasn't really homophobic I didn't think, but it just made me really not like watching it with this underlying wondering if they were actually gay even though really nothing was happening to even hint at anything sexual at all. I was not able to enjoy the story because I was trying to see if I was missing something. But on top of that she claimed that Vash and Spike and all my favorite male leads were gay.

    Took several years to get over how annoyed I was at homosexuality in general from that girl's ridiculous implications, and she asserted them like they were obvious and irrefutable with the flimsiest 'evidence' ever. The presence of the girls made no difference. All of them hated Relena even if she was actually a pretty well-done character. I told her that I liked Relena as a character once and she exploded at me.

    I didn't know that she was a fujoshi until more recently, since then name didn't exist to us then, but she sure as shit was a good representation it seems.

    Comment by Anonymous

    HouseLife: yes, she was delusional. Not all fujoshi are. That's like saying all otaku are like those creeps that stalk seiyuu.

    I didn't see any sort of 'subtext' either in Gundam Wing, but just the fact that the characters 'might' have been gay ruined the series for you? What? Just how homophobic are you?

    To be fair, there used to be a lot of GW yaoi fans back in the day. Most of them just liked exploring the possibility of what a relationship would look like between two characters they like, because we chicks dig romance. If they talk about a relationship being 'likely', they just mean that they think it has the proper chemistry and circumstances, not that it COULD happen.

    That aside, here's a thought: in any given work with a large enough cast, according to real world statistics, half of it is (or ought to be if it's at all realistic) either gay or bisexual - that is, in a cast of ten guys there would be one gay guy and four guys open to experimenting with other guys. The same naturally also applies to girls, but there's no shortage of lesbian undertones in anime.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:00 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    @HouseLife
    Lol, you have no clue how much i can relate to that.

    @Anon2
    Why would they burn the books? he has girlfriends, not boyfriends.

    @Anon3
    Most fujoshi's are like that, and no, Otakus don't stalk seiyuu's, unlike the fujoshi's, there's even an article here on Sankaku saying that.

    "I didn't see any sort of 'subtext' either in Gundam Wing, but just the fact that the characters 'might' have been gay ruined the series for you? What? Just how homophobic are you?"

    There is no subtext, the gundam series is a popular shounen franchise, it has nothing to do with yaoi, houselife pretty much said it, it's just the idiotic, immature, ignorant fujoshi's that annoy people and force their own fucked up ideas on them.
    He's not homophobic, it's just that you're a homophile who calls others homophobics when they hate on your yaoi, and that's childish as fuck.

    "because we chicks dig romance"
    Don't generalise please, and if you "dig romance", why the yaoi? why not yuri too? why not normal pairings? Your point is invalid.

    "That aside, here's a thought: in any given work with a large enough cast, according to real world statistics, half of it is (or ought to be if it's at all realistic) either gay or bisexual - that is, in a cast of ten guys there would be one gay guy and four guys open to experimenting with other guys. The same naturally also applies to girls, but there's no shortage of lesbian undertones in anime"

    I've never ever heard of such thing.
    "according to real world statistics"
    No, that's according to retarded fujoshi statistics.

    Seriously, this is why people get disgusted with the fujoshi audience, they say and do some really unbelievable shit.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Lol, this Anonymous user says some really funny shit.

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    Comment by The REAL Lamberto
    05:48 03/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    Well said, Mr. HouseLife, well said.

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    Comment by HouseLife
    13:00 03/06/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    @ Anon 2:16

    As far as I understand the connotation, 'fujoshi' essentially means the fanatical female fan who imparts their reality of a series or characters upon others regardless of logic or reason. Kind of like overly religious people and evolution as a concept.

    As for potential romance between guys, from what I have seen, that tends to annoy us guys because women can be in a friendly relationship with one another and try on bras together. This is not the same for most guys. I understand the concept of projecting feminine aspects onto male characters and finding it to be fun. This is not in dispute.

    The problem, if you actually read what I wrote, is the same ass-backwards logic you just spewed back at me in response to my issue with HER ass-backwards logic. Therefore, YOU are part of the PROBLEM. Nobody cares about statistics that may flimsily connect a few guys together that may make them gay. Sure the possibility is there, but is it really? No, no it's not. If it's not covered in the story and brought up seriously, then it's not there. To imply otherwise is to pretend that you somehow know more than the author, which is impossible. If they had a couple moments of introspection or a gentle conversation here and there, god forbid a guy can have a balanced masculine and feminine side and not take it up the ass.

    The issue is not gayness, but projecting one's ideals onto something and someone they have no authority over. The girl in question continued to be belligerent about her assertions. Doujinshi authors don't draw massive lesbian scenes declaring that it was that way, it is a PARODY. It's something us guys may look at and go "Hah, that's ridiculous, but it's also pretty hot." We don't try to design every motion into some homosexual tell just to wrap a character up in a package we accept as our only allowable perception. There are guys who do that, and they are just as bad, and you won't find anyone arguing against that except those guys. Doujinshi are giant jokes that make our dicks hard, plain and simple.

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:50 04/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wait what... Fujoshi stalks seiyuu and male otakus doesn't. Seriously? They stalks way more than the fujoshi >>

    Comment by Anonymous

    As a female otaku, I feel slightly offended. But I agree, Ishihara should be removed via concerted effort. If fujoshis are what it takes to do so, I can compromise. I'll squirm and resist very strongly any urge to punch them, but I'll work with them if I have to.

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:54 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    You make no sense.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:37 02/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's a woman. It's not supposed to make sense.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:33 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    You sir are correct.
    It pains me to see how ignorant some of the otaku are not to realize fujoshi as part of the community.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:39 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Fujoshi ARE part of the whole Otaku community, But they aren't to be compared to Otakus or Female otakus, the preferences and hobbies are different.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:40 26/07/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    I would like to know why are some people so close-minded.. So many stereotypes! I admit there are fujoshis who intend to press their ideas into other people's likes, but there aren't all like that. Fujoshis like yaoi, and it might be a bit annoying that -a part of them- intend to convert every single shonen manga into a yaoi manga, but if you hate it that much, just IGNORE IT! I don't say that you have to start reading (/watching) yaoi, I just say that people need to be more err.. comprehensive; anyhow, the sexual orientation of the story character lies in the hands of the mangakas, they won't change anything no matter how many doushinjis nor fanfics, etc, they do. This kind of discussions really piss me off.. Just let the fujoshis be and ignore them, nobody have the rights to insult someone's like.

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    Comment by Chen-04

    You know what? Adom is probably right. They kind of are the female counterpart to _creepy_ otaku. Yes, all otaku are considered creepy by normal people. Whatever, I still like Ogiue from Genshiken. Fujoshi or not.

    On a side note.. it says a lot about all you people that are offended by looking in a mirror, lol.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:43 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Again, male otakus don't go pair everyone up and make them gay or stalk seiyuu's.

    Sure, all otaku considered Creepy by normal people, but Fujoshi's are considered even more creepy by both normal people and the otakus.

    Comment by Anonymous

    That's because male otaku are MALE. Of course they aren't into exploring romance beyond what the series offers.

    And male otaku DO stalk seiyuu, have you been reading Sankaku at all?

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:52 03/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.6)

    "Of course they aren't into exploring romance beyond what the series offers"

    Yes they do, those hentai doujins you see every day, they're full of it. It's just that Male otakus don't make everyone gay and make unnecessary pairings.

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    Comment by Chen-04

    "Again, male otakus don't go pair everyone up and make them gay or stalk seiyuu's."

    I always assumed only male otakus would stalk seiyuus. As in "stalking". You know, the creepy kind of stalking, with a knife on hand. Not the following around and taking pictures stalking.

    Also.. we sure love to pair up everyone. Don't you know any one piece doujinshis and how nami is everyones bitch?

    As to making them gay... rule 63 doesn't count? Than take all those other doujinshis were female characters are made gay for our reading pleasure.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:34 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Never heard of such thing.
    and knife on hand? for what? To stab their favourite seiyuus? Sounds legit.

    For fuck's sake, at least the pairings in hentai doujinshi's are normal. you got a problem with that?

    rule 63 are you fucking kidding? You're talking about a fucking internet porn meme in a completely disscusion? is your brain functioning properly? What the hell?

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    Comment by Chen-04

    "and knife on hand? for what? To stab their favourite seiyuus? Sounds legit."

    To harass seiyuu they don't like into quitting for example.

    Still, hilarious how people hate their mirrorimage. "Oh noez, we are totally not like that. Look, if I move my left hand their right hand moves! And if I go left, they go right. Can't you see the BIG difference?"

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:28 04/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    @Chen-04

    Dude, What mirror image? I don't recall Otaku shipping men.

    Comment by Anonymous

    The "oh so offended ones" are just too deluded to see that. Ultimately all otakus worship 2D folks that they can never get, doesn't matter if heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, whatever sexual... They claim the characters in their own mind, construct their own universe and declare them canon. They get huffy when some other haters comes alone and shit on their ideas.

    The ones going all indignant saying yaoi is not comparable to other fandoms and should be stopped are just about as Ishihara as it gets. "What do you mean about celebrating the characters in other ways than the ways that I agree with!?"

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:42 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Thing is, This and that are two different things. and you're a complete idiot.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Oh, so idignant one decides to refute all arguments by calling people "idiot". He must be right. Seems like the way to win arguments. His view is the only right one after all.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:11 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    You seem mad, what's your story?

    Comment by Anonymous

    You seem to be getting a lot of arrows shot at you, but then again some of these people don't like being called out for what they really are. Why else with some highly defensive replies?

    Simply put; fujioshi's are the equivelant of male otakus who are very extreme about...their obsessions. E.g. "She no virgin!? Destroy collections!!" or "VA has boyfriend?! Send offensive things to her!!". Goes that extra mile than your average otaku.

    There is no real term (none that I know) that has a female equivelant of male otaku, since in general females are catergorized the same under otaku. We do need a term that categorize the male otakus who are completely out of touch with reality, then we'll have a equivelant of fujioshi right there and vice versa.

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:57 03/06/2012 # ! Good (+0.8)

    Fujoshi (腐女子?, lit. "rotten girl") is a self-mockingly pejorative Japanese term for female fans of manga and novels that feature romantic relationships between men.

    Nope, fujoshi's aren't the equivelant of male otakus.

    "There is no real term (none that I know) that has a female equivelant of male otaku"

    Lol...Dude, the word "Otaku" doesn't specify a gender, it's just used to describe an Anime/Manga/Visualnovel/Lightnovel fan, so basically, the the equivelant of male otaku is female otaku, even an idiot doesn't need me to tell em that.

    i'll explain further.
    Fujoshi Otakus are female otaku who're fans of BL (Boys love/Yaoi).
    Female otaku are the equivelant of Male otaku, if male otakus read Shounen, female otakus read Shoujo, if male otakus play Galge, female otakus play Otomege, and so on.
    So Female Otakus = Non-BL fan girl otakus.
    Fujoshi = BL fan girl otakus.

    Comment by Anonymous

    @ 19:57

    Way to miss the point, but then it seems I struck a chord with some weeaboos here unsurprisingly...I know what a fujioshi is and I know what Otaku are. But if you want to be a smartass about it then "Otaku" is not just for anime, manga or related media. Meaning Otaku's can be into anything. However it's most used for the context of anime et al.

    With regards to Otaku being non-gender specific, no shit sherlock. Why else did I mention how there is no distinctive term between "MALE" and "FEMALE" otaku, but if threre is I don't know it. Is reading comprehension that lacking on this site? Rhetorical question....

    My point is, there is no term that would be a pair for a fujioshi for males. If fujioshi are obsessive towards yaoi, then what are males who are obsessive about yuri? Christ how hard was that to understand? Think of the term homosexual; yet we have gay, lesbian, faggot. They don't hold exact conotations, but relate to being homosexual either way. If there are fanboys there are fangirls...seriously. I'm not talking talking about the characteristics of a group of people in particular, I'm on about whether or not a term, word or label even exist for distinction sake.

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    Comment by DoodleBoodle
    13:39 08/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    The one who's missing out the point here is you.

    Obviously there is no term for male Yuri fans Because Yuri was not intended for them, Yuri was intended for the female audience, and that explains alot.

    Also the reason why they use the term "Fujoshi" for the BL fangirls is because the idea of a woman being interested in homosexual relationships between men doesn't really sound that pleasant. it's nearly the same thing as with "faghags", except faghags are a little bit worse.

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    Comment by 21149315
    00:14 06/06/2012 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    Basically people still have the
    "FemalexFemale = Hot" while "MalexMale = Not"

    They (male otaku) are angry because they share so many similarities with fujoshi.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:40 06/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Did you make a new account just for the sake of trolling?

    Male otakus don't give a flying fuck about the Fujoshi's nor do they give a fuck about normal female otakus. We're getting our material every season with added ass and vagina, we're fapping without giving a flying fuck about what some NEET rotten smelly foreveravirgin girl does.

    And for the record, Many countries allow lesbian couples but prohibit gay male couples.
    Go to the wiki page of homosexuality legalisation in countries and see for yourself, people are more tolerant towards lesbians. Now get lost.

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    Comment by 21149315
    01:11 08/06/2012 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    Um no. I just typed my screen name with numbers, it's the same account. Why would I need two accounts here?

    And your "For the record" comment does not relate to my posting in any form.

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    Comment by DoodleBoodle
    13:40 08/06/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yes it does.

    Because Yaoi = Gay male relationships.
    Yuri = Gay female relationships.

    and Gay female relationships = more tolerated and accepted worldwide than gay male relationships, the fact that many countries allow lesbian couples and prohibit gay couples just proves that.

    Comment by Anonymous

    I'd say pretty bold marketing on the part of the Chinese. Hell, sell some of these and you'll become a millionaire overnight. ;P

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    Comment by Bakadomo
    10:18 03/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Lol, if even Yaoi anime doesn't sell well, how do you expect these books to?

    Comment by Anonymous

    There is a reason Yaoi does not sell well.
    It is gay.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Seriously? BL SELLS.

    Clearly... You didn't look at the facts before talking ;)

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:11 05/06/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Nope, BL doesn't sell.

    This is how anime buisness works.

    Something or a specific genre sells = They make more of it. and as you can see, they rarely air BL, meaning it doesn't sell, meaning your point is invalid.

    if you want to check the sales record list, go to mania.com forums, and check the list there, you won't find any BL anime on the top 100 selling animes, and to break it down to you, unpopular genres are selling alot better than BL (Well not like BL was popular to begin with lol)







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