What was the show that got you into Yaoi & Bl? Let us know in the comments below! Coming soon to get in the Robot! 🤖 - Fate ⚔ - One Punch Man 👊 - Evangelion 🤖
I’m not gonna lie, Naruto. I was scrolling through Pinterest and then saw a few memes of Naruto loving Sasuke that’s why he was trying to save him and I was like “wow, so true” then got recommended a LOT more memes, then fan art, then I search it up, found more fan art, read comics of them on missions....etc. Next thing I knew I shipped them and saw male couples has just another ship possibility
i aint anything but i think it can be super cute cause theres a lot of 'love you cant take for granted' and then i just hope its censored cuz mate i got a phobia of wieners oh lord why are redrawers a thing
Yeah. I'm also a Spanish speaker and sometimes I struggle when talking about anime with my English speaking friends... Mostly because the Latin version resembles more the Japanese pronunciation (and I only watch anime in Japanese), so to push it further away from Japanese so it sounds closer to the English phonetical adaptation of the name is weird...
Isn’t it beautiful that June, the name of the magazine, means pure in Japanese, and that pride month is also June? And my birthday, not that anybody asked.
I was at church camp this summer and was debating I should read BL (it was 'That Awkward Magic' and 'My Weird Roomate' on Webtoon if you're curious), and I ended up reading it in front of tons of Christians hehe... he.... at least they didn't see...
you should read mo dao zu shi, it's a chinese bl novel but it's translated to english on the exiled rebels scanlations website, it's like action-romance and it's SO good
Exactly, man. I’m tired of looking at what yuri is always viewed from qeer woman’s pov and the male yuri fans’s pov, but BL is exclusively portrayed as a homoerotic fanservice with hot handsome boys for yaoi fangirls. Similarly, you will be killed if you say that yuri is intended to be a hot fetish for heterosexual men, but for some reason it is perfectly normal to say that yaoi is created solely to satisfy the desire of heterosexual girls.
Absolutely! I spent so long with the 'problematic' early BL works she talked about in this video because I just could not find anything more plot-heavy or real-life accurate. I'd love to see a video on bara just to hear about more titles I should look into.
@@86fifty i think because of the content there's very little bara anime or even longer manga.. they're like hustler magazine to the "i read it for the articles" playboy magazines of the day. But you can google "my reading manga bara" and that should bring you to a particular place to do some particular reading..
I hope queer couples will become more mainstream in anime, outside of yaoi/yuri, I would love to see more shows who have queer relationships even though romance is not the main theme of the story. I mean, we got Ymir and Historia, but we didn't get to see a lot of their relationship
YES CLAMP! Fun fact: The first GitR video I ever watched was the one where you ask someone off camera if you can do THIS video and they tell you yes. Now here we are!
I'm a lesbian and an anime fan - but I haven't delved into yuri content for fear of it being as fetishizing as I saw yaoi to be! However, this video really opened my mind fo yaoi, and I'd LOVE to see a Get In The Robot video about yuri, too!! Thanks SO much for the video, y'all! Keep it up!
it’s tough to find yaoi that isn’t blatant fetishazion made for a straight audience, but if you dig you can find lots that are great. its almost the same way with yuri.
if they stick that tag on themselves as an identifier there really is a good chance they've taken it too far, and the deep end of yaoi is a gaping abyss. its pretty suspicious alright
@@isnotmimi From people who use it in a derogatory manner. Like she said in the video, the word originates from within a community and was then used as an insult by outsiders. People choosing to use the word in a positive way counts as reclaiming it. Same could be said for otaku actually. I'd say some introspection is due for both sides, the fan that "takes it too far" to be aware their impact on others and those who feel the need to "police" behavior to question the roots of their discomfort.
Thank you for this nuanced look at BL, it's also important to keep in mind, I think, the role of BL in promoting and driving LGBTQ+ acceptance in East Asia like in the academic study by Jungmin Kwon about South Koreans.
I'm so glad you guys covered this! Yaoi had been a huge part of my discovering I am part of the LGBTQ+ community, in many good and bad ways. I went from worshipping yaoi as a 'straight girl' to appreciating yaoi, but also understanding it's toxic elements and often poor representation as a nonbinary gay viewer. I might not have looked more closely at my own sexuality or at the nature of queer representation, the pushback I get for these interests, or how gender roles and sexuality are treated by different cultures if I hadn't read my first inuyasha/koga doujinshi when I was barely a preteen. If I'd not encountered yaoi, slash, Yuri, or any form of same sex fandom, I probably wouldn't know enough now to look back and see how far we've come and how far we have yet to go. Yaoi and Yuri really started my path of critical thinking, questioning gender norms and homophobia, despite the stigma held for yaoi fans(which is definitely motivated by sexism and homophobia, proof being that you see the same disregard and disgust pointed at fan girls in the west who ship guys with guys) I definitely look forward to seeing you cover Yuri and maybe you could get a few LGBT fans perspective on animes handling of LGBT characters? There's a ton to unpack with just Yuri on Ice, Sailor Moon, and even in My Hero Academy. Anime has definitely had an impact on a generation of queer people, both in content and at conventions/fan spaces.
I would absolutely love a follow up video on why bara style and portrayal stayed within the confines of manga (of course discounting the +18 work who couldn't be adapted to mainstream audiences for ehm obvious reasons)
I'm a completely not-heterosexual man, and I love this stuff. It's often the best I can get, and yeah, the guys are often very pretty, so I can't complain much.
Thank you so much for covering this topic. I loved the personal touch by the host who obviously has a love for the material. I was wondering if there might be a queer male host who might be able to explain more about the Bara genre. I've only really seen some pictures on tumblr and I read My Brother's Husband, and I would be so interested in learning/experiencing more content like that. Thanks again. Keep making great content like this!
Just to clarify, My Brothers Husband is *about* homosexuality and homophoby, but is neither bara or BL. It's published in a magazine for straing men. There's a life action very perfect!
Every Guy friends is asking me "why is Guy on Guy action is so "alluring" to you?" Well here is the reversal uno card *well for starters; Why is Girl on Girl action so alluring to you?*
Gurple Purple I mean Erasermic is interesting and I can definitely see why people ship it too but I'm more of an Erasermight gal, but each to their own I guess :/
Idk I think they clash too much personality wise but true. As long as we agree that he does not belong with that smile girl or whatever.. I forgot her name cause I don't like her :>
Gurple Purple well I don't think that would be too respectful to EraserJoke shippers, that ship is pretty interesting too but I can also admit that despite having a small liking to the ship, I still have some irks with the character of Ms.Joke
Not a Fujoshi, but I love it when people are proud enough to let their freak flag fly. Don't pretend like we all don't have fantasies someone would be Judgy of.
7:13. YOUR AN ARMY TOO? You see, I stumbled upon this channel which looking for some more bls and I didnt know if I should subscribe. Besides the fact that your personality is like a gold mine and I love it, you being an army or even just being a fan makes my decision a whole lot easier.
@@psqcho4347 but it impacted the genre a lot. Don't you know how many BL's we have now that have been inspired by Banana fish? The love between Eiji and Ash changed a lot of people's perspectives because of their vanilla/sweet relationship and birthed a lot of Fu-joshi/danshi's Also, the first ever BL mentioned in the video, was a shoujo so
Dude you are super cute oh my gosh! Your glasses and hair and you’re face! And your awkward yet super cool personality shining through all that! So pretty and adorable! You did a great job covering this topic :)
Please make a video on CLAMP! And, omg, first time I see this girl and I already freaking adore her! As for me, I think that yuri on ice may have been the start of my journey.
19:19 I know I'm late to the party but THANK YOU for adding one of my all-time favorite manga "The Carp on the Chopping Block Jumps Twice". It's heavy, it's heartbreaking but it's also unconventional and very realistic, and that's why I love it. So thank you for giving it a shout out, I really appreciate it. Also the video is really nice and informative, great work!
Answering the Robot: Gravitation was definitely the series that got me to go down the rabbit hole! From CLAMP, the Fushigi Yugi characters Chichiro and Tasuki (the dynamic duo) was often paired in very rare doujinshi and difficult to find (at the dawn of the internet age)- fanfiction. So its interesting to see how far this gendra has come since the 90s!
00:49 I don't know Cristal, I think your Midoriya pronunciation is fine. We latinos can generally pronounce Japanese better than the average English-speaking person, so, yeah~
I really hope you do a video on yuri/shoujo-ai! I love BL/yaoi/shonen-ai, but I'm more into yuri/shoujo-ai! I wish there was more of a presence of the girl x girl dynamic in anime, and the anime community. I love boy x boy content, but my heart gravitates more towards the girl x girl content. I wish there was a yuri con or something...
Gravitation will always have a special place in my heart because it was the first actual yaoi anime i ever watched (i watched it on youtube lol) cause up until then all id seen was fanfiction doujinshis and fanart so to see a canon gay relationship was very refreshing
One of the huge reasons I have a bunch on internalized homophobia, is because of how fujos treated me online when I was younger. When they try to label you the top or bottom, it can really make you uncomfy So yeah, thanks fujos on amino.
If it weren't for copyright strike bots, addressing the most famous western yaoi couple, Tweek and Craig from South Park, would've been amusing. As a guy with zero interest in the subject matter, I love how in depth you all go into the history of these topics.
As a male yaoi reader I always hated the seme uke tropes and lacking stories, I just wanted normal slice of life style stories about friends and work and life and a little romance sprinkled in.. although perhaps Japan is not exactly the country to look to for that...
@@GetInTheRobot- Wait, what? No! Your deep dives are always genuinely great, and this one was even better than usual. I got nothin' but love for my anime explainer. 💜✌💜
Hey, I'm a librarian and former English professor, and I just need to let you know how incredible this channel is. I'm perennially thinking about getting back into anime, and the exhaustiveness, thoughtfulness, and sheer optimism of this channel are such great encouragement. I'm sure this is all a ton of work and frustration to put together, especially with YoyTube's dumb demonetization policies, but I really think you all make some of the best pop culture content out there, and I'm really grateful for it. This channel is a joy.
Ppl really like saying they hate fujoshis but like... I keep explaining its legit a term that means they like yaoi. It doesn’t mean u fetishize gay ppl. Also god I’m glad you pointed out that double standard.
are you asexual and aromantic or asexual but into romance? Because i would totally recommend What Did You Eat Yesterday? as a great title that has nothing to do with the explicit stuff, heck its not even so much romantic stuff either. It’s a slice of life but it deals with the gender politics of Japan. It has a Live Action going right now! Very good!
Surprisingly detailed and entertaining to watch! You truly are a woman of culture Have you make a Yuri video yet? I'm gonna browse the channel but if you haven't already then I'm looking forward to it, I'm not against BL/Yaoi and in fact I have few that I enjoyed but I'm more into Yuri or Shoujoai and I'm glad that we have more Yuri/BL in mainstream manga/anime now, vanilla just doesn't excite me as much
I'd love a video about yuri, it's a great genre and although it doesn't have the same traction as yaoi (from what I know, at least), I think's really important in anime/manga culture.
@Poisonous Nightcore Oh, I know it, but I haven't watched it yet. I recommend you a great short yuri manga called Maka-maka, it's yuri/smut/seinen. Tell me when you finish it!
Can we continue the conversation on this? Can GITR compare and contrast yaoi/BL and yuri/GL? That would be really cool. And if you guys could talk about the history of bara as well and compare and contrast that to yaoi, maybe see if there’s a female equivalent of bara out there, idk. I also think that it would be really cool if GITR could talk about how the anime fandom reacts to yaoi/BL and yuri/GL.
I honestly really appreciate yaoi. It exposed me to so much information I feel I never would have gotten though other means at the time. When I first found it it was trough love stage which I didn't know was a yaoi. I had a mild distaste for yaoi despite having no involvement prior and honestly that came from me having NO KNOWLEDGE of gay male relationships (or female) and I just thought it was kinda weird and sure ok... But it's not natural cause reproduction Yada Yada. (I was like 10) But honestly love stage was a huge eye opener to me as like.... A gateway and It just opened up a whole thing and gave me positive emotions related to the whole other people being gay thing. Also abt consent and relationship in some of those mangas because As a tomboy I avoided romance like the plague (my ideas were a little warped when I was younger but as I figured out the good from the bad manga and explored into other relationship based media. it was improved.) I feel like it Exposed me to stuff before I could see it in only a negative light through the mainstream media like crossdressing and mild bdsm. Idk I just feel it was one of the biggest shapers of my like "sexuality" (lmao sounds kinda gross but I feel much better for knowing about it earlier than later) and sexual knowledge (which of corse I expanded I didn't only learn from yaoi that wouldn't be good.) it literally taught me how sex worked like wtf. (I know with guys it's different it just gave me the extra steps before "and then babies "). I mean there is some stuff out there that really isn't positive and I can't say that this would be a good experience for other 10yr olds by ANY means but I really wanna emphasise that. I just really feel it was an important part of my history and still influences me. (Random yaoi/fujoshi tid bits skip if you want it's just random related stuff -I hate the ciel X Sebastian pairing I've always felt it was unnatural and didn't apply to their actual personalities and dynamics and I refused to consume media like that. But I shipped ereri so like who the heck am I to judge. -koisuru boukun was the first piece of media to make me cry god that stuff got to me an I related so hard to Souichi I'm not even kidding even tho he's an ass and 10/10 has some non consent stuff. It was mostly the not quite wanting to understand his feelings and so just denying them but giving in. - I 👏 hate 👏 all 👏but 👏 very 👏 specific 👏 omegaverse 👏 stories. Either the alpha's are overly aggressive and cave way too easy and do the bad. Or the omega's are bitchy or whimpy. OR LIKE JUST BEASTIALITY DEPENDING ON WHICH OMEGAVERSE NO THANKS. But there are some ones I really appreciate as being good despite how easy it it to make it trash. S/o to sayounara alpha. For actually having no non/semi consensual encounters yaaaaaaaaaay :D (if you complain about the age gap I'm gonna shove a remote controller up your ass please let me enjoy my media) -oyaji yaoi (like with older men) is amazing and I need more I wish so bad there was more popularity with either, more mature relationships or age gaps. NAONO BOHRA I LOVE U. -trashy yaoi is like really funny. Pointy Chins and yaoi hands huge d or really wack stories just make me crack every time . Any way whatever just stuff glad it's getting more coverage, good and bad. )
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What was the show that got you into Yaoi & Bl? Let us know in the comments below!
Coming soon to get in the Robot! 🤖
- Fate ⚔
- One Punch Man 👊
- Evangelion 🤖
Yuri on ice did
The ice skating homosexuals
Gravitation will always have a special place in my heart as my first BL...
I’m not gonna lie, Naruto. I was scrolling through Pinterest and then saw a few memes of Naruto loving Sasuke that’s why he was trying to save him and I was like “wow, so true” then got recommended a LOT more memes, then fan art, then I search it up, found more fan art, read comics of them on missions....etc. Next thing I knew I shipped them and saw male couples has just another ship possibility
Not sure if it counts but Descendants of Darkness, BL academy was another one.
Sensitive Pornograph, 2004. Ai No Kusabi. Then came anything by Yamane Ayano. I feel old.
I'm a bisexual dude and I read Yaoi cause they're hot boys, and I like hot boys
Hayo aka Chic Noodles just yes
i aint anything but i think it can be super cute cause theres a lot of 'love you cant take for granted' and then i just hope its censored cuz mate i got a phobia of wieners oh lord why are redrawers a thing
I'm a pan dude and I love my BL like my Yuri
Me too
Mood
When she let the latina slip into her pronunciation of "Midoriya" 😂😂😂
It also comes out very strongly when she pronounces "Heero".
@@ichigopockychan thing is it's closer to how it's said in Japan than an English accent on it
I'M HOWLING
I'm the same 🤗
Yeah. I'm also a Spanish speaker and sometimes I struggle when talking about anime with my English speaking friends... Mostly because the Latin version resembles more the Japanese pronunciation (and I only watch anime in Japanese), so to push it further away from Japanese so it sounds closer to the English phonetical adaptation of the name is weird...
"Should we do a video on CLAMP?"
YES.
Let me repeat: YES.
My reaction was... there’s not a CLAMP video on the channel?
That’s CRIMINAL
YES is the only answer.
Yes
++
I'm a guy and I love Yaoi/Shounen Ai
Why?
Because it's often better than all the gay content in other media
Also I'm comic book nerd
red bara mangas :-D
Y-Dexter 13 we should all swap titles.
The rare Steinem Ai is best, but elusive as a unicorn
Oh a fellow fudanshi
I don't really think fetish fuel for straight people is better than media that's honestly trying to represent us fairly.
@@ravenfrancis1476 "honestly trying to represent us fairly"
pff fairly
Isn’t it beautiful that June, the name of the magazine, means pure in Japanese, and that pride month is also June? And my birthday, not that anybody asked.
Very beautiful. Thant's for that bit of info.
Yaoi is short for YA BOI
Super underrated comment. 😂
Best comment ever
Yes
Where does the *B* go 🤔
Hahahaahahahahahaha I'm using it from now on, thanks dude
I would love to see a video on CLAMP!
what’s that
@@nikkokp en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_(manga_artists)
Yes please CLAMP
Seconding this. Also "Kakyoin, did you lay this egg?" needs to come up.
So much BL with clamp mangas 😄
The best line: "What is wrong with me? Everything."
Literally my friend says that to me everyday and that is always my reply 😂
It's not me, it is the world!
Yesssss
I relate to this line so much lol
True about me tho, why'd she call me out.
I once read explicit yaoi in the school library. It was awesome.
@Mia Citrus is still harmless tbh xD
I was at church camp this summer and was debating I should read BL (it was 'That Awkward Magic' and 'My Weird Roomate' on Webtoon if you're curious), and I ended up reading it in front of tons of Christians hehe... he.... at least they didn't see...
@Mia I've read BL in front of my grandma who is not so fond of the idea.................
I read BL fanfic at church during service lol
@@space_air6074 bro those 2 webcomics are good! well, my weird roomate i'm not as fond of but i still really like both
I would love a non-abusive and not comforming to gender stereotype yaoi relationship.
Purple Phoenix Have you seen Banana Fish. Or Yuri on Ice? Blood Bank?
I really liked Given, no regrets!
you should read mo dao zu shi, it's a chinese bl novel but it's translated to english on the exiled rebels scanlations website, it's like action-romance and it's SO good
take all my uwus but it includes gore so be careful
Umm... Not an anime, but have you checked out MyStreet on Aphmau's channel? There's a few yuri and yaoi ships there. *cough*few, hah!*cough*
Can we talk about Yuri/Shoujo Ai now????!!!????
Bi girl wants to talk about gay girls now!!!
Soul Records PERIOD and they will
XD yes, happily
Please!
Yeah
Soul Records omg same!!
Bara could be a fun contrasting video to this one.
Exactly, man. I’m tired of looking at what yuri is always viewed from qeer woman’s pov and the male yuri fans’s pov, but BL is exclusively portrayed as a homoerotic fanservice with hot handsome boys for yaoi fangirls. Similarly, you will be killed if you say that yuri is intended to be a hot fetish for heterosexual men, but for some reason it is perfectly normal to say that yaoi is created solely to satisfy the desire of heterosexual girls.
Absolutely! I spent so long with the 'problematic' early BL works she talked about in this video because I just could not find anything more plot-heavy or real-life accurate. I'd love to see a video on bara just to hear about more titles I should look into.
@@86fifty i think because of the content there's very little bara anime or even longer manga.. they're like hustler magazine to the "i read it for the articles" playboy magazines of the day. But you can google "my reading manga bara" and that should bring you to a particular place to do some particular reading..
I'd love to see a vid on bara.
Hello demonetization-chan, though...
xD just the thumpnail from a Gengoro Kagame Manga would be enough to get this vid. taken down xD
Can we get a GL episode? i need my Yuri appreciation!
I get the feeling they were hinting at that at the end.
It's only FAIR to do as such.
Its oly fair that they do that UwU yuri fans need it tooooooo
Yeap. I agree 😌
『Ziryuri』 yes 💜👌
I hope queer couples will become more mainstream in anime, outside of yaoi/yuri, I would love to see more shows who have queer relationships even though romance is not the main theme of the story. I mean, we got Ymir and Historia, but we didn't get to see a lot of their relationship
That is a really good goal. Achieving it will probably take a while though because Japan is still pretty homophobic
Rooting for this too
Same
Spoilers for Ymir and Historia, it didn't end well. Don't ask me how just know...it didn't end well.
“Should we do a video on CLAMP?”
DO IT.
JUST.... DO IT
Aselly Che +++++
how about no
@@cosmo6355 Kakyoin, did you lay this egg?!
@@cosmo6355 huh
18:03 as a fudanshi, I’m so glad you mentioned this term lol
I'm so glad they mentioned this anime.
Please do a Yuri video
Do you think they won't do it? Lol, on the contrary, I am surprised that they first made a video about BL, and not about yuri.
YESYESYESYES
Do a video on CLAMP!!! ♥️
Wait whats clamp?
@@eddierodriguez1348 its a religion
@@jessicagomez1760 it's hitsuzen.
You just became my favorite host on this channel
ArtAndMusicPony ⚡️⚡️⚡️🌈
the TH-cam captions mistake "yaoi" for "Yaweh", which is what we, as jewish people, call god. Kinda ironic. XD Lmao
Evelyn Skye I-
I just don’t know
Lol YAOI IS GOD!! 😂
@Alex Kalinin its better if you dont know
@Alex Kalinin ok
@@Dusty_Rune yesssss 😂
YES CLAMP!
Fun fact: The first GitR video I ever watched was the one where you ask someone off camera if you can do THIS video and they tell you yes.
Now here we are!
Case Died Well started from the bottom now we HERE
When I saw this notification, I almost spit out my applesauce.
I'm a lesbian and an anime fan - but I haven't delved into yuri content for fear of it being as fetishizing as I saw yaoi to be! However, this video really opened my mind fo yaoi, and I'd LOVE to see a Get In The Robot video about yuri, too!!
Thanks SO much for the video, y'all! Keep it up!
BL isnt meant to be fetishizing I'm sorry if you've experienced people who apply BL to real life.
the "LGBTQ+ in Anime" video pointed out some real-to-life animes about lesbianism
it’s tough to find yaoi that isn’t blatant fetishazion made for a straight audience, but if you dig you can find lots that are great. its almost the same way with yuri.
as a fellow lesbian i recommend you watch "Bloom Into You" and "Doukuyuusei", my favorite bl and gl works!
Shimanami Tasogare is really really good. Please give it a try
A girl tells me she's a fujoshi and it sets off my fight or flight response
if they stick that tag on themselves as an identifier there really is a good chance they've taken it too far, and the deep end of yaoi is a gaping abyss. its pretty suspicious alright
"Gaping Abyss "
For me, it's sort of like the difference between someone saying they like anime and someone saying they're an otaku.
@@chikita9656 What do you mean by reclaimed? Reclaimed from what/who?
@@isnotmimi From people who use it in a derogatory manner. Like she said in the video, the word originates from within a community and was then used as an insult by outsiders. People choosing to use the word in a positive way counts as reclaiming it. Same could be said for otaku actually.
I'd say some introspection is due for both sides, the fan that "takes it too far" to be aware their impact on others and those who feel the need to "police" behavior to question the roots of their discomfort.
someone: says “yaoi” or “BL”
me: *fast head turn but quick enough so that the people i’m with don’t know about my yuri on ice addiction*
Thank you for this nuanced look at BL, it's also important to keep in mind, I think, the role of BL in promoting and driving LGBTQ+ acceptance in East Asia like in the academic study by Jungmin Kwon about South Koreans.
I'm so glad you guys covered this! Yaoi had been a huge part of my discovering I am part of the LGBTQ+ community, in many good and bad ways. I went from worshipping yaoi as a 'straight girl' to appreciating yaoi, but also understanding it's toxic elements and often poor representation as a nonbinary gay viewer. I might not have looked more closely at my own sexuality or at the nature of queer representation, the pushback I get for these interests, or how gender roles and sexuality are treated by different cultures if I hadn't read my first inuyasha/koga doujinshi when I was barely a preteen. If I'd not encountered yaoi, slash, Yuri, or any form of same sex fandom, I probably wouldn't know enough now to look back and see how far we've come and how far we have yet to go. Yaoi and Yuri really started my path of critical thinking, questioning gender norms and homophobia, despite the stigma held for yaoi fans(which is definitely motivated by sexism and homophobia, proof being that you see the same disregard and disgust pointed at fan girls in the west who ship guys with guys)
I definitely look forward to seeing you cover Yuri and maybe you could get a few LGBT fans perspective on animes handling of LGBT characters? There's a ton to unpack with just Yuri on Ice, Sailor Moon, and even in My Hero Academy. Anime has definitely had an impact on a generation of queer people, both in content and at conventions/fan spaces.
And that's a huge freakin yes on the clamp video!!!
I would absolutely love a follow up video on why bara style and portrayal stayed within the confines of manga (of course discounting the +18 work who couldn't be adapted to mainstream audiences for ehm obvious reasons)
I love how you add some spanish pronunciation in between english
I'm a completely not-heterosexual man, and I love this stuff. It's often the best I can get, and yeah, the guys are often very pretty, so I can't complain much.
I clicked the notification so fast when I saw BL and Yaoi
Sora Chan you are me and i iz you and we are one
Same
@j ohndnis what's wrong with being a fujoshi 🤷
@@sorachan9129 because 90% of you LOVE yaoi and bl (nothing wrong here kiddo) but dont respect yuri, because its 2 girls.
@@lethalamount are you saying we don't respect Yuri or you don't respect Yuri, not all of us are the same I respect yuri
Thank you so much for covering this topic. I loved the personal touch by the host who obviously has a love for the material. I was wondering if there might be a queer male host who might be able to explain more about the Bara genre. I've only really seen some pictures on tumblr and I read My Brother's Husband, and I would be so interested in learning/experiencing more content like that. Thanks again. Keep making great content like this!
My Brother's Husband is so wholesome and beautiful, I was hoping someone would bring it up.
Just to clarify, My Brothers Husband is *about* homosexuality and homophoby, but is neither bara or BL.
It's published in a magazine for straing men.
There's a life action very perfect!
“Read by woman from 16-30”
*my 12 yearold self coughing*
Baccup Vita true. 😂 i was like. uHeM. 16?!?!
*my 9 year old self coughs louder*
Oof same
*my 14 year old self coughing way louder*
I can’t really cough loudly because I’m 15
Am I the only who almost screamed when she brought up Kiss Him Not Me? I am... ok...
I was just reading some BL fanfic when I got the notification.
Never been happier.
My entire weeb phase started with Ouran High School Club so I was doomed from the start.
Oh yes yaoi/bl I've been wanting you guys to uncover this topic
Every Guy friends is asking me "why is Guy on Guy action is so "alluring" to you?"
Well here is the reversal uno card *well for starters; Why is Girl on Girl action so alluring to you?*
SHE SHIPS ERASERMIGHT FOLKS!
SHE. SHIPS. ERASERMIGHT!!!!
SHE'S ONE OF US!
😏😏😏
NOOOOOOO!!!!! ERASERMIC ALL THE WAY
Gurple Purple I mean Erasermic is interesting and I can definitely see why people ship it too but I'm more of an Erasermight gal, but each to their own I guess :/
Idk I think they clash too much personality wise but true. As long as we agree that he does not belong with that smile girl or whatever.. I forgot her name cause I don't like her :>
Gurple Purple well I don't think that would be too respectful to EraserJoke shippers, that ship is pretty interesting too but I can also admit that despite having a small liking to the ship, I still have some irks with the character of Ms.Joke
One minute in and I will now start saying Deku's last name the latino way lmao. Thanks Get in the robot
Insayion 8 mi-do-RÍ-ya yes 🙈😂🙏
Yeah, she's closer to the actual pronunciation.
Not a Fujoshi, but I love it when people are proud enough to let their freak flag fly. Don't pretend like we all don't have fantasies someone would be Judgy of.
"Girls at the age of 16-20"
*Laughs at age of 14*
Me: laughs at the age of 13
I started yaoi when I was 10
*Laughs in 8*
just realized i started watching and reading yaoi and bara too early lol
@@ryosumnezu excuse me what
You guys should do a video on banana fish!! 😀
@ohdespair people will suffer
I finished it recently and I'm NOT okay
7:13. YOUR AN ARMY TOO?
You see, I stumbled upon this channel which looking for some more bls and I didnt know if I should subscribe. Besides the fact that your personality is like a gold mine and I love it, you being an army or even just being a fan makes my decision a whole lot easier.
I.M who I aM .... shhhh V is my bias shhhh
Two words: BANANA FISH
Yes! I'm surprised she didn't mention banana fish!
@@greyblueme9711 Yeas, since it's the root where an Shoujo manga portraits a male'n'male couple. Full circle.
Ohh.. That's because it's not yaoi, nor shounen ai.
@@psqcho4347 but it impacted the genre a lot. Don't you know how many BL's we have now that have been inspired by Banana fish?
The love between Eiji and Ash changed a lot of people's perspectives because of their vanilla/sweet relationship and birthed a lot of Fu-joshi/danshi's
Also, the first ever BL mentioned in the video, was a shoujo so
"The man behind Ace Attorney..."
Me~ *gasps* Oh yes..
I'm ace as heck, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy hypothetical situations between someone else 😋💕
I'm also Ace
im a fudanshi solely because i'm comfortable with my own sexuality, and i'm happy to see a relationship flourish regardless of their preference.
Can we just get more Cristsal Marie? She's a great host and I always love the way she presents her video topics.
I never comment, but... YES, DO A CLAMP VIDEO
Dude you are super cute oh my gosh! Your glasses and hair and you’re face! And your awkward yet super cool personality shining through all that! So pretty and adorable! You did a great job covering this topic :)
Straight BL fan here
I am never ashamed
You shouldn’t be either
Thank you.
Asexual yaoi and yuri fan myself thanks for giving me the courage to say that
Yuri fan here.
I'm gay. :V
I mean... i like yaoi too.
Dayo Ade Well! Now that matter is out of the way. Solve the other boy love issue in Evangelion. Too many shipping wars on that.
you do you, I'll do jane
Please make a video on CLAMP! And, omg, first time I see this girl and I already freaking adore her! As for me, I think that yuri on ice may have been the start of my journey.
19:19 I know I'm late to the party but THANK YOU for adding one of my all-time favorite manga "The Carp on the Chopping Block Jumps Twice". It's heavy, it's heartbreaking but it's also unconventional and very realistic, and that's why I love it. So thank you for giving it a shout out, I really appreciate it.
Also the video is really nice and informative, great work!
Please do a video on CLAMP. Please. I need that in my life.
Especially about that Jojo doujin
Answering the Robot: Gravitation was definitely the series that got me to go down the rabbit hole! From CLAMP, the Fushigi Yugi characters Chichiro and Tasuki (the dynamic duo) was often paired in very rare doujinshi and difficult to find (at the dawn of the internet age)- fanfiction. So its interesting to see how far this gendra has come since the 90s!
Do a Clamp video!!! They're clebrating the 30th anniversary of their first professional manga RG Veda this year. So perfect timing!
you caught me off guard with the USUK DAMN !!!
Hi, bisexual yaoi lover here oof
"should we do a video on CLAMP?"
yes. yes that would be good.
00:49
I don't know Cristal, I think your Midoriya pronunciation is fine. We latinos can generally pronounce Japanese better than the average English-speaking person, so, yeah~
Lugh Ildanach and yet..... ppl still come at me lol but hey! Water under the bridge cause in the end its all about the anime loveee 💜💜💜
@@CristalMarie Agreed! Funny thing is if you hear, for example, All-Might calling Deku, he'll say "Midoriya" as you would read it in Spanish.
Lugh Ildanach i knowwwwwwww
I really hope you do a video on yuri/shoujo-ai! I love BL/yaoi/shonen-ai, but I'm more into yuri/shoujo-ai! I wish there was more of a presence of the girl x girl dynamic in anime, and the anime community. I love boy x boy content, but my heart gravitates more towards the girl x girl content. I wish there was a yuri con or something...
There is (was?) a Yuricon, here in the States at least. It's been running for almost 20yrs, founded by a friend of mine. Just google "yuricon"
Please do a Clamp breakdown please! I would love to see you cover their history.
"The Makoto to your Haru"
Me: **remembering all of the Rin × Haru fan art and moments I've seen** *_no._*
Edit: What's your OTP?
Rin x Haru for life
Rin x Haru for life
Gravitation will always have a special place in my heart because it was the first actual yaoi anime i ever watched (i watched it on youtube lol) cause up until then all id seen was fanfiction doujinshis and fanart so to see a canon gay relationship was very refreshing
CLAMP video yes please my childhood
One of the huge reasons I have a bunch on internalized homophobia, is because of how fujos treated me online when I was younger. When they try to label you the top or bottom, it can really make you uncomfy
So yeah, thanks fujos on amino.
So... some guys say that they dont like BL and also said that it is slowly destroying the anime community?
We girls also need our manservice.
it's just destroying their brains, but they have fragile brains
Do one on bara since pride is month is coming up! Lets celebrate lgbt writers and culture!
I mean people have said this already but
YES, A VIDEO ON CLAMP WOULD BE AWESOME!
honestly I'm just looking for ANY sorts of mentions of Kaze to Ki no Uta so thank you for this lol
If it weren't for copyright strike bots, addressing the most famous western yaoi couple, Tweek and Craig from South Park, would've been amusing. As a guy with zero interest in the subject matter, I love how in depth you all go into the history of these topics.
you mean Tweek and Craig? CREEK SHIPPPPPPP
@@kostan9844 I do, thank you for the correction.
As a male yaoi reader I always hated the seme uke tropes and lacking stories, I just wanted normal slice of life style stories about friends and work and life and a little romance sprinkled in.. although perhaps Japan is not exactly the country to look to for that...
Clamp!!!! That would be awesome to watch! Love their work.
"What did you eat yesterday?" looks like something I would like to read. And maybe even watch the tv drama. Looks... serious.
Lydia Hanger its super silly, and very heartfelt.
Still waiting for an English release of Kaze to Ki no Uta... ;-;
I'd love to see videos on Yuri and CLAMP!
This was a fantastic deep dive, even by this channel's lofty standards! Excellent work. And yes please on that CLAMP video.
Can’t tell if this is a backhanded compliment, but thanks! Haha.
@@GetInTheRobot- Wait, what? No! Your deep dives are always genuinely great, and this one was even better than usual. I got nothin' but love for my anime explainer. 💜✌💜
Hey, I'm a librarian and former English professor, and I just need to let you know how incredible this channel is. I'm perennially thinking about getting back into anime, and the exhaustiveness, thoughtfulness, and sheer optimism of this channel are such great encouragement. I'm sure this is all a ton of work and frustration to put together, especially with YoyTube's dumb demonetization policies, but I really think you all make some of the best pop culture content out there, and I'm really grateful for it. This channel is a joy.
Am I the only one who stared laughing when the Hetalia ship appeared?
That thing she did in the beginning is what I have to say to myself any time I read BL, MxB BxB MxM, etc.
Guess who's binging a bunch of new shows the whole summer
"I'm proud of that, actually"
As you should be.
this was so much more in-depth than I expected. 11/10.
Also: bara episode when?
Ppl really like saying they hate fujoshis but like... I keep explaining its legit a term that means they like yaoi. It doesn’t mean u fetishize gay ppl. Also god I’m glad you pointed out that double standard.
Screamin Berries yup, it’s a huge problem
Max Jones there’s a lot to unpack for sure.
Max Jones also that fits the description of most hentai which makes one wonder...
Max Jones some yaoi is straight up hentai and marketed as such.
Max Jones lol, Yami no Matsuei... wow, throwback. I recommend Yuri On Ice or Banana Fish as a more updated take on the genre.
I'm asexual so I never really got the appeal of BL or Yaoi. Also, yes! Cover CLAMP!
Aces unite. Separately. Of course. I like to skip those chapters or abandon entire series over anything explicit.
are you asexual and aromantic or asexual but into romance? Because i would totally recommend What Did You Eat Yesterday? as a great title that has nothing to do with the explicit stuff, heck its not even so much romantic stuff either. It’s a slice of life but it deals with the gender politics of Japan. It has a Live Action going right now! Very good!
Awesome video~ :D
18:18 Bakugo and Kirishima best bros in MHA! >w
The first anime movie and its explicit uh... fun timessssss yeah was released in 1969 🤔
"...real life bandmates..."
Me, an army: I'm gonna get called out. I'm gonna get called out, I'm gonna get--
"*cough* BTS."
Me: I KNEW IT.
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Lol I was looking for this comment 😂😂
Surprisingly detailed and entertaining to watch! You truly are a woman of culture
Have you make a Yuri video yet? I'm gonna browse the channel but if you haven't already then I'm looking forward to it, I'm not against BL/Yaoi and in fact I have few that I enjoyed but I'm more into Yuri or Shoujoai and I'm glad that we have more Yuri/BL in mainstream manga/anime now, vanilla just doesn't excite me as much
"Should we make a video about CLAMP?"
YES
I'd love a video about yuri, it's a great genre and although it doesn't have the same traction as yaoi (from what I know, at least), I think's really important in anime/manga culture.
@Poisonous Nightcore Oh, I know it, but I haven't watched it yet. I recommend you a great short yuri manga called Maka-maka, it's yuri/smut/seinen. Tell me when you finish it!
Please do a video on the history of Clamp lol. As a non-het guy this was one of my favorite vids in ages.
I love Under Grand Hotel. Such a classic. Swordfish, lol. I had a bit of an initial challenge due to that name. I found it jarringly hilarious.
Love this!
Yes, please do a CLAMP video :)
Also, I'm saddened by the fact that TH-cam demonetize videos if they talk too much about "sex" ...
Can we continue the conversation on this? Can GITR compare and contrast yaoi/BL and yuri/GL? That would be really cool. And if you guys could talk about the history of bara as well and compare and contrast that to yaoi, maybe see if there’s a female equivalent of bara out there, idk. I also think that it would be really cool if GITR could talk about how the anime fandom reacts to yaoi/BL and yuri/GL.
Oh GOODNESS Under Grand Hotel. What a wild, wild ride.
Yes!!! A CLAMP episode would be amazing!
When she said BTS I choked in Korean
Haha
I honestly really appreciate yaoi. It exposed me to so much information I feel I never would have gotten though other means at the time. When I first found it it was trough love stage which I didn't know was a yaoi. I had a mild distaste for yaoi despite having no involvement prior and honestly that came from me having NO KNOWLEDGE of gay male relationships (or female) and I just thought it was kinda weird and sure ok... But it's not natural cause reproduction Yada Yada. (I was like 10) But honestly love stage was a huge eye opener to me as like.... A gateway and It just opened up a whole thing and gave me positive emotions related to the whole other people being gay thing. Also abt consent and relationship in some of those mangas because As a tomboy I avoided romance like the plague (my ideas were a little warped when I was younger but as I figured out the good from the bad manga and explored into other relationship based media. it was improved.) I feel like it Exposed me to stuff before I could see it in only a negative light through the mainstream media like crossdressing and mild bdsm.
Idk I just feel it was one of the biggest shapers of my like "sexuality" (lmao sounds kinda gross but I feel much better for knowing about it earlier than later) and sexual knowledge (which of corse I expanded I didn't only learn from yaoi that wouldn't be good.) it literally taught me how sex worked like wtf. (I know with guys it's different it just gave me the extra steps before "and then babies "). I mean there is some stuff out there that really isn't positive and I can't say that this would be a good experience for other 10yr olds by ANY means but I really wanna emphasise that. I just really feel it was an important part of my history and still influences me.
(Random yaoi/fujoshi tid bits skip if you want it's just random related stuff
-I hate the ciel X Sebastian pairing I've always felt it was unnatural and didn't apply to their actual personalities and dynamics and I refused to consume media like that. But I shipped ereri so like who the heck am I to judge.
-koisuru boukun was the first piece of media to make me cry god that stuff got to me an I related so hard to Souichi I'm not even kidding even tho he's an ass and 10/10 has some non consent stuff. It was mostly the not quite wanting to understand his feelings and so just denying them but giving in.
- I 👏 hate 👏 all 👏but 👏 very 👏 specific 👏 omegaverse 👏 stories. Either the alpha's are overly aggressive and cave way too easy and do the bad. Or the omega's are bitchy or whimpy. OR LIKE JUST BEASTIALITY DEPENDING ON WHICH OMEGAVERSE NO THANKS. But there are some ones I really appreciate as being good despite how easy it it to make it trash. S/o to sayounara alpha. For actually having no non/semi consensual encounters yaaaaaaaaaay :D (if you complain about the age gap I'm gonna shove a remote controller up your ass please let me enjoy my media)
-oyaji yaoi (like with older men) is amazing and I need more I wish so bad there was more popularity with either, more mature relationships or age gaps. NAONO BOHRA I LOVE U.
-trashy yaoi is like really funny. Pointy Chins and yaoi hands huge d or really wack stories just make me crack every time .
Any way whatever just stuff glad it's getting more coverage, good and bad. )