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Likes:
Rave Master
Sieg Hart
Soma Cruz
Sieg Wahrheit
Castlevania
Good game reviews
Lovely girls
Fanservice girls
Good graphics
Nice effects
High-quality animation
Well-drawn manga
Good storyline

Dislikes:
People who hate Rave Master (go to hell, Rant Masters!!)
People who rant about it
People who reviews games relentlessly without playing it yet (damn you people who do these cheap stuff!!! You discourage gamers!!!)
Manga/Game/Anime with Mary Sueism and Gary Stueism
Poor Storyline
Poor Artwork
Animes not worth watching
Games not worth playing
Mangas not worth reading

Likes
Shoujo
Tamahome
Meroko
Full Moon Wo Sagashite
Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden
GIFs
Anime forums
anime music
good storys
character development
shounen/shoujo ai

hates
Yuuki
shounen that is repeditive
Taka**GRR
pervvy fanboys
annoying fangirls
illiterate anime fans
People who don't join my anime forums
n00bs
Inuyasha
Inuyasha
INUYASHA!

Likes.... Interesting plotlines...being made to think.... proper animation... good use of music....

Dislikes... a lot of CGI, especially when it tries to look like real people... bad translation... Golgo13....

oh, and likes.... dressing up as Asuka Langley Sohryu, even though I am sixteen stone and have a beard....

Likes:

Original Plots
-Somewhat depressing with muted background colors involving complex thought (Texhonolyze, Serial Experiments: Lain)
-Totally spastic and bizarre (Excel Saga, Puni Puni Poemy)
-If not an original storyline, at least some morbid, gory twists with a few nicely drawn weapons (Hellsing)


Music
-Weird, funky beats
-Choppy techno
-Suspensful, dark, and captivating...stuff
-Melodic, adding to the anime

Dislikes:

Bad C/G
-Zaion...Ai.... Enough said.

Distracting music

Westernized anime

Several others....

LIKES creativity of the ideas

DISLIKES non-creativity of the ideas and that NO ONE IS GOING TO MY DBZ THREAD

Just for discussion...whats wrong with shounen ai...don't tell me we have a hater on these forums. That ain't cool man..

Likes:
Sexy-red-heads-that-mister-topic-starter-imitates (by the honourable game company, Capcom!)
Fighting games
Good character design
Good storyline
Good soundtrack
Yaoi with a sexy red head ^_^

Dislikes:
Dramatic anime
Stupid stories
Boring anime
People who hate yaoi (because yaoi is a beautiful word ^_^, right?)
People who hate yuri (because yuri is a pretty word and it's between pretty girls)
Dancing bananas in the street like this ---> Eww!

I could do without companies that think releasing 27-volume manga at a rate of a volume every three months is somehow a good idea.

ummmm i have just started reading manga and the only thing ive read is inuyasha which i think is good but nthen again, i have nothing to compare it to

Heh, sorry about that. As far as I know it, shounen ai is yaoi minus the legal ages. I'm not into underage boys having sex. Now, if you're just talking about romance between two guys, I don't care. I'm just not interested in stories that focus mainly on shounen ai, or shoujo ai, or yaoi, or yuri, or just plain ai (it doesn't make it any better if it heterosexual either). For eample, I wouldn't be interested in Gravitation, but I don't mind X or Tokyo Babylon... And Sailor Moon's Haurka and Michiru don't bother me either, because the story just doesn't focus on their drama.

I hope that clears it up for you.

YAOI is an acronym for "YAmanashi" (no climax), Ochinashi (no punchline), Iminashi (no meaning). It's not a pretty word. YAOI was made for middle-aged women who were seeking some sort of escapism. Since female roles in Japan confine women, YAOI romances helped them fantasize being outside their female role. >_> That's why some of the guys look like women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri on Yuri... No one really knows where the name came from originally. I actually do love Utena, but I don't know if that actually counts.

So... yeah.

Likes :
Shaman King
DearS
Sister Princess
Ikki Tousen
Girls
Yaoi
Yuri
Anime Music
Artbooks

Dislikes :
INUYASHA!!!
Takao Kinomiya
Shaman King Haters
KAGOME HIGURASHI

Shounen ai is yaoi minus the explicit sex, at least in common American internet usage.

likes:
teh roxor art style.
teh aws0me3 giant robots.
warm fuzzy nezz of chibis.
free anime

dislikes:
creepy anime fangirls.
anime fans who think all men are "perrvy fanboys"
horrible dubs.
expensive manga

so that explains why hALF the guys in Yaoi look like women. sheesh, if I ever saw such a wimpy looking dude....it would not be pretty, lets leave it at that.

Like I had posted,...the term shounen-ai is not used as often in Japan; the wasei-eigo construction Boys Love (boizu rabu) but usually rendered as English, occasionally spelled Boy's Love or Boys' Love, or abbreviated BL) has largely displaced it, due to associations of the original term with pederasty or pedophilia (which were not borrowed into English usage). (This is doubly ironic, since the similar English term boylove has the exact meaning Boys Love was coined to avoid.)

What you said is like saying that you're an otaku but claiming that you mean it in a good way. Even though when otaku is used to mean other than your home, it's derogatory.

Shounen ai isn't as hard core... You're right about that. But how many manga are going to show 12-year-old boy couples having sex with each-other? And how many YAOI doujinshi do have uneraged sex scenes in them? Hmm? Common American Internet usage? What you mean to say is that as far as you know, yaoi isn't inappropriate... If you want to talk about American Internet usage and boys love, you should be calling it "slash" instead... Which is the English word for the fandom.

Now, just look at this site and try to say that YAOI doesn't also encompass sexually explicit boy and boy and sometimes in bad cases underage boy on man action. http://www.boysonboysonfilm.com/news/ Don't try to argue with me just because I don't like YAOI. I have friends who are into slash and even though I don't like it, I don't tell them not to read or watch it. I don't like porn either, but I'm not going to try to say that people shouldn't watch it.

I'm arguing with you because you're wrong. It's not quite the same thing. And you can stop trying to pretend that Wikipedia is some sort of end-all source because anybody can write anything in Wikepedia, and it will stay there unless someone cares enough to change it.

But since we're quoting other people's definitions and pretending it proves something, the definitions I'm using are from the Anime News Network.

OWNED!!

There's a school of thought that says if you don't have anything intelligent to say, you should remain quiet. Then, there's the Robo-Chocobo school.

Lest I be accused of hypocracy, I'll include another, on-topic comment; if shounen ai isn't hard-core (as Saber_Apricot admits), and if yaoi is just shounen ai with underage participants (as Saber_Apricot) claims, than what, exactly, is all the hard-core stuff without underage guys? Saber_Apricot has relegated it to some sort of undefined limbo with her definitions.

As a side-note, the Japanese age of consent can be as low as thirteen in some parts of Japan. I just thought that people should be aware of this before they try to use it in their definitions.

Hmm... I guess I wasn't very clear. Okay... Hardcore guy on guy manga without under aged boys is "YAOI," but YAOI can sometimes include under aged sex and/or rape. Some of them can be pretty graphic. >_> I guess a good example of something hardcore would be the section of YAOI manga that I saw in the honya (bookstore), within the Nagasakiya by the Obihiiro train station. One YAOI manga cover had a man in bondage, bent over with some type of sex toy shoved up his ass... There was blood too. I thought that I was going to go blind. (>_&lt In Japan, they don't cover up books if there's explicit stuff on the covers.

Other example is this link ...Don't look if you don't want to see a guy and guy sex scene.

Well, I could just tell you that I know a good amount about manga and I did live in Japan for half a year, so I have seen sections of graphic manga. Also, some of my friends have been or are still into YAOI and I have look through some doujinshi and manga.

You know, I looked at Anime News Network post on shounen-ai and it said basically the same thing, but it was less detailed:

The Japanese words "shounen" and "ai" individually mean "boy" and "love," which is exactly what shounen-ai means, boy-love. It refers to anime and manga that focus on love and romance (as opposed to sex) between boys or men (typically bishounen).

Some shounen-ai is pornographic but much of it is not. Examples of shounen-ai include Gravitation, Seimaden, Earthian, and Mirage of Blaze.

Of late, it has become increasingly popular in North America for shounen-ai titles to be labelled "yaoi," both by fans and distributors. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=26

So, I don't know why you're complaining about Wikepedia's definition...

Saber_Apricot please be careful with links like those. There were a couple of pics that are 18+ hentai.

ewww guy on guy sex.

Sorry, WinDancer... >_> I shouldn't have posted that link.

No harm done.

btw-Very interesting and excellent posts. You've done great research on the subject.

agreed.

I don't know if it's real research. I've been buying manga for quite some time... >_> You learn a lot of stuff and meet a lot of weird people when you're into something like anime and manga. I guess it would be the same if I was a Star Trek fan or something.