No.3433[View All]
let's bring this thread back, last thread was
>>1060Tasogare out of focus is getting an anime adaptation soon, i've only read the first volume but i remember it being cute, what current series are you fujos interested in?
No.6740
>>6738Going through summer seasonals really exemplified to me the lack of fujobait nowadays. I just randomly went to Summer 2014 and there was Tokyo Ghoul, Free, BB, K Project, Love Stage, and DMMD. That was probably just a crazy season but still, damn.
No.6752
I just bought train tickets and a ticket for Japan Expo to hopefully meet Ogeretsu Tanaka. Pray for me because there's a limited number of tickets for fans who want to meet her and get something signed by her and trains here suck and are always later if they work, for once. I'll bring my 3DS with me, if French anons have one and want to meet me on streetpass by the way, I completed almost all the puzzles.
No.6757
>>6752Please post photos once you're back!
No.6766
>>6757I'll see if I can take interesting pictures! However I planned to go there on Friday and she will get interviewed and explain her job on Saturday so I'll that.
No.6785
Trope I hate: one guy magically turns into a child, his love interest has to take care of him
Trope I love: two guys magically switch bodies
No.6817
Can someone recommend throuple works? Preferably one where the MC isn't picking between the two of them at the end. I don't care for the format, manga/manhwa/novel is all fine.
No.6824
>>6810> I think it's weird and I also don't like kidsAnd it feels almost like shotacon.
>when this happened with 2HA it nearly made me DNF the bookSame thoughts! It was so unnecessary. I didn't find it cute at all.
>I love two characters having to walk through each other's shoes and learn stuff about each other!If they still have sex in their swapped bodies, is it self-cest?
No.6826
>>6824It is pretty much shotacon. The difference is that its seen simply as another gimmick like putting a character in a maid dress.
No.6840
>>6785>Trope I hate: one guy magically turns into a child, his love interest has to take care of himI'll forgive this if it's badfic written by an obvious tween—to them it's a perfect fusion of cute babies and chaste romance, and a thirteen year old probably doesn't get exactly why it's as disturbing as it is. But I think it's really creepy when adults write it. It's shotacon, but almost worse, because it's sort of slyly trying to not be shotacon at the same times. It feels almost like EPI.
No.6841
>>6840>But I think it's really creepy when adults write it. Isn't it? Even if there is 0 innuendo, you just know the purpose is shotacon fanservice, otherwise why include it? If the creator wanted a childcare subplot cause 'children = cute', they would introduce a random kid the couple has to take care of for a while (like a relative, a lost/abandoned child, a brat from the neighbourhood etc.).
No.6845
>>6840>>6841Kek when I first read saw that post I thought 'I like that trope because it feels like fanservice for shotafags like me'… Though I always assumed normal people wouldn't see it this way. I'm kind of glad you are saying this and it's not only my degen delusions
No.6849
>>6771There will be a new heatwave when I'll go to Paris and on top of that I've been a bit sick for a few days and my period will probably start the same day I'll go to Paris for this year's Japan Expo, I'll see if I can still go because I already paid for the train tickets but this is worrying me a little. On top of that there are more guests I'd like to see as well on Friday and depending on the timing, this could be difficult for me to see everyone. Noeve invited Kotteri and will release the last volumes of Veil in French, I'd like to meet her as well and get something signed but these fuckers decided to make both the morning and afternoon schedules at the exact same time as Ogeretsu Tanaka for their meet and greet. It's like they're doing it on purpose. There's also Yusuke Kozaki who said in his own twitter account that he will come to Japan Expo but nothing was officially announced so I'm not too worried. If everything goes as planned I can meet all three of them, otherwise I'll probably prioritize Ogeretsu Tanaka.
No.6851
>>6849Best of luck, anon! Don't die there!
No.6871
>>6841I don't give a shit about some new random kid though. I give a shit about what a character I know and like was like as a child, especially if there's a gap between how they are now and then. It's learning something else about them.
>>6849Take it easy, nona. Don't push yourself to do everything, even one or two things are more than not going.
No.6896
>>6871>I give a shit about what a character I know and like was like as a child, especially if there's a gap between how they are now and then. It's learning something else about them.This could be easily achieved by any other writing device, like shared/recorded memories, flashbacks, 'going back to the past' etc. No need to introduce shota fanservice.
No.6904
>>6896>>6841I wouldn’t care either way but usually when I see this trope it’s not shota-like at all. It’s like that trope where one gets transformed into an animal or vice versa. It’s just a silly situation to put the characters through.
No.6906
>>6896I'm not a shotacon and dislike shota but I like the trope… Especially when it's a significantly older character who gets turned into a kid, letting the younger characters take care of him. Just a silly situation that I honestly wouldn't include in a story, just a fun short scenario to think about.
No.6932
>>6851>>6871I can finally post about Japan Expo without my laptop exploding from the heat. I only went there for one day, I wasn't sick anymore by then so it wasn't too bad. I couldn't do as many things as planned. I couldn't meet Ogeretsu Tanaka after all because the number of people who could meet her was limited to 100 per day and her fans on Friday most likely paid a fast pass ticket instead of a regular ticket to start the con at 9am instead of 9:45 just to make sure they could buy her stuff and get in line on time. One of publishing company employee in the booth told me it was already too late but I could come back tomorrow which was not possible because no way in hell I'm paying for expensive train tickets and an expensive convention ticket at the last minute just to maybe have a chance at getting something signed. So I decided to only buy two manga:
>Filled by Twilight volume 2, which I haven't read yet because I forgot what the first volume is about so I'll read that one again first>Lullaby of the Dawn volume 6, which was okay I guess but I'm still a bit annoyed that the plot twist is that the island is located in our world. I wanted it to be a series taking place in another world entirelyThey're new releases and sequels to series I already started and will only be available elsewhere in a few weeks. I didn't see myself carrying lots of books I could buy later in a bookstore when I needed to take the train back home later that day.
However I managed to get an autograph by Kotteri so that's cool, even if it was still as horribly organized as in 2022 and I had to insist like 10 times because the employees kept forgetting to give me the ticket.
Don't ask for pictures, I somehow forgot to take any and they were forbidden the few times I wanted to take photos. No.6933
>>6932At least you survived the heat. Was there any Q&A session with the mangaka?
No.6934
>>6933There was one, but yesterday, so on Saturday. And I only went to Japan Expo on Friday so I missed it. I was really hesitating between going on Friday and Saturday and I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg on a hotel room but I picked Friday thinking there would be less people (wrong according to people going all four days) and to see things related to Persona because the Atlus guests were only in Paris the first two days. Now I kind of regret not taking both days because I really doubt recording the panel with Ogeretsu Tanaka was allowed and I bet the only ones who will talk about it will be these cliquey influencers who exclusively post super long disorganised podcasts about BL released in France.
No.6941
>>6934>I really doubt recording the panel with Ogeretsu Tanaka was allowed and I bet the only ones who will talk about it will be these cliquey influencers who exclusively post super long disorganised podcastsThis sucks… I don't like podcasts much myself. Why can't people just write things down? It's so much quicker to process.
No.6942
>>6941I don't know, I miss old school blogs with mostly texts and a few pictures here and there. Now we have random people talking for 1h30 in a row on video and they go off topic for half of the video but not in just one section of the video so it quickly becomes a waste of time. And it's not like you and I can watch videos anytime, I often read stuff on my phone when commuting to work or even anywhere else, but I never do that with videos because it's just not convenient.
No.6985
>>6980Maybe to gauge interest for future localizations/translations/etc?
Tbh I can't think of any actual reason. I imagine the foreign fujos that can read and buy BL in japanese are more likely to also write their thoughts, at least on ChilChil, in japanese.
No.6990
>>6985Wouldn't reading reviews and checking scores on MangaUpdates be more reliable? And seeing what's getting fan-translated and how it's received on Mangadex?
No.7036
I'm going through all my BL manga today or tomorrow to see if I will get rid of some of them so gain more space at home. I already did that with BL manga I didn't enjoy all that much last year I think, since then I mostly bought series and not one shots so I'm not sure I'm going to sell anything but we never know.
No.7044
>>7036Sell the ones that fetch the highest price.
No.7047
>>7036donate them to your local library to inspire the next generation of fujos
No.7051
>>7049Since when did Japan start doing black guy yaoi?
No.7053
>>7051>>7052I think it's rare. You can check the
>Interracial Couple/s tag with Yaoi -
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series?category=Interracial+Couple%2Fs&perpage=50&genre=YaoiThough there is a surprising amount of 'Arabian prince' scenarios.
No.7054
Ogeretsu Tanaka just posted a vlog about her trip to France and Japan Expo. I'm still mad I missed her because I have the audacity of not living near Paris and not being able to go to the con with a fast pass ticket. I also have no idea how she managed to go to Mont Saint-Michel during a historical heatwave without passing out but she must have had the AC in her hotel room, good for her if that was the case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evAGsHUp2Sg>>7047Libraries around me have too many books and refuse donations. I sent the biggest one of them an email about if they could maybe purchase the sequel of a manga they already have and they said they have too many ongoing series to start new series, even if it's a sequel so I won't get my hopes up. I already put a few books and DVDs of non BL stuff in these small library boxes in my city but I don't see myself doing this with nsfw BL manga because I don't want random kids to grab them, since they're often located near parks or primary schools.
>>7044I checked and almost everything I could get rid off sells for cheap online because they're not out of print yet. I have to see with my usual bookstore if they can just buy my books instead.
No.7055
>>7053>arabianGeneric dark skinned with white hair and middle eastern fantasy men are as vanilla as you can get.
It's actual black guys with black features that aren't minstrel level that's surprising.
No.7058
>>7056It was alright, art style is cute, I just wish the transfer student was the uke…
No.7059
>>7056this looks cute
>>7057Seeing black characters get any content from Japanese artists is always great because they aren't trying to do that tumblr face thing and make them extra black. They draw them as they are without trying to win imaginary epoints. I thought Prowler Miles was a girl the first time I saw him, surprised no one has leaned into that. AND a mama's boy who's a massive autismo nerd.
No.7061
>>7057Black Panther had a fandom too, and there is the odd guy from Pokemon but mostly Raihan like
>>7060 mentions.
No.7064
>>7062Good question. I guess now we know why our beloved BL manga get one new volume per year at best.