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Enjeru no Kage
Hello, peeps. This is where you can see what's going on in my head today, find out what's going on in my life (not like anyone cares! lol), and where I can just hang my thoughts up for others to see. Check it out!
Okay, does it piss you off?
Because it really gets under my skin.

Okay, so you go into a bookstore looking for (as many of my subscribers do, I hope) the manga collection. You can generally find anything you're looking for -- shojo, shonen, mecha, mahō shōjo, moé, you name it. But the main thing you'll find upon browsing the manga section in any bookstore is *fanfare! da da da daa da daa daaa!* Yaoi!

Ugh. You don't know how mad it makes me.

I've asked people what their motivation is behind reading yaoi, and they say it's because it's cute. Yeah, I suppose that's true, even if it's not my cup of tea, and even if it gets to the graphic dude-dude sexuality portrayed in FAKE vol. 7.

But the market has been flooded with it. It's making me mad. The manga I typically can't wait to get -- Trigun, Blame!, even silly stuff like Tuxedo Gin! -- we only get a couple of copies of that... because the rest of he manga shipment is yaoi.

I can understand a series or two here and there, but it's taking over manga! The decent manga authors stay far from it -- I haven't seen Clamp so much as refer to it, Yasuhiro Nightow acts like it doesn't exist -- but there it is, big, ugly, and growing. FAKE, But I'm Your Teacher, Because I'm A Boy, Our Kingdom, Man's Best Friend, yuck. Too much. A little is cute.

And if we have so much yaoi because it's cute, WHY do we have NO yuri? I don't mean to sound perverted, but love affairs between girls should be every bit as cute as love affairs between guys, right? It doesn't have to be hentai, but the market is unbalanced.

No. No more. I officially hate yaoi.

You know what bookstores do with books that won't sell or books they have too much stock of? They rip the covers off, send the covers back to the publisher as credit for new books, take what's left, rip it up further, then throw it in the compactor for the betterment of the local landfill. Trust me. I work at Waldenbooks.

I'm the one that got to rip up Poison Cherry Drive... xd


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  • User Comments: [7]
    I love yaoi simply because it's a show of dominance to me. Guy + Guy = Whee! Simply because I view a male as a symbol of power... Like any other sadist I love power. Needless to say the fight to be top dog is thrilling to me and therefore I like yaoi... Not because it's cute. And yes... There should be more yuri.

    comment Namida no Akira · Community Member · Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 05:19pm
    sry i wish i could help you get rid of all those books. but i like shojo

    comment mizuki_schyler · Community Member · Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 06:58pm
    I draw shojo! But, In my opinion I'm not very good.

    comment Namida no Akira · Community Member · Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 05:20pm
    i wish i could draw... ha ha stick people rule....

    comment mizuki_schyler · Community Member · Thu Feb 15, 2007 @ 07:30am
    n_n If only you could see one of my friends flash videos 4laugh It's awesome.

    comment Namida no Akira · Community Member · Thu Feb 15, 2007 @ 04:12pm
    Stick figure flashes ROCK... I luffles the stick people and their sporky idiocy!

    comment duir ancient · Community Member · Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 03:09pm
    Yuppers! LOL It was two stick people fighting and the bad guy won! It was great.

    comment Namida no Akira · Community Member · Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 05:21pm
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