I want Yuri goddammit!

The Hitokiri Battousai · Post by **The Hitokiri Battousai** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:32 pm

)v(ajin Koji wrote:ahhh! the unmistakable smell of.......capitalism!

it's quite refreshing isn't it?

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:43 pm

smells like McDonalds...

The Hitokiri Battousai · Post by **The Hitokiri Battousai** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:18 pm

)v(ajin Koji wrote:smells like McDonalds...

Tastes like burning

ryuu_hime13 · Post by **ryuu_hime13** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:58 pm

The Hitokiri Battousai wrote:
Nestorath69 wrote:Hey, not to spam, but isn't yuri and yaoi overrated? Just think that looking at animated girls/guys getting it on is a little... dumb. I mean, isn't that what porn is for? I mean, seriously, you guys get off on cartoon nipples and stuff like that?
my thoughts exactly

Why post on a yaoi/yuri thread if you're opposed to it?

The Hitokiri Battousai · Post by **The Hitokiri Battousai** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:00 pm

i'm not publicly oppossing it to till then but it wasn't a rant. Hey if you like it, more power to you....

if you noticed I havn't at all bashed Yuri/Yaoi?Hentai at all like I usually do

ryuu_hime13 · Post by **ryuu_hime13** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:05 pm

I don't really classify yaoi/yuri relationships with hentai because yaoi/yuri usually has romance, unlike hentai, which is pretty much just cartoon porn.

TaintedYouth · Post by **TaintedYouth** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:08 pm

Yuri and yaoi. Thouse are hentai...they mean girl on girl and guy on guy action. I was informed that Shounen-ai. Thats the loveing relationship that everyone is saying yaoi is. I can't rember what the girl and girl relationship thing is called though.

ryuu_hime13 · Post by **ryuu_hime13** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:19 pm

TaintedYouth wrote:Yuri and yaoi. Thouse are hentai...they mean girl on girl and guy on guy action. I was informed that Shounen-ai. Thats the loveing relationship that everyone is saying yaoi is. I can't rember what the girl and girl relationship thing is called though.

That would be yuri...it includes sex, but that's not what it's all about. Hentai is just porn.

TaintedYouth · Post by **TaintedYouth** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:26 pm

OOOOOOO. So yuri would be sex and a relationship plot. Makes sense now.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:49 pm

TaintedYouth wrote:OOOOOOO. So yuri would be sex and a relationship plot. Makes sense now.

Look at it this way. When you talk about a genre of males in love with each other (emotions - shonen ai), you can't mention anything physical unless you classify it as yaoi (sex = physical attraction). So the two go hand in hand when talking about romantic *and* physical relationships. If you just talk about shonen ai - then you're just talking about emotions. But you can't assume that yaoi is sex alone - it can include emotions as well, making it both yaoi *and* shonen ai.

Shonen ai = romantic love
Yaoi = physical love which may or may not include romantic love

Imagine Het (hetero, hetorosexual - the male/female pairings) anime. The classifications are:
Romance = romantic love which may or may not include physical attraction
Hentai = gratuitous sex

You can have Romance without including hentai with het pairings because that's the way the genre is set up. But with yaoi or yuri - to make the names even better at warning away homophobes, you do things backwards. You have Shonen ai instead of Romance - but excluding anything physical. For the anime with both emotions and physical attraction, it falls under yaoi with an inclusion of shonen ai.

I don't know how else to explain it....You can't call an anime where two people kiss shonen or shoujo ai because kissing is linked to physical attraction which is in turn linked to sex. Those anime have to be yaoi, yuri, or het - physical as well as emotional.