recommend yaoi and shounen-ai

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:47 pm

Can't believe noone's mentioned Fake yet. The anime adaptation was decent, but the manga was extremely good. The character development is by far some of the best I've come across yet.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:23 pm

IcyCloud wrote:Can't believe noone's mentioned Fake yet. The anime adaptation was decent, but the manga was extremely good. The character development is by far some of the best I've come across yet.

Yeah, I have this one but I haven't read the manga and the animation style puts me off. ^_^;;

Still yaoi, comedy/drama - a strange mix. I was thinking more anime than manga, though. If she's interested in manga, I could rec some that were never done in anime format.

/and sorry, Neko, I don't download anime, my connection is too slow so I wouldn't know anything about that. ^_^;; But you're not allowed to ask where you can download anime on this forum, anyway, so it's a moot point - check the 'Site Announcements' and you'll see the forum rules. >.>

Dark Rabbit · Post by **Dark Rabbit** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:51 pm

I think the most soft ones that arnt mentiond...

DNangel
GetBackers
Aishiteruze Baby ( Just a cute anime..)

Neko116 · Post by **Neko116** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:37 am

yeah, yeah i know the rulz..... but honestly fansubbing is beneficial for the industry. That way more people know about it, and if they like it they buy it.... not that it makes it right of course. And to calim i am not just wanting to know this for the obvious reasons, i am also basically broadening my anime knowledge bank....

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:41 am

I don't dig yaoi (or any hardcore), but for shounen-ai I have to recommend:

* Fake-the-manga: the animation puts me off, too, but I love the manga to pieces. It's cute, funny, fanservicey as hell, and available at mainstream bookstores everywhere.

It's about a pair of NYC detectives who are partners on the beat but manage to end up making out precisely once per issue, despite holding off their Giant Unspoken Lurve until the very very last issue.

It's really very cute, and there's an adorable subplot about one of the guys' adopted son and his girlfriend. Recommended. Yes. 7 issues long. All are already out in the US, I believe.

Oh, and Fake isn't yaoi, which is probably why the combination sounds weird - it's an action-comedy-drama-romance-this isn't helping, is it. But only the last book has any actual action, the rest is just UST and endless, endless last-scene parades of "I'll let him kiss me even though I'm insisting I'm straight, really." Most of the stories are about their detectively cases and finding excuses to have them rescue each other from peril.

* Yami no Matsuei, released in English as Descendants of Darkness. Undead bishounen fight demons, form Very Special Friendship, fend off oversexed serial killer. Of course if you don't like a little bit of gore and a whole lot of angst, this isn't for you, but it's one of my favorites. More so than Gravitation, actually. And it's only a 13-episode series, so it's not that expensive. 4 discs. Central Park Media. The manga may be out here someday, but it hasn't been announced yet.

And I haven't seen Weiss Kreuz or Saiyuki, but they have giant followings among a similar fanbase. - correction, I saw a little bit of Saiyuki, so I would recommend that. It's not shounen-ai, but there's subtext everywhere and there's a very large slashy following.

Oh! Hey, I remember a list page now.

Of course... these folks, they run Yaoicon and are the big kahunas of Western yaoi fandom yadda yadda. If you are redirected, it's Visitors > Resources > AMLA's Reading Guide for the Perplexed. It lists scads of titles from there.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:42 am

Neko116 wrote:yeah, yeah i know the rulz..... but honestly fansubbing is beneficial for the industry.

ONLY if you are downloading series that have not been licensed yet, please let's not start that fight in this thread too...

Neko116 · Post by **Neko116** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:49 am

to clear things up when i said i wanted to know which was hardcore and which was softcore i was trying to imply that i wanted more the softcore stuff....

Neko116 · Post by **Neko116** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:44 pm

for example- i liked gravitation. also needed: fanservice!!!!!!!!

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:04 pm

Neko116 wrote:for example- i liked gravitation. also needed: fanservice!!!!!!!!

Magic Users Club - I think it ends up being non-yaoi, but in the first few eps the cute guy hits on his 'straight' friend in the most adorable ways. Unfortunately reading the dvd cases for the latter episodes makes me think he ends up with a girl later on, so I never finished the series.

There really aren't many 'upbeat' shonen ai anime. They tend to be angsty (Psychic Force, Yu Yu Hakusho, Kasho no Tsuki, Tokyo Babylon, Yami no Matsuei), or just mellow/sweet and mixed into larger anime (Magic Knight Rayearth, Card Captor Sakura).

Now, some of those angsty series *do* have cute parts mixed in - Yami no Matsuei (now titled 'Descendents of Darkness') has some *adorable* parts mixed into the angst. 'Earthian' also has some cute sections in with the drama. But a glaring majority of yaoi and shonen ai anime is angsty, that's just the way it is. And from what I've heard of Gravitation, it has angst as well - so even it isn't just fun cute stuff (it's just cuter than most).

Fake is funny, and the drama/angst in that short anime isn't really about the relationship, so it barely counts. It's just the animation style that keeps me from watching it (those curved eyes like you get in Saiyuki - it takes some getting used to if you prefer wide-eyed bishonen).

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:35 pm

Arigatomyna wrote:Magic Users Club - Unfortunately reading the dvd cases for the latter episodes makes me think he ends up with a girl later on, so I never finished the series.

Aww, Ari, you oughta finish that one. It really gets good in the later episodes. And there's still plenty of those type of attempts, which are a constant source of humor.

On topic though, Neko, if you want one with less-serious shonen ai bits, you could check out the Sorcerer Hunters OAV (there's none in the TV series though). Milfeuille hits on Carrot constantly, and Carrot's not exactly thrilled about it.