801. Yaoi. Boy’s Love. Tanbi. Shounen-Ai. BL. Pr0n.
Call it whatever you want.
Fujoshi. Fudanshi. Fujojo.
Call us whatever you want.
We probably wouldn’t care because all we know is that 8/01 is our special day and here in Otaku Champloo we’ll be celebrating a fiesta for what we fujoshi love: Boys Love manga.
From 8/01 until 8/10 (OMG YES!) Otaku Champloo will be celebrating Boys Love manga with all you fujojos and curious bypassers out there. For ten days (FO REALS!), we’ll be talking about those comics where boys who like boys who do boys like they’re girls or like boys! Weâ’ll be talking about our favorite titles, our favorite ships, and our favorite kinks.
The 801 MMF will be a celebration of a genre that has been around for forty years and has given countless of women thousands of feels which eventually transformed manga conventions by producing works that challenge Japanese concepts of aesthetics, fiction, and sexuality.
It’s an exciting time to be a fujoshi! So if you have some thoughts and feels about Boy’s Love, feel free to join us in the 801 MMF!
BUT OMG, KHURSTEN! I have so many feels and thoughts about BL manga, can’t I just give you my entire website!
Worry not! I’ll do my best to contain your feels! In fact, here are the categories where you can contribute to the 801 MMF!
OUR BL FAVORITES
– Write a post about your top five favorite BL titles, the kind that you have double copies of just so you can lend it to people! Tell us why you love it and why other people should be reading it too. You can do this by titles or by authors!
OUR BL LIFE
– One of the things I’ve learned is BL has changed a lot of people. Throughout the years, BL’s transformative power has been studied by many people but nothing amazes us more than hearing the voices of fellow BL fans and their BL . Tell us your thoughts about BL: from your feels about kinks in BL manga, to the crazy fandoms, to the love and hate of fujoshis, and maybe just how BL has changed things in your life.
BL WEBCOMIC UPDATES
– We’re listing again our favorite BL Webcomics! And we want to hear from you your favorites that didn’t make it to last year’s BL webcomic list! <3 I have a few titles in mind but let’s see what you fujojos and fudanshis have found on the internet.
Throughout this week, I’ll be keeping up with your links while posting my own posts on BL too! Let’s share stories and hopefully encourage more fujoshi to get back into their BL habit!
Is my contribution a BL title?
The easiest solution is to look at the publisher. In the US you have Sublime and DMG who publish BL titles. If it’s in their roster, it’s definitely BL. Old publishers like Blu, Netcomics, and Aurora also sold BL titles!
If you’re sending in a review of a Japanese title, check the publishers. Anything by Libre is BL/yaoi in nature. Asuka, Akaneshinsha, Tokyo Mangasha, Shodensha (particularly their On Blue line), are also BL.
It becomes tougher if you want to tackle classic BL manga. According to the Fujoshi manga issue of Eureka, titles that tackle homosexuality by the Year 24 group are considered BL. In the 1980s, titles by Akimi Yoshida such as California Monogatari, Banana Fish and Yasha are also runners for BL. Even Yun Kouga’s Loveless is a BL classic.
If you tell me that Kuroko no Basuke and Tenipuri should be here, well no. We’ll leave that for another event! 
Hold it, Fujojo! There’s more!
In celebration of this fiyaysta, I’ll also be giving away 8 special BL books to fans. One of them can serve as a fujoshi’s lethal weapon! So watch out over the next few days on how you guys will get to have a chance to win some lovelies from me!
Okay, my body’s ready!
Join us in this 801MMF by using the #801MMF hashtag on tumblr and twitter or by sending me an e-mail with the subject [801 MMF – name of category (if applicable)] at punkednoodle-at-gmail.com. Follow me on twitter, @khursten, and tag me if you’ve posted something!
So stand up, fujojo! Our battle will commence soon!
Entries during the 801mmf
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#801MMF: All good things must come to an end
The fiyaysta is winding down and alas, the party comes to an end. But if you will allow me, I’d like to sum up the last hurrahs for this party. Sarah shares her review of Rihito Takarai & Venio Tachibana’s Seven Days. Anna looks into Est Em’s Red Blinds the Foolish. While Melinda and Michelle…
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Winrars for #801MMF
Well, you fujojos fought long and hard! I learned so much about you guys and didn’t think reverse kinks were quite popular! But I truly appreciate it, I really do. You’ve made this week really fun and we had a chance to discover a lot about BL, didn’t we? ANYWAY! On to the winrars!
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#801MMF – 2013 BL Webcomic Rec List
I called and you delivered! You never disappoint me, fujoshi. And here are your recommended BL Webcomics for this year. It’s a really great mix from people all over the world, so have fun ladies! Make sure you keep your web browsers busy!
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#801MMF – Fujojocast no. 1: Not enough BL in the world!
Right-o! Put three fujojos in a room and they talk about pr0n. Even in a skype chatroom. For the 801 MMF, I’m happy to share some time with Anne Lee from Chic Pixel and Jocelyne Allen from Brain vs. Book to talk about something close to our hearts: Boy’s Love Manga Anne Lee’s translated a…
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#801MMF – The BL Fiyaysta Continues
So, hello! How are you, Fujojo? Are you still partying hard? Well, we won’t be stopping until the MMF ends, so yeah! In case you’re late in the party, here’s some things that people have been bringing to this fiyaysta! Sarah has been quite a hard partyer and she has added some more things past…
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#801MMF Review – Koketsu Dining
If Tiger Mask had a BL, it would have been like this. A young man comes to his new home and meets his roommate who wears a tiger mask all day long (and even in his bath!)
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#801MMF: My top 5 kinks
Fujojos, I know how hard it was to ask you what your favorite kinks are. Because while you guys were writing your answers, I’ve been writing mine. Even as I write this, I’m also thinking of other things that I like. But in general, if titles have these kinks, I’d most likely love these titles.…
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#801MMF – So what do you think of these kinks?
Okay! So, some enthusiastic artists  sent in their entries and they’re amazing and quite varied! There are others in the comments section which is still ongoing, but with the kinks drawn closed, it’s time to ask what you guys think about these kinks. By the way, at the end of this is a poll asking…
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#801MMF: The Fiyaysta So Far
HAH! And you fujojos thought you’re safe in your quiet little holes, mumbling naughty sounds uke make while they’re getting pummeled by their seme. Oh wait… you don’t do that!?! You should! It’s a very liberating experience as a fujoshi and I personally find it educational in your learning of Japanese. However these fujojos seem…
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#801MMF: What is Boy’s Love Manga (BL)?
“What is BL?” A question I ask fujoshi who I meet here and there. “Schmex,” is always the immediate answer that often comes with an almost mischievous laugh. “Boy’s Love and everything that comes in between” is the most straightforward answer. “Is that the same as yaoi,” another would ask. “That’s the girly stuff, isn’t…
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801 MMF: Happy Yaoi no Hi!
Ladies and gents! I’m happy to announce that finally the 801 Manga Moveable Feast is officially open! 😀 As host of this month’s MMF, I would like to invite all you enthusiastic fujoshi with so many feels to participate in this BL manga feast! Or, you can also join the contests in the website: name…
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#801MMF Giveaway No. 2: Name your kinks
Fujojos, wat do? I’ve been stuck in a limbo trying to find some few titles to write about without knowing, what do you fujojos exactly want? Well other than SCHMEX, I know you fujojos can get specific. A kink meme is a litany to our needs thus here I am asking, what are your favorite…
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#801MMF Giveaway No. 1: We want new webcomics!
I’ve done this last year and we’re doing this again! 😀 Last year was so much fun and with all your recs, all of us spent some sweet time reading those awesome BL recs. But we know that that there’s more out there. And there’s more that we haven’t read. As such, I’m putting up…