When there was an idea to bring back the BL con in the Philippines, my first suggestion was that we should have a fan anthology. It seems to be the thing nowadays. At tumblr, there’s countless of fan anthologies going up: from Avengers to Sherlock, and even some for original works. We know that there…
I have this horrible habit of figuring out the lives of people I see when I’m traveling. I love to do this in airports since people hold many stories in such a small space. A woman walks by, clutching her Berkin bag. Probably a trophy wife of some Asian business magnate and she just arrived…
Can you believe that Boy’s Love comics has been around for more than 40 years? One would think that Shounen Ai, Yaoi, Boy’s Love is just a passing fancy among girls but its continued influence not only in Japanese otaku subculture but in the global subculture shows the power of the genre. Yes. Yaoi is…
Fujoshi. Fujojo. There’s no denying that I am all of this. It’s already in my blood. I don’t think I can ever unsee life without fujoshi lenses and I must confess that my fujoshi vision has given me nothing but pleasure in life. Until, that strange awkward moment when you’re introduced to an esteemed colleague…
Why, aren’t I quite hardworking today? I’ve got some spare time in my hands, so I thought I’d share some fun news for the wicked. I just caught on my feeds this morning and I saw that Opera No. 32 is coming with a new Nakamura Asumiko title called O.B. She’s doing the cover for…
Just where did January and February go?! I promised myself in my last spotlight that I will make a point in writing 12 spotlights for this year, but here I am in March writing my first spotlight! Que horror! That said, starting the spotlight again is a lot better than not ever continuing it at…
Yes! For once, I was not to busy to forget this very special day!! Fujoshis! Run amock! Go wild! Buy some lovely BL and snicker behind every nasty page you’re reading! You deserve it! Over the last year, I’ve also crossed a fun fujoshi who I don’t mind pimping to everyone. If you guys haven’t…
I believe I’ve been told by one of my advisers that I shouldn’t write something that I’m obsessed about. Bias, after all, is one of the greatest sins in historical writing. It’s like a painted picture where everything is all right or all wrong and it’s hard to tell whether it’s the truth or not…
I write this spotlight today with a mildly sore leg as March started with a big bump… in more ways than one. I wonder if living life past a quarter of a century meant seeing your life in still panels with soft lines and endearing faces. Surely, my face was far from endearing, nor was…
I thought that this has got to be the funniest joke but it turns out, it was no joke at all. I’ve seen this being tweeted for some while but it wasn’t long until I finally saw the commercial for Shueisha’s new quarterly BL magazine (under its subsidiary Homesha), BL-ink. But don’t they have Weekly…