In Eureka’s Fujoshi Manga Compendium, there’s this interesting section where they list down the things a fujoshi must read.　They called it the Fujoshi Manga Bible.  I thought it’d be best to share the list down here for fujoshi to check what these women think are titles that we fujojos must read. I’ll also try to append what’s available in English!
Year: 2013
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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 it?” One girl would comment which often sparks a discussion on what really makes Boys’ Love.
Boys’ Love is a term many fujoshi are familiar with yet one that easily confounds them. At times, I wonder, if it’s something we fujoshi have taken for granted. Simply because nothing is as clear as Boys’ Love manga. But at the same time, it’s a term that non-Japanese fans haven’t warmed up to.
Most of us still use yaoi and we often use the two interchangeably. Yaoi is to BL. BL is to yaoi. That fact that the English wikipedia redirects Boy’s Love to their yaoi page is telling how, outside of Japan, yaoi has better recall. And honestly, I thought for the longest time that this was the case at least until I’ve started reading some essays on BL only to find its parallels and differences.
It seems that there’s more to BL than just yaoi. And yaoi is a different animal compared to BL.
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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 your kinks or name new webcomics. The prizes are, of course, lovely.
Ash is also giving away a Shiuko Kano BL Collection, so don’t miss out, all right?
It’s a crazy party this 8/01!! Â Let’s have a fun fiyaysta celebrating this Yaoi no Week! 😀
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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 kinks in BL manga?
If you give me an answer, I’ll give you a reward.
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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 the polls again and pooling all your powers so that we can make a 2013 BL Webcomic Rec List! 😀
How to join?
Simply reply in the comments section below or tweet @khursten in twitter with the hashtag #801BLwebrec. You can also use the same hashtag in tumblr (or you can reblog my tumblr post with your answer)Â
Like last year, Â I’ll be giving away a copy of my favorite comic from last year’s list: Tripping Over You’s The Blue Book & Love Bites to a randomly selected contributor to this list! The contributor can write down as many webcomics as he/she likes however he/she will only receive 1 entry in the raffle.Â
The contest will run from today, 24 July 2013 until 5 August 2013 at 12:00 a.m. (EST/NEW York). That would probably be 2 p.m. in Sydney on 6 August or 12 p.m. in Manila.
So bring in your recs! Make sure that they haven’t been recc’d before! Check the previous list!
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801 MMF: A Fujojo Fiyaysta!
801. Yaoi. Boy’s Love. Tanbi. Shounen-Ai. BL. Pr0n.Â
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: Boy’s Love manga.
From 8/01 until 8/10 (OMG YES!) Otaku Champloo will be celebrating Boy’s 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! We’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!
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#27: Takemitsu Zamurai
Sometimes, it takes a well-paced story and some mad swishes of a brush to make me feel excited over an age old feudal tale. Eifuku Issei and Taiyou Matsumoto’s has a masterpiece with Takemitsu Zamurai.
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#26: Sex Nanka Kyoumi Nai
3 a.m. The lights are off. The airport is still.
A quiet light softens my silhouette over by my bed. These days, it’s my tablet. The light only goes as far as hilighting my face and a book which I’m wildly flipping with great fervor.
At that time of night, I’m only reading one thing. At that time of night, I want things hard, heated, ruthless, and maybe a little cute. While I have my usual staples of authors to read, for this one night, I grabbed Sex Nanka Kyoumi Nai, hoping I’d have something crazy.
As usual, I thought wrong. When was I ever right about manga?
(Note: images after the cut may be NSFW)Â
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#25: Utsubora by Nakamura Asumiko
Shun Mizorogi is an acclaimed novelist who seems to have passed his prime. He hasn’t written a thing in years yet at his publisher’s party, he becomes infatuated with a young girl who calls herself Aki Fujino.
After the debut his new work, the police calls him in to identify a body of a girl who jumped a building. At the morgue, he sees Fujino’s body and another girl who looks exactly like her.
This is a story of a novelist. This is Utsubora.
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History MMF: Little Loud Voices: World War II Remembered by 3 Artists
War is a victorious, perhaps bitter, maybe a painful playground for adults. In war, we imagine soldiers moving to shoot their enemies, nurses rushing to heal the injured, politicians and generals posing in front of battle plans, and civilians running away from the crossfire. Our memories of war are ingrained with images of adults trying to make sense out of that chaos. For years we have been surrounded by timeless photographs and movies about that war that to this day, we envision the war strongly as an adult’s world.
But what about the children? Where is the child’s place in our social memory of the Pacific war?
Finding the child’s place in social memory entails an understanding of social memory and the value of children’s experiences in relation to the grand historical World War II narrative. Their frail voices in World War II histories speak of how much their war experiences have been neglected. However, as these children find their voices as adults, the recollection of their World War II experience as children becomes unbearably loud.
These are the memories of three Japanese children during the war against the images of Japanese childhood as constructed by Japan’s propaganda machinery. The memories of Keiji Nakazawa, Osamu Tezuka, and Shigeru Mizuki present a different story of the Pacific War —providing a fresh yet powerful social memory that makes us question on how war affects people at all ages.