Ranpo what are you doing there 😂

oOoh it can be a lolicon pandering show? Dang i gotta rewatch with this in mind

/the way you say U-fot-able hurts my brain

for me it was because I'm from a country that illegalizes lgbt stuff and because i feel like i can really connect to that emotional aspect of gay relationship, like... in my eyes, they have to try harder to stay together against all odds. like, straights have it easy, but here you actually need work, emotional labour, from both sides. also, I'm bi

I recently watched this anime, and I didn't skip the Endless Eight episodes. It makes one appreciate Yuki more.

I have been lost but now I have found myself ❤

i used to be one of those into "height difference/age difference" in yaoi with the short bottom being stick thin and the tall guy being built like thor or probably even more buff... buuut nooww.. 😅 *I HATE THAT* . .now i wanna see the guys about the same height and the same age and both are the average "not feminine" guys. if one is feminine or a crossdresser, then i want that femboy as a top and the very masculine guy as the bottom hahahah

As a gay man yaoi specifically written by women are very upseting there are exceptions but its all very cutsey or predatory and its very clear that its not meant for me or any other LGBT individual which is a problem

Это самый лучший разбор по всем вопросом!!! Всё по полочкам объяснили! Именно то что я хотела, ведь как читатель Яоя/BL, сложно объяснить причины окружающим Вне своего пузыря и знакомых, особенно если люди не шарят за МЛМ, ведь они находят это странным. Редко читаю Гетеро любовь, ведь сложно найти достойную работу без сексулизации и навязанных стереотипах о женщинах. Спасибо за видео, вы очень постарались, Молодец :)

My obsession originated purely came from trying to 'get used to' seeing gay people in media. When i was younger i was primarily exposed to hetrosexual relations, and i was heavily sheltered😅. I avoided man X man videos as if it were the plague... I have to admit i was pretty homophobic, purely because i lacked understanding and didnt know better. I then stumbled into anime because of my brother...(Fuck that asshole) And after some coaxing myself i watched a bakudeku video and thought; 'this is actually pretty damn good' and that started my obsession with Mha🥲. After a year of prying myself out of the Mha fandom i still liked bl and continued to watch it. Then i found out manga exists and it spiraled (again) from there. Now i am a Bl addict and have started watching Bl dramas... I think i will never excape the hole that i started digging 3 years ago😭

27:21 This. I can't really point out why i like watching BL, but I think this explains my reason.

I clicked because of the Dazai and Chuuya thumbnail yet no one seems to talk about it 😞💔

im a leasbian but i prefer bl over gl (i still enjoy both) hoever i still have no idea why, it just feels more like love to me, and maybe most of them r also better written

And for me a bisexual woman it's just that I want to watch gay things wether it's BL or GL I grew up with Herero stuff like Turkish dramas and books with hetero romance It's time for me to watch and read LGBTQ

Also ironically the love stories are better than hetero ones usually. Not saying that I haven't seen any good hetero. I just notice it more often with BL.

well its obvs. women like hot men and whats better than one hot man? two hot men ez! and thats coming from me, A MAN!!

ALL LOVE

Just simply because you like to see more of what you're attracted to

Not me recognizing one of the couples there-

the image of dazai and chuuya physically pained me

New anime has stupid names and premises. Something happened in the 2000s that separated the average Toonami kids from hard core weebs and there's no going back.

You just gave me three new bands to listen to

This turned out to be a lot more complicated than I thought. My opinion before watchin the vid was that it was mostly fetishizing homo relationships. Now I see it's a bit of that, combined with escapism from sexist oppression and another way of finding out what one's into when it comes to relationship shit

I find BL to be more complex imo. Also the MCs look mad handsome. Who wouldn't want to see handsome men explore their own emotions and be vulnerable? Edit: This video is so accurate. I don't get the same rush when I read Josei cause I find the spicy scenes to be generic. Like, I'm trying to see some dudes cry and blush too. With Josei, the male romantic interest is the one that gets to be the one on top and we don't get much from their reactions when they do the deed. Maybe the fact that 🌽 hub's section 'For Women' is filled with men self woohooing can attest to why heterosexual females like BL so much. Edit 2: Forgot to mention this. Instead of reading Japanese ecchi. I fee like Korean manhwa authors really have this down pat when they do stories where men are the submissives and the female main character is more dominant. However there are some outliers in manga like Tonari no seki no hen na senpai. That is some great stuff.

typical anime fanservice focuses on the female characters, but yaoi/bl lets me focus on male bodies since that’s what i’m attracted to

i think it boils down to the fact that even in China the mainstream pop culture is so heavily influenced by Japanese and Korean pop culture that there really isn't much to export, like the most popular shows among young people are heavily influenced by Korean style survival shows and Hoyoverse games + artwork also shows the strong influence of the anime artstyle and Japanese RPG

For me, I do like straight stuff, omg do some stories and books do straight relationships dirty.. while with either Yaoi or Yuri (which I both like), it’s actually kinda wholesome most of the time when you wanna check out a book about it. Unless if it’s on webtoon there’s like a 30/70 chance I feel.

I'm a lesbian who occasionally reads/watches yaoi, the main draw for me isn't titillation, but romances often written by and for women. There's a trend in fanservice catered towards men in which female characters are being sexualized in a way that clearly makes them uncomfortable, and sometimes even involves them being sexually harassed/assaulted. Take the classic "guy trips and lands in compromising position with girl" or "guys try to peek at girls in baths" or "guy looks up a girls skirt" ect. though these kinds of scenes are present in a lot of animes that I otherwise enjoy, I can't help feeling bad for the girls. As someone who's been in situations with creepy men like that, it leaves a pit in my stomach. It's not attractive to me, even as someone who's into women, because seeing women getting treated like garbage feels shitty. In BL/yaoi, while there's some incredibly weird shit sometimes, there's often a distance from the male gaze, and room to see romance and sex in a way that somehow removes men from the situation while being about men.

what bgm is at 29:38???

To their credit, the disappearance movie was perhaps the best way to cap off the series

Because it's male characters written with female personalities. Written by women for (straight) women

I just wish there wasn't so much internalised misogyny in the BL community💀

As a person who read the manga I knew it would be a good anime, glad I was right

my simple answer before watching this vid: men like lesbians so why wouldn’t we like the same but reverse

I loved this video, it was really thorough and informative!! i've always been interested in why slash fiction or yaoi has such a large female audience, especially for young women. if it's possible, would you mind sharing your script or adding subtitles? thank you so much for uploading this!

no one seems to ask why men like lesbians porn

Awww yea I can't wait for a guy to tell me why I like yaoi..! Listening to guys telling me why I explore my sexuality in particular ways and live my life is my fav thing to do. Why the heck is this SOOO perplexing to dudes and not guys liking two girls together. Bah. Hope it's actually insightful from female perspectives and mb acknowledge the differences between writing style and protagonist types in the genre compared to otome, etc and why a girl may feel more comfortable reading bl!

I don't read yaoi but I know some people that do and trust me they are.... Pretty weird

I would like to add that a lot of popular shonen stories (like Naruto, captain tsubasa and more) do not have female protagonists or have ones that are not well written (for example they serve as romantic interest with no character arc). However in those same shows we got men that interact with each other, save each other, talk about each other, have character arcs. So the logical outcome is : they smooch

I'm a girl. There are no kind, gentle and understanding guys in my environment. By the way, I'm afraid of men and I can't communicate with them properly. I wanted to know more about guys, but manga with straight couples didn't always give me different behaviors, so I went to look for variety in yaoi. I don't think these are all the reasons, but I can't remember more. I apologize for my illiteracy, it was written with the help of a translator :_

They're just so.. AUGHH OMG 😩

Straight h3ntai or smut don't give emphasis on guys

Why are men into lesbians?

Idk if I’m the only person who noticed but why are Dazai and Chuuya on the thumbnail 😭😭😭

I like because the men (the manwha ones) are cute, pretty, but also vunerable, it just drawns me to it, is amazing

shounen ai > yaoi

I dont know why but i kinda find yaoi more fitting when it comes to different types of dynamics. You won't feel as if its so unbalanced nad just sit right for each other... Thats why i dont like bl smuts sometiems since what im looking for is dynamics that actually make sense and won't feel like the other partner is like idk annoying to look at?. I've watch straight couple anime back then and i kinda hate how the girl is always like this and that it doesn't really show a great dynamic and show how much of a reasonable relationship they have.. Its just some flirts and lude stuff

I don’t like the sexual stuff I really like the cute gay relationships where they get all flustered and it’s just really cute

my reason for loving bl is what’s better than a boring generic copy and paste story about a girl/guy relationship with no flavor? two hot guys that are in love with each other.

Im still trying to find out why was Ranpo was shown at 1:34