The first known original English-language BL comic is Sexual Espionage #1 by Daria McGrain, published in May 2002.[61] Since approximately 2004, what started as a small subculture in North America has become a burgeoning market, as new publishers began producing female-oriented male/male erotic...
A gun otaku dies after toying with a homemade pistol that explodes in his face. In the afterlife, he is told that he will be reincarnated into another world. When the otaku wakes up, he finds that he is no longer human - he’s now just some little furry thing. Near death, he come...
Ryuk decides it’s time for an extended vacation in the human world. (Shinigami are death spirits who gain strength from the deaths of the living, be it a natural death or not) And who should find the notebook but Light? In the manga, each chapter starts with another “Rule” of ...
Golden Time takes us through the riveting tale of Banri Tada's romantic interest in Koko Kaga, who has long harbored non-returned feelings for her best friend. This manga intertwines memory loss, new beginnings, evolving relationships, with strong underlying themes of unrequited love...
The villains are horrible not because they are inhuman, but because theyarehuman. My Encounter with the TV Show I had been in Taiwan for a short time, and I was just starting to feel out Chinese-language media. As a starting point, I would channel-surf. During my channel-surfing, the ...
friends and partners, while parents are portrayed as unsupportive and even triggering. An emergent trend was observed amongmangatargeting male readers to label self-injuring women as “menhera” - mentally vulnerable damsels in distress - inviting a fetishistic gaze on the self-injuring female bodies...
-Big eyes and non human hair colors bother me. I prefer realism. -Time Travel is the ultimate deus ex machina. It takes tension, consequence, and logic out of a story and I absolutely hate it. -Lolicon’s and Shota’s get the f*** out of my anime please. -There...
Prince of Sewingis a one-shot manga by Sayo Koito about a successful fashion magazine editor whose boyfriend breaks up with her because she can’t sew on a button. Stunned by his words, the editor takes up a sewing class run by a skilled young man. She helps him promote the stuffed an...
(1) Human cognition tends to be geared to the maximisation of relevance. (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995, 260) Relevance is defined as a balance between the processing cost and cognitive effects with which the hearer would be rewarded. Cognitive effects can be seen as an adjustment to our co...
Development of curly hair in crossbreeds from mating a Mangalitza sow and a miniature pig boar. The figure presents one male (above) and one female (below) individual of the litter. With 5.5 months (September—left) no curly hair was observed within the litter, but at the age of 11 ...