Shojo-ai or Shoujo-ai is a term that was introduced by western anime fans back in the 1990s. Shojo-ai is another genre for Japanese media today; it is used to describe strictly platonic love between two female characters. On the other hand, Yuri is a more general term that can be used...
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When it comes to underage characters depicted in anime and manga, the issue is still being fiercely debated. The side that is for it claims freedom of expression, and say the 2D world doesn’t translate into the real world. The side against it says Lolicon is still child pornography and ...
Here in the west, as anime and manga fandom grew quickly in the 1990s, the termYuriwas often, but not exclusively, used to represent explicit stories with sexual relations between women. In short, it was considered “porn for guys.” The termshoujoai(Girls’ Love) was created by an Ameri...
there’s darn few manga artists that don’t do a find and replace face. That’s exactly why hair styles and colors are so strange inshoujoandshounenmanga – because otherwise all the characters have the same features. And yet, those lines are lovely, feminine and appealing. Takeuchi wasn’...
Hundred Million Stars From the Sky:This genre is normally not my cup of tea, but Seo In-gook’s magnetism never fails to draw me in. I continue to be impressed by the way Seo portrays Moo-young as smooth and friendly one second – and shrewd and cold a split-second after that. I’...