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While I understand not wanting to post rated R material here, it seems that people jump to the conclusion that all Yuri and Yaoi is Sexually Explicit Material. It really is any anime or manga that contains homosexual content be it implied or explicit. Most don't contain nudity or anything that would make it Rated R. Yuri is Girl Love and Yaoi is Boys Love. If you think about it not allowing such anime or manga to be discussed here you are denying some great anime.

For example Sailor Moon will not be allowed to be talked about at least not the Japanese version as Uranus and Neptune where homosexual and it was enough to label it as having yuri in the Anime. I understand you don't want heterosexual or homosexual hentai, but I think as an Anime Help Guild we should use proper terms correctly. If such shows as Saki which does fall under Seinen but has plenty of Yuri moments where the female characters express such emotions in liking another female. Well my thoughts are out on this. I mean is a complete Ban on anime with yuri or yaio moments which is even if two girls holding hands in a romantic way or was it that people here thought yuri or yaio had to be sexually explicit.

Hope you don't mind me adding my two cents.

I have observed, in a lot of anime community, that the terms "Yuri" and "Yaoi" are used to label the more graphic, intense or explicit material. While the terms "Ai Shounen" and "Ai Shoujo" refer to titles that aren't so deep in content. I guess this is sort of an effort to separate the the fluff and fan pandering from the more mature titles. For example, a title like Winter Cicada has always had the tag of Yaoi. While something like Gakuen Heaven is usually labeled "Boy Love" or "Ai Shounen".

This sort of think has always lead me to think of the terms as big brother/sister and little brother/sister. If you want something light, sweet or cute, you go for the little sibbing ("Ai Shounen"/"Ai Shoujo"). While, if you want something heavier and full-bodied you go with the older sibling ("Yuri"/"Yaoi").

The truth is you can't completely ban anime with homosexuality because it's just there. There are shows that have undertones and overtones that don't even fall within these genres.

Actually it is not the terms Shounen Ai and such is really a western term Yuri and Yaio are what is used in Japan. In Western terms yes the above posters are correct it is used for less explicit homosexual content. In Japan Yuri and such is used for both explicit and implied homosexual content. Yes I do understand there was a need to separate them, but it does get on my nerves mainly because I used to deal with a lot of Japanese tourist and had hard enough times learning Japanese if you try mentioning Shounen Ai to them most would be confused. When I went to Japan it sort reinforced the need to use the terms correctly. I don't think I seen it here so this place needs to have a definition section for such terms used. If it is using it how Japanese use the terms such as the term Anime which western world means Japanese Animation, but to the Japanese means any animation. This is just my way of seeing which is which. Are we following the western definition of terms or the Japanese definition of terms. I don't know it is just me and I fully understand how the western world uses the term yuri and yaio, but I been watching Japanese animation for 33 years already and maybe it is because of my age or because I was around for before the term Anime was used to refer to Japanese Animation. I just feel like correcting them unless they mention they are using it as the western world defines the term. Well that is my rant.

Really my real purpose was to show that terms have different meanings and I think as I did not see any terms defined here ( I might have missed them) I don't know it has been a while since I was here. That being clear on what you mean by the terms western definition or using the Japanese definition .

Thank-you, I'm having lots of fun lurking and familiarizing myself with the layout here.

Your welcome, glad to hear you're having fun.


I found it. Anime 101 Basics info! Under the spoiler the the captain discusses term like Shoujo Ai /Shounen Ai, Josei, Yaoi/Yuri, Lolicon/Shotacon, Traps, Dōjinshi and such. She even links to a Wikipedia page that lists and defines terms.

well thank you ! sorry i was busy last week due to exams followed by a Convention !