Yaoi and yuri at least used to denote explicit sex? Has that changed? Non-sexual was shounen ai and shoujo ai in Western fan parlance (Japanese terms are more varied).
Edit: a tongue in cheek meaning of "yaoi" was/is "yamete oshiri ga itai" (stop, my butt hurts)
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QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 346d
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 346d
Is there a Japanese equivalent word/term for either of these genres?
romance
rom com
Edit:
I found these referring to movies:
恋愛 (ren'ai) - love, romance
ラブコメ (rabukome) - romantic comedy
From: https://skdesu.com/en/vocabulary-japanese-about-cinemas-and-films/
proti@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 346d
vanilla? I suppose?
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 346d
Using classic genre labels, would it not just be romance? Yaoi and yuri are special labels specifically because they're "out of the norm"
leviathan@feddit.org · 5 pts · 346d
ecchi I guess (if you're horny), or just romance
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 345d
Het
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 346d
Hentai?
lystopad@mbin.twink.men · 2 pts · 346d
this implies sexual (which yaoi and yuri usually not necesarily imply), and doesn't imply heterosexual
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 11 pts · 346d
Yaoi and yuri at least used to denote explicit sex? Has that changed? Non-sexual was shounen ai and shoujo ai in Western fan parlance (Japanese terms are more varied).
Edit: a tongue in cheek meaning of "yaoi" was/is "yamete oshiri ga itai" (stop, my butt hurts)
loppy@fedia.io · 3 pts · 346d
Funnily enough, yaoi actually is an acronym, I think referring to stereotypical yaoi stories:
Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi
"No climax, no resolution, no meaning"
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 2 pts · 346d
Yep, basically "plot? what plot?" More evidence that it meant VERY nsfw things ;D
lystopad@mbin.twink.men · -1 pts · 346d
nowodays they usually doesn't
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 346d
Haha, no. Those are hentai genres dude. Ecchi still counts.
BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 346d
Yaoi and yuri only refer to sexual, shōnen ai and shojō ai are what you're looking for