The Yaoi Shelf

In this episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola talk about the career of famed mangaka Nakamura Asumiko, the perils of recommendations in especially early yaoi fandom and the performative angst that was a huge part of 2000s fujin culture.
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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss piracy in BL fandom, the death of physical media and the rise of corporate monopolies and why many are looking to the glory days of online piracy for solutions once more. Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf Support the show: Patreon.com/theyaoishelf Our 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/NhrEQmKY

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We're back with our first guest of the year: Sam from the incredibly important Fujoshi.Info and of several academic papers to discuss purity culture and the future of BL fandom!

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

We're back! Join hosts Amanda and Carola as they discuss the queer shipping side of some of your favorite Western fandom properties and finally do talk about SuperWhoLock.

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In this month's episode and the final episode of 2023, we're gonna talk about hauls, haul culture, capitalism and what turned hauls from social fun to social performance.

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Support the Show: https://www.patreon.com/TheYaoiShelfOur 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/WgsMwNKc7a Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/theyaoishelf

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

This month, hosts Amanda and Carola are here to talk about a very "serious" condition: Fujin BrainRot. We're going to talk about hyperfixation, why fujin sometimes go too far and how to best live with a brain that sees the yaoi side of everything. Other Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.Let's get spooky!

Join hosts Amanda and Carola in a very long and very informative conversation about villains, villainy and why so many of us want to sleep with the bad guy.

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

In this month's episode, Amanda and Carola talk about a podcast favorite: Antique Bakery by Fumi Yoshinaga.

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

In this month's episode, Amanda and Carola go back to their roots to talk about BL fanfic, writing conventions and discuss that while some things change, others remain the same. Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf More places to listen- https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelf Patreon: Patreon.com/theyaoishelf 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/FATkcExgb

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, hosts Amanda and Carola celebrate their birth month by tackling the important topic of representation in BL and yaoi. Our Socials: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co Our 18+ discord:

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, Amanda and Carola are joined by famed BL and queer media scholar: Dr. James Welker, to discuss BL scholarship, his fantastic book Queer Transfigurations and why academia in the BL space is so important.

Where to find Dr. James Welker: Twitter: twitter.com/james_welker Research Twitter: blmediainasia Instagram: jamesinyokohama Queer Transfigurations: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/queer-transfigurations-boys-love-media-in-asia/ Support the Show: Patreon.com/theyaoishelf Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/TheYaoiShelf Instagram: TheYaoiShelf 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/aJSt4WZkDz

In this episode, hosts Amanda and Carola talk about their blindspots in the wide world of BL and yaoi fandom and discuss haul culture, overly enthusiastic fandoms and being in the right headspace to try new things. For more visit: theyaoishelf.com

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The bell's ringing, class is in session! Today, your hosts are ready and eager to talk about school life BL, high school and university AUs, why school life series are still top of their class.

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

In this month's episode, we're talking about fluff; why it's good, when it can be bad and why Amanda specifically hates it (sometimes).

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

In this Season 4 premiere, Amanda and Carola discuss some vintage BL titles they love and promise not to just talk about Gravitation for over an hour.

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  In our last episode of the year, Amanda and Carola talk about where to shop for the fujin in your life for the holidays!

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

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This week's episode is all about problematic content so we had to call in a very special guest: Peachie!

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

To celebrate October, we're going over some spooky and horror BL and ask the age old question: is this fetishizing gay men?

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Today in honor of Carola's 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, we're gonna talk about side characters and rarepair!

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  

In this episode, Amanda and Carola enlist the help of very special guest and literal BL Scholar, Dr. Thomas Baudinette, to talk about a topic that has been part of the fujin experience for years: is this fetishizing gay men.  

You can get Dr. Thomas' book here: https://www.press.umich.edu/11510904
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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  

In this episode, to celebrate us both being older, we're going to talk about the site's we left behind on our fujin journey.    

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  

Today we're going to talk about tags, tagging and whether this is indeed fetishization?   

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  

In this episode hosts Carola and Amanda talk about queerbait: the who, what, where and why and ask in their recurring segment, is this fetishizing gay men?   

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In this episode, hosts Carola and Amanda discuss why many fujin are not so straight anymore and the tricky relationship between pop culture and gender and sexuality.    

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.   Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelfMore places to listen- https://anchor.fm/the-yaoi-shelfFollow us on Instagram- TheYaoiShelf

Join hosts AuthorCarola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  

In this episode,  Amanda and Carola discuss seme and uke: the characteristics, the tropes and why it may not be so toxic after all.    

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  

In this episode, Amanda and Carola talk about some of the tropes, roles and more in fanfic that we absolutely love and see little to no shame about!    

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Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  

In this episode your hosts are joined by literal fantastic BL scholar Aeri of Queerioes fame to talk about a topic we've danced around but finally need to touch: pro ship vs anti ship.   

Where to find Aeri:   

Twitter: @_queerioes
Website: https://blfanproject.com/  

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In this episode, we cover just how we became the fujin that we are. We talk shipping wars, our first series and the things that made us into the proud elder fujin we are today.   

Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.

TRIGGER WARNING:  if talk of emotional abuse and manipulation isn't your thing, you get a pass to hang out with a cookie and some juice and sit this one out. 

In this episode, hosts AuthorCarola and AichiYume talk about psychological abuse as a trope in BL and yaoi: why it happens, can it ever be good (in fiction) and if its so bad, why do we keep coming back to such a painful subject for many readers.

Join hosts AuthorCarola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.  

In this episode, let's meet our hosts that will guide us through another mythical season talking about BL, yaoi and shounen ai and go over their top 5 favorite yaoi manga!

TRIGGER WARNING: if talk of fictional noncon (lack of consent) is triggering to you, you may wanna sit this episode out. 

In this episode, hosts MommaluvsManga and AichiYume talk about noncon and dubcon in the BL space. 

Join hosts MommaLuvsManga and AichiYume on a talk about headcanons, fan culture and when it's okay to just have a creative fan imagination. 

Recorded from our FujoCon panel learn how to be the very best possible fujin with Aisha and Amanda! 

In the current drama of the Internet age: there seems to be a war waged between minors who seek to make the internet safe and adult fans who wish to continue making content made by them and for them. Just how did we get here and what happens when children try to play around in an adult toy land?

TW: frank discussions about abuse and trauma 

Well, let's talk about it. Why are so many semes in BL/yaoi so damn abusive? 

Here we go. We tackle the elephant in the room. Join hosts Aisha and Amanda as they finally conquer the topic of representation, the merits of minding your own business and talk about this tricky subject. 

They're all over "mangatube" and a quick and easy content source but are hauls are harmless as they seem?

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Welcome back! It's Season 2 and in light of some...recent events, hosts Aisha and Amanda are going to talk about how to properly have discourse online.

In the Season 1 Finale of The Yaoi Shelf: join Aisha and Amanda in a spirited talk about why folks still hate on Fujos, what we can do about it and the merits of listening. 

Some fans do literally the most. Join hosts MommaLuvsManga and AichiYume in a frank talk about fan works, fanfic, fan art, doujin and how to be the best possible fan creator. 

You love it, you hate it, it's an at times necessary part of BL fandom: let's talk censorship. 

Who doesn't love a webcomic? Hosts AichiYume and MommaLuvsManga on a talk about BL webcomics, Patreon and just how you can support your favorite creators. 

Join your two hosts on a trip through memory lane as we discuss shipping, the history of ships, some helpful vocab and how to wage artful war against your rival ships. 

You've heard us gush. You've heard us stan. Now we talk about the myth, the legend, the mangaka: Fumi Yoshinaga. 

The word that everyone loves to hate and loves even more to throw around. Let's talk about problematic elements in yaoi, why Amanda secretly hates that word and both Aisha and Amanda cover their list of what's a go and what's a no when it comes to some touchy subjects in BL. 

Y'all knew this episode was coming. Let's talk about the process from idea to manga and how pirates may or may not be ruining everything. 

Want to learn the history of yaoi? Want to also have a shockingly blunt conversation about representation and how the industry works? Then you've come to the right place! Pull up a chair and let's talk history, licenses and looking for yourself in Japanese comic books. 

Welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In Episode 1 you'll meet hosts Aisha and Amanda while learning the most you can about them by touring their respective yaoi shelves and discussing their Top 5 Yaoi Manga of all time!