I'm currently a closet fujoshi and want to see if there are any other people who enjoy reading BL in my friend group, who also like anime/manga, but I just can't bring it up. Only my brother knows I read yaoi and I'm still embarrassed when I read it in front of him, especially with the explicit scenes, so I try and hide the screen when I'm reading it. A couple of my friends, not in the friend group mentioned earlier, know I read BL and one of them is lesbian and she kind of has a resistance to BL since she thinks that it inaccurately depicts gay relationships (which is true for some in my opinion, but not all).
Because of these reasons, I just haven't been able to muster enough courage to bring up BL around anyone but my brother, to whom I tiptoe around the fact it commonly has sexual scenes when I talk to. For people who are a fujoshi/fudanshi openly with friends/family, how did you do it or how did it happen?
How about randomly asking "what do you think about bl?" Then you could give some sort of shonen ai example and explain why it is good, like the movie Dokyuusei , or the animes Yuri on Ice or Love stage (this one could work as "oh I thought this anime was a shoujo at first but turns out it was yaoi and I actually enjoyed it") or sth similar that has kind of a good plot or is moderately popular.
I think if you start by exposing your likings for shonen ai it'd be accepted more easily, that way you can play safe and if someone happens to say they like it too then later you can ask them for something more uh hard ?
As for me I don't really care about my friends opinion, they already know I read yaoi, I told them, and they don't care either so it's cool.
My family doesn't know and I don't see the need to tell them for now.
If I'm reading yaoi and someone is near me, I let them know I'm reading yaoi so if they don't wanna see stuff, don't come too close lmao (if I don't know them, I just turn my phone brightness down to the lowest, because I be reading at work during lunch). I'm lucky my brother is actually a fudanshi. He just happened to read a shounen-ai on his own out of curiosity due to the fact that he has 4 crazy fujoshi sisters and it went on from there lol. When asked why I like BL/Yaoi, aside from the explicit scenes, the romance is so beautiful and it can be so funny and down to earth and extremely heartbreaking and it's honestly just as or even more relatable than some shoujo might be. I'm not fetishizing anything. Sex is hot, period. lol. But also, I have no shame lololol. I think it's okay to bring up the fact that you like reading BL, just so people know. Maybe they'll ask you more about it and maybe you could even be opening a new door for some. Sorry for blabbing so much. Good luck to you friend!
I don't know if you got your answer yet considering it's been a month since you sent this(sorry I don't get on this website a lot) but he ends up with the person he originally has a crush on--the guy with the brown hair. Really disappointing honestly.
hey, i saw your comment on ‘Unripened Expression’, and I was wondering who the MC ended up with? Please tell me, I’m desperate
I don't remember it too well, but I remember at some point the seme dies because of an accident or something so the uke goes back in time and saves him but the seme doesn't remember the uke but he falls in love with the uke again anyway?? and the uke was an author and the seme (before he died) travelled the world a lot?
http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/kimi_no_yume_o_mite_iru/
thank you!