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What was your first yaoi/yuri? How it impacted you?
If i'm not mistaken, my fist yaoi was the anime adaptation of Junjou Romantica. Nowadays I don't think it's that good lol but I still hold it close to my heart. For a queer otaku teen in the 2010's, discovering it was ground breaking.IRL classmates would pester me asking "do you like dick or pussy?" and "are you gay or normal?". It was a nightmare. I didn't understand my it was such a big deal and why I needed to even choose.
While I did enjoy watching shoujo, I just couldn't see myself in them. But watching a love story between two guys changed everything. It was weird at first, I felt as if I was watching something imoral. But on the other hand, it was comforting. For the first time I really wanted to live a love story i was watching.
As for yuri, I think my first (and only for a long time) was Renai Idenshi XX. I didn't get into yuri at all but I looooved this manga. Recently reread it and to me its pretty obvious why it was the only yuri I liked at the time. In this manga all men died and the government created the Eden project, where some women would be assigned Adams and live as men. The main couple is between two adams who fall in love, even tho it's prohibited. It was probably the first time I thought "damn, it DOES suck to be forced into a gender at birth" lol
So basically yaoi and yuri where CRUCIAL for me to start exploring gender and sexuality.
(Idk I just want to talk about anything other than the lists vanishing. I'm also sad but all we can to now is wait, hope for the best and enjoy it in the meantime!)
my first yaoi was the manhua Here U Are!!! i didn't know i was queer then, and i stopped reading because the homophobia themes scared me LOL (it was too heavy for little old teen me i guess!). i still haven't finished it to this day, but it was such a formative read for me especially since it was my first exposure to queer media of any kind that ac...... reply
My first yaoi is the manhwa Hold Me Tight. I was watching reels on ytube and then a translation reel suddenly there in my page. That single reel is what taking me to be curious. I don't remember how old i was atm, but i remember it was still on going with around 40 chapters of it. That leads me to be curious about sites to read it too and then i fo...... reply
my first was love lvl up, im pretty sure very little ppl heard abt it but i think its one of bwat’s lesser loved works and its also discontinued, i was like super young back then too so idk what i was doing… i learnt alot abt like everything ig but its overall not that bad.
scnd one was also by bwat, the yellow dragon. highkey peak but ig the...... reply
Back then I kept reading bl/gl with the thought boys/girls love means story that boys love or girls love (aka targeted demographics) . So I proceed read this one cute high school bl and got confused at first because there's 0 action, just story about "friendship" about those two guys. Anyways the ending was the mc switch school and never met ml any...... reply
im not quite sure but I think down and dirty was my first yaoi manhwa. definitely a choice for a first yaoi manhwa, i can say. but It didnt really impact my identity or anything at all. I guess the only thing impact it did to me that it made me start reading yaoi a LOT 1 reply
I struggle to remember my first BL manga. When I started reading manga, the internet wasn't as widespread (year 2000. Yes I'm old lol) , and the way to find new stories was through zip files (usually raw and poor quality ;u; ) downloaded via eMule or licensed copies (and there wasn't much of BL at that time). If you were lucky, a store might have i...... reply
Pearl boy was my first yaoi I believe but before that I read quite a lot of gay romance novels and BL. I used to be openly homophobic, gay romance pretty much ended that. I guess it also played a small role in exploring my gender identity but it wasn't huge. (I was going to say Killing Stalking was my first yaoi but some people don't consider it to...... reply
