Fudanshism 11

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Oct 21 2009]

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Industry Uproar!! Dojin Style "Metamorphosis" Love Comedy

Fudanshism
ism.11 The love pad lets you just be it![shout out to Rocky Horror]

Amane gets in some studying
It's a secret, ok?

Presented by Morishige

2-1 [ignore box]

2-3 Wooow! From every angle it looks just like a girl's crotch!

Thanks to this pad you bought for me

2-4 Let me take a closer look

Hey! Onee-san!

3-1 Stare

3-2 poke poke

3-3 It's pretty soft, hm?

I don't want you touching!

3-4 But with this, you can cosplay as Uzume-chan, right?

Yeah... all thanks to you

3-5 Ok! I'm emailing Nozomin, ok?

Somehow...

sfx: taka taka

4-1 It feels

Like I'm getting in deeper

Kentei Junior High Private Acadamy

4-2 But this is all

For just one person, Konishi Nozomi...!

4-3 Yusa, TenTen TenTen Yusa [Lyrics from the opening theme, I think]

Yusa Yusa

Huh? That's Konishi Nozomi!

It's Konishi Nozomi!

5-1 The sun smiles

And I'm perfectly ignored

5-2 Ignored!

Ignored!

Ignored!

sfx: grr

5-3 I get to see Amane-san's Uzume-chan cosplay!

Ahaha

Ufufu

I want the event to come!!

6-2 As Amane, I'm getting closer to her, but

As Amata, I feel I'm getting ignored even more

6-3 Am I imagining it? No, I'm not.

6-5 Yeah, Miyano-kun is cool

Compared to me, he totally focusses on class

sfx: Wow

7-1 But I can't stop doodling in class!

sfx: Aha

The more boring the class, the more I draw dirty pictures

7-2 I'm really pathetic...

Huh? Miyano-kun?

7-3 Ok

7-4 Flip flip

7-5 That hand motion.... No way! Not a flip book!?

Miyano-kun? There's no way...

8-2 Just what should I do...?

M-Miyano-kun? Do you want to stop by a bookstore?

sfx: sigh

8-3 I don't have a problem with that

8-4 Matsumoto-bucho, how about you too? [bucho is club president]

Of course I'm going. Today "Cat Girl Monthly" goes on sale.

9-1 Now that it's been decided, let's get moving

You're fired up, Matsumoto-bucho

9-3 Nozomin World Vision

9-4 sfx: th-thump th-thump th-thump

Oh my god, Matsumoto and Kiyokawa-kun are so lovey-dovey!

I wanna watch! [ignore the bottom right text - it explains a contraction that doesn't work in English]

10-1 I never would have thought that

there'd be any other reason I'd come here

10-2 I mean

it's special place

10-3 For Nozomin

And me

OOI Bookstore [sign]

11-1 Comics [sign]

11-2 This bookstore really organizes thing well

As for me, I like the completeness of their anime book selection

Our special place...

sfx: wobble wobble

11-3 P.Prince! Don't go that waaaaay!

Eh?

12-1 That's

Toxic!!

[ignore sfx]

12-2 Whaaat? That's just the BL corner, right? You're over-reacting Matsumoto-bucho [BL = boy's love]

sfx: Aha

It's toxic, because it's the BL corner!

12-3 BL?

BL= Bacon and lettuce?

13-1 Miyano-kun, BL is "boy's love". It's a genre of heartthrob romance stories between guys. With pretty art and detailed storylines, I feel it's not too much to say that it's a new world of shojo manga. BL novels are also cool. It's like each word glitters! [spans both bubbles]

13-2 For fujyoshi, it's like they are erotic holy books [fujyoshi = girls who are into BL]

13-3 Matsumoto-bucho, that's a little harsh! The roots of BL are in classic shojo manga! One king once went as far as to say "BL is true heart" - the mental aspect is important, right? [what king? who knows...]

Kiyokawa, how can you say that? You know how the fujoshi look at us!

13-4 MatsuKiyo!

13-5 Hey, P.Prince!

14-1 Anyway! How do you feel looking at this?

Complaints of a Treasure [book]
I'll play with every bit of you

14-2 Seriously, it's dangerous, this area...

That's what people enjoy about it! This area is like a festival!

14-3 P.Prince! It creeps you out, right?

People are free to enjoy whatever media they want! People rejoice in their fantasies!

14-4 Those students, those three guys

I bet the long haired one's a queen uke [uke = bottom]

14-5 The long haired one's an uke... no, maybe a switch hitter

The short one's gotta be a total uke...

14-6 Moe overload!

sfx: [across all three bottom panels] Excited

15-1 What the...!

sfx: thumpa thumpa

15-2 Uniforms! Glasses! Three of them holding BL books...!

sfx: quiver quiver

How can I use this? How? How can I use this?

15-3 I'm getting the chills

Yeah, I've had them for a while

15-4 Let's get on out of here

Maid Boy [book]
I'll work for you

16-1 If I don't buy something anime-related, the chills won't go away

Anime-related...

He was going to buy it anyway

16-2 Matsumoto-bucho, I know you just bought it, but you don't have to read it now

There's info I need in here

16-3 You're seriously going to read it here?

You two. Go play over there.

sfx: go. scoot.

16-4 Miyano-kun's gotta be feeling awkward

sfx: geez

17-1 sfx: turn

So we should play, Kiyokawa-kun?

Whaaaaaaat?

17-2 We should listen to our friend

I knew it!

Miyano-kun, are you serious? If we play or something, it's gonna hurt...

17-3 Hurt?

It seems that there are no objects that could cause injury in this park

17-4 Oh, come on... [put "on" in bold]

sfx; wah

What should I do here

17-5 I knew it! You're not perfect

You're a putz, P.Prince!

18-1 Ah, c'mon...
Just guys in a park...

What's wrong with being guys in a park

18-2 It's wrong! Wrong!

What's wrong with it, Kiyokawa-kun?

18-3 Look, a park is a "special" place where you "go out" with your girl

It's a place where a certain magical "air" is drifting about

18-4 if you bring a girl to a park

You can go out!?

19-1 Don't believe Kiyokawa's bullshit, P.Prince

The point of wait he's saying is, y'know, it's a trysting spot

sfx: byoing

19-2 Trysting...?

Miyamoto-bucho, that looks like fun!

Yeah

19-3 Hey, Konishi Nozomi...?

That's Konishi Nozomi!

19-4 Why

is she here...?

19-5 Wow! What Kiyokawa said was true!

If you bring a girl to a park, you can go out with her!!

20-1 sfx: byoing boing byoing

Nozomi world vision

20-2 Ah...!

sfx: spin

I've got to get home and draw that!

20-3 And again

Perfectly ignored

P.Prince at a dead end...

21-1 Lessons by Onee-chan

Sync with Tamatan

Episode 9 - "BL"

21-2 It's Tamatan! How are you, boys and girls?

BL
Boy's Love

This month we'll be talking about Boy's Love, ok?

21-4 First of all, take a look at this

22-1 Manga. Novel. And this is a drama CD.

Recently there are anime, games and even live action!

22-2 Media that records love stories between guys that go just a bit too far

That's "Boy's Love" - abbreviated to BL

22-3 2-d dojinshi productions... it's a little different from "Yaoi", huh?

But this obi... [obi is the band around the lower half of the cover]

22-4 If you talk about the obi, it's about testing your courage, kinda like fumi-e [fumi-e were Christian images that the feudal authority forced people to step on to degrade them. To refuse was death.]

Be my living slave!
Give me the kokeshi [kokeshi are cylindrical wooden dolls sometimes used as dildos]
Adios!
Big Brother is my Wife
Friend + Sex = Sex Buddy
You're a delicious pole

You buy this in stores...? [italicize "this"]

22-5 Well, actually... I...

Buy them all over the net

22-6 Then there's no meaning

23-1 Tsudere. Youth seduces Age. Good for nothing. Middle aged. Working man. Queen. Chivalry. Historical. Fantasy!
SF. School. Military. Government... Recently there's been a flood of Maiden Seme stories too!

Which do you want to start from?

Give me something easy

"Maiden seme"? So a girl is the seme? You can't call that BL, right?

23-2 When the one that's obviously the uke mounts the obvious seme, that's called "maiden seme"

When the one that's obviously the uke mounts...

23-3 Older seme

Big brother...!

Ahhh

23-4 Maiden seme

Darling!

Ah

23-5 What's the difference!?

34-1 Glasses wearing brute seme

Hey, hey, student president

Ah

24-2 Clumsy guy seme

Mikoto-bucho

Ah

24-3 Master and servant seme

Master...

Ah

24-4 I'm starting to understand the differences! In BL, the disposition of the seme is of critical importance...

sfx: Ding

Sfx: I get it!

24-5 Boy's Love [box on right]
A genre aimed at girls that features love stories about male couples. In the 70's it was "shonen ai". In the 80's, "Tanbi" and "JUNE" gained fame in the genre. In the 90's specialty magazines were published and it can be said that the term "Boy's Love" started gaining prevalence.

As far as I'm concerned, "Wanna Do It?" is the first indicator of a maiden seme boom!

It's a famous title!

But my sister is a step or two ahead of me...!!

With BL, the character of the uke is of similar importance. Among the variety are: absolute uke, tempter uke, predatory uke, queen uke. The Girl's Love genre (GL) deals with love between girls. Teens Love (TL) depicts sexual relations between males and females, and is aimed at teen girls, so caution can be needed.