How Shoujo Changed Shonen FOREVER 

Which is kind of funny that lots of toxic berserk fans will just spend all their time shitting on every other demographic ESPECIALLY Shojo

@@kell3691 It reminds me of dudes who miss most of what the Dragon Ball series is about. Yeah there's a lot of action and fighting but a good portion of the actual story focuses on the emotional state of the characters and WHY they're fighting and what their true strength comes from.

@@pusheenqueen519 Their strength comes from pride. I don't understand why you generalize what you call emotions. These emotions are presented in completely different aspect and reasoning compared to romance.

@@HSan1503 Yeah! Pride because they're gay!

@@HSan1503 OK first off feelings of pride and ego can play a part in romance. And two, I'm saying that these type of dudes see emotions on general as not playing a part in the story or character motivations. It's all mindless violence to them.

Aaaaaand among them was "The night beyond the tricornered window" (awesom manga btw) which is shonen-ai and boy does it shows lol

Twilight is stupid though

Twilight was just one big thirst trap, my god. I don't recall it having anything good.

in general I agree with that observation I mostly heard criticisms of twilight for having a girl lead who's entire life revolved around a boy she barely knew. never read it myself though.

I dislike Twilight but love the emotional drama in things like Berserk. People dislike Twilight because of melodrama and nonsensical character behavior, not simply sexism. That's a silly take. Not to say some people aren't sexist, but let's be real. That's a weirdly shallow interpretation.

If you think twilight is any of a good book you should be ridiculized for this. But not if you are a teen. We can understand and accept teen not understanding what they read. But any adult that think it is good should be ridiculized for that. If someone like it, it's ok, if someone say it's good it's not

Which shoujo are you talking about? Moreover manga writers takes inspiration...that's how an art is created...it's not a big deal

​@@user-sm1jp4en9uI see you one of those dudebros saying stuff like just because you don't get it. 😒.

Yes the wh-re in the Berserk who chased Griffith first bcz he was handsome and leader of a warriors group then fcked a dude she hated bcz he was so strong who could finish a herd of men alone. I would say I agree.

Because shojo get close to no adaptation in anime or the best we can get is 2 season and then the shonen lover act like manga and anime is a boy zone so shojo lover shouldn't complain add to that internal misogyny within the industry.

@@jayneb6053 true true and the poor female characters in shounen with the excuse of “it’s for boys if you wanna see good female characters go watch shoujo” when it’s completely different genres

The thing is those two are NOT genres, they're demographics, which can affect how male or female characters are usually portrayed, how the fanservice is done and many other factors BUT the genre of various manga within them. Another thing is, many people who mainly read shounen especially those from JUMP + and Weekly Shounen Jump have some misogynistic and shallow views when it comes to shoujo manga, calling it bad, suck and etc. without even reading them. They also rate them lower cuz "they're shoujo" or it's too girly. And if a shoujo "subverts" their expectation and is actually good, they immediately put other shoujo series (which again, they don't even read) under the bus.

They're demographics, not genres. They can be of any genre, though are more likely to be popular for a particular genre.

*demographics that contain a variety of genres but I agree! 💓

There are always forgetting that fojoshis existence.

I never knew we were ignored this greatly

1000000% that’s why idols are a thing, women will toss sooooo much money.

Yet industry ignore their needs.

@@nagasrinivas-fg5lh in anime/manga they forget about everyone’s needs

If female animanga consumers are so proffitable, why is there still vastly more sexualization of females than males in those mediums? I often see people say women prefer relationships so much that they aren't as visually sexually excited as men and that more people find women's features more attractive. Many women who often feel sexual would rather read about sexual stuff than see a sexually depicted male body. You see women sexualized and pursued much more often than men are by women. Even many heterosexual women prefer to sexualize their gender more than they do males. I don't know how they don't hate that the sexualization ratio vastly favors what those attracted to women want to see. I've seen many people of either gender say there's more ways for the female body to look attractive than the male and that curviness on women makes it easier to depict a female body in art, and gives more variety than the male. This difference of expression of sexual desire for one gender is often attributed to testosterone. This disproportionate amount of expression of sexual desire or just appreciation of beauty for one gender more than the other has always made me furious. I can see no advantage to one gender being sexually desired more often than the other. That leaves more people of one genders desires less satisfied more often. This is something that makes it difficult for me to enjoy female beauty and is a reason I choose to stay single.

@@ericbreaux6124 You know yaoi exist? You know who is the biggest consumer of it? And how profitable it is? Also, it speaks more on the versatility of women than anything else. Women can both consume media made for us and for male, we both enjoy shoujo and shounen, but men tend to only consume media made for them

Me too! I discovered my queerness through GL and BL content, and made many LGBTQ+ friends back in the late 2000s from that experience.

I found myself watching BL because the majority of MLW romance ive seen are written for the male gaze which feels gross to watch as a woman. but yeah I definitely think that a large portion of BL watchers are queer, otherwise just looking for emotional connection in the show, rather than purely sexual

Omg. I once saw a Hunter x Hunter play recorded and there was a full on love song about a character's "friendship" with another boy. It was emotional, heartfelt, disney-princess song level. And completely not canon. I loved it.

They even used to be female screaming audience.

can i get some sources on this? that sounds fun but i've been in the hxh fandom half my life and i never heard this

@@sahwangshi 3rd time i'm making this reply because youtube is deleting my comments.. look up "trouble quartet" and find an image, it shows togashi explaining what i stated above. then, google "hiei based on scunky" you'll find the image of togashi saying what he's based on.

When I was a kid, the characters I liked best together (I didn't know I was shipping them because I didn't know what gay was) were girls, but they were of course unintentionally gay. The series I watched later had that more often with guys, because the shows with the most girls and girls having cool adventures were targeting younger audiences, and shows for older audiences are majority male targeted and/or male character populated. So this is probably another reason

Kinda always reminds me about how I went into Chainsaw Man just expecting trash actions with some cute looking femmale characters and was utterly shocked and hyped of how well written and three-dimensional the women were in the series, with the female cast being afforded the same emotional complexity and competency as the male characters (and then he one upped it and just decided to give us a new female MC with Part 2)

@@shizachan8421 just makes me imagine what Naruto could have been if the author had done the same.. what a different world it would be😅

@@egyptjaguar9050 Probably an alot better Manga in which Sakura would have been an actually important member of Team 7 who gets her own powerup at the end. But yeah, I think its really sad that we live in a world were one of the things I have to praise Fujimoto, who is in my opinion one of the best manga writers of our time, for is him being capable of writing three-dimensional and fleshed out characters. I mean, I would say that even in the case of for example Himeno, who was motivated by her love for Aki, I feel like he manages to avoid the trappings of having a female character who is motivated by her love for a man and sacrifices ehrself for it, because she has she has enough of a backstory and established character, that we can understand why she would feel that way, with her character. Like, I would say in the grand scale of things, she is basically Sakura done right, considering how Aki is a Sasuke-Style character.

@@shizachan8421 I agree minus the part about Himeno being Sakura. Sakura was an average happy and slightly spoiled girl who's only motivation for continuing on as a ninja was Sasuke, while Himeno joined because of her own trauma, and had her own life and motivations but decided to throw them away because she managed to find love/something worth living for. She reminds me more of Sasuke (in that he supposedly falls for Sakura after countless seasons and she manages to heal parts of his trauma (or at least I think, I haven't gotten that far)) or maybe Gaara without the homicidal rage. Also- (unrelated) don't you think Himeno is literally female Dazai from Bungo Stray Dogs? (Disregard if you haven't watched) But yeah, Aki is like a chiller version of Sasuke.

I find it interesting how catgirls and magical girls and all of that originated in shoujo but are considered a shounen/seinen thing these days. No one took magical girls seriously until shounen and seinen manga started focusing on them, and that was always in dark ways (because how dare a show be about magical girls saving the world with the power of love and friendship). Shounen sexualised catgirls, horror-ified magical girls, and gets so much credit for these character types that ORIGINATED IN SHOUJO. It makes me frustrated, as a shoujo fan.

@@TheMandalorianPadawan It's basically the same with isekai. Most isekai titles from the 90s (before isekai as a genre and the tropes associated with it were really solidified) were shoujo or featured female protagonists (Fushigi Yugi, 12 Kingdoms, Red River, Inuyasha, etc.). But around the 2010s when light novels like SAO started blowing up, it shifted largely to a male audience and the set ups became a lot more of the same thing with a setting out of a European high fantasy with rpg game rules. And with more male-oriented fanservice. It's like producers found their money maker, and have been milking it dry for years. So a normal girl going to a magical world where she is a chosen one and hot dudes like her is cringey, but flip the genders and it's profitable peak fiction?

I liked catgirls because it was the closest thing to cats I could find, then it turns out it was used more for fanservice than for the cat shenanigans, so I stopped liking them. Yes, I was a child and I liked cats

@@mahogania5536 Only anime I can think of right now with non-sexed up catgirls is Tokyo Mew Mew.

@@teapartypenguin1353 that's the one I watched the most, but it didn't have much in the way of cat shenanigans. Turns out I just wanted to see a show with animated cats. Anyways, I've left that phase behind me, and that sort of fanservice wasn't my cup of tea, so I broadened my horizons and that loss is now a win-win

Honestly? As a bisexual woman who loves yuri and shoujo manga I would *love* that! Interestingly, yuri does have its roots in shoujo magazines and manga (Erica Friedman has done several videos and wrote a book going into more detail about it) and some recent yuri hits have either been serialized in shoujo or josei magazines, like the “Kase-san &…” series and “A White Rose in Bloom”, or being a shoujo/josei romance without a specific demographic label, like “Whisper Me a Love Song” or “Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon”. In short, I’d love to see more yuri & explicitly sapphic romances in shoujo and josei manga, and it seems like the tide is turning for that to become a reality!

i mean it would work but is it worth the cost? (popularizing and encouraging dudebros to fetishize yuri)

that doesn't work bc male fans are unreliable and don't spend nowhere near as much as fujos, just look at the amount of lesbian netflix series that get cancelled, all of them site the fact that while the male audience tunes in they don't support the series at all and generally move on quickly

Its sort of been done.Take Bakarina claes and her harem or in kiss him not me. Shojo tends to be clear with who the end game is so the interaction is very minimal (declaration of love and some hand holding) in comparison to yuribait scenes in shonen.

Yuri is not popular among men though... I think shoujo that gain some popularity among men are shojo with male protagonist that isn't gay.

Theay even write their favourite character x reader/oc fics for wish fulfillment. And yes shoenn authors cannot write compiling diyamices between male and female character.

its normal to a point, once it gets to the obsessive point it just becomes fetishization of gay men, like how lots of straight men watch lesbian pxrn. they definitely shouldnt be hated for it though, just educated :)

@@vfl0werswife It's an argument that I hear way too often, but we should first need to clearly define what's the line that needs to be crossed for it to change from 'normal' into 'obsessive', because the therm 'fetishization' is thrown around way too much and its meaning tends to vary between 'liking a sexual thing' to 'unambiguously negative objectification', because, goodness gracious, I've seen my share of queer men getting accused of 'fetishizing gay men' unironically by people who adore using that one word.

​@@vfl0werswifeWhat?.

Fujoshis would ship two males because that’s also the best they feel they can get in terms of fanservice for the female gaze.

power scaling is so stupid cause like y’all it’s made up by people they’d just write it whichever way (of who would win) they wanted and then retroactively justify it and it works cause like……it’s all in service of the narrative! At least in a good story

@@fairylesbyaintdve6536 Yup, it's whatever the story requires.

I think you are correct with the stereotype of "girl play barbie, boy play lego". In general, male are more thing and goal orient, female are more person and relationships orient. Some male think that female's interests are dumb, and some female think that male's interests are dumb.

Tbh I feel like works that shows variety in their content tend to work better at attracting everyone, as in it shows stuff about action, fights, but also psychology, emotions etc. And the reason's pretty simple: human beings are complex, you can never 100% classify their interests in boxes, because there's a lot of overlap and exceptions to the "norms". So it makes sense that a genre or work showing variety and complexity appeals to more people in general. One example I've found that is quite popular among different genders seems to be Akatsuki no Yona. The rose of Versailles (Lady Oscar) was also quite popular among men. One thing to not forget is that those kind of works also exist in shoujo and, not surprisingly in the end, attract many kind of people. The more "cliche" shoujos seem to work more for teenager girls, but from what I've seen around me, lots of them quickly overgrow that point. Because as you age, you quickly understand things aren't that "simple", though you can always appreciate such stories from times to times. Looking at the other side, it's similar for shounens. There's also the matter of people not admitting they're attracted to a certain genre, due to social norms. Where I live, people tend to not care so we seem more "diverse" in our interests, but I think a big part of that is due to perceived social norms, which are constantly shifting over time (what is perceived as feminine and masculine has changed a LOT over human history, and will likely continue doing so).

Nah. I think they found the way with "My Dress-Up Darling". It was a romance series with a LOT of fanservice for men, and that was what made it popular throught them. I feel that, If shoujos give fanservice, they will got the men, but also, they should give fanservice for women too, so everybody can enjoy and have what they want that is... fanservice lol

@@ryu4ever But, “My Dress-Up Darling” is serialized in a seinen (adult men) magazine, not shoujo. 🤨

@@ryu4ever Sono bisque doll is a seinen

@@ryu4evermany popular series don't need close up shots of boobs to be popular. That's only for perverted men. Shoujo don't need that at all to be popular, the issue lies somewhere else.

Some mangaka drew dojinshi of the series.

its the only gay ship i like

Same!

I mean.. to be fair.. Sasuke does spend more time with Naruto than his wife or kids lol justsayin, just putting it out there (not even a bl fan)

naruto deserves better than saske

That's why you get bully

@@abidyo yeah he does

Yep I think so.

They get hate cause what they're doing is inherently homophobic and extremely harmful to queer men, it doesn't mater if they "give finacial support" because what they are doing is really dehumanizing to queer people

Not all female otkau are fujoshi.

@@nagasrinivas-fg5lh I never insisted that but I meant the whole non cis hetero male fans being ignored for their contribution for the industry. Not all female identifying fans are fujoshi but all fujoshi are women.

Yes there are multiple female fans of one piece.

the fuck this means

@@unbromomento6338 I'm a queer

There are many styles that are only for men tho, especially countries outside the U.S

@@enterurnamehere27 Good point, I was only thinking locally for myself... sorry about that!!

Makes sense when you specifically target girls, males are less likely to care.

Yes they did play a lot of role of populrzing.

You could try _Lycoris Recoil_ and _Akiba Maid War._ They're action anime with a primarily female cast.

yeah. here are a few shows with female protags (not all are shounen but it's still smth): "kill la kill" (it's great, full of fanservice though), "akatsuki no yona" (shoujo but action packed), "dennou coil" (seinen probably), "the promised neverland" (shounen), "talentless nana" (a bit like death note but more shounen), "michiko to hatchin" (seinen? but very action driven. recommend), "little witch academia" (same studio as kill la kill. they're pretty good with having female protags), "gundam: the witch from mercury", "kaizoku oujo" (like akatsuki no yona), "vivy: fluorite eye's song", "youjo senki" (seinen i'd say but with action). also i fully second "akiba maid war". i don't like shounen lol but i tried my best

​@@buchelaruzitMichiko to Hatchin is a Josei series.

Shonen literally means boy in Japanese. That's why the vast majority of shounen star boys as the main characters.

​@@grinko1222 I really don't like how they always want only the male spaces to be inclusive

So many shoenn series are like this.

Don’t make me laugh

The gender of the writer does not matter. Cringe

​@@sibiraj6589Are you upset?.

​@@user-sm1jp4en9uSounds like someone is mad. 😂.

Sorry for the bad audio in the intro of the video, it should clear up about 30 seconds in.

Even one piece and naurto has female fans.

The intro had to be re-recorded, sorry for the inconvenience! It sound should clear up about 30 seconds in.

I honestly wish she didn't defend fujoshis in this

@@zeldascroller Yep, like with fujoshis if the dude isn't a skinny light skin pretty boy, or conventionally handsome then their support ends there.

@@GraveyardMaiden Yes, anime as a whole has got a whole lot of issues running deep. But just as there are a lot of shoujo that romanticizes toxic relationships, abuse and misogyny, and a lot of shonen that finds s3xual harassment to be a joke and give female characters no agency, there are shoujo and shonen content that are amazingly written. If you don't think shoujo and shonen fans are inherently evil because they enjoy content that often have very bad misogynistic undertones, why do you think BL and GL fans are inherently evil because part of the content is filled with problematic cliches? It's an issue that should be criticized. The issue. Not the people. This is coming from someone who literally spent over a decade without consuming any anime content and came back to it having completely flushed out the horrible sh!t I normalized back in the day, from every single genre. BL wasn't nearly the worst, if anything, it's the one I have the fondest memories of, since I was introduced to many LGBT fans through BL and GL which, back in the late 2000s, was a hub of LGBT people who were also otaku. It helped me out personally, with understanding heteronormativity isn't the only reality, in a time when there was very little content being made for teens in the west with gay and lesbian themes (note: I'm not from the US though so maybe it was worse there). Many of my LGBT+ guy friends today still think of it as silly, but otherwise special. A glimpse into a world where this content could become mainstream. And now it is, and we've done better. BL and GL and its fandoms should do better, not cease existing.

@@luluanthem That's a lot of words for "I didn't read what you said, but I'm going to defend cishets fetishizing queer folks because I met some queer people who liked that stuff"

@@GraveyardMaiden That's very few words for "I didn't read what you said, what the video said, or what there is to be said by those who know about this topic, and I prefer to keep to my opinions and my yes bubble than to reach out or consider a queer person's experience with other queer people". But few words fit you better.

And it's not just me. OPM (at least up until the last couple of years, and again, I'll get to that later) has a reputation for being a particularly open and kind fandom, to the point where people would try to start drama explicitly because they were bored and left because no one wanted to bite. I've made friends from all around the world and we talk daily about everything, friends who've gone on vacation to Japan together and collaborated on countless projects (some sold at a whole fan-run con in Japan called ONE HUNDRED that's **JUST** for ONE's works!!!!). SO MANY PEOPLE branch out and try different things or say they were deeply inspired to simply be better because they started watching OPM. It's incredible. I'm really happy I got into it, and it's just.....a very inspiring, sweet, honest series. But this is a vent, right?? Well....after the ban of spicy shit on Tumblr, everything splintered. The fandom was just... I'm sure everyone went through it. We tried to stay together but it was so fucking hard. People who talked a lot to each other hid away in private discords, and then to post your stuff (because so many of us made art that you couldn't post anymore) you had to go to Twitter. Shortly after that, there was a massive amount of harassment being thrown everywhere by everyone in every series, and it just--you had to hide even more. It was a lot harder to connect and be vulnerable with people like you had been on Tumblr, because you were constantly looking over your shoulder. But what wasn't affected was Reddit. And that's.....a problem. Reddit..... They do yearly polls, and the people who interact enough to take them make it so the results say that it's 90% men between the ages of 14 to 25, largely from the US. That should pretty much tell you everything you need to fucking know about what that Reddit is like. Everyone I knew and talked to wouldn't touch that sub with a 50-foot pole. The only reason I joined was because I was watching more and more people who were very clearly new to the fandom or looking for different content--beginner artists, women and queer people, cosplayers, so on--getting harassed, insulted, reported, or talked down to. I got sick of just complaining about it to my friends, so I started trying to fight back against it, figuring I'd get banned at some point but at least SOME people would see me in their corner. I've gotten a lot of people who've messaged me to thank me, and luckily as it's grown (and I believe from the efforts of one past moderator in particular) it isn't...*quite* as bad as when I first joined. But from being on there for the past however many years, I found like.... They don't think women and queer people exist in the fandom. Like they just don't. They don't think they watch it, they don't think they read it, they don't think they make content for it, they don't think they buy anything for it, they don't think they're a worthwhile or considerable demographic for the fandom in any legitimate way, and if you're too loud they punish you for it. Everything you can imagine, people on there have said it. Why are shippers ruining it, women cosplayers are just fucking whores advertising for OF, if you're interested in anything beyond "who can't beat up who better" you're reading too much into it and need to shut up, fic is stupid, sex and sexuality is disgusting and gross and awful but you're only allowed to express it towards/discuss it in a completely non-queer way about the girl characters because you'll get reported and have your posts taken down if it's anything else. It's. It's AWFUL. It's absolutely not every single member on there--there are a lot of people I think aren't like that at all and there has been a LOT of push back recently--but it's the loudest ones and it makes the experience at best irritating and at worst miserable. And probably what's the most mind-bendingly INFURIATING thing of all is that they get PISSED when you tell them not only that they're not the sole demographic for the series, that they're probably a little off target at this point because it's all the women and queer folk who are buying shit and giving the franchise money (by the numbers--on that same poll I mentioned before, like.....only 25% or less actually bought manga, blu rays, or merch; meanwhile most of my friends have shrines dedicated to everything they've bought or made for the series, including several copies of figures and massive statues). Or that it was those women and queer folk doing SO MUCH of the archiving and sharing early on in the fandom to get it so wildly popular all over the world. Or that it's those people who are making the bulk of the fan art, fic, and transformative work that's generating so much renewed interest in the series. Or running the blogs for it. Or making the meta about it. Or attending events for it. Or basically just sustaining the fandom in any tangible way, at least on the Western side of it. Like--that sub currently has a MILLION members, and if you look at it right now, there are probably fewer than 20 new posts a day--with a third being recolors of manga panels, a third being fan art that's typically old and reposted from other sites, and a third memes. That's....fucking pathetic. I scroll on twitter for an hour and I run across at least five pieces of fan art I've never seen before. There's fic posted on AO3 daily. There's DEEP meta and analysis on Tumblr popping up constantly. And it's not that the people in that sub are happy about it--they complain constantly that it's stale, uninteresting, and boring. I try to explain it's because women and queer people--the ones who stick to the shippier sides of the fandom--avoid the Reddit because of all the harassment, and they're the ones making all the transformative work that would spice shit up....but again--they just flat-out don't think those people exist. I've needed to give fucking numbers before and someone had the audacity to say "well that's not the whole fandom, just the ones making content and I don't think that's most people," and it was like--WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK A FANDOM **IS**?!! WHAT DO YOU THINK HOLDS IT TOGETHER? WHO DO YOU THINK IS ENCOURAGING A FANDOM TO GROW BUT THE ONES MAKING FUCKING CONTENT FOR IT?????

And the ONLY reason I'm so mad is because Reddit, of all places, is the last man standing when it comes to a widely-known, readily accessible platform for the OPM fandom to congregate. Because of how toxic, boring, and repetitive that sub is, I am **convinced** the only reason it's growing is because people can't find the rest of the massive fandom that's scattered across half a dozen other platforms in equally scattered, separate groups. Everywhere I go, I see people saying they wish there was more OPM content posted--AND THERE IS. IT'S EVERYWHERE. PEOPLE ARE POSTING. People want more merch!!! They want more anime!!! They are STARVING for content!! You just can't find them because they refuse to touch this one single site that had the good luck to not get fucking obliterated by buy-outs, that's unfortunately simultaneously overrun with nasty fucking bigoted sentiment, a lot of people who just seem to want to complain about how bad the series is, AND is the only place people can find a large gathering of fans anymore. Newcomers think that's all there is, and the fandom suffers HARD. I honestly think, even, that the series itself suffers a bit, because the only easy-to-track large fanbase (again, on the Western side of things, however much that might go into consideration) is a bunch of boys who are on the record as people who won't pay for anything, so there's no incentive to make anything. They don't see people hand-making wallets and purses and clothes, or doujinshi, or plushies, or jewelry, or anything like that. Gosh, and like--I don't think it's unrelated that I've been watching a huge spike in people harassing fans who make ship art, purely because it's ship art but targeting queer ship art waaaaaaay more than anything else. It's bad. It's BAD. I really, really feel like, because people can't find that large epicenter of transformative, women and queer-run fanmade content anymore, they think it just doesn't exist and feel justified in attacking it because clearly their voices are the only ones that exist and matter. Which of course, pushes those attacked fans even further into hiding, which makes the fandom feel even more small and stifled, which generates less long-term interest in it over time, which gets it on the general radar less...... It sucks. It fucking sucks. I have a lot of hope that this is a temporary trend, but it's happening nonetheless. And I bring it up here because it's specifically the kind of people who DON'T know about the history or trends in this video that are making this such a big problem. Like we just want to live our lives and spend money on our boys and see more content of the same series that they like!! We don't have to be enemies!! This can be a mutually beneficial relationship!!!! But there's so many fans who just want to own it and push out everyone else, even if it leaves everything a much less fun and enriching experience for everyone involved, including the ones gatekeeping in the first place. It's MADDENING. But yeah, sorry, massive vent is over. OPM is awesome, there's an enormous part of the fandom that's incredible that I genuinely think waaaaay outnumbers the toxic side of it, immature jerks are trying to make it not fun, they're not going to be successful but it would be nice if they understood the history and implications of what they're doing.

@@willowsnsakura I'm sorry for responding to an old comment but I hope things have gotten better for you! I like OPM and while I somewhat knew that there was a shipping fanbase I didn't know it was that big. I really feel like one of the reasons why is that female and queer voices aren't made as visible and are just harder to find unfortunately. I also love looking at fanart but looking for it on Twitter is very impractical. Pixiv exists too but it feels like recently artists are migrating to Twitter which is sad to me. I don't go on the OPM subreddit since I'm not that big of a fan but I go on other subs and as a woman it feels lonely. The worst case for me is the Fate/Grand Order subreddit. Of course, the game itself is mostly targeted at a male audience being that the franchise started out as an eroge but there's still an interesting story with impactful moments and some good looking men to appreciate. However the subreddit is just filled with sexualized women and harem fantasies. The game encourages that too and I don't think there would be anything wrong with that if the men also got attention but that's not the case so I don't feel represented at all. All of that to say that I relate and that it sucks that Reddit is basically the only place to have organized and active communities nowadays.

Yeah lol

Fujimoto was probably joking.

I have to agree, I love this channel but the audio mixing is kind of iffy. The speech is too quiet and unclear and the clicking noise is way too loud. Great video content though otherwise

Fist of the North Star? More like Fist of the Peak Fiction

@@g2.a6 peak fiction? For what?

@@NelsonWin *everything* 👊💥🙏

@@g2.a6 r u ranting or messing with me?

@@NelsonWin just joking a bit. I agree with fist being best shonen

Huh, Phoenix and I covered very different topics. If you're talking about my “the shounen urge to be... shoujo?” video, I specifically talked about performative shoujo content on TikTok and the misgendering of shoujo. Phoenix discussed Fujoshi culture and how aspects of shoujo influenced shounen. Creators topics naturally will overlap and I had no idea she was making this video, nor did I steal this idea from her. As far as thumbnails, many commentary creators have a similar method to creating thumbnail designs. I've kept a similar format for the past 18 months I've been on RU-vid.

I’ve been thinking this for the longest time now.

Yes I don't know it should have been separated by gernere. Like action romance

Yes, i was looking for someone to tell this too!