Kimera: Taking the Boy Out of Boys' Love | KYOTO VIDEO 

There was a missed opportunity to stick a "No climax, no resolution, no meaning" riff in there.

All the photos at the beginning feel like a personal attack on 13yo me

There's some serious potential with a story like this to explore the concept of gender identity in general. I'd be very interested in a genuine LGBT+-written anime that pulled it off. Also, glomping made me terrified of ever going to a con for the longest time. I have issues with family hugging me at times, especially if I don't see them initiating the hug. I think my brain would short-circuit if a stranger just glomped me out of nowhere.

Ah, the classic "she's a man in Japan" trope

genuinely thank you for making this, I had the misfortune of being shown this anime at the tender age of 5 and have been searching for the name of this OVA for YEARS and 24 years later I finally know! I saw the english dub so that made it almost impossible to search for since I never knew it was originally yaoi lmao

On a personal note, the auto gen subs turn "Yaoi" as "Yahweh", and I think that's incredible.

Fujoshi: *acts in behaviors that are remarkably similar to guys People: NO ITS WRONG Guys: Yeah!

Been a long time since I've been able to see Kimera covered! It's going to be a fun watch again❤

Please do Crying Freeman in the future! Where do i sign up for Patreon requests?!

Yaoi fandom was a double edged sword. On one side you had the whiny cishet men and bitchy cishet women thinking yaoi fangirls were the only plague on fandom and if they were kicked out everything would be better (all the het shipping wars, powerleveling fanboys, and Best Girl Wars of the past would like a word with those people). On the other hand, you had yaoi fans who DID play into those awful stereotypes by being defensive, bratty, loud, and calling you a homophobe if you didn't ship THE most popular gay ship no matter how many other gay ships you had. Or even if you WERE gay.

I'm not even a yaoi fan, but I wouldn't mind having a Yaoi Paddle just for the novelty.

Really brings me back.. *cigarette drag* I haven't read/watched Kimera myself but I actually read Kizuna and it's little shounen prequel back in the day. The shounen was pretty damn cute, the art was especially charming, and then there's some mysterious sequel I had to download off a forum somewhere. I had no idea it was yaoi when I picked it up. I actually really enjoyed it, and made plenty of friends in that space. The scanlations were seriously questionable. Something interesting about the yaoi fandom is that it has the image of being primarily female--- which it is-- but there's a not insignificant number of gay men involved too. On various forums and livejournal groups, I'd say about 40% to 50% were actually gay men. That's from my personal perspective. Not counting the transgender/nonbinary/general queers that dont fit into either category. There was a large crossover with otome and shoujo fandoms as well, so it ended up being a space for people who didn't fit in with the at-the-time extremely macho misogynistic/homophobic/transphobic gamer/anime groups. There's a lot to critique about yaoi and it's fandom and it's portrayal of gays but I think there's an alternate perspective too: the womanly "uke" really connected with people who wanted to pursue a nontraditional form of masculinity or even folks who later transitioned, either as a man or out of it. Most ovas of the era were kind of terrible, personally speaking. I liked FAKE and will champion Legend of the Blue Wolves (aka "Hot Space Cowboys", don't watch that version). Not an anime at the time, but Banana Fish was popular even outside of the yaoi space. But in those days, you'd watch anything with gay if you were desperate enough. Damn, I really went off... on a video about an ova I haven't even seen... Well, thank you for making the video, it made me nostalgic. Even if it wasn't a very good ova it's nice to see it be taken seriously. Happy Pride month, keep up the good work.

And with this video, I'm more or less caught up on Kyoto Video. I've spent the past month or two slowly going though the playlist only skipping videos where I plan on watching the subject matter for myself.

I remembered watching Kimera in middle school with my cousin but didn't make it through cuz the dog death freaked me out. Then I re-watched it in high school since I was reading Kizuna & found out they shared the same author. Yeah, it's pretty boring despite the gore but it sure prepared my 17 y/o self to watching Mezzo Forte!

So if you want a better version of this, just watch Lifeforce. ... Okay, it's not yaoi but it does have Steve Railsback kiss Patrick Stewart.

I'm surprised you haven't reviewed Ai no Kusabi yet. It would have been a good fit for Pride

This video just made me want to watch bravern again.

Finally! An anime about corn cereal!

I like kimera a lot. Is it good? Not really. So much exposition dumping and weird stuff. I talk about it in my worst-rated yaoi panel. The most interesting things are the messages about bodily autonomy, depiction of an intersex character, and really great horror animation.

I thought this was going to be about a chimera

21:03 "We hope you've enjoyed 'No-Moral Theater!', ladies and Gentlemen." - Crow T. Robot

Second, your one of my favorite content creators❤

This has been great. I wasn’t familiar with this or Fake, so thanks for the coverage!

My young trans self was lowkey obsessed with this to the point where I recently located and scanned the raw manga. The manga is also bad but explains some things (?) and ends...weirdly.

Got a mild flashback to "glomping" and the friend who was entirely too fond of doing that back in college...

Another excellent video! Thanks!

That stinger clip at the end - another tragic case of Delayed Reaction Syndrome.

lol I watched this a little while ago! It's not amazing? But it's a ride lol Omg please do the Kizuna OVA

*reading the vid title* S Love?

Wonderful video! Just wanted to let you know you used a photo of Sue Ulu instead of Kim Sevier!

This is one of those VHS I somehow remember seeing but... I have no idea how, unless my parents were just COMPLETELY ignorant to what I was watching

From what I've seen online, you pretty much have to expect once people are in masked costumes that things pretty much get weird fast. Disney Parks, conventions, all of that.

This feels like it was inspired by that one scene of "Lifeforce." If you know, you know.

One last gay essay for the road, happy Pride month

Ahh another round of VHSes I kept neglecting to rent.

That techno remix at the end of the dub though.

When will we get to see a video about Osamu Tezuka's Animerama trilogy, KB?

Can you do Rayearth

Has Looney Tunes’ last episode been cancelled?

lol the Gompers and the paddles

Dr. Gibson? Dr. Fender? What, was Dr. Ibanez not available?

The premise kind of sounds a bit like the movie "Lifeforce" (the alien vampires that drain the life out of people part mostly)

Oh boy, we know we're in for it when the title is cgi generated with grain filter via film stock EDIT: OH BOY, AMV HELL SHINANIGINS!

I watched the anime and knew there was something wrong with it... I had NO idea it was a manga adaptation. Looks like I have some reading to do.

Osamu you dog you

At least with the original, pursuing a gender non conforming romance is already a good way for people to scream at you that you're ending the world So in that sense it works on a thematic level

I'm pretty neutral-positive towards Yaoi, as long as the shippers aren't so pushy about it. The crazy ones ruin everything. I admit that I wasn't always so open-minded, and while I'm embarrassed by that fact, I'm glad I've been able to mature and move on. Doesn't hurt that I'm probably not completely hetero myself.

dang, im here early for once.

I'd be really interested to read the original series but I'm not sure where I'd even find it

i have never been disapointed by your videos, thankyou for always being a bright spot

wait wasn't that one already covered by you?

Remember Gundam Wing was a thing with the Yaoi fanbase. I agree Kamira sucks I did watch this anime with friends.