Techinically, Antique Bakery is not a yaoi, as the term traditionally refers to doujinshi. However, I would say it definitely qualifies as a BL title. It ran in Wings, a mainstream (if nerdy) shojo magazine known for publishing tons of BL-themed manga. Although only two of the leads are gay, the homoeroticism between all the male characters is a big part of the manga’s appeal. Yoshinaga pokes fun at this in her own doujinshi, when she has women visit the bakery and speculate lewdly on the guys’ relationships.
The manga wouldn’t exist if it didn’t have hot guys constantly threatening to make out with each other. There’s more going on, of course, because Fumi Yoshinaga is a genius, but come on.
]]>I’ve edited my comment so as not to ‘out’ you, which I find ridiculous but then I suppose I would, not having a stupid email address myself. If you don’t want to be known by your email address for being gay, get another one. Haven’t you been closeted long enough to figure that out?
As for prejudging you based on your having a stupid e-mail address and saying, frankly, stupid things, well, that’s the internet for you.
I’m really sorry that the world is unfair and you have a shitty relationship with your mom, but that has no baring on this discussion. The grown-ups can read the part where I conceded in my piece that it isn’t yaoi, it’s the weeaboos that stopped reading after the first paragraph and hit the comment section.
Finally, if you want to be an LGBT person offended by the blanket use of a term, you’re welcome to your offense, somewhere else. This isn’t that kind of blog.
]]>It’s a great series. It’s also so explicitly non-yaoi (publisher constraints? Personal interest in creating her first entirely non-BL series? The stuff she’s created since has been gen) that Fumi Yoshinaga created her own doujin of the series, with semi-canon status. Now THEY are yaoi, yess.
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