What do あなた think the difference between shoujo ai and yuri and shounen ai and やおい is?

A while ago, I came to understand that Shojo Ai (Girls Love) and Shounen Ai (Boys Love) were about same sex romance stories, while Yuri and やおい were similar but もっと見る explicit and graphic in nature. But nowadays, I prefer to just drop the distinction and use the terms Yuri and やおい for any same-sex themed animes.

I'm noting that Media Blasters have a label called "Yuri Fan" (and might have one called やおい Fan). Most of these are hardly what I'd call explicit. イチゴ Panic has only a limited amount of ファン service beyond an occasional kiss, for instance. And they don't have an "18+" rating. If those アニメ are Yuri, I can't imagine anything "less explicit" than them yet still same sex that they would be labeled as Shojo Ai instead. So I don't think the international アニメ industry is supporting the distinction between the terms. And then there's Yuru Yuri. It's got Yuri in the title, so I'm gonna call it a Yuri anime, even if it's mostly gag material and not really explicit, and even if they're just referring to "Lilly"s in the タイトル instead of Yuri's other meaning.

Maybe there's room to make a distinction between Shojo Ai/Shounen Ai and Yuri/Yaoi in the realm of manga, doujinshi, and ファン art, but in the realm of anime, I don't see any need to distinguish between the two. If there was a もっと見る explicit yuri タイトル than normal, I'd just call it a yuri ecchi または yuri hentai.

There's probably no right または wrong answer to this, as they're terms that may have different meanings または connotations to different people in different contexts and evolve over time.
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maybe i'm a little confused in that i've never actually seen a Shoujo Ai タイトル and all of the yuri I've seen are actually really yuri. just about any kind of perverted gag seems to be enough to count it as a yuri, even if the gags don't "cross the line". an actual shoujo ai タイトル would probably bore me. but i suppose trying to distinguish a yuri from a shoujo ai タイトル is really just as diffucult as trying to distinguish a romantic comedy from an ecchi.
ChadKumada posted 1年以上前
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pumpkinqueen said:
I don't know about アニメ and マンガ for it. But for myself, I call myself a Shoujo Ai and Shounen Ai ファン not a Yuri または やおい fan.

Because from what I have learned being in those fandoms. やおい and Yuri ファン focus もっと見る on the sexual side of the relationships.
Like, if an OVA doesn't have a sex scene, they aren't happy with it. Like I have seen "Awww, no sex? I want me some Yaoi!" and I'm like "You just got some 'Yaoi' this whole thing was about a homosexual relationship'. Sometimes あなた even see them complaining about doujinshis not having sexual scenes. When I'm sitting there thinking it was beautifully made and touching, I didn't even want to look at anything sexual.
または there are other ファン who want a lot of doujinshis for their pairings and stuff. Fanart and fanfictions for example.


Shounen Ai and Shoujo Ai fans, focus もっと見る on the actual relationships. The beauty of them and not the sexual part. From what I have seen, we don't care about the sexual parts. We just want to see the relationships and see the 愛 and beauty.

あなた can actually a lot of times see the different in やおい and Shounen Ai fanart as well. Because in Yuri/Yaoi fanart, あなた can definietly tell there is a seme/uke stereotype going on. While with Shounen ai/Shoujo Ai あなた don't really see it.

Here, this is a confession I made about it.
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 I don't know about アニメ and マンガ for it. But for myself, I call myself a Shoujo Ai and Shounen Ai ファン not a Yuri または やおい fan. Because from what I have learned being in those fandoms. やおい and Yuri ファン focus もっと見る on the sexual side of the relationships. Like, if an OVA doesn't have a sex scene, they aren't happy with it. Like I have seen "Awww, no sex? I want me some Yaoi!" and I'm like "You just got some 'Yaoi' this whole thing was about a homosexual relationship'. Sometimes あなた even see them complaining about doujinshis not having sexual scenes. When I'm sitting there thinking it was beautifully made and touching, I didn't even want to look at anything sexual. または there are other ファン who want a lot of doujinshis for their pairings and stuff. Fanart and fanfictions for example. Shounen Ai and Shoujo Ai fans, focus もっと見る on the actual relationships. The beauty of them and not the sexual part. From what I have seen, we don't care about the sexual parts. We just want to see the relationships and see the 愛 and beauty. あなた can actually a lot of times see the different in やおい and Shounen Ai fanart as well. Because in Yuri/Yaoi fanart, あなた can definietly tell there is a seme/uke stereotype going on. While with Shounen ai/Shoujo Ai あなた don't really see it. Here, this is a confession I made about it.
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bubblegum_kiss said:
I would say that the genres "yuri" and "yaoi" would be considered もっと見る sexual and graphic as opposed to just romance with no sex... I guess.

Honestly I wish classifications weren't so confusing,because there are times when they'll just blend together... Like if a story is pure romance but has like a couple sex scenes in it, it's automatically not considered shonen ai/ shojo ai anymore. Which i think is weird because if it's still totally romance and stuff I don't really think it should be 与えられた a whole new genre.

*When I mention that I like the genres of shonen ai/ やおい I just say I like BL cause it pretty much covers it and it's less confusing. Plus i like the way it sounds better.
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