similar word
Hentai?
this implies sexual (which yaoi and yuri usually not necesarily imply), and doesn’t imply heterosexual
Yaoi and yuri only refer to sexual, shōnen ai and shojō ai are what you’re looking for
Yaoi and yuri at least used to denote explicit sex? Has that changed? Non-sexual was shounen ai and shoujo ai in Western fan parlance (Japanese terms are more varied).
Edit: a tongue in cheek meaning of “yaoi” was/is “yamete oshiri ga itai” (stop, my butt hurts)
nowodays they usually doesn’t
Haha, no. Those are hentai genres dude. Ecchi still counts.
Funnily enough, yaoi actually is an acronym, I think referring to stereotypical yaoi stories:
Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi
“No climax, no resolution, no meaning”
Yep, basically “plot? what plot?” More evidence that it meant VERY nsfw things ;D
vanilla? I suppose?
Using classic genre labels, would it not just be romance? Yaoi and yuri are special labels specifically because they’re “out of the norm”
Is there a Japanese equivalent word/term for either of these genres?
romance
rom comecchi I guess (if you’re horny), or just romance
Het
