腐女子

Fujoshi (腐女子, meaning "rotten girl") is a pejorative Japanese term for female fans of manga and novels that feature romantic relationships between men, often with the implication of Yaoi concept. It is also a homophonous pun on fujoshi (婦女子), a term for respectable women. The name originated with members of the demographic, who self-deprecatingly refer to their way of thinking, which perceives homosexual relationships between male characters in stories that do not include homosexual themes as being "rotten". "Fujoshi" carries a connotation of being a "fallen woman".

Fujoshi are females who enjoy imagining what it would be like if male characters from manga and anime, and occasionally real-life male performers as well, loved each other. The label encompasses fans of the shōnen-ai genre itself, as well as the related manga, anime, and video game properties that have appeared as the shōnen-ai market began to develop.

Older fujoshi use various terms to refer to themselves, including as kifujin (貴腐人 meaning "noble rotten woman"), a pun on a homophonous word meaning "fine lady", and ochōfujin (汚超腐人), which sounds similar to a phrase meaning "Madame Butterfly", possibly taken from a character nicknamed Ochōfujin (お蝶夫人) in the 1972 manga series Ace o Nerae! (エースをねらえ!, Ēsu o Nerae!?, lit. Aim for the Ace!) by Sumika Yamamoto. These labels were coined in the same self-deprecating spirit as fujoshi, but as fujoshi is better known, it is often used to refer to female otaku as a group. This usage is growing in popularity with the Japanese media as well as people who would not consider themselves otaku.

A common English term describing this kind of female is 'yaoi fangirl', used mainly amongst anime and manga fans.

Fujoshi have been characters in manga aimed at female otaku, and one butler cafe has opened with a schoolboy theme in order to appeal to the Boy's Love aesthetic.


Article quoted from Wikipedia


So seriously, I wish for a chance to visit Japan's butler cafe and Singapore is definitely not bringing in enough BL comics, no doubt thanks to singapore's nosy busybodies, which is commonly referred to Media Development Authority.

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