Fudonshi

Fudanshi.

My bad, so there really is one for male yaoi fun.

are male yaoi fans I believe, however, I don't think there's a word for yuri fans. I remember a user here saying that they took a trip to Japan and they saw the manga shop: full of yaoi, but only a small section for yuri. I guess we're just over looked, which I find is really weird. Usually, lesbians are glorified or sexualizedwhile, sadly, gay men are looked down upon.

I think it it more the fact that girls find 2 hot guys having sex with each other even hotter. From what I know, girls where first to ship every single possible character into couple, so that is why yaoi is more popular. Yuri just doesn't have similar fan base. It's even similar in my own country. Girls are majority of yaoi fans and while there is demand for yuri, it's much smaller.

But it's kinda awesome being apart of such a small group.

I agree. I'm yuri fan for like 7 years and most other people are just anime/manga fans or yaoi fans. I rarely meet other yuri fans which make me feel unique and I never complained about it.

last edited at Jun 28, 2015 7:49AM

Fudonshi

Fudanshi

Aha, I was mixing up fudanshi with the Japanese loincloth, sorry!

Fudonshi

Fudanshi

Aha, I was mixing up fudanshi with the Japanese loincloth, sorry!

Np. Simple mistake.

I like to think of myself as a connoisseur

Well even though I mainly read yuri nowadays and not nearly as much BL anymore I still consider myself a Fujoshi. Mainly because the main aspect of looking at two people and then ship them in your head is still the same...I don't think it needs a special name

Well, since no one knows if yuri fans have a proper "name", we have only one choice, ask yuri mangakas what they think we should be called and choose one of the names they say, if we try to make one it'll end up bad like shoujo ai/shounen ai, but if we ask a yuri mangaka to name us in her twitter, other japaneses we'll see that name in her twitter and they'll spread it, ask to more than one mangaka of course and see what name japaneses adopt, or we stay the nameless masses that read yuri for it's beauty, unlike Fujoshis who just want to see two hot guys kissing and fucking, those girls are rotten.

Well, since no one knows if yuri fans have a proper "name", we have only one choice, ask yuri mangakas what they think we should be called and choose one of the names they say, if we try to make one it'll end up bad like shoujo ai/shounen ai, but if we ask a yuri mangaka to name us in her twitter, other japaneses we'll see that name in her twitter and they'll spread it, ask to more than one mangaka of course and see what name japaneses adopt, or we stay the nameless masses that read yuri for it's beauty, unlike Fujoshis who just want to see two hot guys kissing and fucking, those girls are rotten.

If they're rotten, I believe our name should include enlightened to some extent.

To ensure that in title we are just as much above that Yaoi loving rabble as in truth.

I'd have said pure, but that's for the genre itself.

Let's not make this a thing, okay?

What a thing?

Let's not make this a thing, okay?

Too late, no stops for the rape train! Wait, wrong catchphrase, well I asked because I was curious, I already knew yuri was the unfavorite lesbian daughter of japanese fiction, but to not even have a name for us like yaoi fans have, makes me feel so unwanted, like we should not even exist...

last edited at Jun 28, 2015 2:58PM

Well, since no one knows if yuri fans have a proper "name", we have only one choice, ask yuri mangakas what they think we should be called and choose one of the names they say, if we try to make one it'll end up bad like shoujo ai/shounen ai, but if we ask a yuri mangaka to name us in her twitter, other japaneses we'll see that name in her twitter and they'll spread it, ask to more than one mangaka of course and see what name japaneses adopt, or we stay the nameless masses that read yuri for it's beauty, unlike Fujoshis who just want to see two hot guys kissing and fucking, those girls are rotten.

If they're rotten, I believe our name should include enlightened to some extent.

To ensure that in title we are just as much above that Yaoi loving rabble as in truth.

I'd have said pure, but that's for the genre itself.

Yaoi is a fantasy. Yuri is an ideal. It's not one above the other you enjoy them on different levels -3-

Yaoi is a fantasy. Yuri is an ideal. It's not one above the other you enjoy them on different levels -3-

Here, here! Don't let my snobbish attitude belie my general appreciation of both genres (even if bias allows for a claer superior amoungst them).

but to not even have a name for us like yaoi fans have, makes me feel so unwanted, like we should not even exist...

Just the opposite my brother, we get to maintian our individuality! To yuri we're not just an statistic, but yuri in itself!

but to not even have a name for us like yaoi fans have, makes me feel so unwanted, like we should not even exist...

Just the opposite my brother, we get to maintian our individuality! To yuri we're not just an statistic, but yuri in itself!

If we are yuri itself so does that mean we are Legion? I think we need to build concensus on this.

We are not Legion.

We are not Legion.

We are MegaUltra Legion?

We are not Legion.

We are MegaUltra Legion?

We are the lesbian Reapers? Does that mean Madoka is the Catalyst? Wait, Reapers are bad, forget it...

last edited at Jun 28, 2015 3:31PM

Well, since no one knows if yuri fans have a proper "name", we have only one choice

Not bother with a "proper" name and simply be yuri fans? Because I'm totally on board with that.

We are not Legion.

I am large
I contain multitudes

We are not Legion.

I am large
I contain multitudes

We are each a nation - independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence. We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. We are legion.

We have no beginning.

I have a very clear beginning
It was a cold and snowy day
My daddy and mommy was drinking a lot during carnival
The rest is history

We have no beginning.

I have a very clear beginning
It was a cold and snowy day
My daddy and mommy was drinking a lot during carnival
The rest is history

Well you got me, don't know how to reply to that, I tried.

ChocolateCakeLover and Nya-chan, avenge me.

last edited at Jun 28, 2015 4:35PM

Apparently, there is "sorta" a kind of name for us, in Japan at least.

"We call them yuri zuki (means yuri fan)."

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110415071055AAvxyV6