What does shoujo ai mean in anime

You will get more skin and usually more romantic payoff compared to tamer shoujo ai. Unfortunately, because yuri is rather popular among the notably larger male anime fan base, you will notice a lack of shoujo ai series in lieu for more yuri-based sexual series. In simple terms, shoujo ai is more your standard innocent romance between two girls while yuri adds in the sexual element of romance.

Both are about the love between two girls, but you can expect stronger content depending on the tag. It is an acronym for yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi no […]. Search for: Search. The truth is, shoujo-ai , as it's used in the west, has a completely different meaning from shoujo-ai in Japanese, because western shoujo-ai is actually an English word.

In Japanese, there was the word shounen-ai not shoujo , shounen , which meant "pederasty," "love for underage boys," similar to how shoujo-ai is for girls. Well, when gay manga started being made, before , shounen-ai was a genre. It was a genre featuring platonic love between underage boys, often in high-school, just like the yuri genre of the time mostly featured high-school girls in love with each other. Note that, shounen-ai was genre, but shoujo-ai was not.

Because of this there was a problem in the commercialization of anime in the west. Think of it, the industry began selling manga and anime porn in the west under the label of, so consumers started thinkingmeant porn in Japanese, which it does not. Then, they started selling lesbian porn under the label of, and gay porn under the label of. The consumers, the fandom, reacted by assuming thatalways meant lesbian porn andalways meant gay porn.

Then the industry tries to sell non-porn gay fiction. If they said it was yaoi , the consumers would be mad. Because for the consumers yaoi was porn, and they'd feel lied to.

Also, yaoi is always porn in Japanese. So they really had to use a different term, and chose shounen-ai , and that was fine, because shounen-ai was actually a genre in Japan.

But then the industry tried to sell non-porn lesbian fiction. Then shit hit the fan. Because everybody in the west thought yuri was exclusively porn just like yaoi , even though in Japan yuri included non-porn too. So the industry couldn't sell Japanese yuri under the genre of yuri in the west.

They needed another term. All Japanese yuri was categorized as just yuri. The counterpart of shounen-ai, if any, would've been "class S," or just S , a term that existed before yuri used for yuri manga taking place in classrooms. But "class S" would make shit sense in English. Another term, GL , became popular later, and was being synonymous with yuri. But maybe it wasn't used when the industry started selling non-porn yuri in the west.

So, anyway, they needed a name. So they made up one. You heard it right. They made up one. They took shounen-ai , which was used towards non-pornographic gay fiction, and replaced the shounen that meant "boy" with shoujo that meant "girl," and that's how the shoujo-ai term came to be.

A Japanese word made in the west. The greatest fandom term clusterfuck of all time. Well, the rabbit hole goes down further. Because just likewas made up from, the termand Girls' Love was made up fromand Boys' Love, which was a far more popular genre in Japan.

The same pattern also spawned the genresand. Thegenre is a rather rare genre of manga and anime, there being fewworks. But is? What makes something a? And what doesmean in Japanese, the language it came from? But is shoujo-ai? What makes something a shoujo-ai? And what does shoujo-ai mean in Japanese, the language it came from?

Definition shoujo-ai is a genre of girl x girl love fiction. There won't be just the HaremxEcchixRomance type of fan service. There's gonna be the Yuri type now. No offense but I have to disagree with this. I've done my research on these types of topics and I learnt that this only applies for BL with the shonen ai and Yaoi tags, where as Yuri is just Yuri whether sexual or not. I read that Shoujo ai doesn't exist in the Japanese community, it's something western fans forged because there's a "shoneb ai" none sexual romantic relationships between two guys, the word to the Japanese means pedophilia.

Please I'm not trying to shut you down but this is what I've seen, though I myself use Shojo ai. Alright first of all, I just need to point out that this post is a hundred years old. Not that I'm judging you for spending your time replying, I just find it odd. Now that's out of the way. These phrases have completely different meanings yet you use them in the same sentence. There's a reason why tags exists, so people can filter what they read.

Take MAL for example. If there was no difference, why do they have the tag 'Shoujo Ai' when they also have the tag 'Yuri'? I want you to check that website and see it for yourself. Yes, indeed it is forged, so what? Saying that 'we should believe A because Japan says it's A' is, in a sense, rational, but an illogical argument nevertheless.

If I remember correctly, otaku is used as an insult in Japan, yet outside we wear it like a badge of honor. Because why should they care about the Japanese making up words. And why should the Japanese care about the anime community making up words as well? I don't mind you using the word Yuri to mean girl's love in general in most situations, I would have done the same thing.

Heck, I don't even mind if you don't agree with me. But if you use this kind of logic for your argument, I want you to rethink please.