Fujojocast #10: Building a BL starter kit!

09/08/16 • 50 min

So I posted last weekend about pooling people’s recs for a BL starter kit! If you’ve got a few titles in mind, that’s great! Let me know about it!

However, if you’re still thinking how to go about it, let Airin, Maija, and I help you build a criteria for your BL starter kit! In this podcast, we share our thoughts on BL titles we think is accessible for curious readers! It may have been recorded last year but I think our selection still holds! Listen in and I hope it inspires you to rec for the BL Starter Kit!

OP/Insert: Spicy Marmalade by Bad Luck
ED: Shining Collection by Nittle Grasper

Airin’s list

Est Em’s Ultras
Takarai Rihito’s Seven Days
Junko’s Kasa no Shita, Futari
Ogeretsu Tanaca’s Renai Rubi wo Tadashiikata

Maija’s list

Homerun Ken’s I want to become your bird
Est Em’s Red Blinds the Foolish
Nakamura Asumiko‘s Doukyuusei

Khursten’s List

Yuki Shimizu Love Mode
Saburo Nagai’s Smells Like Green Spirit
Yamamoto Kotetsuko‘s works (Chunchun ga Chun, Honto Yajuu, etc.)

Honorable Mentions

Kumota Haruko’s Itoshi no Nekokke
Yuzuha Ougi’s Darling
Sakurai Shushushu’s Vibrator Company
Yamato Nase’s Chintsubu

As always, all my love and thanks to Airin and Maija. If you are Finnish and you love BL, please visit their awesome website Fujoshiluola!!

If you have your BL Starter Kit recs ready, do leave a comment here and you might have a chance to win a BL care package from me!!

So I posted last weekend about pooling people’s recs for a BL starter kit! If you’ve got a few titles in mind, that’s great! Let me know about it!

OP/Insert: Spicy Marmalade by Bad Luck
ED: Shining Collection by Nittle Grasper

Airin’s list

Est Em’s Ultras
Takarai Rihito’s Seven Days
Junko’s Kasa no Shita, Futari
Ogeretsu Tanaca’s Renai Rubi wo Tadashiikata

Maija’s list

Homerun Ken’s I want to become your bird
Est Em’s Red Blinds the Foolish
Nakamura Asumiko‘s Doukyuusei

Khursten’s List

Yuki Shimizu Love Mode
Saburo Nagai’s Smells Like Green Spirit
Yamamoto Kotetsuko‘s works (Chunchun ga Chun, Honto Yajuu, etc.)

Honorable Mentions

Kumota Haruko’s Itoshi no Nekokke
Yuzuha Ougi’s Darling
Sakurai Shushushu’s Vibrator Company
Yamato Nase’s Chintsubu

As always, all my love and thanks to Airin and Maija. If you are Finnish and you love BL, please visit their awesome website Fujoshiluola!!

If you have your BL Starter Kit recs ready, do leave a comment here and you might have a chance to win a BL care package from me!!

Previous Episode

Fujojocast #9 – Clearly, we can’t stop talking about Free!

Has it really been a year? Is the eternal summer really over?

Well, clearly, Nozmo, Airin, and I cannot have enough of Free! Now the second season came and went with fantastic new characters who even made some of us cry in misery. The second season also showed us our boys’ attempt in sorting out their future. There were meat pies, cute dogs, adorable little bros, and AUSTRALIA! So if you feel like reminiscing over the season that came and went, feel free to listen to this episode!

OP/EP Music: Future Fish, Style Five

If you want to see more of the fan stuff that Nozmo and Airin do, just head on to their tumblrs. You can also read Nozmo’s Todd Allison and the Petunia Violet here. As for Airin’s fic, check out her Ao3 (and for the HaruRins, don’t forget to read Wind Waves!)

Next Episode

Fujojocast #11 – Gay Manga Dialogues with Thomas Baudinette (Part 1)

Geshuku no Oniisan by Nohara Kuro

Even when my life since last year has been moving forward like a jet plane, I always make an effort to do something special for Yaoi no Hi! That’s August 1, and that is today!

For this Yaoi no Hi, I decided to upload a podcast featuring my awesome friend and colleague, Thomas Baudinette (or Tom, as I call him in the show) about gay manga in Japan and its place in gay and women’s culture. We brushed on various related topics to gay manga such as gei komi and, of course, boys love.

In this episode

Thomas Baudinette is an anthropologist and Japanese Studies scholar who is currently teaching at Macquarie University in Sydney. We’ve worked together for a couple of conferences and often found ourselves talking about our research which looks at people’s consumption of boys love texts. Finally, I had a chance to invite him on a podcast!

In this show, we talked about so many things about gay manga and BL that I had to divide the show into two parts. The first part deals with Tom’s research on gay manga and how Japanese gay men are defining and consuming this comic genre. We also talked about the subgenres within gay manga, some of which are beyond what I perceive as aesthetically gei komi. Of course, we also brushed upon “bara” and how English discourse packages gay manga through English-translated texts such as Massive and other gay-translated titles.

It was a fun first hour, and hopefully, you learned so much from Tom about Japan’s vibrant gay manga culture.

Fujojocast #11: Gay Manga Dialogues with Thomas Baudinette (Part 1)

Note: The opinions of both Thomas and Khursten do not represent their respective institutions.

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OP: Doukyusei BGM 1 by Oshio Kotaro (from the Doukyusei Movie OST)
EP: Doukyusei BGM 1 by Oshio Kotaro (from the Doukyusei Movie OST)