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What is the difference between Shounen Ai and Yaoi?

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darkmintoutau said:
জ্যায়াই is a shortening for a Japanese phrase that translates to "No, plot, no climax, no point". It's basically male on male porn. The genre is totally focused on getting two males into a sexual situation.

Usually, one অথবা both of the characters are gay.

Shonenai is just two cute looking guys in a close relationship. Sometimes there is sex and/or nudity, and sometimes they are gay, but it's really just about cute guys in close relationships. There can be romance, but there doesn't have to be.
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mari_giovani said:
Man...this question's been asked so many times, and i wasnt gonna answer it, but since i read so many ignorant answers, i thought i should...

Yaoi: "Yaoi (やおい?) also known as Boys' Love, is a জনপ্রিয় Japanese term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic অথবা homoromantic male relationships, usually created দ্বারা female authors. Originally referring to a specific type of dōjinshi (self-published works) parody of mainstream জীবন্ত and জাপানি কমিকস মাঙ্গা works, জ্যায়াই came to be used as a generic term for female-oriented manga, anime, dating sims, novels and dōjinshi featuring idealized homosexual male relationships. The main characters in জ্যায়াই usually conform to the formula of the seme (攻め, lit. "attacker"?) who pursues the uke (受け, lit. "receiver"?)."

Shounen ai: "Shōnen-ai originally connoted ephebophilia অথবা pederasty in Japan, but from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, was used to describe a new genre of shōjo manga, primarily দ্বারা the বছর 24 Group, about beautiful boys in love. Characteristics of shōnen-ai include that they were exotic, often taking place in Europe,and idealistic. Suzuki describes shōnen-ai as being "pedantic" and "difficult to understand", saying that they required "knowledge of classic literature, history and science" and were replete with "philosophical and abstract musings". She says that this challenged the young readers and expanded their minds. Although they could not understand the works at first reading, as they grew older they would come to understand the works more. In the meantime, "the readers' attention became focused on the figure of the male protagonist" and how he navigated his sexual relationships. দ্বারা the late 1980s, the popularity of professionally published shōnen-ai was declining, and জ্যায়াই dōjinshi was becoming আরো popular. In সাম্প্রতিক years, the terms জ্যায়াই and shōnen-ai have sometimes been used দ্বারা western অনুরাগী to differentiate between the contents of the genre. জ্যায়াই has been used to describe titles that contain largely sex scenes and other sexually explicit themes and shōnen-ai is used to describe titles that focus আরো on romance and do not include explicit sexual content, although they may include implicit sexual content."

Source: Wikipedia


Ok, so kinda resuming all that, and also from personal experience, they are both about Boys Love, but জ্যায়াই tend to be আরো graphic than shounen ai. Also the whole "yaoi is just porn with no plot" is a questionable statement that i dont agree with: আপনি can find crappy plots in any genre.
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MasterOfFear said:
I think Shonen AI is প্রণয় between adolescents, like between young boys.
জ্যায়াই is just a general term for the homosexual romance genre.
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