PW Comics Week looks at Yaoi Press, which is producing OEL yaoi manga right here in the USA—in Vegas, in fact.
“I have a passion for this genre and I saw that there was currently no large publisher of original English-language yaoi,” says Yaoi founder and managing editor Yamila Abraham. “I saw very talented people producing manga outside of Japan and Korea with no venue for their work.”
Interestingly, their most popular title is Saihoshi the Guardian, which comes from a Spanish studio called Kosen. Coming this summer: Stallion, a yaoi twist on the cowboys-and-Indians motif. But it’s not at all like Brokeback Mountain:
The crux of Brokeback Mountain was the characters’ acceptance of their sexuality. But the stories in yaoi generally focus on the romantic relationship between the central characters to the exclusion of any societal issues or cultural stigmas that could also be pertinent to their relationship.
Well, it is escapist reading.
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