Boys who love girls who love boys love

Akadot translates a short interview with a man who dates a fujoshi, a woman who loves yaoi, and blogs about it (in Japanese) at Tonari no 801-chan. Actually, it has a whiff of the fictional about it.

It’s like watching a really cute small animal. I never get bored of it. She has no reservations about expressing her desires – it’s very charming.

That sounds a little disturbing, actually, but I don’t think he means to be quite as sexist as he sounds. He admits to being a bit of an otaku himself, and at least he’s willing to take an interest and try to understand:

It seems as though dating a fujoshi might take a little research on the world of yaoi. Understanding their hobby is definitely the first step towards closing that gap between fujoshi and the rest of us.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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2 Responses to Boys who love girls who love boys love

  1. Jack says:

    Now that’s a headline!

  2. Hana says:

    …Always should be someone you really loooooove…….

    brilliant ref. :D

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