IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/crechp/978-981-10-0147-5_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

“Have You Realized This Forum Has a Lot To Do with Japan?”: Transnational yaoi Manga Online

In: Asian Cultural Flows

Author

Listed:
  • Simon David Turner

    (Frontiers)

Abstract

This chapter highlights the transnational appeal of Japanese manga by examining an international yaoi manga fan community. Yaoi, which originated in Japan in the late twentieth century, focuses on the narratives of romantic relationships between men. It is popularly known as a genre written by and for mainly heterosexual women. The instance of heterosexual women writing and reading about homosexual men has generated a great deal of fascination from gender studies scholars, including myself. Many of yaoi fans are also general manga manga fans with interests in genres of manga other than yaoi. This chapter offers an exploration of non-gender issues to show that whilst gender and sexuality are the obvious aspects to study with yaoi, they need not be the sole ones and may help us to understand general trends of Japanese popular culture fandom. This chapter will consider the reception and interpretation of Japan and Japanese culture through an online yaoi fan site, AarinFantasy. It will highlight how an international online fan community is able to facilitate consumer demands by providing easy access to a transnational text. This allows for the creation and maintenance of mediated reception that allow fans to contribute their own interpretations of Japan in a digitally mediated fan community.

Suggested Citation

  • Simon David Turner, 2018. "“Have You Realized This Forum Has a Lot To Do with Japan?”: Transnational yaoi Manga Online," Creative Economy, in: Nobuko Kawashima & Hye-Kyung Lee (ed.), Asian Cultural Flows, chapter 0, pages 183-196, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:crechp:978-981-10-0147-5_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0147-5_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:crechp:978-981-10-0147-5_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.