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Fandom and Industry Trends, Analysis and Observations Anonymous 01/17/24 (Wed) 04:44:49 No.3208 [View All]

Thread for meta-commentary on trends in the fujoshphere, including but not limited to:
>The recent dearth of fujo-friendly IPs and the overall decline of female-targeted series
>Observations and trends about fujo fan activities
>Differences in fan culture between Japanese fujos, Korean/Chinese fujos, Western fujos and the rest of the world
>Predictions or theories about the BL industry
This is not a thread for pro/anti discourse (>>2521) or complaining about the genderspecial infestation (>>541) - threads for those topics already exist.

I was looking at the stats for Comiket 103 and I couldn't help but notice a lack of fujo presence. Picrel is a list of the genre codes and the number of registered circles under them. The genre code is a category that each circle choose upon registration; they can be dedicated to a single franchise (eg 234 Touhou, 331 Kantai Collection, 335 Uma Musume, 222 VTubers) or encompass an entire category (eg 315 Romance, Social games for women which is where games like Ensemble Stars and Twisted Wonderland would fall). Some of them like 600 Reviews/Information or 611 Railways/Travel aren't related to manga/anime at all.

It's obvious that Blue Archive and VTubers swept this Comiket, with mainstays like Kantai Collection, Uma Musume, Idolmaster and Type-Moon ranking high. In other words, all franchises for men. On the other hand, the fujo mainstays like Tiger and Bunny and Touken Ranbu look puny in comparison. Yuri on Ice is a certified fujo classic but it lost its custom genre code last Comiket.

In comparison, the other picrel is a ranking of the most popular series from C89 which was winter 2015. The red bars are female-dominated genres, the blue are male and purple are unisex. From top to bottom: 1) KanColle 2) Touken Ranbu 3) Touhou 4) Idolmaster 5) Haikyuu 6) Kuroko no Basuke 7) Yowamushi Pedal 8) Love Live 9) Tiger and Bunny 10) Attack on Titan 11) Vocaloid 12) Fate series 13) Hetalia 14) Free 15) Blood Blockade Battlefront 16) Splatoon. This was the heyday of Touken Ranbu - it gave juggernauts like Touhou and IM#S a run for their money - and outside obligatory mainstays like KanColle and Idolmaster, fujo favorites dominated the charts.

What happened between 2015 and now? The trend of women (and by extension fujoshi) disappearing from Comiket hasn't gone unnoticed. But it's not as if women are making less doujin, it's that women are flocking to non-Comiket conventions - namely those hosted by the agency AkaBooBoo like Super Comic City. On the other hand, I feel like there is a slump in fujo activity because it's been a while since we've had a fleet of fujo powerhouses trending at the same time (compared to 2015). The mid-2010s wasa good time to be a fujoshi.

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Anonymous 11/17/24 (Sun) 20:32:02 No.5522

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>>5521
Fwiw, some isekai manga have been announced for anime adaption. They're not porn so they might get better animation.

Anonymous 11/17/24 (Sun) 20:53:16 No.5523

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>>5522
Of course it has to be isekai - I'm surprised it arrived so late to be honest. (Just when isekai seems to be dying.)

Anonymous 11/17/24 (Sun) 21:03:32 No.5524

>>5523
>Isekai
>dying
It's going to go on for a good while longer, hell most shows aren't done yet.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 03:38:42 No.5534

>>5523
>arrived so late
Mild Noble just happens to get shat on by everyone all of the time. God knows what possesses a publisher to commission multiple drama CDs, audiobooks, spinoffs, and stage plays before an anime. It's going to be interesting when the anime comes out, whether it'll be completely ignored by licensors like the novels are or end up another neglected show in the corner everyone assumes is shit and guys constantly ask "where the boobs".

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 08:34:23 No.5540

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>>5534
This thing isn't even classified as BL:
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/a-mild-nobles-vacation-suggestion/

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>>5540
Probably since the mc flirts with the rest if the male characters, it doesn't want to commit to any one ship. It's not bl in the sense that Free isn't one either.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 09:28:12 No.5545

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>>5544
Wow. What a slut.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 15:10:50 No.5550

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>>5524
If you look at the seasonal anime on MAL, almost all top isekai shows are continuations. Few people give a shit about new seasonal isekai #453. Of course, things may be different in Japan.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 15:19:55 No.5551

>>5550
>Of course, things may be different in Japan.
Yes, Mal scores are pretty bad to figure out anything tbh.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 15:21:40 No.5552

>>5550
It's probably just because they are already occupied animating that shit so they cannot start new series yet and most isekai go on forever.
I am really disappointed seeing the "aots" posts on nu/a/ these days because most will post nothing but isekai garbage. Not even the few isekai that have at least some positive sides like ReZero, no. The seasonal nameless shit series that you have to google to even know what it is.
It's either that or otome isekai everywhere. I swear I cannot prove this since times were different and different anime airing but I am sure that the /a/ from the 00s wasn't this fucking shit. I remember talking to tons of anons that loved Champloo, Gankutsuou, Saikano and others. Now it's just mass produced wish-fulfillment slop that even the "fans" themselves cannot remember a season later.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 15:43:15 No.5553

>>5552
I wish, /a/ is chock full retarded shounen threads filled with AI mutated coomer shit and nonstop esl screaming, I'm so tired of seeing terrible dbz art, I'd rather get forgettable level 99 villianess at this point kek.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 16:03:29 No.5555

>>5553
The shounen tards are the other big issue yeah. I hate new isekai and otome (always) as well most Jump shounen tbh and especially their fans. It's a problem thanks to the sheer mass of them and they are unaware that other anime even exist. This is how you get all these "why is every anime shit? I watched Kimetsu, Bleach, BHNA and JJK and all of them were bad" well maybe try things that aren't shounen? But they only watch what everybody else is already watching. Worse they will accuse me of being a CSM fag, OP fag or JJK fag if I disagree with them because they project their console war onto everything.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 16:50:05 No.5558

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>>3407
>>5552
>Gankutsuou
Based. But also, after checking out what's currently airing, it's just really, really cheap romance after cheap romance. It's like someone found a legitimate well of Fabio books and thought to stop at the very top of the pile.

Sucks because it means all I'm going to have is Thunderbolt Fantasy.

I am in a weird place where I like shipping, but hate it when a series actually provides the romance. That's not interesting it's pandering. I thoroughly enjoy shounenshit specifically because the focus generally isn't on pandering and you know any het scenes are editor mandated. I'd say 2014-2018 is where I had the most fun finding new fujo junk food because the series were generally open ended and let fans decide who to ship with who. Unlike Dandadan where, after reading the manga up to the current chapter, it's insultingly obvious any and all fujo bait is actually cheap bait. I'm picky with what I get attached to and right now it's looking like vidya is winning with accidental gold. (Elden Ring, Mouthwashing, Shin Megami Tensei/Metaphor, FF7R's no accident but throwing it in there anyway.)

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 16:54:46 No.5559

>>5558
I'm liking some new stuff out, Orb getting missed out over is a mistake.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 16:57:27 No.5560

>>5558
Didn't mean to include that first quote my mistake

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 17:31:41 No.5561

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>>5558
Same here. Most writers suck ass at writing romance so I rather have a good comradeship, friendship or the obligatory villain with super devote underling that are written like good actual pairings because the author didn't intend to write them as such (or because he/she isn't involved enough to turn it to shit and has some distance to the couple).

That aside I need a story, action and some worldbuilding so romances aren't for me. What makes ships attractive to me are the roles of the characters. I want them to be something special, even if it's a wandering hobo. And a dangerous world makes you appreciate the pairing and root for them harder, since you know they could die any time and you know that their love or friendship is the only safety they have in this world. They depend on each other.
It's very different from a SoL romance where nothing happens and it's just too normal office workers being in love. It just doesn't attract me.

Btw I second >>5559 you might give Orb a try because it's a non-romance sausage fest save for one non-sexualised girl and it has a massive Japanese fujo fanbase that ship an asshole monk with a fighter with negative self-esteem.

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>>5561
NTA but please watch Orb, can't believe there are people who are missing out on this bastard monk's antics.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 17:55:23 No.5563

>>5558
>I am in a weird place where I like shipping, but hate it when a series actually provides the romance.
Same. Very rarely does fiction provide satisfying romance and the kind that does is a book more often than not. All I want out of anime/manga/vidya is interesting chemistry and to not get cockblocked by a mid canon ship (I usually only get the first one (╥_╥)).

Vidya is also winning out as my most brainrotted about medium. I think it's a combo of being a mostly finished product, having a lot of "what if" scenarios, and how "real" fans will stay for the after party while FOTM(and largely anti) fans will leave for a new game fandom within a year.

>>3233
>End of an era feeling.
Going back to this now that JJK and MHA are done, from my perspective nothing has stepped up to fill the gap. I read Kagurabachi and like it well enough but it hasn't exploded and I don't think it will. I am looking forward to One Piece finally ending so more shonen bros get drained from the cyst that is modern anime fandom. Outside of HXH is there any big shonen left? The newer Bleach stuff doesn't even seem to be getting much traction and that used to be huge, same with Kenshin (although this one has more obvious reasons). We could just be in a lull but it feels like a new juggernaut anime fandom won't appear again for a long while.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 17:56:50 No.5564

>>5562
seconding/thirding the rec, i only checked it out because literally nothing this season caught my attention but it's great. all the fanart is also a plus.

>>5550
someone more knowledgeable about market shit explained that isekai shit is extremely popular and profitable with chinese audiences which is why they keep getting funded+getting multiple seasons. with exceptions of a few series (like TenSura) most of them don't even do that well domestically but overseas licensing is profitable.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 18:28:20 No.5565

>>5563
>Outside of HXH is there any big shonen left?
Chainsaw Man
Spy x Family
Fairy Tail continuation
Sousou no Frieren
Ao no Exorcist
Black Clover
Sakamoto Days
Owari no Seraph
D.Gray-man (why is this and HxH still ongoing?)

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 18:31:40 No.5566

>>5564
Its not just isekai, but naroukei, webnovels that are free to read online. They're incredibly cheap and as safe as a bet as you can get since they just look at whatever has a decent fan base with the webnovel already. With authors being amateurs writing for free, they're probably much easier to take advantage of compared to manga and shounen and why so many isekai adaptions are usually pretty dishonest to the original material.
They can change what they like, and unlike with manga the complaints that come out with cheating out isn't an issue since not nearly as many would read through to look at what changed.
Isekai's biggest demographic are also wagies that are sick of their jobs so they're probably great as far as buying shit goes.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 18:33:26 No.5567

>>5565
For a fujo fan this is such a sorry list. Also, idk if it's just confirmation bias on my part or not, but it feels like shonen manga is amping up the het in recent years. Like in the past you had the characters get straight married in the end or it's the generic MC who has a crush on a girl but all his character development and interactions are more rich with the male cast. But nowadays it feels like series specifically revolving around heterosexual relationships as a cornerstone of the series are becoming more common.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 18:42:48 No.5568

I wish I could get into mainstream shounen that are big among fujos but neither MHA no JJK, Naruto, HxH or anything else ever did it for me and I dropped all of them quickly. Think it's mainly kid MCs that put me off, same with Harry Potter (though I hate the very premise of that too). DBZ stared adults and had good antagonists so it's better for me and I enjoyed it back then, but it isn't gay shippy, I like Frieren too but same problem.

Think Dungeon Meshi and One Piece come closest but I fell out of OP ages ago for no particular reason and never managed to get into it again with so many chapters. Maybe the anime remake will give me the push I need. It sucks always being in microscopic fandoms all my life or a fandom where I am the only westerner drawing art for.
>>5567
>but it feels like shonen manga is amping up the het in recent years
It's true. More and more shounen have female protags like SHY or m/f MCs like Undead Unluck, Dandadan and tons of other series I read the first chapter of before I gave up. Kagurabachi seems to be more of an exception than the rule now. Romance is also pushed harder, see DDD and such and Sakamoto Days as well AFAIK (didn't read). They noticed that girls are reading too and that otaku want waifus and MCs that win the girl so they force it into every series now and I hate it.

At least Naruto and other old ones had girls be the background characters or some separate fighters and the pairing up only happened suddenly at the very end. Now they ship the second the female characters enters and it drags along through out the series. I rarely ever like shounen MCs so I am not directly involved but I noticed that it fucks with the rest of the series since the writer will focus too much on the waifus and romance, at least as long as the writer is male.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 18:46:14 No.5570

>>5565
I'm sorry if this seems like I'm moving the goalpost but my mistake for not amending this to "big shonen with large libraries of doujin/fanart/fanfic". I won't deny the popularity of that list but so much of it is things that don't command fujoshi participation and therefore do not have the sort of fandom sprawl I was actually asking about (sorryyy!). CSM comes close but a lot of that was just frontloaded by anime-onlys in season 1 like >>3239 was getting at.

>>5567
FWIW MHA ended with the MC and everybody else UNPAIRED after a timeskip, with the last panel being the male rival/childhood friend reaching his hand out for the MC, like it was from a fucking doujin. Real groundbreaking stuff as far as I'm concerned. But I understand what you mean because I feel that way too. It almost feels like mangaka now understand that they are incidentally writing some really gay shit and have a fujoshi proofreader to tell them what to change so it doesn't come off that way. I read Dandadan long before it got an anime and while I like it and think Okarun is really cute there is NO fujo sauce in that pot. Very strange times.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 18:52:35 No.5571

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>>5567
Shounen romcoms have always existed though. Pic-related was a massive hit, for example.

>>5570
Try Blue Lock?

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 18:57:36 No.5574

>>5571
I'm not talking about shonen romcoms, its being pushed in shonen genres that historically do not have a romantic focus, like battle shonen and action series.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 19:02:40 No.5575

>>5567
>>5574
Ngl I wonder how much of this is a reaction to the criticism that shounen treats female characters as extras and never give them anything to do.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 19:05:56 No.5576

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>>5564
>extremely popular and profitable with chinese audiences
You know what would be equally popular with Chinese audiences? BL and fujopandering shows, but they can't stream them on Chinese platforms, so they don't make them.

>>5566
Mangaka already earn peanuts when they sell adaptation rights, so it shouldn't make any difference.

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>>5575
Yeah I fear that's the case. Sadly they draw all the wrong conclusions from this. I am not even anti-het but can be please at least get shit like Dorohedoro then? That aside Dorohedoro had at least two gay ships regardless (with one of the characters being openly gay).
What annoys me is that they push the girls while simultaneously being incapable (or unwilling) to write them properly. So precious manga time is wasted on cardboard cut-outs that only exist to be the waifu or some sexualised tomboy.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 19:11:58 No.5578

>>5576
If a mangaka is making peanuts, then how much do you think a web novel author would make?

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 19:18:48 No.5579

>>5577
Yeah, they're written just as poorly/coomery but now they have way more screen time so you can't even ignore them and enjoy the rest of the show.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 19:54:08 No.5585

>>5576
God Sarazanmai was kino

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 19:55:25 No.5586

>>5579
Yeah the bad writing is even more blatant now since they're more relevant. And in many series it's only lolis or young teen girls which is especially annoying if the same series stars all kinds of men of different ages but apparently they all procreate thanks to homosexuality and mpreg since adult women don't exist lmao

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 19:58:17 No.5587

>>5578
Reminds me of this semiautobiographical anime show about ln writers years back, there was a subplot about an isekai author getting hyped for an anime adaption and it ends up fucking his story up so bad that it gets trashed immediately, he tries to cope that he doesn't care before breaking down in tears and saying that if he didn't care he wouldn't have spent years writing it.

Anonymous 11/18/24 (Mon) 22:37:04 No.5588

>>5540
I know, but that hasn't stopped nonas from posting stuff like Banana Fish and Yami no Matsuei in BL threads.
>>5544
There is an author's statement that no one ship is canonized, yeah. His Majesty is the clear winner though.

>>5552
>enter a board discussing seasonal anime
>wonder why they aren't talking about series that are almost two decades old at any one moment
Honestly I cannot stand the isekai general or the way people treat isekai outside of it, but let's not pretend that /a/ didn't always have a flood of threads that were just bottom of the barrel fanservice entertainment. We've had battle harems, we've had ecchi comedies. There's always going to be more of that than critically acclaimed shows in production (struggling to think of a better way to word that, but you know what I mean. Something with strong direction where the elements come together well). That's why when we list good shows from the past we're picking out five a year rather than entire seasons, it's just fortunate that there's been so many years of seasonal anime by now. Check the catalog for pre-00s and 00s anime threads, use neet catalog to highlight and pin threads on certain series you want to see. Filter the shit. Make threads saying what you want to say, because if you've got nothing then it may just be other people who like the same shows can't think of anything to say either and need a starting point.

>>5561
>What makes ships attractive to me are the roles of the characters. I want them to be something special, even if it's a wandering hobo. And a dangerous world makes you appreciate the pairing and root for them harder, since you know they could die any time and you know that their love or friendship is the only safety they have in this world. They depend on each other.
I do read plenty of short BL romances but I agree with all this so wholeheartedly. It part of why people get so nostalgic for 00s adventure/action shoujo trends. Which reminds me, I still haven't tried Haigakura yet despite the Saiyuki fandom pointing it out before it aired - shit just got a major delay due to production issues though. Once again the industry is fucking up niche shows that appeal to female audiences.

>>5566
They also don't have to wait for DVD/bluray sales to make their profits, people buy webnovel bundles and books while the show is airing and they still remember it exists. It helps that in Japan they have a much more convenient after market for swapping in books you don't want any more, so people aren't as concerned about the cost and storage of random new throwaway fantasies.

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 18:58:16 No.5614

I saw nonnas mentioning this in another thread but it's more on-topic here since it's about fandom hijinks (and less related to BL works themselves, so it's not exactly for the "things you hate in BL" thread either):
I'm a bit sad with how many fans are into one character only and the gay shipping is just an afterthought to see him getting fucked. This isn't FC related btw., it's something that plagues the fan spaces of the fandoms I am in.
I don't mean fujos that casually draw gang rape or mob art or write such fics (I enjoy these) I mean fans that are legit not interested in ANY of the pairings a series or game can provide or any character save for the guy they want to see uke'ing.

I would say it's an in-between thing between husbando/yume culture and fujoism. There is only one character of interest (like a husbando) but unlike yumes there is usually no self-inserting and the guy is seen as the uke so it's yaoi focused.

I recently discovered a new fan space for a series I love and was hyped. Until I joined and realised that it was yet again just a "We're obsessed with [name] and want to sexualise him"-group. We already tons of them, they are more popular than actual shipping spaces. The users there aren't exactly against shipping or anything but nobody cares about the partner so you barely get any reactions if you talk about him or link or draw art of him. It's always just a fanclub about that one dude and everybody fantasizes about how he gets dicked by a random character or the fans themselves.

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 19:08:59 No.5615

>>5588
>Check the catalog for pre-00s and 00s anime threads, use neet catalog to highlight and pin threads on certain series you want to see. Filter the shit. Make threads saying what you want to say, because if you've got nothing then it may just be other people who like the same shows can't think of anything to say either and need a starting point.
NTA but I also abandoned /a/ (despite also being a seasoned neet catalog user) because even if you find threads you are interested in, you are still trapped in there with the average modern /a/ poster at a board speed that is cumbersome to keep pruning. I was happy to learn that Comiket fujos are branching off into their own meets because this reflects my experience with fandom in general–it's really not worth it to mingle with non-fujos when you want to discuss a work at length.

Even with fujochan's very small sample size (if I had to guess, 50 regular posters since the last wipe?) it's very clearly not an echo chamber here, or whatever you get accused of being when you say shit like "I only want to talk about this with [demographic]". I wish it were a little busier but I look at every post, even if it's a fandom IDGAF about. I know a fujo posted so I want to see it.

>>5575
I'm annoyed nothing really followed Soul Eater in the "main girl and boy do have interesting chemistry but it stays platonic" department because that is what I consider the proper solution for shonen girls. Straightbaiting (lol).

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 19:09:05 No.5616

>>5588
>enter a board discussing seasonal anime
>wonder why they aren't talking about series that are almost two decades old at any one moment
No I was just talking about AOTS threads. Anime of the season. I mean threads where anons list their favorite current anime, not old stuff. In the past I agreed with so many anons posting in such threads. There were always some that listed the moe show of the season or some battle harem, but even they usually had good second and third ranked series. Now you see two reasonable posts and everybody else lists 20 isekai they're watching and they ignore every other genre.
>Which reminds me, I still haven't tried Haigakura yet
Other nonna but I forgot about this. I had it on my list but then I got busy with drawing and other anime. Sad to hear that though. I guess I will wait till they air the rest before I pick it up. Think I have heard it's delayed indefinitely for now which would be extreme.

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 19:18:43 No.5617

>>5615
>it's really not worth it to mingle with non-fujos when you want to discuss a work at length
We got too many casuals. In the 00s you could be sure that every anime fan was at least somewhat dedicated and a nerd ready to delve into all kinds of series. It was perfectly normal in the early 00s to talk to any random online anime fan that wasn't a naruto sperg and learn that they have watched the same series as you. Even the anime fanboys I knew watched Loveless back then or Tutu. You grabbed what you got and anime was this super mysterious, new form of media that blew our minds so we were eager watching most of them.

Now everybody has access to anime and internet so everything got diluted. The average modern anime fan hasn't watched Trigun, Haruhi or Code Geass and has no interest doing so. They got into isekai, not anime as a whole. Or they're romcom fans, not anime fans. They have so many romcoms, isekai or tiktok approved shows to watch thanks to the anime flood that they don't even have time to branch out. So you share general anime boards with completely different types of fans, more than ever before. And now we also get the gacha fags and vtube tards.

I bet that specific anime boards like "90s anime board", "OVA board" or "dark anime board" would be way more interesting even if they weren't explicitly fujo since the content and fandom is different. That aside I also believe that fujos are more likely to watch serious shit and obscure anime. That's my impression at least.

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 19:55:02 No.5620

>>5617
>We got too many casuals.
That's true. I guess it would be more appropriate to say that "fujoshi" implies "not a casual" whereas other anime fans get a sniff test.
>And now we also get the gacha fags and vtube tards.
Desperately wish there was a way to close this Pandora's box. They are a blight upon every tangent community. I remember making this post >>3212 nearly a year ago and I still feel the same way about it all being too fleeting for my boomer brain.

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 19:59:30 No.5621

>>5614
>not interested in ANY of the pairings a series or game can provide or any character save for the guy they want to see uke'ing
Sometimes the guy you think is hot and want to ship really does have no options you like. When this happens, I'll usually look at a variety of pairings to see if something clicks, and I'll enjoy the mob art too, but my interest won't be able to sustain itself without a ship, so I'll move on quickly and wish the guy was in a better show, leaving an unfulfilled void in my heart. (And he'll probably end up inspiring an OC)
Crossover ships can save the day sometimes but they're always niche unless it's something like Akagi/Kaiji.

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 20:28:03 No.5622

>>5621
That's fair and I already experienced this too. But I would categorize this differently. I can't imagine that it's the case in the fandoms I am from since at least one is super gay and has a shitton of male characters interacting with said character. The canon alone already implies potential three ships for him, not counting the rest that you could imagine if you add some own interpretation. I feel like sometimes such people just exist and I wouldn't wonder if they did the same in the other fandoms they are in

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 20:35:43 No.5623

>>5614
Ngl I'm the type that just enjoys variety, so rather than liking one ship or one guy bottoming I'll look at everything and see how it could fit the characters in one way or another.
Like what situation would this happen? Or I feel like they're be more tsun with this guy, more submissive with this one, a top with another.
I guess I'd consider myself a bit of a fatass turtle as far as fujos go kek, I eat and enjoy whatever.

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 20:47:41 No.5624

>>5623
I do that too though I have a main ship that is "canon" to me lol
There is the main ship that I consider the "true route" (like in a VN) and that I think up a ton of headcanons for and develop and write/draw for. But besides that I often enjoy shipping both characters with a few different dudes on the side, for the different dynamics.

Like my current brainrot ship is super vanilla despite consisting of two dudes involved in a war. I fucking love them but due to their dynamic it's impossible to imagine anything extreme, abusive or very kinky with them without making them ooc, so I use other dudes from that series to fill that hole whenever I feel the need to put one or both of them into a different position.

Anonymous 11/19/24 (Tue) 22:56:41 No.5625

I am happy that fujos are doing their own events or joining smaller scale cons instead of latching onto comiket. It's just gacha shit at this point and it's way more fun to me to have multiple doujinshi events per year instead of waiting for comiket and missing stuff that gets buried by the masses of mainsteam stuff.

There is a con in January it seems were artists are releasing at least four doujinshi I'm looking toward to for now and the number might increase.

Anonymous 11/20/24 (Wed) 07:02:01 No.5626

>>5625
>There is a con in January it seems were artists are releasing at least four doujinshi I'm looking toward to for now and the number might increase.
Is it an akaboo event? Will you go there or wakt for artist to sell their doujinshi online once the event is over? There are so many of them all over Japan in just one year it's no wonder fujoshi and female otaku in general would rather go there. I wish I knew how comiket is but plane tickets to Japan are insanely expensive around obon so if I ever have the opportunity to go it would be during winter. But when I went to an akaboo event last year I really felt in my element so I'd rather prioritize that. I'm going back next summer and I'm really looking forward to this, especially because buying doujinshi online seems impossible or at least a pain in the ass with visa restrictions and proxies.