What are the Difference between Anime/Manga Yaoi and Real Life Yaoi?
So recently I got a comment with a story explaining how a yaoi lover saw an older gentleman with a younger boy and how the thought of yaoi entered her mind as she saw the younger man whipping down, as if to tease the older man. That story (comment to my last post) was very vivid and painting a nice picture in my mind. However, a question popped into my head which slowly developed.
My original question was, if the younger male really was teasing the older, if they started making out or groping each other, what would happen? What I wanted to know was if she would have stayed and watched or left? I’m sure any yaoi fan would say “Stay! It’s yaoi, duh! You have to watch!” Well that makes all good sense I have to stay, but as I contemplated this question more, it sort of developed and is now the title of this post.
What are the difference between anime/manga yaoi and real life yaoi?
It’s easy for one to say that this is a silly question. There is no difference right? Well I beg to differ. There is a great difference, simply between anime and manga yaoi. But throwing in real life yaoi even adds to it. Let’s first look at anime yaoi.
Anime yaoi, I believe, by far is the best yaoi out there. Though it is not the widest available yaoi, it gives you something that manga simply cannot; it gives you animation. Like porn, yaoi and even yuri and hentai anime is a movie of sorts, and in some are even a series, such as Bible Black, Sukisho and Gravitation. The animation given allows one to really enjoy what is going on, because it not only targets the optical sensors, but as well as auditory.
Let’s face it, porn wouldn’t be porn if you couldn’t watch it or hear the noises made because both of those factors enhances the sexual arousal and rush a person can feel when watching it. These are factors that manga does not cover, however aarinsfantasy.com has done a wonderful job in turning original yaoi manga into animated yaoi. If you create a FREE account at this site, you will get full access to the movies, as well as places and links to go to in order to download these movies.
From here we will go to manga, but later we might return to this topic.
The manga page above is from my very favorite yaoi manga Black Sun. I have state in a previous post that Black Sun is by far, the only yaoi manga that I have come across that is completely uncensored in anyway. As you can see, there is a complete difference from watching a movie and looking at a picture and reading it. I will compliment that manga does do a wonderful job at letting the imagination take over as to what is really going on and how the emotions are being conveyed, especially if the manga and in some cases doujinshi in a different language.
Since I have mentioned it, let me cover doujinshis for just a moment. Doujinshis, I have found, do tend to be different from manga, which to begin with, I thought they were the same. Manga I have noticed tends to run in a series, and very rarely have I’ve come across manga that is a one shot. Whereas Doujinshis tend to be more one shots then a series. Their set up is very similar to mangas, where you read from right to left. However the size is comparably different. Manga books are very short and thick, or they could be the size of a regular as is the case with the book JBoy and compilation books of numerous volumes of a series, such as Yellow. Doujinshis on the other hand, are taller and thinner and generally, more expensive than mangas, which I believe is because it’s in a foreign language, not because of its content.
Relatively, the differences between manga and doujinshis are not greatly varied, and for the sake of this post, I will concentrate more on mangas because that’s one that is widely known and many more of you have, rather than doujinshis, which are harder to acquire, normally by means of EBay.
Switching back to the topic, manga is definitely more widely available than the majority of yaoi. However, at times it could lead you wanting. Yes they give great stories, but you have to use your imagination to picture the actual movements, the scenes and even the noises made. This is okay, because it’s making you activate your brain. However, the effects of arousal from mangas can disappear quicker than if watching anime. And at times it could be harder to even get into the manga and aroused, and that can be frustrating because it turns out that that specific manga is not what you expected.
I am not bashing manga, please don’t get me wrong, but I’m pointing out the differences between manga and anime and how it affects you and your arousal. I recommend reading manga if that is your cup of tea, but I also recommend watching anime as well and you can see for yourself the differences of it all.
Now we come to the heart of this issue, real life yaoi. My main question had been, if you saw it, would you stay and watch or go away? If you ask me, there really is a huge difference anime/manga yaoi and real life yaoi. There is a sense of fiction with anime/manga, an air of fantasy. It just seems so weird. If you look at regular porn and then you look at hentai, it’s the same, but at the same time is fake, it’s over exaggerated on the hentai side and that’s what gives it the appeal it has.
Same with yaoi. In the clip above, as you saw, it’s a real life yaoi clip. Now for some, maybe not all, it feels a little strange to watch something like that right? Why is that? Well it has every little bit to do with the differences mentioned in the question. These are real life people and maybe even someone knows these men. But then again, it’s porn, it’s something you watch on the computer or on TV, which makes it different. What really brings this home is that in some cases you can find yaoi all around you, like in the story mentioned. You can watch it with your own eyes, standing right before you. It’s different then isn’t it?
In anime, you know it’s fake. You know whatever is going on isn’t true and in essence it’s basically a cartoon, just animation. In mangas they are comics that are just drawn. But in real life it’s completely different. There is no animation, no comics, it’s raw, it’s real, and it’s actual men. The differences are so great from anime/manga that it’s scary.
But it still leaves the question open, what would you do? If you had live, raw yaoi in front of you, what would you do?
Want to know what I would do? So do I and I’ll let you know if it ever happens to me.
