This app is a maniac problem collection with the perspective of rotten girls and boys

Originally, it was born from his self-deprecating self-deprecating self-denial that his own thoughts and ideas, which capture male characters in works that do not contain elements of male homosexuality from a homosexual perspective, are "because they are rotten." It is said that A humble nuance when it first came into use, it served as a line of defense against one's idiosyncrasies. Tama Art University's Akiko Mizoguchi said, ``Yaoi fans resisted the negative stereotype of yaoi lovers fabricated by the mass media,'' but many yaoi fans now use it as a self-proclaimed label. It is said that it has become Even if she likes works in the Yaoi/BL genre, some people think she is not a fujoshi because it doesn't match the image of a ``typical fujoshi'', such as when she sees two men and fantasizes about a couple. After erasing the existence of "I", Fujoshi emphasizes building relationships between male characters who are "paired". It is said that many of the participants in the comic market are fujoshi (as of 2014), and there are many amateur creators such as secondary creations, and there were many fujoshi who became commercial writers from doujin writers. Works in the Yaoi BL genre are ``basically two handsome men divided into the roles of 'attack' and 'receive', and the vertical axis is the love between men who play the inserting side and the receiving side in sex, and sports. Mainly works that combine romance stories and buddy stories with a horizontal axis such as work and work," but from commercial originals to derivative works, from heartwarming everyday stories without sexual elements of male characters to male characters. From sexual stories, subtle and serious stories called aesthetics to bright comedies, reality-based stories to historical stories, fantasy, science fiction, boys' stories to adult men, dull middle-aged men and elderly stories. And he is very open-minded and generous. Even fujoshi have different styles and settings that people prefer, and their preferences are called "preferences." The media are diverse, including novels, manga, anime, drama CDs, games, live-action dramas and movies, and there are tanka poems, though minor.

According to sociologist Chizuko Ueno, the background to describing oneself as a rotten girl is that she avoids contempt by expressing herself before being called a ``rotten girl''. There is a rhetoric. Writer Soichiro Matsutani says that the emergence of this word signifies the maturity of Yaoi culture in that it has become possible to take a relative view of oneself and express it in a self-deprecating manner. Women who love yaoi and BL genres are called fujoshi, while women who love secondary creations for women called dream novels are also called dream girls.

According to a survey conducted by TSUTAYA, about 20% of female respondents said they liked or were interested in BL works. On the other hand, nearly 40% of women answered that they do not like or are not interested in BL works.

German BL fan art

The existence of fujoshi has been analyzed in various ways. The initial analysis was based on the motivation of why people love the yaoi BL genre. The first analysis from this point of view was Azusa Nakajima (Kaoru Kurimoto), who is also a BL writer, "Communication Defective Syndrome" (1995), and the discussion developed from the perspective of the person concerned. The main reason why I love Yaoi and BL genres is that ``femininity that has been suppressed in the midst of gender discrimination is causing self-harm.'' It was pointed out that "women, as a sorted gender, could only gain a sense of self-affirmation through the approval of others." However, after Yoko Nagabo's "Yaoi Shosetsuron" (2005), it has been understood as an entertainment of gender by women rather than an escape from oppression. There is a shift in perspective. In recent years, an increasing number of female celebrities have professed to be BL fans, such as Naoki Prize-winning author Shion Miura, NHK announcer Yumiko Udo, and actress Fumi Nikaido.

BL manga was translated and published in Italy in 1999 and in the United States in 2003, and now there are fans of Yaoi/BL all over the world. In Europe and the United States, works with a light taste are called 'Shonenai', and works with sexual depictions are called 'Yaoi'. Since there are quite a few works that include sexual depictions in the yaoi/boys love genre, some people see them as problematic, and some countries are moving to regulate them.