It's an entire genre. Shounen Ai means "boy love", and boy, I don't love it. Here are some examples of why:

Gakuen Heaven -- is about love and romance at an all male boarding school. Take Marimite and sex-change everyone and you'd get this show. It isn't yaoi; there's no graphic sex. Instead, this genre loads up on the angst. And the bishounen.

Sometimes shows in this genre retain some semblance of heterosexual leanings. Sort of. Kind of.

Princess Princess -- Another all male high school. At least at this one the guys are trying to stay hetero. So they pick the most androgenous member of each incoming class and designate that him a hime. The "Princesses" have to crossdress in goth-loli style as much as possible, just to let everyone else remember what girls are like.

Just writing about these things makes me feel soiled. But when it comes to licensing, there's nothing that MediaBlasters won't consider. They bought both of them.

Why, oh why, with utter crap like this getting licensed, is it that no one has picked up Magipoka yet? It seems as if the only plausible answer is that the Japanese studio that owns the rights is asking too much money for it.

UPDATE: MediaBlasters announced the license of Princess Princess at the same time they announced the license of Girls High. There's an odd sort of symmetry in that, I guess.

They also announced Noodle Fighter Miki that day, but I'm not sure how that fits in.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Never Watch at 05:36 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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