I’ll just say one thing and then probably delete this but I will say, I do think it’s a bit of a choice to be so vocally disappointed in having a lot of BL license announcements during ✨everything ✨ going on right now.
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I tend to agree. I don’t know what this is about particularly but I also really dislike the false dichotomy of BL vs shoujo in the anglophone community. They’re not really separate demo in their domestic market. That’s a thing we did for who knows what reason (00s homophobia reasons).
I think it mostly bothers me to see people imply “oh this isn’t real shoujo/josei because it’s Bl” and well. That’s a choice to make. And I even understand wanting more woman/girl centered stories!! 100% they’ve been sidelined way too much. But to specifically call out Bl licenses is icky to me.
I didn’t see nor want to engage with discussions over this topic with those people but i don’t think it’s disappointment in having lots of bl but rather disappointment in only having bl, like kodansha didn’t announce anything else and that’s the annoying part
Which I would totally get any other day tbh, I think I’m just feeling a bit tetchy about it because of a bit of personal stuff and a lot of other discourse™️ that’s been happening lately. And I’m disappointed too! I just feel like there are other genres or demographics to attack, you know?
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