similar word
Het
ecchi I guess (if you’re horny), or just romance
Is there a Japanese equivalent word/term for either of these genres?
romance
rom comEdit:
I found these referring to movies:恋愛 (ren’ai) - love, romance
ラブコメ (rabukome) - romantic comedy
From: https://skdesu.com/en/vocabulary-japanese-about-cinemas-and-films/
vanilla? I suppose?
Using classic genre labels, would it not just be romance? Yaoi and yuri are special labels specifically because they’re “out of the norm”
Hentai?
this implies sexual (which yaoi and yuri usually not necesarily imply), and doesn’t imply heterosexual
Yaoi and yuri only refer to sexual, shōnen ai and shojō ai are what you’re looking for
Yaoi and yuri at least used to denote explicit sex? Has that changed? Non-sexual was shounen ai and shoujo ai in Western fan parlance (Japanese terms are more varied).
Edit: a tongue in cheek meaning of “yaoi” was/is “yamete oshiri ga itai” (stop, my butt hurts)
Funnily enough, yaoi actually is an acronym, I think referring to stereotypical yaoi stories:
Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi
“No climax, no resolution, no meaning”
Yep, basically “plot? what plot?” More evidence that it meant VERY nsfw things ;D
nowodays they usually doesn’t
Haha, no. Those are hentai genres dude. Ecchi still counts.
