Anonymous Caller An Argument Well Me and my boyfrined have been arguing for the last few dyas about which is better Yaoi or yuri.HE like Yuri and I like Yaoi.He said I only liked yaoi becuase I'm a girl and If i was a guy I'd like yuri. Well I don't mind yuri once and a while but I think Yaoi is just to cute ^_^. I was just wondering actually if there is any guy fans of yaoi? Cause whenever I meet another fan its always a girl. And do is thier girl fans of yuri? And if there is for either one. Are they Either Gay or Bi? I'm just curious. Kero-chan Of course there are same sex fans of Yaoi and Yuri. There are people in this world that enjoy the initmate company of their own sex, you know. Girls liking Yuri, and Boys liking yaoi, isnt nearly as common as girls like yaoi (2 boys, no girly parts) and boys liking yuri (two girls, and no man parts) but it does happen. I wouldn't be surprised if Tomoyo was a closet yuri fan, to be honest.. Always remember that things arent just black and white. Akagi Ritsuko Ehem. In...erm...Tomoyo's defense...there are further sub-genres, making things further gray. There is, after all, shounen (boys') yuri, which, in a lot of cases is better known as "hot girl-on-girl action." At the same time, there are shoujo (girls') yuri stories that treat the subject with all the tenderness, heartbreak, and fanciful art that you would come to expect from similar boy-meets-girl shoujo romantic tales. One would...er...expect Tomoyo would be more interested in...uh...that sort of thing. Akagi Ritsuko I hope I am interpretting what seems to be the caller's somewhat...garbled question correctly. With regard to the sexual orientation of the readers of such...material, I think it would be presumptuous to assume that girls that read yuri manga were gay, bisexual, or even bi-curious. It could just be that they found the art interesting or story well-told. Similarly, a boy should be able to read or watch a story where two male characters fell in love with each other without questioning his own sexuality. However, I think there is still considerably more social stigma towards the latter, rather than the former. Kero...you used to work for CLAMP, you tell us. Your show alone nearly caused some executives in the US to swallow their tongues before they sent Cardcaptor Sakura through the chipper-shredder to end up as Cardcaptors. Kero-chan oh god. the travesty that was.. CLAMP shoulda pulled the license like they did with the original TV dub of Magic Knight Rayearth, way before Media Blasters was involved. Anywho, Id have to say that Ritsuko has very valid points. CLAMP has a tendency to make even "neutral" or genderless characters, leaving things wide open to the minds of fangirls and fanboys alike. Nothing is black or white. There are many gray areas. CLAMP takes advantage of these everywhere. So, trying to say that opinions are this way or that way, based on characteristics of a person (gender, orientation, etc.) IS presumptuous. Kero-chan A great man once said "Life is like a box of chocolates; You never know what you're gonna get." People are like that too, in a lot of ways. Akagi Ritsuko Well, I think I was more aiming that CLAMP has produced anime and manga for both boys and girls (and men and women), and somehow manage to throw in some sort of "dangerous liason" into the mix every time. They manage to have followers of all genders and orientations, and not too many people throw a fit (other than squeemish American censors).