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Yaoi is weird

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Can someone describe to me the appeal of the super-deformed giant hands/small head aesthetic? Is it all about being imposing? Can only the dominant partner have giant features?

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I think this might be the funniest thing I've ever seen, actually. Do people actually get off on this?
 

Raika

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I started laughing uncontrollably when I saw that small head.

But it's probably just this specific series that has a weird art style. Other series might have different art styles, not that I read any of them. Just like how different manga have different art.
 
Hahaha what, this can't be real.

I thought Yaoi was just gay hentai? Doesn't this style have a particular name?

It's fucking hilarious.
 
I started laughing uncontrollably when I saw that small head.

But it's probably just this specific series that has a weird art style. Other series might have different art styles, not that I read any of them. Just like how different manga have different art.

I've noticed the large hands at least being a fairly popular motif.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
You know what's really weird?

All these older guy-younger (sometimes underage) guy pairings.
What is up with that?
 

Lijik

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Yeah because one series = the whole genre
Those all strike me as being from different series. Unless one dude has a weird medical ailment that causes him to draw in a different style with a different mangling of anatomy each week
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
This thread's starting to get hot.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You know what's really weird?

All these older guy-younger (sometimes underage) guy pairings.

What is up with that?

All Yaoi have the same plot.

Shy uke meets Aloof seme; Aloof seme rapes uke; uke falls in love with seme.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
All Yaoi have the same plot.

Shy uke meets Aloof seme; Aloof seme rapes uke; uke falls in love with seme.

None of the things I posted have that plot.

Except possibly Gravitation.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
None of the things I posted have that plot.

Except possibly Gravitation.

I'm basing this on plot summaries courtesy of DTL. I think I know what I'm talking about. *folded arms*
 
Can someone describe to me the appeal of the super-deformed giant hands/small head aesthetic? Is it all about being imposing? Can only the dominant partner have giant features?



I think this might be the funniest thing I've ever seen, actually. Do people actually get off on this?

you tell us, you seem to be very familiar with it.
 

Tizoc

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Speaking of which: Why is the art in most Yuri series so...amateurish?
...and why do most Yuri series feature flat chested girls?
HOW DOES ANYONE EVEN ENJOY THAT?!?!

Now Yaoi I can understand some of the stuff behind, but with Yuri it just turns me off...
 
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