No, Yuri!!! on Ice isn’t a yaoi

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rinkakuleo:

capriccioso-lullaby:

It’s not even a shounen ai. 

It’s a sports anime with a canon gay couple.

Please please please, 

I don’t want to alienate LGBT representation in anime any further than it already has by placing YOI in the yaoi category just because of Victuuri. 

Rarely do we see gay representation outside of yaoi (if you even consider that representative…) 

so I want to keep this intact.

This is so important!! 

The yaoi/bl genre is a very problematic engine of fetishization where queer (male) couples exist for the consumption of a straight (female) audience. 

Yaoi is almost singularly defined by the hypersexualization of queer men and is meant to excite a straight female audience with how “forbidden” and “sinful” it is.

By calling yuri on ice a sports anime and not a yaoi or shounen-ai, the writers are sending a message that rejects this idea that queer couples should be fetishized in order to be valid. 

This is a big step for Japan in normalizing queer identity!!

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