Someone is being critical of Sailor Moon? You’re in for it now, buddy… Moonies, asseeeeeembllllle!
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The Las Vegas Sun reports that a woman named Yamila Abraham was arrested for allegedly selling herbal supplements containing high concentrations of an active ingredient found in over-the-counter cough medicine. Bleeding Cool believes this is the same Yamila Abraham of Yaoi Press. The arrest took place on the morning of the 21st. The latest Twitter post at the Yaoi Press blog acknowledges the Sun article with a simple refute of its accuracy, and operations at the publisher appear to be normal, with a planned appearance at the Otakumex convention in October remaining unchanged…
Edit: Yamil Abraham has issued a longer statement on the matter.
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Missed it… Patrick Macias has posted an audio recording of his lecture at CSU on the development of manga and otaku, in particular WWII influences, the obsession with 2-D (and 2-dimensional) girls, otakuism from the lens of a culture war, and the ideological schisms within the fan community. Good way to spend an afternoon…
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Manga.About.Com has the schedule for this weekend’s New York Anime Festival.
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Writing for Robot 6, Brigid Alverson explains how e-comics distribution works on the Apple Apps store. I’m always interested in this topic, although as long as Apple maintains a strict policy against adult works, I will always be on the periphery looking in…
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Shaenon Garrity explains Yaoi manga to parents (throw it away and ground her for a month, I’d say), with some historical background on the genre’s development. As much as yaoi’s “by girls, for girls” creed may be irrelevant to Western yaoi readers, it’s still important to know because it’s really the shoujo heritage that distinguishes yaoi aesthetically from the output of gay manga artists, who were similarly informed by shounen and seinen manga of their day. But now that boy’s manga are just as popular with the girls, and ero manga’s obsession with cuteness is such that many of the top artists in the field now are women, that distinction is also slowly fading. (Found via Journalista)
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forgive my lack of punctuation and caps im on a dslite
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the yaoi press thingI cant believe the amount of self-righteousness of comments in some forums covering this from so-called OTAKU are most of them that ignorant of how comics and magazines in japan are distributed and sometimes financed? i can assure you that those men in their colorful tattoos are not the boy scouts that’s right
from obscure ero manga to shounen jump – the trucks delivering those books to stores and shops arent owned and operated by shinto priests or buddist monks i cant help but smell the aroma of schadenfreude
I detect it every time something bad or unsavory in mentioned in connection with a ‘yaoi’ publisher
is the hate that strong fandom?as far yaoi press is concerned
its no secret i have a cold if not downright dead relationship with its owner however – before signing on my first story with them i was aware of the
‘herbal’ business
ms abraham had going on AND i was also aware that ms abraham was selling all aspects of this business in order to dedicate her life to yaoi press full time
thats all that mattered to me i dont judge others based on things they did before they met me im proud of the work I did for yaoi press and i also take pride as a woman in comics in ms abrahams accomplishments in a genre with fans finicky and often hostile to anything that isnt authentic japanese yaoi ive seen lesser people crumble under the pressure of trying to determine what yaoi fans want and deliver it
she did it without the safety net of AUTHENTIC Japanese yaoi and in my estimation no one works harder to continue doing it
reading these articles from the sun and the local news it seems obvious that this three-year investigation is centering on someone bigger or perhaps those that ms abraham sold the company to? either way these charges look residual to me and im sure once ms abraham answers the right questions and does whats expected of her this will blow over
its a pity it made the news in her hometown i have faith in yaoi fans so i know yaoi press will endure this momentary embarrassment and continue the flow of product at cons, shows, and online
good luck yaoi press
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I do my own fare share of ranting about how much of a beast distribution is to media and couldn’t agree with you more. One of the side effects of certain illicit organizations taking a role in distribution is a different set of individual interests being pursued than the committee corporate mindset trying to mete out dividends; that can certainly be a bad thing, but back in the US, when the comic scene was little more than funny books there was a mobster who decided to let his…cousin I think it was…print out some hero books on a counterfeiting press and without that, there’d be no Superman.
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I can understand economic motivation for women creating ero doujinshi and manga. But is it something they really like to be creating, I wonder?
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So wait, she was selling the cough medicine? That’s just terrible. I mean if it was a yuri publisher, sure. But fagbooks! OHNOES!
What’s next?! Lolicon distributors selling moon pies at fat camps? Our country is in sharp decline, Simon. I worry for our children.
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