Aromantics aren't able to feel any kind of romantic feelings but they do have sexual urges which would mean that they would be asexual. Asexual people don't have sexual urges but they do have romantic feelings so they should be aromantic. However asexuals could also act like pansexuals or bisexuals and aromantics could also act like demisexuals.
Thank you for pointing that out loveless. I thought that yaoi was an umbrella term that covered all gay stories and whatnot but apparently it applies more to the steamy stories, whereas shonen-ai applies to the romantic stories. At least that's what a quick google search showed me.
Not really, say yaoi covers all "gay" stories/mangas/anime among fujoshis and fudanshis, and you'll get some nasty glares. It's... kinda like a sore topic if you are really into it. The term nowadays it's BL (boys love).
But yeah, what you said it's true. Sometimes you won't even find any mention of sex or anything of the like in a shonen-ai (mostly kisses... and sometimes not even that... or one at most). Yaoi? Jeeez, some stuff can be sweet (if you forget the... er... sex scenes), some others will leave you traumatized for life.
Is gay too general or is it just considered to be offensive? I'm a guy and I only have one friend who likes yaoi and we only talked about it a couple times, so I don't know much about it other than boku no pico making you feel like a creep and some of the more common yaoi animes. Also, it seems to me that the two are commonly mixed up because I found loveless on a top ten yaoi animes list and I never heard mention of shonen-ai when I was looking for some good yaoi to check out.
A bit of both, I'd say. That's why it's referred as BL by some, meaning boy-boy, because in some stories... one of the characters might not be exactly your definition of gay, or even bisexual. People like to focus more on the relationships going on, or the plot... or both. Examples of shonen-ai more focused in the plot? Loveless; examples of shonen-ai with a little bit of both? Gravitation (though, the genre for this one is debatable, since it could also be considered as yaoi). Examples of yaoi focusing only in the... er... intimate side, well, I could say them, er... yeah, I won't. Examples of yaoi focusing in both? The most popular nowadays, Junjo Romantica, and its sister series Sekai-ichii Hatsukoi.
We don't talk about boku no pico, that thing shouldn't exist... and technically speaking, that's shotacon (shōta for short)
(After seeing the edit). I'm telling you Loveless is not yaoi. It's shonen-ai, it might have some mention of sexual themes (how can you not, when people can tell if you are a virgin or not just by looking if you still have your ears and tails or not), but when I say it has mature themes, I don't mean sexually speaking. One of the main characters once hinted he was raped by his mentor, and a guy he thought was a friend was a downright sadist. You might not see this in the anime, but the manga goes waay too deep in certain themes.
You'll mostly hear about shonen-ai when looking for mangas rather than animes, I really can't think of any anime that might be considered shonen-ai... there might be some, but right now? Nope, nothing comes to mind.
You may want to reread my edited comment. I was just saying that shonen-ai and yaoi must be commonly confused, because I've found plenty of shonen-ai (such as loveless) being called yaoi by various people. I was in no way trying to disagree with you.
That's what my second comment is about. Besides, calling shonen-ai is mostly done by the Western hemisphere to make some sort of... dunno, distinguishing both kinds I guess. BL is the term used in Japan the most since classifying something as shonen-ai can be rather difficult when you have several things going on. That's why most won't bother to say "this, this is yaoi. That over there is shonen-ai... that other one is Bara, and now, in that obscure corner is shōta. Now kiddies, who wants to know about shoujo-ai and yuri?" and so on. But trying to explain all that it's tiresome, so people won't do it. When it comes to same-sex anime/manga, you'll get a little bit of everything, depending on where you look.
Bisexuals pretend to be asexual, who pretend to have a sexuality.
But yeah, what you said it's true. Sometimes you won't even find any mention of sex or anything of the like in a shonen-ai (mostly kisses... and sometimes not even that... or one at most). Yaoi? Jeeez, some stuff can be sweet (if you forget the... er... sex scenes), some others will leave you traumatized for life.
We don't talk about boku no pico, that thing shouldn't exist... and technically speaking, that's shotacon (shōta for short)
You'll mostly hear about shonen-ai when looking for mangas rather than animes, I really can't think of any anime that might be considered shonen-ai... there might be some, but right now? Nope, nothing comes to mind.
*kisses cute guy on the cheek*
Good thing about being trans :D
*gives half the money to Kass*