Category Archives: fujoshi

The Fujoshi Files 148: Kazabune

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Name: Kazabune (風船)
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: Single
Origin: Moehime

Information:
A member of the group of Heian-period youkai known as “Kachou Fugetsu,” Kazabune has a far wider knowledge of yaoi due to her ability to time travel. By creating an ark in the shape of a die, she can go into the future, a talent she uses to exploit the modern era’s photocopying technology. Kazabune also has an older brother with whom she used to share her books. Together, they created a secret code to communicate using sexual positions to signify Japanese letters. In terms of genre she prefers anything, as long as it’s hardcore.

Fujoshi Level:
In addition to exceeding the boundaries of time and space in order to maintain her record of yaoi fiction, Kazabune is able to determine whether a book has erotic content just based on the cover; an impressive feat when considering that BL from the Heian period only has written text.

The Fujoshi Files 147: Izayoi

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Name: Izayoi (十六夜)
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: Single
Origin: Moehime

Information:
One of the “Kachou Fugetsu,” a group of youkai in the Heian period, Izayoi is a strong-minded individual who will say whatever’s on her mind and will work hard towards her objectives. She has an eye for men, and often finds herself having the opposite tastes of her fellow Kachou Fugetsu member Kazabune. Upon meeting the writer Tomoe, she learns that Tomoe is the author of one of her favorite books, The Bamboo Prince.

Fujoshi Level:
Izayoi prefers works with strong “seme” characters, and appeears to be quite into BL overall.

The Fujoshi Files 146: Chuuguu

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Name: Chuuguu (中宮)
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: Married
Origin: Moehime

Information:
The wife of the Emperor of Japan, Chuuguu runs an inner circle where members share stories they’ve written. Due to her own preferences, most of these stories involve men having relationships with other men. At one point, hearing of her skills,  Chuuguu asks a writer named Tomoe, a distant acquaintance, to write a story for her, with the qualification that Tomoe will become part of her inner circle.

Fujoshi Level:
The story that Chuuguu requests is one where the Emperor himself is in a homosexual relationship; in other words she is not only pairing off her husband but also the divine ruler of Japan.

The Fujoshi Files 145: Wife

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Name: N/A
Alias: Wife (奥様)
Relationship Status: Married
Origin: Happy Fujoshi: Oku-sama wa Oekaki ga Osuki

Information:
This fujoshi originally hesitated on getting married because she was worried that it would interfere with her Comic Market schedule. When her fiancee (now husband) agreed that she would be allowed to continue her hobbies even after marriage, he did not quite realize how all-encompassing her fujoshi lifestyle could be. She maintains a consistent work-life balance between her company work and her hobbies that originally made her husband feel left out, but he soon realized that it makes her happier and thus makes their marriage happier as well.

Fujoshi Level:
In high school, she was a member of the art club, where she shipped French painters Van Gogh and Gauguin based on Van Gogh’s “Bedroom in Arles” because of the one bed with two pillows.

The Fujoshi Files 144: “Coming Out”

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Name: N/A
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: Dating
Origin: Happy Fujoshi: Coming Out

Information:
This female character recently started dating her boyfriend, who is surprised at all of her fujoshi qualities. When visiting Shibuya, a trendy part of Tokyo, she sees it primarily as a means to visit the otaku goods store Mandarake. Though she is into series popular with fujoshi such as Prince of Tennis, she also has knowledge of works such as Mahoromatic and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. In fact, she pairs the two Higurashi characters Maebara Keiichi and Irie Kyousuke.

She finds it impossible to view her boyfriend as anything but an uke.

Fujoshi Level:
She once paired two businessmen she saw on the street together, but instead of putting them in a business setting she transported them in her imagination to a school academy.

The Fujoshi Files 143: Kaori

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Name: Kaori (カオリ)
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: Dating
Origin: Happy Fujoshi: Sono Onna, Kusarimono ni Tsuki

Information:
Kaori is an adult fujoshi with a very particular pairing logic that her boyfriend finds difficult to understand. For example, pencils are uke because their markings are enveloped by erasers, while teachers are always uke as well unless they’re mad scientist types in glasses.

When asked to describe the difference between her attraction to her boyfriend and to yaoi, she mentions that yaoi is like a dessert in that she has a separate “stomach” for it.

Fujoshi Level:
Once, Kaori did not eat for three days because she kept spending all her money on BL doujinshi instead.

The Fujoshi Files 142: Yajima Izuki

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Name: Yajima, Izuki (矢島いづき)
Alias: N/A
Relationship Status: Dating
Origin: Happy Fujoshi: Super Strong Girl!

Information:
Yajima Izuki is a career woman dating a man working at the same company. A fan of shounen manga, she likens her boyfriend to Nagare Ryouma from Prince of Tennis and refers to a fujoshi’s willpower and endurance as Kinnikuman’s “Burning Inner Strength.” Izuki also has Kira Yamato from Gundam SEED as her cellphone’s wallpaper.

Fujoshi Level:
At work, Yajima once photoshopped a picture of her boyfriend with another man.

The Fujoshi Files 141: Best Friend

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Name: N/A
Alias: Best Friend (親友)
Relationship Status: Polyamorous Dating/Complicated
Origin: Receptacle

Information:
A girl who regularly discusses her very active sex life with her female friend, she is also secretly in love with her as well. In spite of the fact that her good friend is already in a relationship with a man, this girl begins to date her own friend as well.

Fujoshi Level:
A self-proclaimed fujoshi and shotacon, she believes that there is little difference between otaku and fujoshi in the end because it all comes down to attraction to 2-D.

THE SECRET ORIGIN OF GENSHIKEN? Hi Score Girl

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Hi Score Girl is the story of a beautiful romance where a young gamer who meets a girl who’s even better at Street Fighter II than he is. Though antagonistic at first, they begin to develop a friendship, and eventually something more. If you ever get the chance to read it, I recommend checking it out, as does my good friend Dave of Kawaiikochans fame. It’s a shame that the anime adaptation (and a lot of other things) got cut down at the knees due to SNK arguing copyright shenanigans.

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I noticed a few things about the girl in the story. First, she has long, thick black hair. Second, when she plays Street Fighter II, she picks mainly big, bald, and/or burly characters: Zangief, Dhalsim, E. Honda. In fact, when she plays Final Fight, she selects Haggar. Third, her name is Ohno.

Hmmmmm.

I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence or what, but I’m looking forward to the possibility that one Ohno might cosplay as the other. Also, now that I think about it, the Ohno in Hi Score Girl is more like a cross between Ohno and Sue, given her violent and eccentric temperament.

The Fujoshi Files 140: Big Sister

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Name: N/A
Alias: Big Sister (姉)
Relationship Status: Polyamorous Dating/Complicated
Origin: Receptacle

Information:
The older sister of a certain video game-obsessed high school boy with a mildly sadistic girlfriend, this girl spends much of her time in idle conversations with her female best friend about their sex lives and relationship issues with their respective boyfriends. However, this older sister eventually enters a relationship with not only her boyfriend but also her best friend as well.

Fujoshi Level:
Other than that she is less extreme compared to her best friend, nothing specific is known about the kind of fujoshi she is.