Sensitive Boy - Ch. 62 - Hollow Young Man

[Ulthair]

For me at least, there's a distinction between "BL" as a genre and just having a romance that happens to be gay.

Might just be due to so many years of scorn for how BL stories have been written, but most of the ones I can think of that have been explicitly part of the "BL" genre has basically been little more than an excuse for smut. To the point where I think a large number of people (myself included) have a difficult time separating the genre from smut.

If I'm looking for porn, I'll go fucking look for porn, so those kinds of stories have never sat well with me. (And before any Tumblr expats get mad at me, yes, excessive fanservice in general pisses me off. It's why I could never take Fairy Tail seriously.) Anything in the BL genre gets set aside almost immediately for me with minimal consideration because I've just come to expect certain tropes and stereotypes from the genre.

This, to me, isn't "BL" because it's not a story focused on "heh, let's draw two hot guys fucking or almost-fucking as much as we can." It's just a romance story... where the main character happens to be queer.

I'm pretty excited for this arc. I think the author has done a fairly good job dealing with some heavy and complicated topics, and I have confidence that they will carry that energy into this arc and make it as good as the last 2. I've loved how supportive Asahi has been to his friends, so I hope he gets a good ending, too.

 

[HoneyPopper]

This, to me, isn't "BL" because it's not a story focused on "heh, let's draw two hot guys fucking or almost-fucking as much as we can." It's just a romance story... where the main character happens to be queer.

finally, a reader that actually reads best comment I've encountered for this chapter.

 

[Somedud3A]

God I knew it will become BL in some point of the story.

But that won't stop me from reading this the 2 arcs where good and I expect this arc will also be as good as the other 2.

 

[Ren4president]

I prolly shouldn’t be talm so much since Im a straight dude; I retired from being a himedanshi bc I really grew to hate how majority and all the popular series tend to be very fetish-y, stories(plot threads, conflicts, character arcs, etc.)always being about being moreso structured around the characters being in love with the same sex rather that just being a bi-product of their connection. And from reading many shojo/josei with bl along with having fujoshi fans and being forced to read bl I ran across the same problems. This also extends to discussion of bl and gl discussion with things like championing toxic, doomed or whatever else genre of yuri/Yaoi where while it looks nice it’s mostly just held together with fetishism and delusions. I’m not surprised at all asahi would get a arc dealing with sexuality and male partner since it seemed like the natural choice with everything we seen of him from the past arcs. While I wouldn’t say I’m attracted to asahi and kanefumi, I expect 46 to absolutely cook with these two like the two duos we had in the two previous arcs

 

[Ren4president]

God I knew it will become BL in some point of the story.

But that won't stop me from reading this the 2 arcs where good and I expect this arc will also be as good as the other 2.

This isn’t really a BL. The hook definitely isn’t both of them being two gay boys and kissing. It’s just a romance with the themes and conflicts being around sexuality and love in general

 

[Nightdotexe]

 

[jcuum]

(yapping)

LMAO it'd be one thing if i said "ALL hololive fans are ___" but I legit just said they were my reference and that was enough for u to get pissy and call it "generalizing"

Anyway look up "hololive unicorns" and u will see what I mean. Better yet, try looking at ANY Holostar-related post on the holopro subreddit xd

 

[muraismuse]

no hate, its been a helluva ride, but its yaoi and im out

Loser

 

[muraismuse]

So happy to dive into his arc! I knew from the photo it and the breakup with the girl it was going to be a sexuality arc. As an AVID BL reader I’m excited. Let’s see how it goes!

 

[Akikako]

Ah, they are fags

 

[smart_fella255]

I don't regret dropping this way back earlier when the whole café manager thing started