yaoi > het

[rekall]

D'oh, not again. Today, I see covers of mangas posted to free_manga and come so close to downloading the series when I take another look at the covers and realize the uke is really a girl and immediately lost interest. And this hasn't been the first time its happened.

It's not that I don't like het, it's just that cheesy shoujo romances bores me to death (especially when it's 23 volumes long like a certain series that will remain nameless). It's not cute. At least with yaoi, I get porn out of it even if the story sucks.

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[rekallthegreat.livejournal.com]

Haru/Rin was really the only canon pairing I ended up liking but even then I was bitter they didn't get enough screen time compared to some other couples.

Ayame/Mine is the pairing that really drove me crazy. Mainly because Ayame seemed so gay and I had Mine pegged as a lesbian. I thought they were really great together as best friends and then at the end it's like they were just thrown together in an attempt to pair everyone up (I also hated how everyone except two characters ended up with someone because hey, some people like being alone!).

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

The ending was just terrible LETS PAIR EVERYONE UP HAPPILY. A bit like CCS... Only CCS didn't have dark overtones and the pairings were all built up.

[rekallthegreat.livejournal.com]

CCS also showed different types of relationships/love, which is another thing that annoyed me.

Every pairing in Fruits Basket was a het pairing, which I find ridiculous since you had a few characters who were into their late 20s who could not touch females (until the end of the series). By that point you'd think that at least someone would have realized they could have had a healthy relationship with another male.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I didn't much care about most of the older cast, but I remember a trio of older characters who seemed really really gay to me. But I'm not sure how the manga-ka feels about gay relationships in general.