Understanding Yaoi and A Look at Cain
I was hanging out with Samantha checking out her manga collection (she has 2 walls, covered from top to bottom with bookshelves). I think she’s totally obsessed with manga but who can blame her!
Anyway, I was looking at her bookshelf and came across one entitled Cain. It sounded interesting so I grabbed it from the shelf. She told me it was a Yaoi. I told here “I know what a Yaoi is. It’s like a Shonen-Ai, right?”
“Well, not really.” she replies. Well, I was confused. I’ve look into both shonen-ai and yaoi and according to the net they seemed very similar.
But Samantha quickly helped me determined which manga books were shonen-ai and which manga were yaoi (and they are different).
Check out Sex, Violence and Pretty Men: All About Yaoi and learn what makes a Yaoi a Yaoi.
Also, read my summary of Cain (my first yaoi). There’s probably better yaoi to start with but I gotta start somewhere, right?
