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Games - Boys' Love, Just For Fun, Man Candy/Pretty

May 14, 2011

YAOI FUN: Foursome! NSFW Puzzle

This time you need to work for it! Just make sure no one is looking over your shoulder. Place your mouse over the puzzle loading icon to load puzzle!

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~Jennifer LeBlanc

Go!Comi

May 12, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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YAOI NEWS: Go!Comi Site is Fake

In case you didn't see the news via Twitter, Facebook or ANN, Go!Comi's site is back up but it is a FAKE. It is asking for donations to help get the company back up and running. DO NOT DONATE. Audry Taylor, who is the former Creative Director for Go!Comi posted this on her Twitter account yesterday:

@AudryT: WARNING: MY FORMER GOCOMI.COM WEBSITE HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A SCAM. IT IS NOT REAL. DO NOT DONATE. GONNA SICK MY LAWYERS ON THEM. PLEASE RT.

Thanks to @Kuriousity on Twitter for noticing the scammer.

~Jennifer LeBlanc

Censorship & Law, Digital Content

May 12, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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YAOI ALERT: Be Careful When Traveling To Canada

As if we don't have enough to worry about lately, it has come to my attention a few days ago that the Canadian customs agents have been cracking down hard on comic materials coming over the border (this could be anything driven, flown or delivered into Canada except by U.S. mail, which apparently has stricter standards when it comes to "reasonable suspicion" and requires a warrant. Not so for private carriers like UPS and FedEx, which can be searched must easier.). This is not a yaoi specific issue, which actually makes it all the scarier since it covers such a broad scope of reading material. Here are three really good articles concerning the recent issue at TCAF (Toronto Comics Art Festival).

Black Eye Anthology Seized at the Canadian Border

NEWS FLASH: Black Eye Seized at the Canadian Border

Black Eye and Young Lions Seized at the Canadian Border

The last article points to past history of Canada's customs agents seizing materials and I want to point out these two links as they are very important. The first goes back to 2007 when customs agents seized gay comics from a French publisher that was shipping them to a Montreal book store. The second article is far more concerning as it pertains to manga. If everything this person says is true including the fact that he was detained because the title of one of his manga had the word 'boy' in it, I would be petrified to bring any yaoi materials over the border. Now this article is from 2006 but I haven't read anything saying they've become more lenient since then. Either way, it provides an excellent history of censorship in Canada.

Just so you don't think I'm being overly dramatic in my concern, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, who brought immense attention to the Christopher Handley trial, is also showing concern over this situation. They wrote "an advisory for travelers on crossing borders with comic book materials" all about Canadian customs, what they can and cannot do and what lengths they will go to to search your belongings. Here are a few excerpts of great concern:

"In one recent incident, an individual was detained at the U.S.-Canada border while en route to an anime/manga convention. He was handcuffed and held briefly on charges of child pornography, and his materials seized."

"Customs agents also may search for information stored on electronic devices, including cameras, laptop computers, cell phones or other storage devices, or on electronic media, such as flash drives or DVDs. Such searches may be conducted at random, with or without reasonable suspicion, and are becoming increasingly common. According to information revealed pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the ACLU, over 6,500 people traveling to and from the United States between October 2008 and June 2010 had their electronic devices searched at the border. Nearly half of those searched were U.S. citizens."

"Customs agents frequently use an overly broad and inaccurate definition of “child pornography” in order to justify intrusive searches of materials that are fully protected by the United States Constitution."

"…CBLDF has gotten reports that travelers have been detained and their computers and expressive materials seized after customs agents found comic art that contained no depictions of actual children and no representations of sexual activity. Any photographic or artistic rendering that depicts nudity may heighten the risk of a search, even if the depiction has nothing to do with child pornography."

Page 8 and 9 give suggestions for avoiding intrusive border searches. I recommend anyone traveling to Canada to give that a thorough read to avoid any issues in the future.

UPDATE: There has now been a man arrested for child pornography upon finding his manga on his laptop.

~Jennifer LeBlanc

Word of the Day

May 12, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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Word of the Day: Moe

"Moe: is a Japanese slang word. One expert claims it is derived from a Japanese word that literally means "budding," as with a plant that is about to flower, and thus it can also be used to mean "budding" as with a preadolescent girl. Since the word is also a homonym for "burning" pronounced moe, there is also speculation that the word stems from the burning passion felt for the characters. The word has come to be used to mean one particular kind of "adorable", one specific type of "cute", mainly as applied to fictional characters.

The word is occasionally spelled Moé, and was originally related to a strong interest in a particular type or style of character in video games, anime or manga. "Moe!" is also used within anime fandom as an interjection." SOURCE

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~Jennifer LeBlanc

Just For Fun, Yana Toboso

May 9, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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YAOI FUNNY: I’m a BANANA!

Here's the original "I'm a Banana!" video that inspired this one.

~Jennifer LeBlanc

Censorship & Law, Digital Content

May 9, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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KINDLE Yaoi Censorship Updates [UPDATED]

The past few days have been a whirlwind of posts, letters to editors, emails to KINDLE and many a forum discussion. It's been exhausting for all of us but here's what's come out of it so far. Bigger sites have picked up the story including After Elton, Publishers Weekly, Anime News Network, and Robot 6. There has been some great discussion out there and I recommend checking them out if you haven't already.

I've done my best to compile a list of books that have been removed based on scouring Amazon's site, publisher sites, publisher announcements of titles removed and also what some of you have been so nice to point out. As of right now, here is a list of the eBooks that have been removed and/or altered. Please feel free to add to the list in comments or point out any mistakes on the list:

Digital Content, Libre, Release Dates

May 8, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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NEW YAOI: ANIMATE USA’s April KINDLE Releases

Considering the recent events with KINDLE's censorship of our yaoi titles, you may wonder why I'd even post about these new releases. I'm posting for two reasons. One is that it is not Libre's fault that their exclusive titles got pulled and I still want to support their efforts at bringing new titles to us straight from Japan. My hopes are that they will expand their selections to other digital outlets. Second is that many of you have already purchased these ongoing titles and I know you would like to know if new parts are available. I will not do what Amazon and KINDLE have done by choosing for you what you can and cannot read. That being said, if you are interested in buying one of these you should probably do it right away before it is removed by KINDLE.

~Jennifer LeBlanc

AMV's, Juné, Salarymen/Co-workers, Yaoi, Yugi Yamada

May 7, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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YAOI AMV: Close the Last Door ~ Yugi Yamada

~Jennifer LeBlanc

801 Media, BLU, Censorship & Law, Digital Content, Juné

May 6, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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CALL TO ACTION: KINDLE Alternatives for Yaoi!

To further show Amazon that we mean business, I thought I would post alternatives for digital reading that doesn't require a KINDLE or even an eReader to enjoy.

Barnes & Noble has the NOOK and currently boasts of approximately 149 yaoi titles based on a search for the word "yaoi" on their NOOK site. The best thing is that you do not need to own a NOOK in order to read these titles. B&N offers free apps for your PC desktop, your Mac desktop, your iPad, your iPhone, your Blackberry and for Android.

Digital Manga also has their site eManga with all of their titles listed as well as fan favorites like Starfighter and Teahouse. It also currently has BLUMANGA titles but only until May 20th. If you have an eReader that supports ePub, Mobi or PDF files, you can find a growing selection of Digital Manga's titles over at tlagay.com as well. Borders sells their eReader, the Kobo, for as low as $99 and it supports both ePub and PDF files. They also provide free apps for your PC desktop, Mac desktop, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and Android. A Google search of eReaders shows a wide range of devices as well as low prices. Just make sure to pay attention to what file types they support!

As you can see, there are PLENTY of other ways to enjoy your digital content without having to resort to supporting the KINDLE and Amazon's restrictive content guidelines and censorship. Let's show Amazon and KINDLE we mean business!

~Jennifer LeBlanc

Man Candy/Pretty

May 5, 2011

Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl

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