I’ve been on a BL banner spree lately. It’s so much easier to create banners than to draw.
Now I’m feeling shameless about using them as siggies when discussing on a normal board. I just keep my most explicit ones for specific places where people have the yaoi spirit. ^___^
Now, here comes the banners I’ve done with the artworks of some of the finest BL artists IMHO.
WARNING
Kids, go away!
This is yaoi, meaning images depicting homosexual relationships.
If the concept offends you, don’t clink on the link!
ATTENTION
Les gamins, tirez-vous !
Ceci est du yaoi, c’est à dire des images illustrant des relations homosexuelles.
Si le concept vous offense, ne cliquez pas sur le lien !
Yoo Hajin
Kaoru Yukifuna
I’m a total sucker for her beautiful art. I can’t remember the name or the american publisher who’s licensed the Flesh & Blood light novel series. Is it BLU or Juné or another one? Whatever, I’m waiting for the books!
Inariya Fusanosuke
I’m crazy for her style. Love love her art style to bits. Though, she’s really not for the faint of heart. Her mangas are very angsty, not necessarily happy-ended. But they’re very intense.
Kazusa Takashima
If not for this revolting scandal involving one shoujo mangaka I can’t stand anymore ever since I learned about it, Takashima-sensei would surely have become one of the most famous yaoi mangaka.
Even unfinished, this manga is one of the best piece of hard yaoi you can ever read. I don’t mean hard as in very explicit. It is explicit. But I mean hard as in adult themes, as in disturbing for soft hearts. A very dramatic and captivating and unfortunately unfinished masterpiece.
Curse the shoujo mangaka! One day, your karma will bite you back for your sins!
Ayano Yamane
My most beloved one obsession. I’m sure that if one day, I lose interest in BL, I’ll still be a Yamane fan.
Aw well, he’s so sexy when smexing molesting Akihito. After all, it’s his fault if I’m a rabid yaoi fangirl.
16 May 2008 at 10:00 pm
Awww! I so love your bans! Really! If I could, I would have taken them all!^^ I regret I never read any Inariya Fusanosuke before…
And being a rabid fangirl have some advantages. Honestly, I don’t really know if I would like to be in Aki’s place…^^ (When ‘place’ doesn’t mean ‘Asami’s bed with Asami’) And your ban for IIR… *hyperventilates* OMG… *dies from nosebleed* Honestly, Yamane-san must be akin to vampires… with all the blood I lose reading her manga.^^
But really, I love them all!^^ Thank you for sharing!
I guess I have to leave before my parents sends me to hospital to get my brain checked.^^ See you ’round!
15 June 2008 at 4:45 am
^_^ i think all of the items in your list are also on my favorite list. just recently, i discovered totally captivated by hajin yoo. its the first manga i read that has been drawn by a korean and i’m totally enjoying it. ^_^ ih my, at first i thought i wouldnt like it coz it somewhat resembles viewfinder series but then, well, TC surprised me yet again. it was funny, well drawn and well, its BL. hehe, ^_^ go fangirls/boys!
24 January 2009 at 11:27 pm
thanks forsharing
there so pretty
stil dont know how to make one so i’m verry happy I found such beautiful one’s on the web
22 October 2009 at 3:44 am
Those banners are so pretty! especially Fusanosuke sensei’s one! Love them!
I agree with you. that shoujo mangaka made me bleed from sadness. I love Takashima sensei’s stories, and i hooked up when i saw the Kingyo Hime, the most wonderful, simple, clear but hert touching one shot ever!
why did she loose? I feel bad for her.
I prefer Maiden Rose to Viewfinder, sorry. But all in all, it’s so wonderful!
thank you for sharing!
22 October 2009 at 6:27 pm
No problem, not everybody is crazy about Yamane-sensei’s Viewfinder and it’s okay.
About Takashima-sensei, she’s slowly coming back so her ban period must have ended. I think it was last year or a couple of years ago that she finished Harlem Beat. But she hasn’t drawn any new BL story, except for some illustrations here and there. It seems there are still issues preventing her from continuing Last Client.
The trial against Kayono was quite an ugly thing from what I’ve heard. Kayono’s publisher officially answered to suspicious readers that she does not read Boys Love, ergo she cannot copy what she does not even know of.
Meanwhile, Kayono’s mother — an influential mangaka — led a media campaign, bashing Takashima and BL genre.
You must take into account that BL is a niche in Japan and not well considered by the whole society.
Some say it’s because she was a BL mangaka (pervert) VS a shoujo mangaka (respectable) that Takashima lost. Others say Kayono’s mother pulled strings for her daughter. But most of the rumours are about Kayono’s family using their connections to prevent Takashima from publishing anything even though after the trial, she was already banned from continuing her ongoing series. I suppose the ban period must have been at least of 2 years as it’s the usual length of time for a ban concerning plagiarism cases in Japan.