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A female otaku with a Fetish for handsome men engaged in explicitly homosexual activity. Less common in anime than the Cosplay Otaku Girl, due to this character type having less appeal to male anime fans.
In series where such characters are seen, at least one joke will be made that involves the Yaoi fangirl's dirty imagination and at least one of the male characters.
The Japanese name for Yaoi Fangirl is Fujoshi (Which means "rotten girl"). The word is misused as "Female Otaku," making female otakus who are not fujoshi and know the meaning of the word correct people everywhere. The male equivalent is called a Fudanshi, but oddly enough a lot of Fudanshis are straight.
All of the above give testament to the cultural bias that exists against women who enjoy watching male-on-male action. Since their fantasies don't include the heterosexual male - the main target of most shows - they are often depicted as highly unattractive or otherwise "twisted" and "abnormal". This doesn't exist for males enjoying lesbian sex scenes and straight women usually don't mind such fantasies from their mates.
Decidedly a case of Truth In Television. See also Slash Fic, Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls.
Compare Yuri Fan, the mostly Gender Flipped version. That trope tends to have both boy and girl yuri fans. Also, in case you were wondering, there are yaoi fanboys (who are otherwise straight). They're just rare although becoming more prevalent, especially with self-acclaimed bishonen.
Both sets of fans are likely to think that Het Is Ew.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Film
- The movie Run Fat Boy Run has one for a few seconds. Dennis and his friend Gordon tumbles around in a taxi, and Gordon's hand accidentally lands on Dennis' arse. Then the taxi stops next to a pretty girl who sees them like this, and then flirtasiously waves at them. Dennis seems rather confused/offended, while Gordon keeps his hand in place and smiles back at her.
Fan Fiction
- Internet example: fanfiction.net. If yaoi fangirls were dragonflies, this site (the Kingdom Hearts section in particular) would be a summer pond the size of Texas.
- ... nice metaphor.
- Just to go Beyond The Impossible, FF.net is MILD compared to adultfanfiction.net....Or So I Heard...don't judge me.
- This troper has to fight to keep his head above the swarm of penis in the video games section alone.
- Forget fanfiction.net, livejournal is where it's at. The thriving community of anonymous kink memes
there lives and breathes yaoi - though het and yuri are around, the yaoi by far outstrips it on just about every single kink meme.
- Just go to the Johnny's Entertainment
fandom for awhile. THERE IS NO HET... EVER.
- It's a bunch of sexy guys who sit in each other's lap, feed each other, mock-fight over each other in interviews, and aren't allowed to date until 20. You can't blame us.
Comics
- The titular character of Empowered is one of these. Much of her collection of doujinshis is based off the other superheroes, much to their horror.
- The male superheroes change their minds as soon as they find out that the doujins are written by girls, much to Emp's chagrin.
Live Action TV
- Grace of Will And Grace often alludes to liking gay porn.
- Mel of Flight Of The Conchords. Flight Of The Conchords is a two man band, and she's their Loony Fan who has apparently given some thought to fantasies about them together, and what the offspring of the two of them would look like.
- Constable Maggie Habib of The Thin Blue Line is very keen on the homoerotic aspects of football and in one episode speculates on the relationship between both Biggles and Ginger and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson ("sometimes there's months between cases - what do they do then?"). Her male boss is horrified.
- In one of the last episodes of Buffythe Vampire Slayer Buffy is sick and tired of Spike and Angel always ragging on each other - she suggests locking them in a room together and let them wrestle it out (or something to that effect). When Spike seems to like the idea, she comments semi-privately that there could be oil involved.
- More fun when you remember that time where Spike said that "he and Angel were never intimate — except that one time."
- The vampire Queen Sophie-Anne, of True Blood, gets excited when she sees Bill drink the blood of a handsome, muscular man, and says that she "loves to watch two men together." Later, she suggests to Bill that he and Eric resolve their differences by having sex, and wants to watch.
- State of Play. A homosexual member of the newsroom mentions he just slept with the man they've been investigating. When he asks if they want him to go into detail the men immediately say "No!" while the female journalists have exactly the opposite response.
Video Games
Web Comics
- Aoi House features two straight guys winding up in what was supposed to be "Yaoi House," populated entirely by Yaoi Fangirls (and one crossdressing Yaoi fanboy), who constantly try to turn them into their "yaoi pets."
- Meji, in Errant Story
.
- Jodie from Loserz is a fan of Tidus and yaoi, as seen here
.
- In Namir Deiter, two girls who realize Isaac knows Charles immediately assume "the forbidden love between student and teacher," complete with an appropriately graphic shared fantasy
. (They're half-right... the student was a female acquaintance of Isaac.)
- Aeris from VG Cats is a big yaoi fangirl. One strip
has shown her writing yaoi Final Fantasy X Fan Fiction (and violently beating her male co-star when he chides her on it). Another has a homosexual encounter between Starfox characters (with dialog composed entirely of repurposed lines from the game) and is revealed to be a very happy dream Aeris is having.
- This
Treading Ground strip.
- Kairi of Ansem Retort fit this one for her short lifespan.
- Zii of Menage A 3 is definitely
this. (She likes Yuri too, though... but is bored by hetero porn.)
- Shion from Experimental Comic Kotone seems to be one, too.
- There was a brief window of time, just before her introduction in the comic proper, when this was practically all that DMFA fans knew about Regina.
- Also Wildy's spy novel featuring a not-so-subtle Expy of Jyrras.
- Lisa of Mechagical Girl Lisa ANT seems to be one, as evidenced in the Massive Multiplayer Crossover.
- Marigold, the Otaku girl from Questionable Content. And she just contaminated
Hannelore.
- And Angus
, awkwardly enough.
- Much to Chrono's horror, his own mother, Lindy, as well as her best friend Leti are examples of this in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Fan Web Comic Nanoha R'r
. Few things are worse than watching your mother celebrate after you told her that you found your male friend pretty than having her discuss with her fellow yaoi fangirl ◊ whether you're the Seme or Uke in the relationship and how to best crossdress you for your role.
- Lin of Linburger is intensely into this. So much so that she prefers to sit and watch her boyfriend and his male lover together rather than join in.
Web Original
- Mocked
by anime voice actors Steven Blum and Vic Mignogna in a parody of the budweiser 'Real Men of Genius' skit.
- Missy, one of the characters in More Tales Of MU is very clearly one of these. What makes it funny is that previously, the gay sex itself spawned a conversation in the comments concerning the existence of such fangirls just like the example above.
Real Life
- This Troper, after making the mistake of informing who seemed like a normal girl who liked talking about manga I had a twin brother, was asked if I could pose for a photo of me kissing my twin brother for her "personal use". Needless to say, actual twins find some Yaoi Fangirls' fantasies disturbing. Not because they want to hate on Yaoi Fandom, but because we just don't see our siblings in that light.
- Even a regular yaoi fan would find that kind of squicky. And rude... :l
- And horribly, horribly creepy. What kind of person would ask a random guy "Hey, mind making out with your brother so I can masturbate to it?"
- I'm a regular yaoi fangirl. I'm reading this and I'm horribly, HORRIBLY embarrassed on behalf of all of us. We're not all crazy, really.
- OTOH, This Troper has met more or less decent looking guys who actually are more than willing to pose that way with other guys to attract the attention of yaoi fangirls. They're rather easy to spot at anime cons, and while many of the most... "inexperienced" girls are all goo gaa over them, older yaoi fans are embarrassed.
- This Troper's first boyfriend was Tall Dark And Handsome. According to him, he got many girls asking him to make out with other men. The troper herself is a HUGE Yaoi Fangirl, but even then she was all "wtf" - come on, that's rude.
- Sadly, a good deal too many yaoi fangirls like to bug the voice actors of popular yaoi-related characters about it at anime cons. Similar to the examples above, there have been fangirls making yaoi between the actual voice actors themselves. But this did lead to some good: once Quinton Flynn and Jeff Nimoy found out they were being shipped together, they created the "Yaoi Song".
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