Yaoi Fangirl - Television Tropes & Idioms

Fruits Basket has a swarm of these, albeit subtlely. When Yuki makes a public reference to the number of times Hatori has seen him naked, the girls are seemingly horrified... and simultaneously strangely fascinated.
Genshiken features both the "double" otaku Kanako Ohno (seen in the illustration above), who is into both cosplay and yaoi and is unapologetic about her fetishes, and the self-doubting yaoi fangirl Chika Ogiue, who initially is ashamed about her fetish but gradually grows to accept it.
Excel Excel of Excel Saga is shown to fantasize about the men she is infatuated with being Yaoi Guys.
Renge and several of the regular customers of Ouran High School Host Club might qualify, since this is the twins' gimmick.
- Much later, Tamaki is annoyed when Kasanoda stops by to "visit" Haruhi, since the club hosts women. The Vice President ignores his complaints, indicating the firestorm of Squee behind Haruhi; all the girls see is the normally grouchy delinquent shyly attempting to talk to a short, cute boy.
Haruna Saotome in Mahou Sensei Negima. At the start of chapter 183, she even drags Negi to a convention with her. Of course, he is too innocent to realize what he's picking up.
Negi: What's this? This man is naked and...
Chisame: DON'T YOU DARE TURN ANOTHER PAGE!!!
Haruna: It's kind of hard to get regular people to understand our hobbies. Right Chisame-san?
Chisame: Then don't friggin' bring 'em-!!
- The fact that it appears to be a Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei doujinshi raises the awkward question of where they found two guys...
  - It's largely a Take That at the author of SZS, but the most likely culprits would be Jun Kudou and Nozomu Itoshiki, with Jun topping. Not that Akamatsu was thinking about that in particular.
  - Which only makes us wonder about you...
Hiyori from Lucky Star is a yuri/yaoi fangirl, and has to keep reminding herself to stop imagining and drawing her friends Yutaka and Minami as Schoolgirl Lesbians.
- "Tamura-saaaaan! What's yaoi? ^_^"
In Naruto, Konohamaru uses a variation of the Sexy Jutsu to make two shadow clones transform into a nude Sasuke and Sai locked in a very suggestive pose. This gains for the first time a perverted reaction to the technique from a girl, Sakura—who was just before criticizing Naruto and Konohamaru about being perverts themselves.
- Of course, the anime had to ruin it by ending when Sakura hit Konohamaru for the shadow clones of two girls.
In Onegai Twins, the girls who go on to become Those Three Girls are introduced watching through a window as the Yaoi Guy flirts with/teases the (very unamused) main character, and give commentary that sounds exactly like many a slash fandom discussion.
Harumi Fujiyoshi of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, who's also a Doujinshi artist and has a thing for ears. Her surname is even derived from "fujoshi", a derogatory term for yaoi fangirls.
Just about every major female character in Kyou Kara Maou, with the possible exception of one or two Yamato Nadeshiko types. Not surprising in a comedy featuring a male lead and his all-male Unwanted Harem. The trio of castle maids in particular can be seen at several points poring over charts apparently depicting the protagonist's romantic prospects, calculating odds and placing and collecting on bets as events occur and make various pairings more or less possible.
The Midori Days manga has a small story in which Seji Sawamura's childhood girl-friend sees him again. Seji finds out that she's now an accomplished doujinshi artist...who draws yaoi relationships between canon characters. Even at the end of the story, she draws another comic where "You (Seiji) and Master Yori get together at last! <3"
In the Suzumiya Haruhi novels Itsuki claims he acts Ambiguously Gay and seems to almost be flirting with Kyon because he thinks that if he didn't act that way on his own, Haruhi would unconsciously use her power to make him. Think about that for a minute.
- In Haruhi-Chan, her movie script in episode 9 is centered around a Meido tournament, with Kyon and Itsuki winning and becoming a couple, which causes Mikuru to become confused and stop thinking.
After Kaneru from Doujin Work gets introduced to yaoi doujinshi works as inspiration for her own material, her imagination tends to go rampant whenever she sees males interact.
The title character of Tonari no 801-chan.
Elisabeta/Hungary, the Bokukko from Axis Powers Hetalia. This even extends to her liking to watch how cute guys hit on her husband Roderich/Austria. This Hungarian yaoi fan appreciates the idea a lot.
- Also, add the fact that in the real world, Hungary is "a mecca for gay porn videos" (Word Of God points that out in the Author's Notes) and, well...
- There's one exception, though. Once she caught Francis/France looking lewdly at an oblivious Austria and, um, it didn't go well for him. In her defense, she was told to hit France by someone else.
Takako from Kannagi. She doesn't openly admit it, but in private she tends to have nosebleed-inducing thoughts about the boys in the art club.
Biscuit from Hunter X Hunter is seen reading a Boys Love magazine- and drooling to it- in the manga, with guys on the cover that look oddly similar to Teenage!Sensui and Itsuki.
Fumiko, Sanpeita's mother, in Kemeko Deluxe. As flashbacks reveal, even in high school, she was drawing yaoi manga frequently. Though she keeps calling it "homo-dachi" (homo-friends) manga instead of the more common "boys' love", to the annoyance of her editor.
Yuuko from XXX Holic loves to tease Watanuki about his closeness with Domeki, and suggests multiple times that maybe Domeki is the one destined for him instead of Himawari.
- And to a lesser extent, possibly Himawari herself. Whenever Watanuki and Doumeki interact (read: bicker), she always comments on how they're both so cute and how close they are.
Yayoi, the shortest of Those Three Girls in Mai-HiME, squees the loudest when she envisions Takumi and Akira sharing a room in the boys' dorm. What she doesn't know is that Akira's really a girl concealing her true gender to allow herself to more easily protect him.
Hokuto, Subaru's sister, from Tokyo Babylon. She just loves pairing Subaru with Seishiro, and teasing Subaru about it. She frequently encourages Seishiro in his pursuit of Subaru. All because she sincerely wants her brother to live his life for something more than family obligation.
Reiji of Gravitation is much conflicted between her feelings for Shuichi and her feelings for his relationship with Yuki.
Aikawa, Usagi's editor in Junjou Romantica. Her input greatly influences the content of the BL novels Usagi pens on the side. She also rather enjoys the fact that Usagi has found a male lover, and never helps Misaki out of sexual situations when he asks for it.
Kaname from Full Metal Panic. In a novel sidestory, she's a bit too gleeful about discussing and giggling with her friend about how both Sousuke and Tsubaki are submissive "receivers".

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Internet example: fanfiction.net. If yaoi fangirls were mosquitoes, this site (the Kingdom Hearts section in particular) would be a stagnant 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.
- 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.

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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.

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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 ...
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."

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Shiki Misaki in The World Ends With You, though, it's debatable if that's just her personality in the bonus chapter
Anastasia Romanova (yes, that Anastasia) of Shadow Hearts: Covenant. See her starry-eyed expression at the end of the Man Festival.
Anastasia: Isn't it beautiful? Love comes in so many different shapes.
Yuri: (Apparently struggling not to throw up at viewing the same scene) I... I'm not into... that shape.
EVA from Metal Gear Solid 3 seems to enjoy the ramifications of Ocelot's crush on Big Boss a little too much.
- She also hints that Snake ought to put the move on Raikov.
  - And Sokolov. And Volgin. And Johnny.
Anastasia. THE Anastasia.

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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.
- Seeing how actual yaoi fangirls usually treat her, that's...ironic, to say the least.
Zii of Menage A 3 is definitely this.
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.
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 then having her discuss with her fellow yaoi fangirl on◊ 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.

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Mocked by anime voice actors Steven Blum and Vic Mignogna in a parody of thebudweiser '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.

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