Comments on: Girl geeks flood Otome Road http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/16/girl-geeks-flood-otome-road/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:54:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Scott Bieser http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/16/girl-geeks-flood-otome-road/#comment-1651 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:52:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/16/girl-geeks-flood-otome-road/#comment-1651 Some people may be surprised to learn that there are similar literary cultures in the West, although it takes place almost entirely on-line, and usually in the form of prose more often than graphic stories. The Western analog to doujinshi yaoi is called "slash" by its fan-practitioners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction). I don't have information concerning the scope of this phenomenon beyond the Wikipedia article, but to give an example, the teen-aged daughter of a friend of mine has written a 60,000-word slash novel portraying a homosexual love affair between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, set against a World War II back-drop. Some people may be surprised to learn that there are similar literary cultures in the West, although it takes place almost entirely on-line, and usually in the form of prose more often than graphic stories.

The Western analog to doujinshi yaoi is called “slash” by its fan-practitioners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction). I don’t have information concerning the scope of this phenomenon beyond the Wikipedia article, but to give an example, the teen-aged daughter of a friend of mine has written a 60,000-word slash novel portraying a homosexual love affair between John Lennon and Paul McCartney, set against a World War II back-drop.

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