Oh, those two articles are fascinating, thank you! Just the kind of thing I'm interested in.
I'd love it if you found evidence that seme/uke weren't so set in stone in Japan! I haven't seen much evidence against it in my corner of fandom (my Japanese friend likes Batman/Superman and had to find Western fandom to get her fix as Japanese fandom is nearly all Superman/Batman; in the Western fandom I'm not sure most people even know there's a difference!) but I'd like it to be so. :) I do like that your doujinshi aren't terribly explicit--we tend to assume they're all super-explicit, but in my experience they're not (the explicit ones do stand out mentally, however!)
I think there's a moderately good chance your djka might request you not to use their material, which would be a real shame! Are there enough doujinshis out there that you could keep trying until you had a good number? Though then there's some built-in sampling error in that I'd suspect the djka who saw their work as more "Western-compliant" would be more likely to give permission, hmmm. I'd definitely ask the person you know what they'd think, and I'd be really interested in the answer. It would be a shame to have so much more extensive feedback from the Western fans than Asian, but...that might well be part of what you talk about, that there just isn't a culture of talking about these issues as a community in Japan.
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Date: 2009-01-13 12:42 am (UTC)I'd love it if you found evidence that seme/uke weren't so set in stone in Japan! I haven't seen much evidence against it in my corner of fandom (my Japanese friend likes Batman/Superman and had to find Western fandom to get her fix as Japanese fandom is nearly all Superman/Batman; in the Western fandom I'm not sure most people even know there's a difference!) but I'd like it to be so. :) I do like that your doujinshi aren't terribly explicit--we tend to assume they're all super-explicit, but in my experience they're not (the explicit ones do stand out mentally, however!)
I think there's a moderately good chance your djka might request you not to use their material, which would be a real shame! Are there enough doujinshis out there that you could keep trying until you had a good number? Though then there's some built-in sampling error in that I'd suspect the djka who saw their work as more "Western-compliant" would be more likely to give permission, hmmm. I'd definitely ask the person you know what they'd think, and I'd be really interested in the answer. It would be a shame to have so much more extensive feedback from the Western fans than Asian, but...that might well be part of what you talk about, that there just isn't a culture of talking about these issues as a community in Japan.