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Well, Yaoi on Ice is, errr sorry, I meant Yuri on Ice is a sports anime with VERY straight males.
#Yuri on ice yaoi series#
I just finished the series and I TOTALLY can tell there's no yaoi in it.
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(Alas, I can't give a personal opinion on the role of romance in the series without first doing a rewatch.) Going back to the first point, would this mean that Yuri!!! on Ice is then automatically BL (in the sense of having a romance between two men), under approach (2)? The mere development of a romantic element doesn't have to mean that a work is centred on romance though, so it really depends on what one thinks is the focus of the story. However, the whole matter is approached a bit indirectly. the implication of a kiss in episode 7) and various markers of physical intimacy that we're shown (e.g. The relationship between Victor and Yuri Katsuki is eventually pushed to a point where it's difficult to not see it as romantic in nature, in light of a combination of both plot points (e.g. However, part of the concern here seems to be about whether there is any major same-sex romance in Yuri!!! on Ice, and writing about that is straightforward. I don't know where a happy medium between these two extremes would be, in the case of the BL genre. (For example, I would describe The Brothers Karamazov as a "religious novel" in the sense of being preoccupied with religious themes, more on account of my impressions of it and of Dostoevsky than on account of any knowledge of how the original publishers marketed it. On the other hand, genre labels sometimes get treated by others as some sort of vehicle for analysis, in which case the labels are not necessarily predetermined. Yuri!!! on Ice wasn't listed as BL for some people, that's enough for a claim that it, well, isn't BL. There are two approaches people seem to take with genre labels:
#Yuri on ice yaoi how to#
I'm not sure of how to best assess the genre of Yuri!!! on Ice. Then again, if this genuinely makes you feel uncomfortable, share a moment of sympathy for every late-teen/early 20s woman who sees an all-girls anime and plenty of shojo ai overtones. There may be some degree of fanservice to that direction, but you really won't know much about the show until you watch the first couple of episodes. Not sure I see any yaoi or shounen ai vibes that are explicit in there, since this is predominately an anime about figure skating with a cast of male characters.
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I don't claim to have watched it I've only gleaned information about this particular show from Wikipedia. This answer was written when the show was first airing, in Fall 2016.