It's my understanding that Eroica pre-dates the emergence of yaoi as a category separate from (but often bridging) girls' and boys' comics. Still, thematically, I think yaoi is the closest-to-accurate term.
My personal definition of slash includes a sense that while the m/m (or f/f) element may be strongly hinted at, its existence is inferred, built upon, and made a story element by fans, rather than the medium's creator. Thus, pairings like Talia Winters/Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5, pretty much anybody in Queer as Folk, or Apollo and the Midnighter of The Authority, aren't actually slash pairings, because they're acknowledged as canon pairings.
You've shown me some manga that, similar to Eroica, have a plot focus other than the love relationship -- I'm thinking of Sakende Yaruze and Otona no Mondai, in particular.
I guess what I'm getting at is that while From Eroica With Love has elements in common with both slash and yaoi,
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Re: I love this series so much.
Date: 2004-10-19 06:26 am (UTC)My personal definition of slash includes a sense that while the m/m (or f/f) element may be strongly hinted at, its existence is inferred, built upon, and made a story element by fans, rather than the medium's creator. Thus, pairings like Talia Winters/Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5, pretty much anybody in Queer as Folk, or Apollo and the Midnighter of The Authority, aren't actually slash pairings, because they're acknowledged as canon pairings.
You've shown me some manga that, similar to Eroica, have a plot focus other than the love relationship -- I'm thinking of Sakende Yaruze and Otona no Mondai, in particular.
I guess what I'm getting at is that while From Eroica With Love has elements in common with both slash and yaoi,