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In case you haven't seen it yet, I snatched this article from Anime News Network:

MTV on Yaoi (2006-03-11 22:10:11)
MTV Overdrive, MTV's broadband video channel, is now streaming a video piece about yaoi and shoujo manga. The 2-minute video includes Be Beautiful, Tokyopop, and Digital Manga titles, interviews, and information. The video can be seen here. The accompanying article can be read here.

The ANN Forums' discussions are here.

So, any thoughts on the article, or the mainstreaming of yaoi in general?

UPDATE: This link is over a year old and no longer works, so don't bother trying to click it. The discussion is still going strong though.

Yaoi on MTV? Well, what are the odds...

I hate to tell you this, but yaoi is already mainstream. The last anime convention I went to, they had sections devoted to just yaoi. And you don't even want to know how many people were there.

But whatever, I don't really care either way.

the video was interesting. I enjoyed that.

Hahaha!!! MTVs getting brave! xD

*laugh* I thought so too!

Ah! I love that article! It's so cute to read! mrgreen

I agree with him. Not only that but it's doing everything big first which is not good. People in this dumb america needs to adjust. They should shows litttle here and there so people can get the fact that it is another part of art instead of automatically thinking it's hentai or for those who dont just cartoon porn as such. We are talking about people who are so in-the-box that hardly gay/lez/bi shows gets pickited or bad publicity. So bad that you thought it was the next 9/11 or something. It's true. Theses are the same people who get freaked out about a boy kissing another boy and it would be a peck, either in movies or walking down the street. Im not saying all people are like this but sadly there is a majority.