Updates since August 2002

• Sep 30   So why is everyone talking about GetBackers? Sabina tells you, with illustrations.

• Sep 21   The male physique. The object of our fascination. We've already heard from a big-fancier. Now Azure Blue looks at the other side in this article about the waiflike build we love

• Sep 16   'Messing about with manga. Just-- messing about with manga.' Where do djs come from? From the stories that aren't in the text itself, either because the author has left them out on purpose, as in Night of Moon and Water, or because we arbitrarily supply them ourselves, as in Brack Heart. Fun, in either case

• Sep 7   As Japanese as sushi- m/m-for-granted. We consider this phenomenon in two manga, Sapphire which is happy shoujo and Makiho, which most certainly is not. More chillng tales if it's still hot where you are.

• Aug 30   The rumours of our death have been only slightly exaggerated. It was that kind of a summer. But now that we're into the 'lingering heat' part of the year when you're supposed to tell scary stories to make people shiver and cool them down, Nora has provided an article on horror games that are both shoujo in content and scarier than Freddie on drugs.

• IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ! Starting Wednesday (May 21), if you've been age-verified, you can use your email and cybershoppe password to access the entire site. There is no longer a separate password for browsing the site. If you're an early member who only knows your memberID and password, you can also log in using your memberID and password by clicking on the second link below the login form.

• July 1   "What we talk about when we talk about Snapeslash" as Raymond Carver didn't write. Nora tells you how the Japanese see it in Harry Potter and the Slavering Yaoi Fen .

• June 24   Spoilers again! To honour the appearance of OotP, we muse about how to spoiler.

• June 1   Translation: Minekura Kazuya's Wild Adapter vol 2, last two chapters.

• May 24  Summary of Arina Toshimi's Kimi no Mukougawa about high-school love.
  

• May 19   Translation: Minekura Kazuya's Wild Adapter vol 2, chapters 1-4. Again, mostly unadorned text. So far.

• May 8  Translation: assorted G-Defend free talks from various volumes. Linked from the main G-Defend page, and scroll down. Please note that these translations are members only.

• May 3   New DMC Fansite. Cute stuff! TAINTED LUST (Don't know Devil May Cry? The scoop is here.)

  Apr 22  A working class hero is something to be, alright. Review: Kano Shiuko's Gaten na Aitsu about well-hung construction workers.
  Translation: Gravitation Remix part 2. Please note that this translation is members only

• Apr 17  Finally. Translation: Minekura Kazuya's Wild Adapter vol 1, chapters 1 and 2. No pretty pictures, sorry. Just the text, ma'am.

• April 14    Kitty's Useless and Irrelevant Observations for April 2003. One of these years, the Winter Comiket pictures will be up...

• Apr 13   The long cold winter is over. The editors emerge yawning from their winter sleep. Translation: Last installment of Hiiro Reiichi's Wild Fish, vol 1.
  Gallery: to get you in the mood for spring, BBG's The Underwear calendar. 'Naked mens in they undiewears!' Hoopla!

• Mar 13   Translation: Hiiro Reiichi's Wild Fish, chs 3-4. In which it is discovered how drylanders have sex. 'They stick it in anywhere there's a hole. Mouth, nose, ears, I think they'd all work.' (This translation is now members only.)

• Mar 8  Translation. Minekura Kazuya's Wild Adapter vol 1, chapters 3 and 4.

• Mar 4  Still a long cold winter, so what a good thing Galerians: Ash has turned out to be such a slashy homoerotically texted game. Resident gamer Nora tells you all.

• Feb 21   Translation: Kajimoto Jun's Happy Honey Life, chs 1 and 2. (This translation is now members only.)

• Feb 16   Translation: from the March ZeroSum, chapters of Minekura Kazuya's Saiyuki Gaiden, and a Jiip sidestory.

• Feb 14   You know the Japanese think we're crazy to worry about stuff like this? Yup, and what are you gonna do about it? Roundeyes have always liked arguing about definitions. In an attempt to clear the ground, we've made a list of  Definitions from the Japanese of words like yaoi and BL and shounen-ai. Even if we can't agree on what they mean over here, at least we now know what they mean over there.

• Feb 11   Translation: Hiiro Reiichi's Wild Fish, chs 1-2. The wild and uhh finny BL reworking of Little Mermaid. Disney was never like this, alas.

• Feb 1  In the bleak midwinter one's thoughts turn to warming things like oh say the newest video games and their yaoi potential. Here's the latest line-up of what's here and (cough) coming in the beautiful male department

• Jan 31  In the tradition of BeBoy Zips, for those looking for short stories grouped around a theme. A list of Hanaoto Max anthologies

• Jan 29  Translation. Minekura Kazuya's Wild Adapter vol 1, chapters 5, 6 and coda. Where's chapters 1-4? I haven't done them yet. This one I'm doing backwards. ^_^

• Jan 21  Illustration Gallery. Pictures from Yamagishi Ryoko's colour illustrations for her classic shounen-ai series Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi. 6th century costumes on one of the great bishounen heroes of all time

• Jan 18  Housekeeping. Updated Yaoi Video List and list of  BeBoy Zips. Note that the series of Zips is now finished and Beboy will be publishing anthologies as Be-Boy Luv instead

• Jan 9   Translation of Gravitation Remix part 1. At editorial discretion this translation is available to members only and is intended only as a reading aid to the Gravitation doujinshi. Any unauthorized use for scanlations and the like will not only peeve the translator and editors greatly, it will result in there being no part 2. Please take note and act accordingly.

• Jan 4   Reviews: Volume two of Sakai Ayumi's Tokyo Requiem ;  Belne's The Window

• Jan 1   Manga Focus: Fujita Atsuko's historical series about the beautiful and brilliant Chinese detective Kou Josei

• Dec 29   The fanfic archive is now available. If your password is not working for the restricted sections, you can click here to get your new password. If you notice any broken links, please inform us

• Dec 25   Translation: Morimoto Shuw's G Defend 1 pt 3

• Dec 24   Translations:
  Nitta Youka's Last Waltz 1 ch 5
  The uncollected chapters of Minekura Kazuya's Saiyuuki Gaiden

• Dec 13th: Over the next week, we will be moving the site to a new server. While aestheticism.com will be available during this time, you may find that some links do not work temporarily. Please have patience. They will all be restored within a week. In particular, fanfic archive's adult section will not be available for at least 1 week. (Note that VCity will no longer be available after the move. )

• IMPORTANT: Virtual City Site will no longer be available after Dec 15th. Please click here for more details

• Nov 15   Yaoi manga? In English? Online?Cheap?? Yup. Nora tells you all about it.

• Nov 15  Translation: Nitta Youka's Last Waltz 1, chs 3-4.

• Nov 3   Reviews: Oki Mamiya's Jadou 1, and Sakai Ayumi's Tokyo Requiem 1.

• Oct 28   Translation: Nitta Youka's Last Waltz 1, chs 1-2.

• Oct 21   Fanfic writer? Thinking of going pro? Nora tells you about a writer's workshop that could provide just the push you need to decide

• Oct 7   GTO, HnG, and TB to you too. A dirty job but someone's got to do it. Series acronyms and shortforms for the newbie

• Oct 1   Everything I know about Chinese culture I learned from manga -- Chinese history and costumes from Kou Josei series in this month's gallery. Eye candy, and educational too.

• Sep 29   A few Modest Proposals to occupy your Sunday afternoon.

• Sep 28   Housecleaning -- Gallery section is now up.

• Sep 22   Warning! Warning! We have an article about the warnings that you'll never see but ought to.  If satire is not your cup of tea,  please go elsewhere!

• Sep 22   Translation: Second part of Minekura Kazuya's Executive Committee 2. Find out who was behind the dastardly plot to discredit Council President Matsumoto!

• Sep 15   Nora continues our adventures in picture reading with an examination of Kasai Ayumi's Tokyo Requiem. Pretty boys and kanji all in a row- umm, well, up and down.

• Sep 9   Kitty Returns with the 6th batch of reviews.  In this installment: Ayano Yamane's You're My Love Prize in the Viewfinder; Tsubasa Kawahara and Mamiya Oki's Jadou-the Side Story; BL CD Okaneja Kaenai; Nakamura Rumi's Kinbaku no Ori 2, and Arina Toshimi's Midnight Sun.  Spoiler Alert for Jadou and Midnight Sun.

• Sep 8    "I am the Editor of Hellfire, and I bring you---" my personal list of peeves. Tremble, mortal fanwriters.

• Sep 6   The Nitta Youka festival continues! Review of Nitta-sensei's Irokoi 1- vol.4 in the When a Man Loves a Man series.

• Aug 31   Five thousand het male gamers can't be wrong. The dishy main character in Devil May Cry battles a bunch of blobs, globs and Nasty Beasties. How can you do yaoi with a game like that? Easy. Let Donna guide you through Dante's Inferno and find out why guy gamers keep saying 'That Dante's really gay.'

• Aug 24   Reviews of Yoshinaga Fumi's Ichigenme wa Yaruki no Minpou 2 and Ozawa Kuriko's Beyond the Moon Desert

• Aug 16   Farewell to a Degenerate Teacher- Nora bids farewell to Kusatta Kyoushi no Houteishiki

• Aug 13   Review of Minekura Kazuya's Wild Adapter 2.   Review of vol 1 is here

• Aug 5   Translation of part 1 of Minekura Kazuya's Executive Committee vol 2 part 1. This is the one with the yaoi in it, is why I've translated it first.

• July 29   For the tanbi fanciers, two reviews of manga by Hatsu Akiko: Tales of the Rainy Willow Store and Master of the Haunted Inn. For an idea of Hatsu's style, see the illustrations in the Hatsu Akiko gallery.