Looking for help with a hentai anime panel at Arisia and/or Anime Boston

[DocWatson]

I would like to do an "Intro to Hentai Anime" panel at Arisia 2009 (http://2009.arisia.org/) and at Anime Boston 2009 (http://www.animeboston.com/) (pending approval by the respective cons), and am looking some help with the project, particularly people who want to be on the panel(s) with me. I can provide or come up with on-line resources, DVDs, and written materials (see my .sig <G>), but I lack a laptop, and PowerPoint and video editing expertise (which, while not necessary, would be nice, especially at AB). I currently envision the panel's structure to be:

Definition of terms ("anime", "hentai" (anime, games, manga), "OAV"/"OVA", "yaoi", "yuri", "lolicon", etc.) ~5 minutes


History (Tezuka's erotic movies, the advent of the OAV, Cream Lemon, Urotsukidoji, the rise of the game-based H anime...): ~7+ minutes


Censorship in Japan: ~3 minutes


Examples of series (video clips—at least four series): ~15+ minutes


Resources (going over the handout): ~5 minutes


Q&A: ~15 minutes (this can be extended in non-panel space after the panel)
Total: 50 minutes

Comments? Questions? Suggestions?

[loplop]

I'll PM you Doc in the next couple of days. Considering my background, I could help out with Laptop/Powerpoint issues.

[ShanceChance]

I hope the right definitions of yaoi and yuri are given out. I am sick of panelists and popular websites giving out inaccurate information.

yaoi = subgenre of Boys' Love (BL) with sex scenes aimed at women. Some BL works which have hardcore sex in them are still just called "BL", though. It all depends on what the manga author or game creators say it is.
gei-comi = comics in Japan aimed at gay men with a more realistic look at gay characters than yaoi provides.
slash = any non-canon relationships which are used in fanfiction, fanart, and doujinshi (covers all sexual orientations in actuality, but is mostly associated with male/male).
yuri = genre about female/female romance that is typically aimed at girls and may or may not contain sexual content. Note that this does not refer to sex scenes between females in hentai aimed at heterosexual men, and stating it does is considered an insult to the genre.

[DocWatson]

I hope the right definitions of yaoi and yuri are given out. I am sick of panelists and popular websites giving out inaccurate information.
I did not make it clear, but I intend to only address hentai anime—I mentioned games and manga only in the context of defining the term "hentai". Thus "gei-comi" and "slash" won't be germaine. :-/

yuri = genre about female/female romance that is typically aimed at girls and may or may not contain sexual content. Note that this does not refer to sex scenes between females in hentai aimed at heterosexual men, and stating it does is considered an insult to the genre.
This is not historically true, at least not in English. The movement to define it as such in English is a recent one, in comparison to the word's usage to mean "Japanese cartoon porn featuring lesbian activity". The term "shoujo ai" (meaning "anime and/or manga with lesbian themes", and as opposed to "yuri") has been in use since at least 9 August 1995 (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.anime/browse_frm/thread/9545811b65c7ca8e), and it is only in the last few years that an attempt has been made to use "yuri" to mean "all lesbian anime and manga". The Yuricon site was making the distinction between the two in 2002 (http://web.archive.org/web/20020205065215/www.yuricon.org/update.htm)—and again in this essay by Erica Friedman (http://web.archive.org/web/20021208090800/www.yuricon.org/whatisyuri.htm). It was only in late February or early March of 2005 that the essay was changed (http://web.archive.org/web/20050302054641/www.yuricon.org/essays/whatisyuri.html) (the Internet Archive URL includes the date—you can compare for yourself at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.yuricon.org/ ). (Heck, they still use the term "shoujoai" (as opposed to "yuri") in the title of the Web site (http://www.yuricon.org/).)

That said, I do intend to note the differences in usage.

[ShanceChance]

You may as well mention as well that "shounen-ai" is no longer a genre. In Japan now, the term refers to liking real-life little boys.

[DocWatson]

You may as well mention as well that "shounen-ai" is no longer a genre. In Japan now, the term refers to liking real-life little boys.
For that term, I think I'll just point them to Aestheticism's glossaries (http://www.aestheticism.com/visitors/reference/index.htm). ;)