Things got so out of hand with people being randomly swatted that Otakon banned the paddle from future events. (In essence, quite similar to a fraternity and sorority spanking initiation.)īut it wasn't long before male attendees also got into the act, both as victims and spankers. It was originally intended for female attendees (aka fangirls) who would playfully submit to ritual paddlings to prove their devotion to anime. This was introduced as a novelty item at anime conventions, starting with Otakon in 2002. The reverse reads "Hardcore Side" for those who choose to receive a harder paddling.
One side is marked "Softcore Side", which is meant to be used softly. "Yaoi" is written on both sides, usually in large black letters. The Yaoi paddle itself is little more than a short boat paddle (around 25 inches (64 cm) long) with a few words printed across the blade. Unlike "bara" manga aimed at homosexual men, the idealized homosexual relationships depicted in yaoi are aimed at women.Įventually, "yaoi" came to be used as a generic term for female-oriented manga, anime, novels and dōjinshi featuring idealized homosexual male relationships. But in the West, yaoi has become a catchall term to indicate any story that includes a male/male relationship and is linked to Japan, be it commercial manga, anime, games, English-language fan fiction, fan art, etc. In Japan today, the term yaoi is mainly used to point to the sex scenes of a manga or to doujinshi with male/male content. Later, it came to be used for doujinshi with sexual pairings between two males. The word "yaoi" is derived from the first syllables of each word in the Japanese expression "Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi." (やまなし、おちなし、いみなし。) which means "no peak, no point, no meaning," and originally referred to badly drawn self-published fan comics ( doujinshi). Anime fans cavort with a Yaoi paddle at a convention.
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