In the Season 6 Finale, hosts Amanda and Carola are joined by BL Industry Legend: Tylor Starr! We'll cover keeping up with BL news past, present and future! Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Tylor's Links: Twitter: https://x.com/hoshitylor BluPetal: https://linktr.ee/blupetal To Be a Contrib...
Dec 07, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Season 6Ep. 12
In this month's episode, Amanda and Carola discuss the somewhat controversial topic of fanservice and queerbaiting when it comes to BL, queer media, fandom and more. Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/Support The Show: patreon.com/TheYaoiShelfOur...
Nov 10, 2025•2 hr 28 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month’s episode and in honor of the Halloween Season, hosts Amanda and Carola, discuss the hit horror series The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren, thoughts on the series and the pervasive Bury Your Gays Trope in media. Important Links: https://theya...
Oct 13, 2025•3 hr•Season 6Ep. 10
In this month's episode, hosts Amanda and Carola are joined by BL academic superstar: Dr. Khursten Santos! We'll discuss the BL Odo, Dr. Khursten's research and what exactly gets to be BL? Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/ Our 18+ Discord: http...
Sep 14, 2025•1 hr 59 min•Season 6Ep. 9
In this episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss Katekyo! (Private Teacher!) by the manga legend Moegi Yuu! Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/Support The Show: patreon.com/TheYaoiShelf
Aug 17, 2025•2 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, hosts Amanda and Carola celebrate their birthday month by discussing the pairing that kicked off the fujin journey for so many: SasuNaru! Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/Support The Show: patreon.com/TheYaoiShelf...
Jul 14, 2025•2 hr 21 min•Season 6Ep. 7
In this month's episode, join hosts Amanda and Carola as they celebrate Pride Month by discussing BL's female roots, the women who helped create the art form and how a very decidedly female origin molded BL into what it is! Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Important Links: https://theyaoish...
Jun 16, 2025•2 hr 32 min•Season 6Ep. 6
In this episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola will discuss queering shonen anime and manga, queer theory and why so many of our favorite pairings come from decidedly non-BL series. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/ Support The Show: patreon.com/TheYaoiShelf Discord: https://discord.gg/xTjVvf4E4X
May 05, 2025•2 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 4
In this episode of The Yaoi Shelf, join hosts Amanda and Carola as they discuss the emotional highs and turbulent lowers of sports anime that feels a little too queer not to notice! Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/Support The Show: patreon.com/...
Mar 10, 2025•2 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 1
In this episode, join hosts Amanda and Carola in a discussion about misogyny in the BL fandom and in BL works, how to best combat it and the importance of dialectics in fan communities. Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/ Our 18+ Discord: https:/...
Feb 02, 2025•2 hr 21 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Welcome to the start of a brand new season! In this episode, Amanda and Carola talk about fujin spending power, the BL economy and how fujin and fangirls have always been the backbone of fandom. Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/ Support The Sho...
Jan 06, 2025•2 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. We did it! An entire year of The Yaoi Shelf is in the books! In this episode, your hosts discuss The Clueless Uke trope, it's reign of terror and how to write better and more complex characters. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/ Support The Sho...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, hosts Amanda and Carola run from their issues and into the arms of their favorite bad fictional men. We discuss the social aspect of loving not so great fictional men, why we keep going out of our way to say fictional and the implica...
Nov 11, 2024•2 hr 25 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In honor of Halloween Month, join hosts Amanda and Carola in a trip down memory lane where we discuss how edgy and problematic early fandom was, the need to prove yourself in fan spaces and the lingering scars from years of trying to act tough. Important Lin...
Oct 07, 2024•2 hr 36 min•Season 5Ep. 10
This episode is sponsored by: Filthy Figments! Check them out for diverse and smutty 18+ webcomics! filthyfigments.com In this episode, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss the history of queer representation in early BL and yaoi, how far we've come when it comes to queer representation and where readers can find the representation we are all so desperate for. Important Links: theyaoishelf.carrd.co Support the Show: patreon.com/TheYaoiShelf Our 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/xTjVvf4E4X
Sep 16, 2024•2 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 9
In this episode, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss the yaoi and BL con scene including it's past, present and discuss the fact that BL fandom has always been part of convention culture. Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/ Our 18+ Discord: https://d...
Aug 05, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Season 5Ep. 8
In this month's episode, to celebrate our birthdays: we're finally talking about Axis Powers: Hetalia, the fandom, the shipping, the less than stellar fan behavior and whether this titan of early fandom is worth watching! Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf Important Links:https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/Our 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/xTjVvf4E4X
Jul 14, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss naming conventions in the boy's love and queer media space, talk about how these naming conventions have changed and answer whether this all does or does not fetishize gay men. Important Link...
Jun 02, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, hosts Amanda and Carola are joined by the super talented, Blerdy Otome, to discuss all things BL gaming! Important Links: theyaoishelf.carrd.co Our 18+ Discord: discord.gg/hqURZnnf Find Blerdy Otome: blerdyotome.com Support Blerdy Ot...
May 05, 2024•2 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 5
In this episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola talk about the career of famed mangaka Nakamura Asumiko, the perils of recommendations in especially early yaoi fandom and the performative angst that was a huge part of 2000s fujin culture. Important Links: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co/Support The Show: Patreon.com/theyaoishelfOur 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/CtWwfkUY
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode of The Yaoi Shelf, hosts Amanda and Carola discuss piracy in BL fandom, the death of physical media and the rise of corporate monopolies and why many are looking to the glory days of online piracy for solutions once more. Follow us on...
Mar 03, 2024•1 hr 41 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf We're back with our first guest of the year: Sam from the incredibly important Fujoshi.Info and of several academic papers to discuss purity culture and the future of BL fandom! You can find Sam and their work: https://www.fujoshi.info/Twitter: SamAburime htt...
Feb 05, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. We're back! Join hosts Amanda and Carola as they discuss the queer shipping side of some of your favorite Western fandom properties and finally do talk about SuperWhoLock. Support the Show: Patreon.com/theyaoishelf Join our 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg/Vj...
Jan 07, 2024•1 hr 59 min•Season 5Ep. 1
In this month's episode and the final episode of 2023, we're gonna talk about hauls, haul culture, capitalism and what turned hauls from social fun to social performance. Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. Support the Show: https://www.patreon.com/TheYaoiShelfOur 18+ Discord: https://discord....
Dec 03, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. This month, hosts Amanda and Carola are here to talk about a very "serious" condition: Fujin BrainRot. We're going to talk about hyperfixation, why fujin sometimes go too far and how to best live with a brain that sees the yaoi side of everything. Other Link...
Nov 12, 2023•2 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf.Let's get spooky! Join hosts Amanda and Carola in a very long and very informative conversation about villains, villainy and why so many of us want to sleep with the bad guy. https://theyaoishelf.carrd.coSupport the Show: Patreon.com/theyaoishelf...
Oct 08, 2023•2 hr 45 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, Amanda and Carola talk about a podcast favorite: Antique Bakery by Fumi Yoshinaga. theyaoishelf.carrd.co More places to listen- podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-yaoi-shelfPatreon.com/TheYaoiShelfOur 18+ Discord: https://discord.gg...
Sep 10, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, Amanda and Carola go back to their roots to talk about BL fanfic, writing conventions and discuss that while some things change, others remain the same. Follow us on Twitter! -https://twitter.com/yaoishelf More places to listen- http...
Aug 06, 2023•2 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, hosts Amanda and Carola celebrate their birth month by tackling the important topic of representation in BL and yaoi. Our Socials: https://theyaoishelf.carrd.co Our 18+ discord: https://discord.gg/Fqz7kPTa
Jul 02, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Join hosts Author Carola and AichiYume in a fun jaunt to The Yaoi Shelf: an exploration of yaoi, shonen ai, and boy's love while discussing tropes, media criticism and more along the way. Grab a seat and get comfy, welcome to The Yaoi Shelf. In this month's episode, Amanda and Carola are joined by famed BL and queer media scholar: Dr. James Welker, to discuss BL scholarship, his fantastic book Queer Transfigurations and why academia in the BL space is so important. Where to find Dr. James Welker...
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 4Ep. 6
