Parents Send Daughter to Convent After Discovering She Likes Yaoi
Recently on Twitter, a fun trend went viral where Japanese otaku shared their experiences and stories about foreigners and otaku culture. Keep in mind that everything here is based on the anecdotes these users shared.
One case that stood out was from a girl who said she was taken to an Animate store (a huge chain store in Japan with all kinds of anime and manga goods). There, she witnessed a curious scene.
She said she saw some Western women carrying a huge stack of BL (Yaoi, Boys’ Love) books, and their conversation went like this:
“Can anyone read this?”
“I can’t read it.”
“So what do we do? Give up?”
“What are you saying, it makes no sense to give up after coming all the way here!”
It’s funny to think that women travel to Japan, visit Animate, and make sure to buy their Yaoi manga. But this isn’t the main story here. Another reply to that tweet quickly stole the spotlight.
Parents Send Daughter to Convent After Discovering She Likes Yaoi
In response to the first tweet, user Yatsuhashis shared her own story involving the sister of a friend. She wrote:
“A student from the U.S. told me: ‘My sister is a fujoshi, but recently our parents found out. So they sent her to a convent summer camp during vacation. Not even God can turn natto back into soybeans.’”
So basically, the parents discovered their daughter was a fujoshi and, thinking they could somehow ‘fix’ her, sent her off to a convent summer camp.
The tweet went viral, and Yatsuhashis later clarified some details. The convent wasn’t a locked-up or isolated place like people might imagine. In fact, anyone could visit anytime, but since it’s in a rural countryside town, the only real downside was that the internet connection was very weak there.
She also explained that the parents didn’t throw away the girl’s Yaoi collection, and clarified that the term fujoshi doesn’t mean the girl is gay. It simply refers to women who enjoy fiction about male homosexual romance—nothing more.
Adding even more context, she mentioned there’s also a male version. When boys get into certain kinds of trouble, they too can be sent to similar summer camps, not just girls.
Looking at the reactions, many women commented that they are fujoshis themselves, with one even saying:
“Once you become a fujoshi, there’s no going back.”
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