Currently, there are people all over the world studying Japanese, and naturally, they would like to learn something more than the stiff conversations found in your average textbook. They want to learn the language that Japanese really use in their daily lives.
In response to this desire, lots of situational educational materials have sprung up, but we’ve discovered one from China that is targeted at a very specific demographic: females who like the homoerotic comics known as yaoi. Read More

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