shoujo ai
Meanings
noun
- Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.
- A genre of manga, anime, or hentai featuring lesbian sex and romance; yuri.
- Lolicon.
Word forms
Etymology
Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a calque of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (Japanese 少年愛(しょうねんあい) (shōnen'ai)) using Japanese vocabulary.
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