Valentine's Day at an All-Boys School

About

Valentine's Day at an All-boys School (Japanese: 男子校バレンタイン; Danshikō Valentine) refers to a series of parody illustrations inspired by a photo of a romantic day event at an all-boys school. Since the photo was posted to Twitter on 2013 Valentine's day, many illustrations has been uploaded to the social network as well as Japanese illustrators community Pixiv by Fujoshi or female otakus addicted to Boy's Love.

Origin

The trigger of this illustration meme was a joke photo of a boy getting a lot of Valentine's presents from his classmates in an all-boys high school, which was posted to Twitter by a user @naoyaynyn on February 14th, 2013.^[1] As Valentine's Day in Japan and several East Asian countries is marketed as a commercial-driven event of women gifting men chocolates or candies as a sign of affection, this photo at all-boys school was received quite funny on the social web.

Spread

Though it's unknown how many retweets and favorites the original post had because the user has removed it, it's clear that that funny photo also evoked Fujoshi's homosexual delusion so much. Just after it went viral on the social network, it got mutated into a template for their favorite parody art style: tracing. Over a hundred of illustration mimicking the composition of this photo by Fujoshi's favorite manga/anime/game characters had been posted to Twitter and Pixiv^[2] in that month. And those posts were soon summarized in naver matome and togetter articles^[3][4] as well as reported by Taiwanese online new media gammenews in the following year.^[5] Besides, as Pixiv's art news section Pixiv Spotlight mentioned in later years^[6], it has been also reclaimed annually in parodies for the romantic day of February.

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