腐女子

• 読み: ふじょし
• ローマ字: fujoshi
• 漢字の分解: 腐 (rotten/decayed) + 女 (woman) + 子 (child/person) → 'rotten girl' (self-deprecating humor)
• 発音: /ɸɯ.dʑo.ɕi/

意味

A female fan who enjoys boys' love (BL) content — manga, anime, and fiction depicting male-male romantic relationships.

腐女子 is a self-deprecating term that BL fans adopted to describe themselves, playing on the homophone 婦女子 (respectable woman) by swapping in 腐 (rotten). While once considered niche, the community has grown enormous and openly embraces the label. The term can be used proudly as self-identification or teasingly by others, though using it dismissively toward someone is considered rude.

例文

1. 私、筋金入りの腐女子だから推しカプの話なら何時間でもできる。
2. 腐女子向けのイベントってどこも盛り上がるよね。
3. 姉が腐女子で本棚がBL漫画で埋まってる。

使い方ガイド

場面: otaku circles, social media, anime events, fan communities

トーン: self-identifying, playful

正しい言い方

• 腐女子歴10年のベテランです (I'm a veteran fujoshi of 10 years)
• 腐女子仲間と語り合うの最高 (Chatting with fellow fujoshi is the best)

避ける言い方

• 興味ない人に「お前腐女子だろ」は失礼 (Saying 'you're a fujoshi, aren't you?' to someone uninterested is rude)

よくある間違い

• Assuming all female anime fans are fujoshi — many have no interest in BL
• Using 腐女子 as an insult when the person uses it as a proud self-label

起源と歴史

Emerged in early 2000s Japanese internet culture as a pun on 婦女子 (fujoshi, meaning 'respectable woman'). By replacing 婦 with 腐 (rotten/decayed), fans humorously labeled themselves 'rotten girls.' The male equivalent is 腐男子 (fudanshi).

文化的背景

時代: Early 2000s internet culture, now mainstream otaku

世代: Millennials and Gen Z women

社会的背景: Otaku subculture, increasingly mainstream

地域メモ: Used across Japan. The term has been adopted internationally in anime fan communities.