South Park is never shy from referencing Japanese anime and culture in their episodes where one episode made fun of Japanese martial arts tropes while another one paraodied Pokemon. This time, the creators requested their fans to send in yaoi/homoerotic fanworks of Craig and Tweek for the latest episode.
Incredibly, the American animation series is very popular with Japanese, where fanarts network site Pixiv have over 10,000 pictures tagged with it and quite a bit of it is yaoi/R-18 related. Now the creators have taken notice of the adoration and decided to include this in this episode. Senpai really has noticed!
Check the full episode here for the ensuing hilarity, or you can check out these series of tweets below to get an idea of the full scope of the show’s yaoi fanbase.
Kelly Zhou goes a bit more whimsical with 'Craig and Tweek Moonlight Dance’. #TweekXCraig pic.twitter.com/4RUX1aqv4g
— South Park (@SouthPark) October 29, 2015
Word is @SouthPark received over 1500 #yaoi fan art submissions for this episode. Kudos to Matt and Trey. pic.twitter.com/lVIT0K4Cvz
— MuchMusic (@Much) October 29, 2015
#TweekXCraig pic.twitter.com/nvZpWAXKhJ
— South Park (@SouthPark) October 29, 2015
We have been getting to know some of the Asian girls who have introduced us to a art style called 'YAOI'. pic.twitter.com/F4wrSMyCOd
— South Park (@SouthPark) October 29, 2015
#TweekXCraig pic.twitter.com/jV1SFYt9df
— South Park (@SouthPark) October 29, 2015
Watch the new episode “Tweek x Craig” for free here: https://t.co/4XY3qBLIpB pic.twitter.com/XluVTjwta2
— South Park (@SouthPark) October 29, 2015
