Mmm well, if it makes it for them it makes it for them. I don't think it's any business of mine if other people don't have the same motivations for watching TV as I do. XD;; (FTR I won't watch a series just because it has pretty guys or BL subtext, apart from sacrificing myself on the blood-soaked altar of teh Weiss just so I can legitimately be "in" the farking fandom, but I will watch it just because it has great animation.) Basically, it's just like dumping on women who watch soccer because they find the players dishy. You could, but... *shrugs* And I know plenty of guys who follow Prince of Tennis for the plot, let alone me mum.

The thing about TeniPuri is that it's a lost cause, and was a lost cause before it so much as passed the two-tankoubon mark in Jump. Back when Slam Dunk was running the publishers had no idea what the female fen were on about (and SD changed the face of BL art completely, by the by). Now the yaoi following is not so much underground as aboveground, in the sense that no subtext is truly inadvertent. The publishers pander even if the mangaka doesn't - and with GetBackers, frankly, the mangaka are pandering like mad. Magazine-serialised manga is always interactive, it's just that no one ever admits that it is. And if the fangirl contigent is large and vocal enough, then yes their wishes will be taken into account.

That being said I actually think Prince of Tennis is less slashy than Slam Dunk. *g*