True. That I don't read as many of those helps, though. ;)
Off the top of my head, the one that's coming to mind is a really incredibly disturbing one called Rika the Breeder, but it doesn't entirely fit; at the point where I stopped reading, there was no indication that Rika was going to stop anything simply because of this boy who happened to know absolutely nothing and stand for moral values that didn't exist at the school. (Basic situation, there's a school that's set up its own government, and it's insane, rape and whatnot, and this boy comes in and happens to attract Rika's attention-- and Rika is the "queen" of the gov't, and you can pretty much make assumptions from there, but Rika's not supposed to have normal emotions so he doesn't, and now this boy who declares that everyone should be free and Rika shouldn't have to do these things is his roommate.)
The rest of the ones I'm thinking of are less obvious, more the person who doesn't care about social values seduces the fine upstanding citizen and they realize that being a fine upstanding citizen is less fun because you have to pretend to be straight. Off the top of my head, Golden Cain does that (not well unless you like melodrama, since it's supposed to be serious). In the done well department, Desire has subtle themes of boy who thinks he's straight breaking out of that role to discover he's really not, but it's not the same kind of serious shattering, I think; it's more grounded in the reality of coming out to one's self than in actual social movement. (After reading about homosexuality in Japan, though, I'm tempted to say it counts if they don't do the whole "I'm totally straight even though I love you!" thing.)
I tend to think Utena hits hardest because it's built for that theme, actually; it hits the gender roles and sexuality and all that with one blow. Most of the time I see it in yaoi, it's hopelessly over-dramatized or couched in reality so that you can't see it unless you're really looking for it. Rika might be the closest thing, but, like I said, I never managed to finish it, and from where I left off, it didn't look like there would be a happy ending.
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Off the top of my head, the one that's coming to mind is a really incredibly disturbing one called Rika the Breeder, but it doesn't entirely fit; at the point where I stopped reading, there was no indication that Rika was going to stop anything simply because of this boy who happened to know absolutely nothing and stand for moral values that didn't exist at the school. (Basic situation, there's a school that's set up its own government, and it's insane, rape and whatnot, and this boy comes in and happens to attract Rika's attention-- and Rika is the "queen" of the gov't, and you can pretty much make assumptions from there, but Rika's not supposed to have normal emotions so he doesn't, and now this boy who declares that everyone should be free and Rika shouldn't have to do these things is his roommate.)
The rest of the ones I'm thinking of are less obvious, more the person who doesn't care about social values seduces the fine upstanding citizen and they realize that being a fine upstanding citizen is less fun because you have to pretend to be straight. Off the top of my head, Golden Cain does that (not well unless you like melodrama, since it's supposed to be serious). In the done well department, Desire has subtle themes of boy who thinks he's straight breaking out of that role to discover he's really not, but it's not the same kind of serious shattering, I think; it's more grounded in the reality of coming out to one's self than in actual social movement. (After reading about homosexuality in Japan, though, I'm tempted to say it counts if they don't do the whole "I'm totally straight even though I love you!" thing.)
I tend to think Utena hits hardest because it's built for that theme, actually; it hits the gender roles and sexuality and all that with one blow. Most of the time I see it in yaoi, it's hopelessly over-dramatized or couched in reality so that you can't see it unless you're really looking for it. Rika might be the closest thing, but, like I said, I never managed to finish it, and from where I left off, it didn't look like there would be a happy ending.
Er. */ramble*