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Some fans dislike the term as portraying a sexist notion of relationships - its conflation of gender role with sex preferences and the notion that a relationship always contains one uke and one seme - and its prevalence in some rape fantasy doujinshi.

Uke are generally younger characters who are shorter, younger, or otherwise have an appearance slightly more 'cuddly' than handsome. Shuichi from Gravitation is a typical example of a character with uke overtones.

Although similarties appear in yuri fandom, the term is generally not used to refer to female characters.

In JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honshese martial artHawaiian State Grappling Championships. Martial arts also known as fighting systems are bodies of codified practices or traditions of unarmed and armed combat, usually without the use of guns and other modern weapons. They are often taught for various reas, the uke is the person who "receives" a technique. In AikidoAikido ( Aikido also using an older style of kanji, literally meaning "harmony energy way", or with some poetic license, "way of the harmonious spirit") is a gendai budo a modern Japanese martial art. Practitioners of aikido are known as aikidoka . It was training this means that the uke initiates an attack against his partner (the nage or "thrower"), who then defends himself with a technique, generally causing causing the uke to be pinned or thrown. This is called "taking ukemiUkemi or "receiving the throw/attack," is the art of knowing how to land or fall and recover correctly from a martial arts technique with minimal impact. Within a judo or aikido context, ukemi refers to being thrown and getting right back up. An essential". In other Japanese martial arts, the term is used differently.

Uke is also a shortened version of the word ukuleleThe ukulele (pronounced OO-koo-LAY-lee, or mistakenly YOU-ka-LAY-lee), or uke is a fretted string instrument which is, in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the guitar. In the early 20th century the instrument's name was oft.