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Boys' love (ボーイズ ラブ, bōizu rabu) Typically written as the acronym BL (ビーエル, bīeru), or alternately as "boy's love" or "boys love", the term is a wasei-eigo construction derived from the literal English translation of shōnen-ai. [21] First used in 1991 by the magazine Image in an effort to collect these disparate genres ...
Bishōnen (美少年, IPA: [bʲiɕo̞ꜜːnẽ̞ɴ] ⓘ; also transliterated bishounen) is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man of androgynous beauty. This word originated from the Tang dynasty poem Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup by ...
Retrieved 23 October 2023. ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (12 January 2020). "The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window Boys-Love Manga Gets Live-Action Film". Anime News Network. Retrieved 24 February 2020. ^ Loo, Egan (31 October 2009). "DMP Adds Tyrant Falls in Love, Kizuna, Harlequin Manga (Updated)". Anime News Network.
Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun (Japanese: 潔癖男子！青山くん, Hepburn: Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Taku Sakamoto. It was first serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Miracle Jump in 2014, and was transferred to Weekly Young Jump, where it ran from 2015 to 2018, with its chapters collected in thirteen tankōbon volumes.
e. Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. This drawing style has also migrated into anime, as many manga stories are adapted into television shows and films. In manga the emphasis is often placed on line over form, and the storytelling and panel placement differ ...
Levi Ackerman. Zenitsu Agatsuma. Sōsuke Aizen. Alucard (Hellsing) Koyomi Araragi. Gen Asagiri. Yoh Asakura. Askeladd. Asta (Black Clover)
Shinnosuke's favorite anime character, who is a parody of the mecha genre. The name "Kantam" is a parody of Gundam, as the Katakana characters ga (ガ) and da (ダ) in "Gundam" (ガンダム, Gandamu) are replaced with the characters ka (カ) and ta (タ), respectively. Kantam is made up of two units – the main robot and an identical smaller ...
Boys' love (BL), a genre of male-male homoerotic media originating in Japan that is created primarily by and for women, has a robust global fandom. Individuals in the BL fandom may attend conventions, maintain/post to fansites, create fanfiction / fanart, etc. In the mid-1990s, estimates of the size of the Japanese BL fandom were at 100,000 to ...