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The label was created to promote Japanese BL dramas based on existing BL novels and manga due to the growing popularity of BL caused by Ossan's Love. [182] While creating Tunku, Azuma stated that she noticed that prejudice against boys' love has dwindled, and that many people have seemed to accept the genre as "normal".
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 ...
Seme (dagger), a Maasai term for a type of lion hunting knife; Seme (martial arts), Japanese martial arts term meaning to attack Seme, a manga/anime term for a dominant partner in a homosexual relationship, derived from the martial arts term; Seme (semantics), a small unit of meaning identified as one characteristic of a sememe
No Touching At All (Japanese: どうしても触れたくない, Hepburn: Dōshitemo Furetakunai) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kou Yoneda. No Touching At All was serialized in the quarterly boys' love manga magazine Craft from 2007 to 2008.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. An overview of common terms used when describing manga/anime related medium. Part of a series on Anime and manga Anime History Voice acting Companies Studios Original video animation Original net animation Fansub Fandub Lists Longest series Longest franchises Manga History Publishers ...
Yaoi (やおい, also known as boys' love or BL) is an additional manga genre that focuses on gay male romance and sex. The genre is a distinct category from gay manga, having originated in the 1970s as an offshoot of shōjo manga [ 69 ] that was inspired by Barazoku and European cinema. [ 15 ]
An illustration of a yaoi hole, supposing the existence of a third sexual organ between the penis and anus. The yaoi hole (Japanese: やおい穴, romanized: yaoi-ana) is a concept in yaoi, a genre of fictional media depicting homoerotic relations between men aimed at a female audience, that supposes the existence of a male sexual organ that is neither a penis nor an anus.
The male same-sex romance genre of "boys' love", or BL, originated in Japanese manga in the early 1970s, and was introduced to mainland China via pirated Taiwanese translations of Japanese comics in the early 1990s. [4] [5] The term danmei is reborrowed from the Japanese word tanbi (耽美, "aestheticism").