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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". [182]
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
boys' love (ボーイズラブ, bōizu rabu): Abbreviated "BL", male homosexual content generally aimed at women, currently in general use in Japan to cover yaoi and shōnen-ai. [ 44 ] harem ( ハーレムもの , hāremumono ) : A subgenre of anime and manga characterized by an ordinary guy surrounded by a group of women with some being ...
Happy of the End (Japanese: ハッピー・オブ・ジ・エンド, Hepburn: Happī Obu Ji Endo) is a Japanese manga series by Ogeretsu Tanaka. It was serialized in the monthly boys' love digital manga magazine Qpa from January 24, 2020, to October 24, 2023.
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.
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 ]
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").