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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 ...
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").
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
shōjo-ai (少女愛, "girls love"): Manga or anime that focus on romances between women. [50] shōnen-ai (少年愛, "boys love"): A term denoting male homosexual content in women's media, although this usage is obsolete in Japan. English-speakers frequently use it for material without explicit sex, in anime, manga, and related fan fiction.
) is a yaoi manga series created by Satosumi Takaguchi. It was originally serialized in the shōjo magazine Monthly Asuka. The story revolves around Shino Hisae, a thirty-five-year-old yaoi anime voice actor, who despite his age still looks like a teenager. Due to his looks, he is often subject to advances from his fellow co-workers Tenryu-san ...
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.
Boys Love: Kaim Tachibana: Live-action film Manga 2014 Dramatical Murder: Nitro+chiral: Video game Manga, anime television series [88] 2002 Enzai: Falsely Accused: Langmaor Video game Original video animation [89] 1994 Fujimi Orchestra: Kō Akizuki: Novel Manga, original video animation 2002 Gakuen Heaven: Spray Video game Novel, manga, anime ...