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Boys' love (Japanese: ボーイズ ラブ, Hepburn: bōizu rabu), also known by its abbreviation BL (ビーエル, bīeru), is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters.
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 ...
Note: This category encompasses all Yaoi, June, original June, Boys Love/BL, Shounen-ai and tanbi genre titles. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yaoi . The main article for this category is Yaoi .
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").
Not only was the TV series part of the lesser-known Boys’ Love genre in South Korea, it depicted something rarely seen on the country’s screens: same-sex romance.
[191] This aligned with the estimated market size of 21.3 billion yen for the yaoi genre in 2010, [192] which is aimed at young women, [193] who are the main consumers of the content itself, even though some heterosexual men read it. [194] By 2016, domestic market size of the Boy's Love genre had reached over $190 million, [195]
The Boys Love (‘BL’) genre is getting bigger. Big enough for producers to organize fan meets similar to those for Asia’s mainstream TV shows or pop music stars. In an event organized at ...
This reading of shōnen manga is expressed in the form of fan works such as dōjinshi (self-published amateur manga) and the boys' love (BL) genre of manga and anime, which includes both original and derivative works.