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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").
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]
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 (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 ...
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.
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.
Live-action television series, manga [85] 1986 Ai no Kusabi: Rieko Yoshihara: Novel Original video animation [86] 2003 Angel's Feather: BlueImpact Video game Manga, original video animation [87] 2006 Boys Love: Kaim Tachibana: Live-action film Manga 2014 Dramatical Murder: Nitro+chiral: Video game Manga, anime television series [88] 2002 Enzai ...
Josou o Yamerarenaku Naru Otokonoko no Hanashi is a romantic comedy manga [2] [3] following Kazu, a young man who secretly has enjoyed his cross-dressing hobby for half a year. He contemplates how he would like to be called cute and treated as if he were a woman, but how he is worried about someone finding out that he likes being feminine, when ...