![]() ![]() "aesthete" or "aesthetic"), and June ( ジュネ, ). Several terms were used for the new genre, including shōnen-ai ( 少年愛, lit. The genre originated in the 1970s as a subgenre of shōjo manga, or comics for girls. While " yaoi" is commonly used in the west as an umbrella term for Japanese-influenced media with male-male relationships, "boys' love" and "BL" are the generic terms for this kind of media in Japan and much of Asia. ![]() Yaoi spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. ![]() It is typically created by women for women and is thus distinct from bara (gay manga), a genre of homoerotic media marketed to gay men, though yaoi does also attract a male audience and can be produced by male creators. Yaoi ( / ˈ j aʊ i/ YOW-ee Japanese: やおい ), also known as boys' love ( ボーイズ ラブ, bōizu rabu) and its abbreviation BL ( ビーエル, bīeru), is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. The svelte, semi- androgynous physical features of the characters are typical of bishōnen (literally "beautiful boys") common in yaoi media. For the Chinese male-male romance fiction genre, see Danmei.Īn example of yaoi-inspired artwork. ![]()
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