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The yaoi fandom consists of the readers of yaoi (also called Boys' Love or abbreviated to BL), a genre of male homosexual narratives. Individuals in the yaoi fandom may attend conventions, maintain/post to fansites, create fanfiction / fanart, etc. In the mid-1990s, estimates of the size of the Japanese yaoi fandom were at 100,000–500,000 people.
The genre originated in the 1970s as a subgenre of shōjo manga, or comics for girls. Several terms were used for the new genre, including shōnen-ai (少年愛, lit. "boy love"), tanbi (耽美, lit. "aesthete" or "aesthetic"), and June (ジュネ, [dʑɯne]). The term yaoi emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of dōjinshi ...
アラサー管理人と高校生の"ゆるキュンBL" " [Minato's Laundromat to receive a drama adaptation! A "light-hearted romance BL" featuring a manager around his 30s and a high school student]. Natalie (in Japanese). 21 March 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023. ^ Ransom, Ko (21 May 2012). "Digital Manga Announces Junko's Konbini-Kun".
January 9, 2022 – March 27, 2022. Episodes. 12. Anime and manga portal. My Dress-Up Darling ( Japanese: その 着せ替え人形 （ ビスク・ドール ） は恋をする, Hepburn: Sono Bisuku Dōru wa Koi o Suru, transl. "That Bisque Doll Falls in Love") [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Fukuda.
Original run. July 7, 2011 – September 29, 2011. Episodes. 13 ( List of episodes) Mayo Chiki! (まよチキ!) is a Japanese light novel series written by Hajime Asano and illustrated by Seiji Kikuchi. Media Factory published twelve volumes of the series from November 2009 to July 2012 under their MF Bunko J imprint.
In anime and manga, the term " LGBTQ themes" includes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender material. Outside Japan, anime generally refers to a specific Japanese-style of animation, but the word anime is used by the Japanese themselves to broadly describe all forms of animated media there. [1] [2] According to Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin ...
The title of the anthology was originally Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys’ Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World. Mark McHarry recounts that he attended Yaoi-Con in 2006 and met other scholars there. They decided to make a book together because of their interests in wanting to research and learn more about the genre and ...
Tokyo Boys & Girls (Japanese: 東京少年少女, Hepburn: Tōkyō Shōnen Shōjo) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Miki Aihara. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine, starting in 1994. Shogakukan later collected the individual chapters into five bound volumes from March 1995 to June 1996.