Boys Love Manga and Beyond
Title | Boys Love Manga and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Mark McLelland |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2015-01-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1626743096 |
Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.
Boys Love (Yaoi)
Title | Boys Love (Yaoi) PDF eBook |
Author | Kaim Tachibana |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-09-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781569700884 |
Magazine editor Mamiya meets popular high school model Noeru Kisaragi for a story Mamiya's working on. When Noeru suddenly tries to go down on Mamiya and makes sexual advances at him, Mamiya turns him down flat. But Mamiya's loneliness starts to get to him and he decides to try starting over with Noeru on equal footing.
Boys' Love Manga
Title | Boys' Love Manga PDF eBook |
Author | Antonia Levi |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0786456272 |
"Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States. It is found in manga, anime, novels, movies, electronic games, and fan-created fiction, artwork, and video. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love as it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture.
Anthology of Boys Love
Title | Anthology of Boys Love PDF eBook |
Author | Misa Izanaki |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9781933664156 |
A brand new anthology series of guys in love with guys. First, prisoners of a medieval circus unite against their wicked ringmaster. Then a tale of forbidden love between members of two rival gangs in modern Tokyo. The final tale is of a boy who escapes two sadistic hillbilly captors and recovers from their torture with the help of a romantically vulnerable cop. Our top talent comes together for this brand new yaoi anthology
Missunderstanding- Fate Looked Back
Title | Missunderstanding- Fate Looked Back PDF eBook |
Author | Vera Schneider |
Publisher | Sa Dame: Vera Schneider & Bevin Smith |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 2020-07-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
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In the male talent agency run by two women, Hana Fukuhara and Megumi Shimada, many strict rules have to be obeyed. Some of them are hard to follow. No relationships. No sexual activities. Not even self-stimulation. But things happen... Kenta Yamamura is somehow always dragged into forbidden encounters with other boys. His inability to say no causes him a lot of troubles. He does want to be faithful because he has a partner he loves more than anything in the world. His partner is Hana Fukuhara. This is a secret. But... Kenta has more secrets. One of them is... Kenta and Yuta have a special connection… what is it? Find out in this Fate Looked Back. Part of a controversial boys love novel Missunderstanding- My Thread.
Don't Rush Love (Yaoi)
Title | Don't Rush Love (Yaoi) PDF eBook |
Author | Mio Tennohji |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-01-07 |
Genre | Gay high school students |
ISBN | 9781934129289 |
The boys from Meeting You are back in this new boys' school love story. Overwhelmed by passion for his unquenched love, Kusama finally confesses to his roommate Morino. But Kusama isn't content with a simple confession and his demands on Morino increase at a fast rate!
Anime and Manga
Title | Anime and Manga PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | PediaPress |
Pages | 425 |
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