what is yaoi anime

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What to include on the Yaoi Wiki

Yaoi content can be depicted across many formats including manga, anime and visual novels of which descriptions of the various may be found on the Yaoi Formats article. Consequently information from these mediums are best secured on the wiki.

Expanding the Yaoi Wiki

Rather than become an all consuming site, instead the Yaoi wiki can function to provide details on everything subject related. It can be a solid foundation to support singular Yaoi wiki’s with their own Fandom sites.

Yaoi Master Lists

With content continually being released, updating the master lists helps everyone learn about them:

1. Junjou Romantica

Anime series like Junjou Romantica are extremely popular, and many of the most devoted fans are young men.

3. Vassalord – Love between a vampire and a vampire hunter

Charley and Johnny rayflom are the two main characters in this Yaoi anime.

4. Hitorijime My Hero

Hiorijime, the protagonist of my favorite Yaomi anime, is one of the last.

6. Love Stage!!

Izumi Sena and Ryoma Ichijo are the focus of the love stage.Izumi is a member of a famous family.

10. Sukisho

For a brief time, the title Sukisho appeared as Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shganai!! To be precise, Japan.

11. Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru

This Yaoi anime, also known as the Betrayal knows my name, centers on Sakurai Yuki, a young man who has the ability to sense the feelings of everyone around him by simply touching them.

12. Ikoku Irokoi Romantan

This Yaoi anime, written by Ayano Yamane, is also known as a Foreign Love Affair.

Manga

The following yaoi titles were originally published as manga; any subsequent adaptations into other mediums are noted.

Other media

The following yaoi titles were originally published in a medium that was not manga or anime, but were later adapted into a manga or anime.

How many anime adaptations of the manga are there?

There have been four anime adaptations of the manga. Two are anime series, one is a movie, and one is an Original Video Animation. The protagonists of the anime are Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano. Ritsu works as an editor in his father’s publishing company.

What is the devil anime?

This anime deals with devil s, demons, and Satan. Devils need a human host to take form but a strong-willed human can control them using the supernatural powers for themselves. Akira Fudou is a timid person but decides to help his friend who asks him to accompany him to a place to uncover the truth about devils. The party turns violent as devils start decimating everyone. To save his friend Akira merges with devil Amon and defeats everyone thus becoming a devilman. In this series, the character of Satan, Ryo, is shown to be homosexual as he falls in love with Akira.

What is the name of the doll that Kotarou Izumi created?

He created a series of dolls called Hybrid Childs who are short of between artificial intelligence and humans. These dolls are not only able to experience human emotions but also need them to grow. One story shows Kotarou Izumi, ho belongs to a noble family, bringing an abandoned Hybrid Child home.

How many episodes are there in Xiao Lu He Xiao Lan?

Though the plot and characters are decent enough to watch the show many shounen-ai consumers might be put off by the fact that this series has over 70 episodes.

What genre is Sakura?

Cardcaptor Sakura (1998) This anime belongs to the fantasy/magic genre. The plot follows the life of a young girl named Sakura. One day she finds a book filled with cards and before she could understand anything the cards are accidentally blown away and scattered all over the world.

How many episodes are there in Ling Qi?

There are a total of 20 episodes in the series and each episode is about 14 minutes long. It is a Chinese anime and is an Original Net Animation.

Is Patalliro based on a manga?

‘Patalliro!’ is based on a manga of the same name which was first published in the year 1978.

Overview

Yaoi , also known by the wasei-eigo construction 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. It is typically created by women for women and is distinct from homoerotic media marketed to gay men, but it does also attract a male audien…

Etymology and terminology

Multiple terms exist to describe Japanese and Japanese-influenced male-male romance fiction as a genre. In a 2015 survey of professional Japanese male-male romance fiction writers by Kazuko Suzuki, five primary subgenres were identified:
Shōnen-ai (少年愛, lit. "boy love") While the term shōnen-ai historically connoted ephebophilia or pederasty, beginning in the 1970s it was used to describe a new genre of shōjo manga (girls' ma…

History

Homosexuality and androgyny have a history in Japan dating to ancient times, as seen in practices such as shudō (衆道, same-sex love between samurai and their companions) and kagema (陰間, male sex workers who served as apprentice kabuki actors). The country shifted away from a tolerance of homosexuality amid Westernization during the Meiji Era (1868-1912), and moved towards hos…

Concepts and themes

The protagonists of yaoi are often bishōnen (美少年, lit. "beautiful boy"), "highly idealised" boys and young men who blend both masculine and feminine qualities. Bishōnen as a concept can be found disparately throughout East Asia, but its specific aesthetic manifestation in 1970s shōjo manga (and subsequently in yaoi manga) drew influence from popular culture of the era, including glam rock artists …

Media

In 2003, 3.8% of weekly Japanese manga magazines were dedicated exclusively to BL. Notable ongoing and defunct magazines include Be × Boy, June, Craft, Chara, Dear+, Opera, Ciel [ja], and Gush. Several of these magazines were established as companion publications to shōjo manga magazines, as they include material considered too explicit for an all-ages audience; Ciel was esta…

Demography

Suzuki notes that "demographic analyses of BL media are underdeveloped and thus much needed in yaoi/BL studies," but acknowledges that "the overwhelming majority of BL readers are women." 80% of the yaoi audience in Thailand is female, while the membership of Yaoi-Con, a now-defunct American yaoi convention, was 85% female. It is usually assumed that all female fans are heterosexual, but in Japan there is a presence of lesbian manga authors and lesbian, bisexual or

Analysis

Yaoi has received considerable critical attention, especially after translations of yaoi became commercially available outside Japan in the 21st century. In Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, the 1983 book by Frederik L. Schodt that was the first substantial English-language work on manga, Schodt observes that portrayals of gay male relationships had used and further developed bisexual themes already extant in shōjo manga to appeal to their female audie…