

#YAOI YAOI ANIMES SERIES#
You’d be amazed and disappointed at how little the selection there is compared to all the other genres.Īnd since the selection is so small, this makes it even harder for a good anime series to come along. Trust me, I’ve done my research on this topic, searching high and low for some BL anime recommendations.


Let’s just say that people with good taste usually watch BL animes!ĭespite its long history, there is surprisingly not a lot of anime to watch in this genre. In addition, portrayals of gay characters in Japanese media are. There are plenty of yuri visual novels on Steam, but it is slim pickings for the boy’s love fan. Inserted levity aside, if there is one thing I’ve learned compiling all these lists, it is that yuri typically gets short end of the stick, but not this time. I don’t love using the term fujoshi, which has somewhat negative connections. as well as the recent popularity of yaoi manga (boys' love comics) among young girls. It seems Steam has forgotten their yaoi visual novels. This genre is a popular niche among certain demographics. Yaoi is more explicit, shounen ai is more innocent, and BL tends to be the best of both worlds. In anime, the BL genre is closely related to yaoi or shounen ai, which are labels that describe a very similar type of story. Before BL dramas or movies became mainstream, BL animes and mangas were like the first frontier, depicting male romances in fiction even when it was taboo in society. So, in literal terms, Yaoi anime is known as boy’s love anime. Yaoi is known as a boy’s love, and the anime features a homosexual relationship amongst the male characters. From my memory, it always felt like BL anime existed as a genre for as long as I can remember. A genre of fan fiction, Yaoi anime, originated in Japan, in the late 1970s.
