The Advote's Tiara Chiaramonte breaks down the basics and giv an troductn to the fascatg world of gay Japane ics.
Contents:
- THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
- YAOI: THE ART OF JAPANE GAY COMICS
THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
While the topics vered Japane anime and manga are seemgly endls, if recent hs like "Yuri on Ice" (2016), or "My Brother’s Hband" (2014-2017) are any ditn, gay and homoerotic relatnships fill an extremely popular niche manga plotl. But, "My Brother’s Hband" (which was was rema last year to an NHK drama) and "Yuri on… * japanese manga gay *
Bara is siar to Yaoi (also known as Boys’ Love or BL Japan), and picts homosexual relatnships between men. Shun Hashimoto is an openly gay aspirg novelist livg Okawa who was abandoned by his parents after g out to them. Too bad turns out that Tatsumi is an aggrsive, self-centered, and outspoken homophobe.
YAOI: THE ART OF JAPANE GAY COMICS
Yet somehow Tetsuhiro managed to fall love wh Tatsumi, the “walkg personaly disorr, ” who is the kd of man who clar that all gay men should be wiped off the face of the pla. Now, some 14 years later Ono, a world-class pastry chef and gay playboy has all. Can this be the only man who risted his charms, and if so, will the man who once snubbed the "magilly gay" Ono get his jt serts?
It is later on that another gay actor back to Japan and -stars wh Katou that problems startg arisg.
An enunter wh a new employee named Harada mak Odakara realize that he is gay.