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.
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.
YAOI: THE ART OF JAPANE GAY COMICS
An enunter wh a new employee named Harada mak Odakara realize that he is gay. Tomiura and Shirosaki attend the same universy and both know that each other is gay om an unexpected cint. Based on a manga by the same name by the crilly acclaimed Fumi Yoshaga, thor of the ternatnally award-wng, alternate-history perd piece “Ooku, ” Antique Bakery se Yoshaga’s reer-long fascatn wh male homosexualy at s most balanced.
Former high school classmat, one gay and one straight, n a lol bakery together years down but, no, they don’t fall love. Mappa’s stellar and long-awaed anime adaptatn’s only a few years old but “Banana Fish” burst onto the manga landspe the 80s, quickly achievg sta-classic stat and a cult fanbase, part due to s blunt portrayal of homosexualy at a time not at all mon.
It do have a gay character and cute scen wh his roommate but there is no uple formed. Yaoi & BL: Gay for Girls? When talkg about Japane manga pictg homosexual relatnships, the first thg to do is to differentiate the tend dience.