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Just read this extract from Mark MacWilliams’, Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime, for further proof: For this reason alone, the space carved out by women in the Japanese market for shojo and shounen-ai decades ago was downright pioneering. The literary world is still dominated by men and the comic book industry is no exception. This is also particularly strange for a genre that is so female-focussed from inception to readership.
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It’s not a full exoneration as such, more of ‘reasonable doubt’ defence.īL certainly contains some questionable depictions of gay men, but perhaps equally troubling is its representation – or often lack there of – women. And as more women prefer to read erotic fiction rather than watch porn, thinking of BL in this context grants it more leeway to cater to women’s depoliticised fantasies of gay men rather than how they really are. After all, so much of romantic fiction – particularly erotica like yaoi – operates within a realm of fantasy so great that their realism may as well be discussed alongside the The Lord of The Rings books. In fact, that ‘exotic’ aspect of BL’s appeal is also part of its fans’ defence of it. I wouldn’t ever use the word ‘regular’ to distinguish between heterosexual and homosexual relationships, but the right sentiment is there all the same. And since heterosexual love stories are still a dime a dozen, there’s a kind of voyeur curiosity for the straight consumer attached to ones told from an LGBTQ perspective. It’s right there in the name after all: boys love. But, when we’re talking about BL, we know that’s simply not the case. As Lin-Manuel Miranda poetically put it: “Love is love is love is love,” after all. If we go with the latter description, you could argue there’s something progressive in enjoying romance stories without ‘seeing’ gender. In these tiny, pocket universes dedicated to man-on-man action, the ‘G’ word seems either be taboo or redundant.
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Instead, they always seem totally isolated from their own community – a community that is notoriously familial, IRL. More to the point, I have yet to see one of these characters to go a gay club or Pride parade. Even the out and proud BL characters who are doggedly obsessive in their romantic pursuit of other men hardly ever self-define – verbally or otherwise – their own sexual preference by name. There’s also, I’ve noticed, a perpetual conflict between BL character’s sexuality being unfairly dominant in defining their personality, yet strangely absent in their lifestyles. The level of eye-rolling that follows the success of things like Magic Mike or Fifty Shades of Grey or any other cultural product that caters unabashedly to female sexuality is getting pretty tedious.Ī page from popular BL manga, Kuroneko Kareshi no Aishikata, by Ayane Ukyou. For those more familiar, it translates as both serving and gently mocking the shounen-ai (‘boys love’ or BL) genre fulfilling its target audience’s expectations whilst cheekily representing them as easily manipulated girls with nothing better to do than fawn over bishounen (‘beautiful men’).Īs a life-long otaku with a soft spot for said beautiful fictional men, I can’t say that I don’t see a little of myself in the squealing guests of the Host Club and niether do I see anything wrong with it. In hit anime series, Ouran High School Host Club, twin brothers Kaoru and Hikari always make sure to treat their female guests at the titular club to quite a show of “brotherly love”.įor viewers popping their proverbial anime cherry, these scenes must be a bit of a culture shock. ‘Boys Love’ manga presents gay men for the pleasure of straight women – so why does it represent both so badly?