Same I dunno maybe it has to do with type? I prefer the swimmers toned muscled body type sometimes even gangly or flabby over the kinda looks like steroids and sometimes even chubby or lumberjack type. I can deal with kinda halfway bara like Giocatore, Hokaku Keikaku tho so i mean.... But that could def not be it as well. Idkkkkk
Well in my opinion it is about the content, since I've seen bara most often used in pornographic material. But I think that it is better than shota because they really have masculine forms and they really don't try to drag it down to a hetero level where one of them obviosly fills in the part of the girl. And isn't that part of the charm that there are no girls.

I'm not particularly fond of bara but I'd like to know what you guys think.ヾ(☆▽☆)
Bara - a genre of art and fictional media that focuses on male same-sex love usually created by gay men for a gay audience.