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BL : includes the whole genre of boy's love.
Shounen-Ai : Non-explicit, usually focuses more on plot (Ex. star x fanboy, King's Maker)
Yaoi: Explicit (Ex. BJ Alex)
Both yaoi and shounen-ai are included inside BL. reply
It's the same shit, different language, shounen ai, boy love, and yaoi. They're all the same, it's just that I think people are making different meaning for them 1 reply
BL is an UMBRELLA TERM for all things, 100% sex or 100% no sex.
Yaoi is also "technically" an umbrella term- in the initial introduction to western audiences, many readers referred to BL as yaoi and confused the terms, giving it a purely connotative definition.
Yaoi never originally meant specifically for mlm. It typically refers to books that are...... reply
i mean they are pretty much the same thing actually
they're different if you want to make them different
i'll just share my own understanding of the genre differences-
boy's love is just the overall term for manga involving gay relations
shounen ai is pretty much always related to actual romance and it usually is very indirect and slow-burn-y and ...... 1 reply
The difference between shounen ai and yaoi is that there is no actual sex shown in shounen ai whereas it is shown in yaoi. In shounen ai, you are shown the before and after sex but not the actual sex. Also, shounen ai translated is boy's love. (Shounen= boy, ai=love). Same as shoujo ai is translated as girl's love. (Shoujo=girl, ai=love)
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