Hentai: Yaoi, Shotacon, Ecchi, Lolicon, List of Japanese erotic computer games, Bara, List of hentai authors, Futanari, Ero guro, List of hentai anime, Tentacle erotica, Young Comic

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Yaoi, Shotacon, Ecchi, Lolicon, List of Japanese erotic computer games, Bara, List of hentai authors, Futanari, Ero guro, List of hentai anime, Tentacle erotica, Young Comic. Excerpt: Yaoi ) also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by female authors. Originally referring to a specific type of dojinshi (self-published works) parody of mainstream anime and manga works, yaoi came to be used as a generic term for female-oriented manga, anime, dating sims, novels and dojinshi featuring idealized homosexual male relationships. The main characters in yaoi usually conform to the formula of the seme lit. "attacker") who pursues the uke lit. "receiver"). The male characters are often drawn to the point that their features are so idealistic, they are unrealistically beautiful. In Japan, the term has largely been replaced by the rubric Boys' Love Boizu Rabu), which subsumes both parodies and original works, and commercial as well as dojinshi works. Although the genre is called Boys' Love (commonly abbreviated as "BL"), the males featured are pubescent or older. Works featuring prepubescent boys are labeled shotacon, and seen as a distinct genre. Yaoi (as it continues to be known among English-speaking fans) has spread beyond Japan: both translated and original yaoi is now available in many countries and languages. Yaoi began in the dojinshi markets of Japan in the late 1970s/early 1980s as an outgrowth of shonen-ai ) (also known as "Juné" or "tanbi"), but whereas shonen-ai (both commercial and dojinshi) were original works, yaoi were parodies of popular shonen anime and manga, such as Captain Tsubasa and Saint Seiya. BL creators and fans are careful to distinguish the genre from bara, including "gay manga", which are created by and for gay men. However, some male manga creators have produced BL works. Yuri is a wider blanket term than yaoi, because it refers to comics with lesbian relationships, regardless of the target audience, which may be (presumptively heterosexual) men, heterosexual women, or lesbian women. Yuri made by and for l