Gods exist because mankind prayed for them. This is how the “Yaoi” God spoke to us.
While Yaoi God contends that a person’s gender has no bearing on their love for another, Moon God believes that men and women should marry. What will happen as a consequence of Moon’s traditional thinking clashing with Yaoi’s innovative thinking?
Yaoi is a fictional media genre that has its roots in Japan and features homoerotic relationships between male characters (/jai/; Japanese: [ja.o.i]). Its abbreviation is BL, and another name for it is the Wasei-eigo construction boys’ love (, bizu rabu) (, beru). [a] It is distinct from homoerotic media targeted at gay males, known as bara (, lit. “rose”), even though it often features male artists and has a male audience. It is mostly created by women for other women, however males may also make it. It covers a wide range of entertainment mediums, such as manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television shows, motion pictures, and fan works. Even though some fans and commentators in the West use the terms “Boys’ love” and “BL,” the word “yaoi” is still more often used in English. In Japan and the majority of Asia, this kind of media is often referred to as “boys’ love” or “BL.”
The 1970s saw the emergence of the subgenre of shjo manga, sometimes referred to as comics for women. There were other names for the new literary genre, including shnen-ai (literally, “boy love”), tanbi (literally, “aestheticism”), and June (literally, “du ne”). In the context of djinshi (, self-published works) culture, the word “yaoi” initially originated in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a portmanteau of “yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi,” which translates to “no climax, no purpose, no meaning.” The phrase was used in a mocking way to describe amateur fan works that were only concerned with sex at the expense of storyline and character development. The term “boys’ love” was later used by Japanese publications in the 1990s to describe male-to-male romantic media marketed to female customers.
One of the ideas and topics related to yaoi is the existence of androgynous males,
often known as bishnen. Yaoi is also related with representations of rape, devalued
female characters, stories that highlight homosociality while downplaying socio-cultural homophobia, and stories that emphasize homosociality. One of the
distinctive features of yaoi is the custom of pairing characters in relationships
according to the roles of seme, which can be translated as “sexual top” or “active pursuer,” and uke, which can be interpreted as “sexual bottom” or “passive
pursued.” Yaoi has a significant global following since the 1990s. This has been
done via the licensing and international distribution of its works, as well as the
unauthorized internet sharing of those works by Yaoi fans. Yaoi fanworks, culture,
and fandom have been the subject of much investigation and writing by academics
and journalists from all over the world.