Boys Love Manga

Author : Mark McLelland
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626743096
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys Love Manga and Beyond written by Mark McLelland and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan’s manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls’ culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.

Author : Antonia Levi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456272
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys' Love Manga written by Antonia Levi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States. It is found in manga, anime, novels, movies, electronic games, and fan-created fiction, artwork, and video. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love as it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture.

Author : Yannan Li
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783838324487
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Boy-love Manga and the Global Fandom written by Yannan Li and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peyo
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1648276458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy Meets Maria written by Peyo and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An LGBT+ manga exploring love and gender at a high school drama club. Taiga dreams of becoming an actor, so the first thing he does upon entering high school is join the drama club. There, he meets the beautiful, enigmatic Maria and immediately falls in love with her. Not long after, Taiga is told that she is actually a boy--but is that all there is to Maria’s story? The late PEYO debuted with this beautifully illustrated, single-volume tale exploring the nature of personal expression and the fluidity of the power of love.

Author : James Welker
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824892232
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Transfigurations written by James Welker and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL’s male–male romantic and sexual relationships have found a particularly receptive home in other parts of Asia, where strong local fan communities and locally produced BL works have garnered a following throughout the region, taking on new meanings and engendering widespread cultural effects. Queer Transfigurations is the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia—and beyond. Contributors draw on their expertise in an array of disciplines and fields, including anthropology, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, political science, and sociology to shed light on BL media and its fandoms. Queer Transfigurations reveals the far-reaching influences of the BL genre, demonstrating that it is truly transnational and transcultural in diverse cultural contexts. It has also helped bring about positive changes in the status of LGBT(Q) people and communities as well as enlighten local understandings of gender and sexuality throughout Asia. In short, Queer Transfigurations shows that, some fifty years after the first BL manga appeared in print, the genre is continuing to reverberate and transform lives.

Author : Yuki Fumino
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1944937528
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Hear the Sunspot written by Yuki Fumino and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of a hearing disability, Kohei is often misunderstood and has trouble integrating into life on campus, so he learns to keep his distance. That is until he meets the outspoken and cheerful Taichi. He tells Kohei that his hearing loss is not his fault. Taichi's words cut through Kohei's usual defense mechanisms and open his heart. More than friends, less than lovers, their relationship changes Kohei forever.

Author : Vera Schneider
Publisher : Sa Dame: Vera Schneider & Bevin Smith
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missunderstanding- Fate Looked Back written by Vera Schneider and published by Sa Dame: Vera Schneider & Bevin Smith. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the male talent agency run by two women, Hana Fukuhara and Megumi Shimada, many strict rules have to be obeyed. Some of them are hard to follow. No relationships. No sexual activities. Not even self-stimulation. But things happen... Kenta Yamamura is somehow always dragged into forbidden encounters with other boys. His inability to say no causes him a lot of troubles. He does want to be faithful because he has a partner he loves more than anything in the world. His partner is Hana Fukuhara. This is a secret. But... Kenta has more secrets. One of them is... Kenta and Yuta have a special connection… what is it? Find out in this Fate Looked Back. Part of a controversial boys love novel Missunderstanding- My Thread.

Author : Kaim Tachibana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569700884
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys Love (Yaoi) written by Kaim Tachibana and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magazine editor Mamiya meets popular high school model Noeru Kisaragi for a story Mamiya's working on. When Noeru suddenly tries to go down on Mamiya and makes sexual advances at him, Mamiya turns him down flat. But Mamiya's loneliness starts to get to him and he decides to try starting over with Noeru on equal footing.

Author : Saki Tsukahara
Publisher : TOKYOPOP
ISBN 13 : 1427863830
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RePlay (BL manga) written by Saki Tsukahara and published by TOKYOPOP. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yuta and Ritsu have been playing baseball together since they were children, but after being defeated in a local tournament over the summer, they must retire from the high school team to study for university entrance exams. Still, Yuta finds himself unable to give up his lingering attachment to baseball. The one person who can truly understand him is Ritsu, who has been acting worryingly distant since they quit the team. But there's something Yuta himself doesn't understand... Does he think of Ritsu as his partner in the way that a teammate would, or is the affection between them something stronger?

Author : Ranmaru Zariya
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1974724859
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coyote, Vol. 3 (Yaoi Manga) written by Ranmaru Zariya and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyote, a werewolf who has lived his entire life hiding his true identity, has unknowingly fallen for Marleen, the successor to a werewolf-hunting mafia family. Upon finding out Marleen’s true identity, Coyote rejects him, feeling hopeless and betrayed. But Marleen is intent on seeing him again and enters the werewolves’ territory alone to look for him. Coyote, wavering between his intense feelings for Marleen and his loyalty to the pack that raised him, wants to trust Marleen—but how can he when it could mean the very death of his kind? -- VIZ Media