Yaoi
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 72 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5117-2069-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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. As these depict males, there is an androphilic male audience as well, however manga aimed at a gay male audience is considered a separate genre. 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"?). In Japan, the term has largely been replaced by the rubric Boys' Love (??????, Boizu Rabu?), which subsumes both parodies and original works, and commercial as well as dojinshi works.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...