It's a red herring. Author wants to just write a cute love story without labels. Should not be tagged shounen ai (that doesn't even exist in Japanese...see how it says BL everywhere lol?)
why does shounen i not exist in Japan? don´t get it
DUDE. Shounen Ai exists in Japanese. BL is short for ''Boys Love''. Shounen means ''boy'' in Japanese while Ai means ''love''. Shounen Ai and BL are literally one and the same. What even.
@kyoko it says no bl because it won't explicitly show sexual/intimate scenes that you commonly see in yaoi
@kazure: si=bl that´s what i thought too ^^
and well yes. since it´s shounen ai of Course there would be no sex.
because then it would be yaoi ^^
yup you are correct, this anon person made me so confused
Actually no,in Japan they do not call it shounen ai or yaoi,they call it BL. Shonen ai and yaoi is westerners terms,they dont exist in japan ^^
Yes, Japanese mainly call mangas with male on male relationships as BL. No, Shounen Ai and Yaoi are not western terms. Shounen-ai itself is a japanese word and was created by Japanese women authors in early 1970's to depict beautiful boys in love. YAOI on the other hand is a Japanese acronym (YAma nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi) which translates to "no climax, no point, no meaning". In Japanese speech and writing, YAOI is a slang term used to refer to stories that focus on homosexual relationships between men that involve graphic sex with little to no plot (hence the meaning "no climax, no point, no meaning").
How did you come to the conclusion that these terms do not exist in Japan? They are literally Japanese words.
i didnt know yaoi was actually an acronym. huh. the more you know. thanks for the knowledge good sir
haha im actually a girl but no problem
in other words Japan prefers to use foreign words and the foreigners prefer to use japanese words. why am i not surprised?! ^^
Uh,what i mean do not exist was they dont use this term like what majority us foreigners know n using it as in that yaoi is hardcore n shonen ai is softcore. They call it bl for a long time now,yes those two term are originally from japan,but like i said,they have different meaning from what westerners using ^^
Oh okay yeah, I get your point now :) The way you constructed your sentence earlier kinda confused me
ok i´m confused.
it´s tagged as shounen ai but at the start it say´s ´no bl´?