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yeah, and it actually makes you feel like their feelings towards each other (Eiji and Ash) are more genuine.
Like in GOL when Akira asks Sing if Eiji and Ash were lovers, he responds by saying they were more than that and how he doesn't mean that they were in a sexual relationship but were connected with each others soul. To which I think is as pure as love can get.
Because this manga is not really about their love story, is about the life of Ash, drugs, violence, rape and how he fights for his own freedom
BF is not shounen-ai. And that's cool because that means you can find romantic undertones between guys in other genres. Like with het and how stories of different genres can have a romantic relationship between a man and a woman.
It's regressive wanting to tag everything that contain romance between two men, no matter how explicit or implied is, always and only as yaoi/shounen-ai