As a genre, BL intially branched off from Shoujo manga, which has historically entangled itself with themes of gender, sexuality and identity. For the most part, BL is still largley marketed towards women though has always retained a prominent [queer] male readership. The idea of demographics is highly contested in anglo fandoms, with the main cr......
For me it was Love Stage when I was quite young. At that point, I started getting into anime at a young age and I was particularly attracted to romance anime(not including yaoi/BL) and when I was searching up other romance anime to watch, Love Stage came up. However, I thought it was a "typical" romance(Same-sex romance never occurred to me and 'st......
Mao-kun's Dating Service pt. 2