bl?? and?? yaoi?? are?? different??

BL is shoujo (romance) but with two men. Yaoi is gay porn but can also be mixed with romance. BL = NO SEX Yaoi = YES SEX   1 reply

Here: BL : includes the whole genre of boy's love. Shounen-Ai : Non-explicit, usually focuses more on plot (Ex. star x fanboy, King's Maker) Yaoi: Explicit (Ex. BJ Alex) Both yaoi and shounen-ai are included inside BL.   reply

It's the same shit, different language, shounen ai, boy love, and yaoi. They're all the same, it's just that I think people are making different meaning for them   1 reply

They’re the same. If anything yaoi is just a subgenre of BL with smut.   reply

BL is an UMBRELLA TERM for all things, 100% sex or 100% no sex. Yaoi is also "technically" an umbrella term- in the initial introduction to western audiences, many readers referred to BL as yaoi and confused the terms, giving it a purely connotative definition. Yaoi never originally meant specifically for mlm. It typically refers to books that are......   reply

i mean they are pretty much the same thing actually they're different if you want to make them different i'll just share my own understanding of the genre differences- boy's love is just the overall term for manga involving gay relations shounen ai is pretty much always related to actual romance and it usually is very indirect and slow-burn-y and ......   1 reply

The difference between shounen ai and yaoi is that there is no actual sex shown in shounen ai whereas it is shown in yaoi. In shounen ai, you are shown the before and after sex but not the actual sex. Also, shounen ai translated is boy's love. (Shounen= boy, ai=love). Same as shoujo ai is translated as girl's love. (Shoujo=girl, ai=love) (=・ω�......   1 reply

wait, im stupid but it's just that I thought they were similar things..   reply