WTF HELP

It's apparently the same with Shoujo ai omfg idk I got it from this article https://futekiya.com/what-is-shounen-ai/   reply

Shounen means boy, ai means love, its basically just boy’s love, i have no idea where you got the lil boy part from, but i wanna know where, alsodontworryjapanhasweirderterms, it was also dropped by japan due to it implying pedestry, we’re using outdated terms actually, they just say bl there   reply

shounen means boy. shoujo means girl. ai means love. idk where u heard this but its exactly the same as saying bl or gl. i mean what else cld they possibly call it   1 reply

I always thought that shounen/shoujo ai referred that it was literally boys/girls in the sense of it being more focused on romance and having little to no eroticism, not that there was pedophilia...   1 reply

I've been saying this forever lmfao   2 reply

Sigh, what should we call them now guys? Any suggestions?   1 reply

I thought shounen means "boy" so boy's love. So I though it was like mlm, not necessarily a little boy. Cause what I've seen from the genre is it's mlm without the smut. And isn't the one with underage ones shotacon? So is this meaning of Shounen ai like a mistranslation from japanese to english or something?   reply