Gods were created as a result of human prayers. In this way, the “Yaoi” God spoke with us. Yaoi God contends that a person’s gender is unrelated to their love for another, in contrast to Moon God who believes that men and women should marry. What will happen as a result of the collision between Moon’s traditional thinking and Yaoi’s innovative thinking?
Yaoi is a fictional media genre with homoerotic relationships between male characters that has its roots in Japan (/jai/; Japanese: [ja.o.i]). Its abbreviation is BL, and another name for it is “the wasei-eigo construction boys’ love” (, beru). [a] Although it appeals to a male audience and might be created by male artists, it is distinct from homoerotic media marketed to homosexual males, known as bara (, lit. Though typically created by women for other women, it can also be made by men. It includes a wide range of entertainment mediums, such as fan works, comics, anime, drama CDs, books, video games, television shows, and movies. The name “yaoi” is still more commonly used in English, despite the fact that some fans and commentators in the West prefer the terms “Boys’ love” and “BL.” In Japan and most of Asia, this type of media goes by the general labels “boys’ love” and “BL.”
The 1970s saw the debut of the genre in the shjo manga subgenre, also referred to as comics for women. The term “boy love” (shnen-ai), “aestheticism,” and “June” (lit. “dou ne”) were among the many labels given to the new literary genre. Yaoi is a portmanteau of “yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi,” which means “no climax, no point, no meaning,” and initially originated in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of djinshi (, self-published works) culture. When referring to amateur fan works that prioritized sex over plot and character development, the phrase was used in a mocking way. In the late 1990s, Japanese magazines started using the term “boys’ love” as a catch-all for male-to-male romantic media that catered to female consumers.
One of the ideas and motifs connected to yaoi is that of androgynous men, commonly referred to as bishnen. Other ideas and themes connected to yaoi include rape representations, underdeveloped female characters, stories that emphasize homosociality while downplaying socio-cultural homophobia, and underdeveloped female characters. One of the qualities that sets yaoi apart from other cultures is the custom of pairing characters in relationships according to the roles of seme, which can be translated as “sexual top” or “active pursuer,” and uke, which can be interpreted as “sexual bottom” or “passive pursued.” Yaoi has a significant following all over the world since the 1990s. This has been made possible by the works’ international license and distribution, as well as its unauthorized online distribution by Yaoi fans. Yaoi fanworks, culture, and fandom have attracted the attention of researchers and writers from all around the world.