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Well hate to break it to you but, shounen-ai literally means “boy’s love,” so yes, it’s already BL. In Japan it’s just the softer, more emotional, less-explicit corner of the genre. The term isn’t as common anymore, sure, but you can’t really replace it when it still labels a specific BL subgenre. And yeah, swapping it out in tagging systems sounds great in theory, but with how often new tags pop up, well good luck keeping that perfectly organized. rip programmer

Shounen ai is really not used anymore. They just call it BL. I think the yaoi/yuri labels should be replaced by BL/GL and the ones with explicit content should be tagged with smut

Sounds nice but that will be complicated as there's a little chance that will happened thought since it's quite hard to change label when they're always have everytime unless this website have a ton of people to do it, the chance might be low but it's never zeroes

I prefer Shonenai.

like you said its not really used anymore. yaoi and yuri is obv for smut but for "shounen ai" its bl. idk why i got so many dislikes LMAOO