Can you tell me the what’s different form bl and that
Bl is boys love but shonen ai and yaoi are different.
Shonen ai= bl
Yaoi= bl but more explicit ig?
Like it's more oriented towards sex than Shonen ai but ifor any phone else knows the actual definition, feel free to correct me
*if anyone else knows
Also yeah shonen ai is boys love
Shonen = boy
Ai = love
Uhh a little bit if a correction there.
You got Yaoi right. It's gay but with hardcore porn. It's like gay porn with no plot.
Shounen ai does mean boys love, but shounen means young boys, so shounen ai is tagged to works that have love between young boys or has a young boy as a love interest.
BL is just Boys Love for all things gay and has plot and isn't around young boys. So basically majority of what we read is BL, not shounen ai and yaoi.
That's all I gotta say, took this info from an article.
Shounen ai and yaoi are all part of the bl gender the different is
Shounen ai like the other person said is more about young love, it more centered on the romantic side of the story with only kisses and yaoi takes everything romance, making love and so on, it more explicit.
Sometimes authors changes their gender at some point from a shounen ai to yaoi, just to add that spice because who doesn’t like something spicy. And the both have plots.
I-It really doesn't have plot, here's a quote from where I learned this from:
"The word yaoi is credted to Hatsu Akiko and Sakata Yasuko, members of the Year 24 Group of female manga artists who created stories focusing purely on sexual relations between men. Yaoi is an acronym of the phrase yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi, roughly translating to “no climax, no fall, no meaning” and referring to how the genre emphasizes sex, not romance."
Here are two articles I read from and many other articles on the web that say the same thing.
https://futekiya.com/bl-vs-yaoi-vs-shounen-ai/
https://www.dictionary.com/e/translations/yaoi/#:~:text=Yaoi%20is%20a%20Japanese%20term,focuses%20on%20romance%20between%20men.
shounen ai doesnt have to be a romantic relationship and NEVER has explicit sex or anything.
Yaoi is always a romantic relationship between two men and has sex
Till chapter 12 I thought it was gonna be shounen ai too and as much as I love yaoi I kinda wanted this one to stay shounen ai with a little tease ngl
I don’t know, but from the yaoi mangas and mahwa that I read they have plots.
was I the only one who thought it was a shonen ai