How I Encountered Yaoi Mangas

It was accident when I was in 4th grade. I was curious about the genre in kissanime and check every single genre when I stumbled "shounen-ai" and check the anime. I was shocked at first cuz it was boyxboy and also confuse but I like it anyway. After that I want more and did some digging. Then there I know yaoi/BL= shounen-ai in Google   1 reply

That's when I found out the existence of yaoi not in novel medium but in manga form. Tbf, it was a doujin that broke me into yaoi manga world. But my interest for BL has started far longer than before I knew it in manga. It was when I read one story in wattpad and I didn't know what MxM tag meant. I was so into the story that when I reached the en......   1 reply

I actually stumbled on yaoi on accident LOL. I began watching anime first from like grade 4. After a while I found out that the anime's I liked had completed mangas attached, so I came on here to read My Little Monster, but then I realized yaoi is much more interesting ahha :)   reply

God, I was so young man like I was 10 It all started with me scrolling on Facebook and I saw a Lezhin ad for this BL comic called "A guy like you" and since Jiwon (the Seme) was handksme af, I HAD TO CLICK IT So, I only read the free episodes since its Lezhin. I was so definitely into it and looked for a website that gave all the 30 chapters. I fo......   2 reply

All of my sisters almost talk about yaoi every day, I didn't want to feel left out, so one day went on the internet to search for yaoi manga which was my first ever manga ten count, and now I can't stop reading yaoi, so please help me with this addiction （/TДT)/ ;-;   2 reply

back in middle school everyone was discovering it was okay to be gay via the internet (small town) and we all started reading hetalia because everyone thought of it has The Manga for the gay crowd then. Me being me, a gay man, clearly implied romance was not enough. Of course I read fanfiction and the like for hours but i wanted real animated roman......   1 reply

Back in 2007 (17 at the time) when Veoh was all the rage for western otaku, I watched an AMV based on a Near × Mello ship from Death Note. Then I discovered a Doujinshi with them on Aarinfantasy, which opened the door to the world of Yaoi manga and eventually anime. Aarinfantasy became my safe haven for many years to come :)   1 reply

i was browsing through myanimelist.net manga genres bcs i ran out of manga to read. i was on the way to a school field trip lol. anyway i have liked bL and the sort for a while and then i saw the genre Shounen Ai and i was crazy excited like what?? is this what i think it is??? so i read Recipe no Ouji-Sama and then Junketsu Drop, i had a feels att......   reply

I don't remember how exactly, but I came across a doujinshi for Tiger & Bunny which had a lot of angst in it so it got me curious about the story only to find out that the original Tiger & Bunny isn't even BL. So to fulfill the hole in my heart, I looked for other stories about male lovers, and there you have it.   reply

Wow okay. I read a TON of BL fanfiction for this book series I liked on Wattpad, and I some how came across a fanfic for a little something called Killing Stalking. I looked it up, and you can probably guess what happened next...   reply