Gods exist today because people prayed. By using this method, the “Yaoi” God spoke with us. In contrast to Yaoi God, who claims that a person’s gender is unrelated to their love for another, Moon God believes that men and women should get married. What will happen when Moon’s traditional thinking clashes with Yaoi’s revolutionary thinking?
Yaoi, pronounced “jai” (ja.o.i in Japanese), is a category of fictional media that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is a Japanese invention. Its abbreviation is BL, and it also goes by the name The Wasei-eigo Construction Guys’ Love (, beru). [a] Despite having a male audience and occasionally being produced by male artists, it is distinct from homoerotic media targeted towards homosexual males, known as bara (, lit. The majority of the time, it is created by women for other women, though men can also make it. Manga, anime, drama CDs, books, video games, television shows, motion pictures, and fan works are just a few examples of the wide range of entertainment it embraces. Though some fans and commentators in the West use the terms “Boys’ love” and “BL,” the term “yaoi” is still more commonly used in English. In Japan and most of Asia, this kind of media is referred to as “boys’ love” or “BL.”
In the 1970s, the genre first debuted in the subgenre of shjo manga, also referred to as comics for women. Various terms, such as shnen-ai (literally, “boy love”), tanbi (literally, “aestheticism”), and June (literally, “du ne”), were used to describe the new literary category. A combination of the phrases “yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi,” which mean “no climax, no purpose, no meaning,” the term “yaoi” first originated in the context of djinshi (, self-published works) culture in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The phrase was used in a mocking way to describe fan works written by amateurs that were only interested in sex without regard for the story or the characters. Later, in the 1990s, Japanese periodicals started using the term “boys’ love” to refer to male-to-male romantic media marketed to female consumers.
One of the ideas and motifs linked with yaoi is that of androgynous men, often known as bishnen. The representations of rape, the devaluation of women’s roles in the stories, the narratives’ emphasis on homosociality while downplaying socio-cultural homophobia, and the devaluation of women’s roles are some other ideas and topics connected to yaoi. One of the distinctive traits of yaoi is the practice 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 been well-known all across the world since the 1990s. This has been done through the licensing, distribution, and unrestricted online dissemination of its works by Yaoi fans as well as through the works’ licensing and distribution on a global scale. Yaoi fanworks, culture, and fandom have attracted the attention of academics and media professionals from all over the world, who have invested time and effort into their study and writing.