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In bara outside of Japan, the following is a breakdown of the meaning of these terms: Boys Love often shortened to BL : A relatively new term used to indicate broadly manga, anime, or fan works depicting love between men for a presumed female audience. Yaoi: While yaoi is used like Boys Love to describe a genre with works focused on men loving men for a female audience, it has the additional connotation of depicting graphic sexual scenes.

It is often viewed as focusing more on story rather than hot and heavy action between two men. In Japan, however, there are slightly different meanings to these words. This has much to due with the history of the Boys Love industry and the gradual development of the genre over the past forty years.

Bara Although sometimes conflated with yaoi by Western commentators, gay men's manga or gei comi, also called Men's Love ML in English and bara in Japan, caters to a gay male audience rather than a female one and tends to be produced primarily by gay and boy male artists such as Gengoroh Tagame and serialized in gay men's magazines.

In comparison to yaoi, gay men's manga is unlikely to contain scenes of "uncontrollable weeping or long introspective pauses", and more likely to show characters who are "hairy, very muscular, or have a few excess pounds". This emergent boys' love subgenre, while still marketed primarily to women, depicts more masculine body types and is more likely to be written by gay male authors and artists; it is also thought to attract a large crossover gay male audience.

I can't name a Western visual novel that's marketed itself as yaoi above all else that's had a fat man as a love interest in it, and black men with natural hair are generally just as rare, for example. Again, plenty of guys disagree with me on that including ones I'm close friends with just like I know plenty of people who aren't remotely gay men at all that consume MxM boy and absolutely hate the term "BL"!

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Seeing that you're working on a BL VN in your info there, I'd recommend that you look into what gets marketed in what way on places like Itchio in tags like yaoibaragayor LGBT or Kickstarter, then think about your art style and target demographic as compared to the works that tend to pop up in those categories to design some kind of framing that you think reflects the visual novel best!

You've got a lot of cross-pollination, though, and I honestly can say that at least I personally will probably try most things out if they're MxM, regardless of what it's designated as otherwise. Seriously sorry for the long post, though. But hopefully it helped! Style developed by Zuma Portal and Turaiel.