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{{trope}}
[[File:101.jpg|thumb|350px|Why? Because [[Guy-On-Guy Is Hot]] and that's all there is to it.{{context|reason=What work is this from?}}]]
Also called Yaoi, Boy's Love is a subgenre of romance focusing on male homosexuality, for a [[Yaoi Fangirls|presumptively female audience]]. In a typical plot, two boys fall in love and the story shows their progress as a couple. Sometimes it's just part of the scenery, although most series directly foster what [[Fan Service|the audience expects and likes]].
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The stories are stereotyped as having a high degree of [[Melodrama]], especially within the younger teenager reading audience; something exploited by the manga translation market. The dynamic of an [[Seme|aggressive partner]] and a [[Uke|submissive one]] is so common in the genre that they have become the archetypes for the genre (but remember, [[Tropes Are Flexible]]!). Some [[Slash Fic]] writers go so far as to [[Wimpification|feminize]] the [[One Head Taller|shorter guy]] to fit this dynamic. Many series that deal with [[True Companions|close friendship]] usually develop a [[Slash Fic|non-canonical]] Boys Love fandom.
See [[Boys Love Genre/Notes]] for a list of standard character types and [[Boys Love Tropes]] for tropes associated with the genre.
For the corresponding genre aimed at a gay male readership, see [[Bara Genre]]. For the [[Distaff Counterpart]] to this genre, see [[Yuri Genre]].
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{{examples}}
== Boys Love Works ==
=== Anime
* ''[[Ai no Kusabi]]''
* ''[[Animal X]]''
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* ''[[Togainu no Chi]]'': adapted into a manga and anime. Both of which have plenty of [[Ho Yay]] subtext/text, although only the visual novel has any explicit scenes.
▲=== Webcomics ===
* ''[[Honeydew Syndrome]]''
* ''[[Paradox (webcomic)|Paradox]]''
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* ''[[Tripping Over You]]''
* ''[[Yaoi Tales]]'' is essentially Disney fairy tales...[[Captain Obvious|but yaoi]].
=== Web Original ===
* This ficlet: ''[
* This is pretty much the premise of ''[
== Works commonly mistaken for Boys Love Genre ==
* ''[[07-
▲=== Anime & Manga ===
▲* ''[[07-Ghost|Zero Seven Ghost]]'' frequently dances right on the edge of this trope without coming right out and saying it. Teito and Mikage's relationship teases at it, and Kuroyuri and Haruse darn near imply it. Not to mention Hakuren's outright statement that he does "not like women", with a couple of exceptions. C'mon, if you don't take it THAT way, you're dense.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''. Despite being a major [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]] and having ''two'' not [[Will They or Won't They?|entirely]] confirmed canon male-on-male pairings ([[Opposites Attract|Germany×Italy]] and [[Ho Yay|Sweden×Finland]] if you ask, not to mention the [[Ship Tease]] with [[Dogged Nice Guy|Spain]]×[[Hair-Trigger Temper|Romano]], [[Love Freak|America]]×[[Only Sane Man|England]], [[Birds of a Feather|GreecexJapan]], etc., the story doesn't revolve around those relationships and [[Yaoi Fangirl]]s are not the original, fully intended demographic. The webcomic is a little ambiguous, but it's quite safe to say that the manga (as well as the anime) isn't BL, since it was published in the same magazine as ''[[Rozen Maiden]]''.
* [[CLAMP]] loves [[Yaoi Guys]] and [[Ho Yay]] (they have their own [[CLAMP/Ho Yay|Ho Yay page]]), but so far they have not published any official Boys' Love. CLAMP works that are particularly yaoi-esque include:
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* Rare [[Shonen]] example of a male-male romance: ''[[No Bra]]'', a [[Manga]] where a guy falls in love with a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]].
* ''[[No. 6]]'' does this with Nezumi and Shion. Things essentially get more [[Ho Yay]] fueled with every episode/chapter including a "good-night kiss" and a "good-bye kiss". It has fans that always ask whether it's a shounen-ai or not. It's really a shoujo/shounen series. The novel was written by Asano Atsuko an infamous writer of BL-ish novels she claims are 'children's books'.
* ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' has multiple instances with [[Ho Yay]] and the main character's friend having a huge infatuation with him and often fights with the main love interest for his affection as a result. Regardless, you can interpret it as [[Ho Yay]], overprotectiveness or [[
* ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'' has an incredible amount of [[Ho Yay]] subtext/text (?), a [[Bishonen]] main cast and the one female love interest is [[Shallow Love Interest|very boring]] so it's not surprising some would consider it Boys' Love.
* ''[[Princess Princess]]'' does this with having the very feminine guys dress up as girls to be adored by the male population of their school. Not to mention all the [[Ho Yay]] between Tooru and Yuujirou. It's officially shoujo even though it's sometimes tagged as shounen-ai.
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== Use of BL manga/anime itself as a trope (for uses of BL tropes outside BL, see [[Yaoi Guys]]) ==
▲=== Anime & Manga ===
* In ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'', Marie Buraidaru admits to writing yaoi [[Doujinshi]] about Phantom Ace.
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* In ''[[Empowered]]'', Emp tries to freak her male teammates by showing them X-rated yaoi [[Doujinshi]] starring themselves. [[Insult Backfire|They decide they're flattered]].
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* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] in [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_471.php this strip] of ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]''.
* In ''[[Questionable Content]]'', Marigold gets annoyed at Hannelore for mixing her yaoi in with the rest of her manga. Pretty soon they're watching yaoi anime together.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Always Male]]
[[Category:Anime Genres]]
[[Category:Queer As Tropes]]
[[Category:Queer Romance]]
▲[[Category:Boys Love Genre]]
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