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'''[[Camp Straight|Pegasus]]''': [[You Keep Telling Yourself That|Keep telling yourself that.]]|''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''}}
An array of pretty people as eye candy isn't just for the guys. Girls get their
Some series of this flavor go the [[The Unwanted Harem|reverse harem]] route and have an ordinary female lead among the [[Pretty Boy
Sometimes these stories have their own version of [[Those Two Guys]]. One will be a 'normal' audience surrogate and thus a young (but [[Dismissed Gender|non-threatening]]) girl. Another will be a more 'ideal' woman, often a [[Cool Big Sis|clever, sexy, and mature lady]] who barely fits into her dress.
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* ''[[Black Blood Brothers]]'' proves that being hot and being a vampire are not exclusive.
** When the werewolf big guy is a Bishonen, you are definitely here.
* Although ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' has quite a bit of fanservice based around its mostly female [[True Companions]], it's not hard to notice that every single important male character is ''very'' good looking, and these characters probably have as many [[Shirtless Scene
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', while having several plot-worthy female characters other than the lead in the manga, spends a disproportionate amount of its time on Yuki and Kyo. Of course, the rest of the cast is also heavily bishonen. Also see [[Harem Genre]].
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has them littered everywhere. Miaka, the main character, has a personal harem of them. Yui gets Nakago, and Nakago gets... pretty much everybody else, at some point or another in the story.
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* ''[[Gravitation]]'', ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'', and just about any other [[Boys Love]] series.
** Taken to a ridiculous extreme in ''[[Sukisho]]''. There are no female characters in the entire show, and all characters are either bishonen, handsome men in their 30s, or young boys, and one [[Wholesome Crossdresser|crossdresser]] housewife. There is one single woman in the background who is visible for about half a second, and one character mentions his mother in one scene.
** Similarly occurs in the ''[[Saint Beast]]'' prequel series. There are no women in heaven
** ''[[Togainu no Chi]]'': All Igura participants are male; all of them. In fact, the city of Toshima seems to have no female inhabitants.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'' is considered a
* ''[[Hana Kimi]]'' is about a [[Wholesome Crossdresser|girl disguising herself]] [[Bifauxnen|as a man]] so she can get into an [[Boarding School|all-boys school]]. Obviously, most of the cast are [[Bishounen]].
* ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]''. There's so few women per story arc that you can count them on one hand.
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* Arguably, Masami Kurumada as the author of ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' popularized this. After all, who else would have the guts to name a ''man'' Aphrodite?
** His next big work, ''[[B't X|Bt X]]'' is even more into this trope. Because as vaguely homoerotic as it was when Shun revived Hyoga by [[Deus Sex Machina|cuddling up to him]], ''nothing'' surpasses the bishieness of Demon Knight Sapphire. Because ''really'', he himself says he's really into "what's hot and what's not" and goes so far as to [[Ho Yay|kiss Teppei]].
** Fou and
** CLAMP started off drawing ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' doujinshi (there's still some of it online, I think) and the [[Saint Seiya]] fandom actually consolidated the use of the word 'yaoi' in the 80s. It also has only one instance of female fanservice in the entire thing (although this is not so in Next Dimension)-compared to the amount of times we see Shiryu shirtless and Saga naked...it's certainly one of the best examples of this trope.
* ''[[Saiyuki]]'': The basic series premise is not 'A loose retelling of ''Journey to the West''.' It's 'Throw three hot guys and their cute surrogate little brother in a small jeep and [[Hilarity Ensues|watch the fireworks]].' The only significant female characters are Lirin and Yaone. Yaone was added in to increase the number of girls and in one volume a note from Minekura at the end states: "There are no women in this volume, I looked back and found a couple of pages with Kannon." As for Kanzeon? [[Hermaphrodite|Close but no cigar]].
* ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]]'' has the heroine making friends with dozens of gorgeous [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy|Long Haired Pretty Boys]]. If there's one thing to be said about the series, it's that it's very, ''very'' pretty.
* Since it's by [[Keiko Takemiya|the woman]] who practically invented [[Yaoi]], ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' already had a fair share of pretty boys in manga form. Then someone decided to adapt it into an anime and put Nobuteru
* It is worth mentioning that every speaking male in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' is on basically eye candy. Take your arguably Stripperiffic [[Teen Genius]], your [[Real Men Wear Pink|amazing dessert chef]] with the [[Cool Car|red sports car]], your [[Bastard Boyfriend|murderous]] [[Stalker with a Crush|alien]], or your [[Purity Sue|Mr. Perfect Boyfriend]]. Were we supposed to be watching the show for strong female characters or environmentalism? [[Bishie Sparkle|Hmm]]...
* ''[[Trigun]]'' borders on this, as almost all of the major male characters are attractive bishonen, including Vash, Knives, Wolfwood, Legato, etc.
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* ''[[Corsair]]'''s cast, with the exception of [[Cool Old Guy|Barbossa]] is very much this, plus Aura and Katarina to fill the beautiful women quota. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/corsair/v03/c020/3.html Seen here.] [[Boys Love|There's a reason for this.]]
* ''[[Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru]]'': Every character is a bishonen.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' has this in ''spades''.
* ''[[Kiniro no Corda]]'' is a good example as well.
* [[Boys Love]] ''[[Ai no Kusabi]]'' due to there being very few women on the planet it takes place and much of the population being the product of [[Lego Genetics]].
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== Films ==
* ''Papuwa'' has only one human female character, and she's... Let's just say she is six feet tall, over muscled, and has a beard. The rest of the cast are animals and attractive men.
* The 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie has its cast invoking youth and sex appeal more than other ''[[Star Trek
* Most of the men in the movie franchise ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' would make a woman pant. Regardless of whether or not she even likes the story.
* ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' had young [[Tom Cruise]], [[Brad Pitt]], [[Antonio Banderas]] and [[Christian Slater]] as the main cast. Oh, [[The Smurfette Principle|and]] [[Kirsten Dunst]].
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* ''[[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]]'' has many, many pretty men to suit everyone's taste, and a total of two significant female characters (one of whom at first seems like a [[Villain of the Week]]). [http://vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com/art/Next-To-You-I-m-Really-Short-151903123 Check out the cast lineup.]
* ''[[The Dreamer]]'' has almost every taste, and only one major female character.
* ''[[Noblesse]]'' the online manhwa, has hot bishonen
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