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'''Bara''' is a genre of manga and art made by gay and bisexual men, for gay and bisexual men. In Japan it's more commonly known as "gei comi", "gei manga", or "menslove". Bara generally features mature and realistic(ish) relationships, rather than overly [[Melodrama|melodramatic]] soap opera plots. Bara plots tend to be simple, short, and to cut to the chase, [[If You Know What I Mean]]. Since [[All Men Are Perverts]] (doubly so [[All Gays Are Promiscuous|if they're gay]]) plays it hard here, bara is <s> almost</s> always very explicit, to the point that "Bara [[Hentai]]" is a redundant phrase. Another important characteristic is that bara emphasizes manly and muscular (sometimes [[The Bear|hairy]]) characters with varying degrees of [[Big Beautiful Man|body fat]], as opposed to the [[Bishonen|androgynous and effeminate boys]] commonly found in [[Yaoi]]. It also, usually, tends to [[Aversion|avert]], [[Subversion|subvert]] or [[Inversion|invert]] the [[Uke]] and [[Seme]] dynamics eg. most of the time the [[Seme]] is someone younger and much more "cuter" looking.
Bara evolved from illustrations and manga in gay men's general-interest (and/or pornographic) magazines, which partially accounts for the differences in style and tone, as well as the generally short story length. It is generally considered a separate genre from yaoi; many Japanese bara artists would be offended if their works were called yaoi. The term was popularized by a Japanese gay magazine called ''Barazoku'' (lit. rose tribe), the same magazine that coined the term ''Yurizoku'' (lit. lily tribe) that later became [[Girls Love|Yuri]]. See the [[Wikipedia]] on [
Although gay men's general-interest magazines have published occasional manga stories since the 1970s, the first all-manga gay magazines to become commercially successful date only from the early 2000s. The two major commercial publishers at the moment are Furukawa Shobu (a publisher of gay men's magazines) and Oakla Shuppan (a yaoi publisher that also has some bara manga magazines). ''Kinniku Otoko'' (literally "Muscle Man") is one of the manga magazines that focuses on this genre. Gengoroh Tagame is an example of a well-known artist.
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* [[Periphery Demographic]]: Female fans do exist, to the point where a couple short-lived manga anthologies catered to both male and female Bara fans. In Western countries, sometimes the female fans run to Bara to escape the oft-unrealistic depictions of men in yaoi. A handful of female artists ''draw'' bara too, such as [http://yaoi.y-gallery.net/user/dragmire/ Dragmire] and [http://yaoi.y-gallery.net/user/ivybeth/ Ivy Beth Gladstone].
* [[Plot With Porn]]: Done very well in most stories.
* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: [[Precision F-Strike|Fuck]], yeah.
* ([[Walking Shirtless Scene|Walking]]) [[Shirtless Scene]]: Sometimes this occurs even before intercourse is engaged
* [[STD Immunity]]: As all the stories are fictitious, condoms don't really matter...[[IKEA Erotica|not that they would hurt either]].
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[[Category:Queer As Tropes]]
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