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The yaoi fandom consists of the readers of yaoi (also called Boys' Love or abbreviated to BL), a genre of male homosexual narratives. Individuals in the yaoi fandom may attend conventions, maintain/post to fansites, create fanfiction / fanart, etc. In the mid-1990s, estimates of the size of the Japanese yaoi fandom were at 100,000–500,000 people.
Japan. Language. Japanese. Shōnen Club ( Shōnen Kurabu / 少年倶楽部, later 少年クラブ in 1946) was a monthly boys' magazine begun by Kodansha in November 1914. The magazine initially featured articles, poetry and serialized novels, but it began to focus more on creating manga content by the 1930s. [ 1 ] The first manga, Norakuro ...
Johnny & Associates, Inc.[ a][ 1][ 3] was a Japanese talent agency formed by Johnny Kitagawa in 1962, which managed groups of male idols known as Johnny's. [ b][ 4][ 5] The company had a significant impact on pop culture with male idols and boy bands in Japan since the 1980s. [ 6] Until 2019, the company was known for its strict policies ...
By the 1930s, comic strips were serialized in large-circulation monthly girls' and boys' magazine and collected into hardback volumes. [30] Similarly, writer Charles Shirō Inoue sees manga as a mixture of image- and word-centered elements, each pre-dating the Allied occupation of Japan.
Shogakukan. Country. Japan. Based in. Tokyo. Language. Japanese. Boys' Life (ボーイズライフ, Bōizu Raifu) was a Japanese monthly shōnen magazine published by Shogakukan from April 1963 until August 1969. The magazine was marketed to boys in junior high school and older, and included a manga section as well as general interest articles ...
Popeye. (magazine) Popeye is a monthly fashion and men's magazine based in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the oldest magazines featuring articles about men's fashion. Its tagline is "Magazine for City Boys". [1] [2] The magazine is considered to be the Japanese version of Nylon magazine. [3]
Weekly Shōnen Magazine (Japanese: 週刊少年マガジン, Hepburn: Shūkan Shōnen Magajin) is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published on Wednesdays in Japan by Kodansha, first published on March 17, 1959. The magazine is mainly read by an older audience, with a significant portion of its readership falling under the male high school or ...
Historical practices identified by scholars as homosexual include shudō (衆道), wakashudō (若衆道) and nanshoku (男色). [ 1 ] The Japanese term nanshoku (男色, which can also be read as danshoku) is the Japanese reading of the same characters in Chinese, which literally mean "male colors". The character 色 ( lit.'color') has the ...