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shōjo-ai (少女愛, "girls love"): Manga or anime that focus on romances between women. [50] shōnen-ai (少年愛, "boys love"): A term denoting male homosexual content in women's media, although this usage is obsolete in Japan. English-speakers frequently use it for material without explicit sex, in anime, manga, and related fan fiction.
Ryūnosuke is a tomboyish girl and a protagonist of the anime. [9] In one episode, "Ran-chan's Great Date Plan!", she goes out on a date with an alien girl Ran, who thinks that Ryūnosuke is a lesbian after she says she has no interest in boys, and in another, "The Muco Flower's Name is Ryunosuke", the series villains try to turn her into a boy.
BL spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. Though depictions of homosexuality in Japanese media have a history dating to ancient times, contemporary BL traces its origins to male-male romance manga that emerged in the 1970s, and which formed a new subgenre of ...
List of films based on French-language comics; Also related: List of fiction works made into feature films, the other popular source for Japanese films; List of films based on comic strips; List of comic-based films directed by women; List of films based on television programs, features anime that appeared as TV series
An example of yuri-inspired artwork.Works depicting intimate relationships between school classmates are common in the yuri genre.. Yuri (Japanese: 百合, lit. "lily"), also known by the wasei-eigo construction girls' love (ガールズラブ, gāruzu rabu), is a genre of Japanese media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters.
The Akira anime also made Time magazine's list of top 5 anime DVDs. [122] The film also made number 16 on Time Out ' s top 50 animated movie list [123] and number 5 on the Total Film Top 50 Animated Films list. [124] The film was ranked No. 1 by Wizard's Anime magazine on their "Top 50 Anime released in North America" list in 2001. [125]
Anime are often classified by target demographic, including children's (子供, kodomo), girls' (少女, shōjo), boys' (少年, shōnen), young men (青年, Seinen), young women (女性, josei) and a diverse range of genres targeting an adult audience. Shōjo and shōnen anime sometimes contain elements popular with children of all genders in ...
The list includes films that deal with or feature significant LGBTQ issues or characters. These films may involve LGBTQ cast and/or crew, an LGBTQ producer/director, an LGBTQ story, or a focus on LGBTQ target audiences. The English film title, original title, country of origin and production year are listed. Order is alphabetical by title.