A trailer has dropped for the BL anime Tadaima, Okaeri (translated as I’m Home, Welcome Back). It tells us about the cast and crew, informs us that the anime will debut in April, and lets us listen to the opening theme song “Futatsu no Kotoba” …Read more »
Juné Manga, the boys’ love imprint of Digital Manga Publishing, is coming out with a new edition of No Touching At All (a.k.a. Dōshitemo Furetakunai in Japanese) by Kou Yoneda. The announcement was short, saying: “It’s finally here! Coming Fall 2023! No Touching At All …Read more »
BL and yaoi are known for sharing stories of forbidden love, but with The Scene of My Rumspringa, it goes for an extra forbidden relationship: love between men among the Amish. Theodore, AKA “Theo,” is a handsome young Amishman who’s finally begun his Rumspringa some …Read more »
The Kadokawa Culture Museum is putting on an exhibit titled “BL Evolution: From Pioneers to Global Phenomenon ―Tracing the 50 Year History and Impact of Boys’ Love through Manga, Literature, and Media.” People can visit it between May 20 to July 16. The exhibit is …Read more »
Seven Seas has published a number of girls’ love and boys’ love manga, but now these two genres are getting their own imprints, or labels, at the publisher. Seven Seas says it’s creating these labels so there’s no confusion about whether or not a title …Read more »
I love just casually typing that title out. A TV anime adaptation of Haruchika’s boys’ love manga Mori no Kuma-san, Tōminchū—also known as Caressing the Nipples of My Hibernating Bear—is on the way, and a date has been announced along with some new cast members …Read more »
The fans have spoken! The Japanese BL site Chil-Chil revealed the winners of its 13th annual BL Awards, based on voting through its site. The Best Series award goes to Twittering Birds Never Fly by Kou Yoneda, which is published in America through Digital Manga …Read more »
Lately the Chinese government has gotten stricter about censoring entertainment, and many platforms in the country are pulling things that could be considered forbidden. The genre of Boys’ Love or BL has been put under the microscope, with BL online games recently prohibited. But an …Read more »
The Chinese government recently put new restrictions on minors playing video games, saying they could only do it legally one hour a day from Friday through Sunday, plus holidays. Not long after that the Chinese government banned what it considers “effeminate men” from being on …Read more »
Sasaki and Miyano, the anime adaptation of Sho Harusono’s manga of the same name, is set to hit screens in January 2022. That’s the word from a new teaser trailer for the series, a meta boys’ love comedy. Here’s how Yen Press describes the original …Read more »
Keita Ito can’t believe that he’s allowed into the revered all-male Bell Liberty Academy, also known by the tongue-in-cheek name BL Academy. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by beautiful boys, with more than one of them openly crushing on him. He gets sent …Read more »
The BL manga Given is licensed in America by SuBLime, and it’s already received both an anime and film adaptation. But the franchise isn’t over yet — it was just disclosed that Given will receive a live-action series as well as a new original anime …Read more »
The streaming platform GagaOOLala has picked up the live-action movie BL movie Love Stage!! The movie first came out last year, and it’s based on the manga by Taishi Zaou and Eiki Eiki. It’s in Japanese but has different subtitles, including English, available for viewers. …Read more »
Sociologist Junko Kaneda wrote an essay book called Grappler Baki BL de wa Nai ka to 1-Nichi 30-Jikan 30-Nichi Kangaeta Otome no Kiroku (translated as Notes of a Girl Who Spent 30 Hours a Day for 300 Days Thinking “So Baki The Grappler is BL, …Read more »
The BL manga Love Stage!! by Taishi Zaou and Eiki Eiki ran from 2010-2016 and spun off into an anime series that’s available in America through Sentai Filmworks. From there it also got a live-action movie that came out in Japan last year. But the …Read more »
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