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Re: Bara, Yaoi, BL - what are the genre/subgenre differences?

#2Postby arcadeparty »

This is actually a super interesting question (at least to me) and the answer, especially when it comes to the doubt of "yaoi VS bara" for an audience of gay men, is just this:

It genuinely varies from work to work and from person to person!

I can say that although I've generally had a scant love interests in other things that wouldn't be out of place in either the yaoi or bara genres, I typically don't call my have personal work either one* in marketing or conversations about it, but I do feel comfortable generally lumping what I create into the larger category of "BL" if it seems like "MxM" or "BxB" doesn't the show across to someone.

(* - This doesn't indicate that I don't tag my stuff as those things if I consider it could genuinely implement or that I don't get hits from categories/games in those genres, though! Tomai actually gets its highest and second-highest number of hits from an Itchio category called "Yaoi/BL Games", while AWOO gets the biggest amount of traffic from a "furry bara dating sim" that Itchio categorizes as similar, and Love and Formaldehyde has

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