It spans a wide range of media, including manga , anime , drama CDs , novels, games, and fan production. Boys love and its abbreviation BL are the generic terms for this kind of media in Japan and have, in recent years, become more commonly used in English as well. However, yaoi remains more generally prevalent in English. A defining characteristic of yaoi is the practice of pairing characters in relationships according to the roles of seme , the sexual top or active pursuer, and uke , the sexual bottom or passive pursuant. Common themes in yaoi include forbidden relationships, depictions of rape, tragedy, and humor.
Comics about boys love story, yaoi manga and gay graphic novels. A relatively light-hearted one-shot story which also includes several scenes of explicit nature. LightLovers is a comics books series in which all the characters heroes and villains are gay. Nick and Jay are the Braylin is extremely nerdy and never dated before.