What this genre is
The boys' love expression of the Year 24 Group led to the magazine JUNE, and commercial BL imprints were established in the 1990s. It is now a genre born in Japan with a worldwide market.
Shojo & Josei — about this band: The expressive revolution of the Year 24 Group: interiority, romance, BL, josei.
Connections
Three kinds of line: direct evolution, influence, and born in reaction against.
↓ Flowed into this
Key works
A story of the soul, around a boy's death at a German boarding school. The cornerstone of the Year 24 Group's writing on boys' love and interiority.
A story of love between boys at a French boarding school in the 19th century. Nine years in the planning, and the source of what became BL.
The gags Patalliro, the eternally young king, sets off, and his beautiful spies. Known as a long-running comedy in a girls' magazine and a forerunner of BL.
A popular working-adult BL set in an editorial department. A representative series of commercial BL's expansion.
Shojo & Josei — walk the band
Genres in the same band, in order of year. You are at the highlighted one.
- 1953 Early Shojo↓
- 1958 1960s Shojo↓
- 1972 Year 24 Group↓
- 1972 Epic Shojo Romance↓
- 1978 Boys' Love（you are here）↓
- 1980 Ladies' Comics↓
- 1986 Shojo Horror↓
- 1992 Magical Girl Warriors
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About this entry
Genre boundaries are drawn where the network of manga happens to concentrate, not by decree. Years are approximate. Where opinions differ, this page says so rather than picking a winner.