Re: Vassalord is not BL

Vassalord runs in a shoujo magazine, not a BL one, and is published as shoujo, not yaoi.

Yaoi is aimed at the shoujo and josei demographic to be sure, but is specifically sold under the term BL. That's the measuring stick, basically. Not how much queer content there is, but whether it's marketed and sold as such. This produces situations like Wild Adapter that ran in a BL magazine but was so vaguely homoerotic it was published as simply an action/mystery series in English, with no yaoi label attached. Therefore, in terms of original publication, the fairly tame Wild Adapter qualifies as yaoi and the unrepentently homoerotic Vassalord does not. However, Vassalord repeatedly has been listed as a BL work on this page before, because anyone reading it would make that assumption quite easily. Hence why it needs to be on the list of "not but mistaken for" to keep it from being readded to the main index when it shouldn't be. It's aimed at young women, but it's just not yaoi by publishing standards.

I do hope that all makes sense. If not I'll try to elaborate as best I can.

• Katekyo Hitman Reborn is a Shonen manga that has rampant Ho Yay among the cast, numerous Bishonen characters, and the main character is considered by the fandom to be "the perfect Uke", and his male guardians/friends members of his "harem".

This sounds like an example of shonen with a large slash fanbase rather than a non-BL manga that gets confused for actual Boys Love manga, which is what the section is for. If I'm wrong put it back by all means.