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->''Yaranai-Ka?''
'''Bara''' is a genre of manga and art made by gay and bisexual men, for gay and bisexual men. In Japan it's more commonly known as "gei comi", "gei manga", or "menslove". Bara generally features mature and realistic(ish) relationships, rather than overly {{melodrama}}tic soap opera plots. Bara plots tend to be simple, short, and to cut to the chase, IfYouKnowWhatIMean. Since AllMenArePerverts (doubly so [[AllGaysArePromiscuous if they're gay]]) plays it hard here, bara is [[strike: almost]] always very explicit, to the point that "Bara {{Hentai}}" is a redundant phrase. Another important characteristic is that bara emphasizes manly and muscular (sometimes [[TheBear hairy]]) characters with varying degrees of [[BigBeautifulMan body fat]], as opposed to the [[{{Bishonen}} androgynous and effeminate boys]] commonly found in {{Yaoi}}. It also, usually, tends to [[{{Aversion}} avert]], [[{{Subversion}} subvert]] or [[{{Inversion}} invert]] the {{Uke}} and {{Seme}} dynamics eg. most of the time the {{Seme}} is someone younger and much more "cuter" looking.
Bara evolved from illustrations and manga in gay men's general-interest (and/or pornographic) magazines, which partially accounts for the differences in style and tone, as well as the generally short story length. It is generally considered a separate genre from yaoi; many Japanese bara artists would be offended if their works were called yaoi. The term was popularized by a Japanese gay magazine called ''Barazoku'' (lit. rose tribe), the same magazine that coined the term ''Yurizoku'' (lit. lily tribe) that later became [[GirlsLove Yuri]]. See the {{Wikipedia}} on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre) Bara]].
Although gay men's general-interest magazines have published occasional manga stories since the 1970s, the first all-manga gay magazines to become commercially successful date only from the early 2000s. The two major commercial publishers at the moment are Furukawa Shobu (a publisher of gay men's magazines) and Oakla Shuppan (a yaoi publisher that also has some bara manga magazines). ''Kinniku Otoko'' (literally "Muscle Man") is one of the manga magazines that focuses on this genre. Gengoroh Tagame is an example of a well-known artist.
Other popular and well-known artists include Takeshi Matsu, Inaki Matsumoto, and Matsuzaki Tsukasa.
Unlike {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s, Bara fans don't worry about {{shipping}} and are not so vocal about it either. Monogamy and chastity are usually total non-issues in bara, where EverybodyHasLotsOfSex as easily as they live and breathe, as if it were a hello or a handshake.
FanYay plays an important role on the bara fandom, since official works were quite rare until recently, so fans have to rely on {{Doujinshi}}, FanArt and FanFiction.
Tropes commonly associated with bara are:
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Always played dead straight along with...
** ImAManICantHelpIt
* TheBear: Optional.
* BigBeautifulMan: Optional, though there is a particular fetish for "muscle gut" -- a muscular but flabby gut.
* BiTheWay: In quite a number of stories, men have revealed they have interest in or have had long-term relationships with women prior to them hooking up with their present male love interest. A similar situation exists in conventional {{Yaoi}}; [[EveryoneIsBi bisexual inclinations of any degree are often portrayed as the 'default' situation]].
* CarpetOfVirility: Although it is optional.
* DownerEnding: [[{{Mangaka}} Gengoroh Tagame]] is famous for this approach. Some stories of his contain a BitterSweetEnding, but YourMileageMayVary on what you consider to be bittersweet.
* {{Kemono}}: A lot of Bara works are also Kemono, or contain Kemono characters. This is by no means universal though.
* {{Leatherman}}: Though by no means required.
* ManlyGay: Bara is no country for [[CampGay effeminate]] [[{{Bishonen}} pretty boys]].
* MoneyShot: Could range anywhere from average to anything but
* PeripheryDemographic: Female fans do exist, to the point where a couple short-lived manga anthologies catered to both male and female Bara fans. In Western countries, sometimes the female fans run to Bara to escape the oft-unrealistic depictions of men in yaoi.
* PlotWithPorn: Done very well in most stories
* RatedMForManly: [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]], yeah.
* ([[WalkingShirtlessScene Walking]]) ShirtlessScene: Sometimes this occurs even before intercourse is engaged
* STDImmunity: As all the stories are fictitious, condoms don't really matter...[[IkeaErotica not that they would hurt either]].
See also the DistaffCounterpart, {{Yuri}}. Contrast and compare with {{Yaoi}}. Example works that aren't Bara but attract a strong Bara fandom are listed under FanYay.
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!!Examples
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* ''LegendOfTheBlueWolves'' is a rare, perhaps the only, yaoi OVA that has Bara elements. It mixes bara and {{Mecha}} together. It tells the story of [[YaoiGuys Leonard and Jonathan]], mecha pilots that are fighting in a war against the [[AlienInvaders Apocalypse]], while they go through all sorts of tribulations such as rape and betrayal. BetterThanItSounds.
* ''Kuso Miso Technique'', a one-shot, was one of the earlier baras by famous mangaka Junichi Yamakawa, and the source of the yaranaika meme. It's SoBadItsGood. Because of it, the phrase "Yaranai-Ka?" is now synonymous with bara and gay sex (it means "Shall we do it?", but it's used by men only. If a girl uses it, expect laughs), hence its inclusion as the page-quote. A warning that this manga is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ("kuso" = "shit"; "miso" = "a type of soup").
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* Comicbook/{{Cable}} and {{Deadpool}} come damn close. In fact this could be combined with NaughtyTentacles in that one scene.
* {{Tom Of Finland}}'s comics can be seen as an early Western version of bara, as sexually oriented comics by and for gay men with a strong {{Bear}} or {{Leatherman}} aesthetic.
* [[http://bonesmen.blogspot.com/ J. Bone]]'s pin up work definitely counts.
* Ralf König's comics are basically German bara. The film version of his ''KillerCondom'' series delights in the trope.
[[AC:Other]]
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-men_%28magazine%29 G-men]]'' is a Japanese magazine aimed towards men who prefer 'macho' or muscular men, also including manga.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Quaintance George Quaintance]], who is also known for his homoerotic art and was an inspiration to Tom of Finland.
* ''{{Rammstein}}'''s song ''Mann Gegen Mann'' is an ironic ode to this, especially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQTQHMKFRA0 the video thereof]]. Highly {{NSFW}}.
[[AC:Web Comics]]
* BlurTheLines is all about chubby chasing and bears. Completely runs on AuthorAppeal, showing lots and lots of plumber's cracks (he describes it as the gay version of cleavage).
[[AC:Web Original]]
* A new TomOfFinland, Israeli {{Deviant ART}}ist [[http://davidkawena.deviantart.com/ David Kawena]], is infamous around the internet for making extremely well done and detailed drawings of muscular "Disney Princes" in speedos, also giving them [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean extra packages]]. Please keep your inner childhoods in check. [[YourMileageMayVary You will either be inherently aroused or scarred for life]], as {{Rule 34}} is wont to do.
* CaptainGerBear.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* {{Meat Log Mountain}}: A Dating Sim game with phallic & homoerotic imagery and manly men literally everywhere
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->''Yaranai-Ka?''
'''Bara''' is a genre of manga and art made by gay and bisexual men, for gay and bisexual men. In Japan it's more commonly known as "gei comi", "gei manga", or "menslove". Bara generally features mature and realistic(ish) relationships, rather than overly {{melodrama}}tic soap opera plots. Bara plots tend to be simple, short, and to cut to the chase, IfYouKnowWhatIMean. Since AllMenArePerverts (doubly so [[AllGaysArePromiscuous if they're gay]]) plays it hard here, bara is [[strike: almost]] always very explicit, to the point that "Bara {{Hentai}}" is a redundant phrase. Another important characteristic is that bara emphasizes manly and muscular (sometimes [[TheBear hairy]]) characters with varying degrees of [[BigBeautifulMan body fat]], as opposed to the [[{{Bishonen}} androgynous and effeminate boys]] commonly found in {{Yaoi}}. It also, usually, tends to [[{{Aversion}} avert]], [[{{Subversion}} subvert]] or [[{{Inversion}} invert]] the {{Uke}} and {{Seme}} dynamics eg. most of the time the {{Seme}} is someone younger and much more "cuter" looking.
Bara evolved from illustrations and manga in gay men's general-interest (and/or pornographic) magazines, which partially accounts for the differences in style and tone, as well as the generally short story length. It is generally considered a separate genre from yaoi; many Japanese bara artists would be offended if their works were called yaoi. The term was popularized by a Japanese gay magazine called ''Barazoku'' (lit. rose tribe), the same magazine that coined the term ''Yurizoku'' (lit. lily tribe) that later became [[GirlsLove Yuri]]. See the {{Wikipedia}} on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre) Bara]].
Although gay men's general-interest magazines have published occasional manga stories since the 1970s, the first all-manga gay magazines to become commercially successful date only from the early 2000s. The two major commercial publishers at the moment are Furukawa Shobu (a publisher of gay men's magazines) and Oakla Shuppan (a yaoi publisher that also has some bara manga magazines). ''Kinniku Otoko'' (literally "Muscle Man") is one of the manga magazines that focuses on this genre. Gengoroh Tagame is an example of a well-known artist.
Other popular and well-known artists include Takeshi Matsu, Inaki Matsumoto, and Matsuzaki Tsukasa.
Unlike {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s, Bara fans don't worry about {{shipping}} and are not so vocal about it either. Monogamy and chastity are usually total non-issues in bara, where EverybodyHasLotsOfSex as easily as they live and breathe, as if it were a hello or a handshake.
FanYay plays an important role on the bara fandom, since official works were quite rare until recently, so fans have to rely on {{Doujinshi}}, FanArt and FanFiction.
Tropes commonly associated with bara are:
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Always played dead straight along with...
** ImAManICantHelpIt
* TheBear: Optional.
* BigBeautifulMan: Optional, though there is a particular fetish for "muscle gut" -- a muscular but flabby gut.
* BiTheWay: In quite a number of stories, men have revealed they have interest in or have had long-term relationships with women prior to them hooking up with their present male love interest. A similar situation exists in conventional {{Yaoi}}; [[EveryoneIsBi bisexual inclinations of any degree are often portrayed as the 'default' situation]].
* CarpetOfVirility: Although it is optional.
* DownerEnding: [[{{Mangaka}} Gengoroh Tagame]] is famous for this approach. Some stories of his contain a BitterSweetEnding, but YourMileageMayVary on what you consider to be bittersweet.
* {{Kemono}}: A lot of Bara works are also Kemono, or contain Kemono characters. This is by no means universal though.
* {{Leatherman}}: Though by no means required.
* ManlyGay: Bara is no country for [[CampGay effeminate]] [[{{Bishonen}} pretty boys]].
* MoneyShot: Could range anywhere from average to anything but
* PeripheryDemographic: Female fans do exist, to the point where a couple short-lived manga anthologies catered to both male and female Bara fans. In Western countries, sometimes the female fans run to Bara to escape the oft-unrealistic depictions of men in yaoi.
* PlotWithPorn: Done very well in most stories
* RatedMForManly: [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]], yeah.
* ([[WalkingShirtlessScene Walking]]) ShirtlessScene: Sometimes this occurs even before intercourse is engaged
* STDImmunity: As all the stories are fictitious, condoms don't really matter...[[IkeaErotica not that they would hurt either]].
See also the DistaffCounterpart, {{Yuri}}. Contrast and compare with {{Yaoi}}. Example works that aren't Bara but attract a strong Bara fandom are listed under FanYay.
----
!!Examples
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* ''LegendOfTheBlueWolves'' is a rare, perhaps the only, yaoi OVA that has Bara elements. It mixes bara and {{Mecha}} together. It tells the story of [[YaoiGuys Leonard and Jonathan]], mecha pilots that are fighting in a war against the [[AlienInvaders Apocalypse]], while they go through all sorts of tribulations such as rape and betrayal. BetterThanItSounds.
* ''Kuso Miso Technique'', a one-shot, was one of the earlier baras by famous mangaka Junichi Yamakawa, and the source of the yaranaika meme. It's SoBadItsGood. Because of it, the phrase "Yaranai-Ka?" is now synonymous with bara and gay sex (it means "Shall we do it?", but it's used by men only. If a girl uses it, expect laughs), hence its inclusion as the page-quote. A warning that this manga is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ("kuso" = "shit"; "miso" = "a type of soup").
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* Comicbook/{{Cable}} and {{Deadpool}} come damn close. In fact this could be combined with NaughtyTentacles in that one scene.
* {{Tom Of Finland}}'s comics can be seen as an early Western version of bara, as sexually oriented comics by and for gay men with a strong {{Bear}} or {{Leatherman}} aesthetic.
* [[http://bonesmen.blogspot.com/ J. Bone]]'s pin up work definitely counts.
* Ralf König's comics are basically German bara. The film version of his ''KillerCondom'' series delights in the trope.
[[AC:Other]]
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-men_%28magazine%29 G-men]]'' is a Japanese magazine aimed towards men who prefer 'macho' or muscular men, also including manga.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Quaintance George Quaintance]], who is also known for his homoerotic art and was an inspiration to Tom of Finland.
* ''{{Rammstein}}'''s song ''Mann Gegen Mann'' is an ironic ode to this, especially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQTQHMKFRA0 the video thereof]]. Highly {{NSFW}}.
[[AC:Web Comics]]
* BlurTheLines is all about chubby chasing and bears. Completely runs on AuthorAppeal, showing lots and lots of plumber's cracks (he describes it as the gay version of cleavage).
[[AC:Web Original]]
* A new TomOfFinland, Israeli {{Deviant ART}}ist [[http://davidkawena.deviantart.com/ David Kawena]], is infamous around the internet for making extremely well done and detailed drawings of muscular "Disney Princes" in speedos, also giving them [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean extra packages]]. Please keep your inner childhoods in check. [[YourMileageMayVary You will either be inherently aroused or scarred for life]], as {{Rule 34}} is wont to do.
* CaptainGerBear.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* {{Meat Log Mountain}}: A Dating Sim game with phallic & homoerotic imagery and manly men literally everywhere
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->''Yaranai-Ka?''
'''Bara''' is a genre of manga and art made by gay and bisexual men, for gay and bisexual men. In Japan it's more commonly known as "gei comi", "gei manga", or "menslove". Bara generally features mature and realistic(ish) relationships, rather than overly {{melodrama}}tic soap opera plots. Bara plots tend to be simple, short, and to cut to the chase, IfYouKnowWhatIMean. Since AllMenArePerverts (doubly so [[AllGaysArePromiscuous if they're gay]]) plays it hard here, bara is [[strike: almost]] always very explicit, to the point that "Bara {{Hentai}}" is a redundant phrase. Another important characteristic is that bara emphasizes manly and muscular (sometimes [[TheBear hairy]]) characters with varying degrees of [[BigBeautifulMan body fat]], as opposed to the [[{{Bishonen}} androgynous and effeminate boys]] commonly found in {{Yaoi}}. It also, usually, tends to [[{{Aversion}} avert]], [[{{Subversion}} subvert]] or [[{{Inversion}} invert]] the {{Uke}} and {{Seme}} dynamics eg. most of the time the {{Seme}} is someone younger and much more "cuter" looking.
Bara evolved from illustrations and manga in gay men's general-interest (and/or pornographic) magazines, which partially accounts for the differences in style and tone, as well as the generally short story length. It is generally considered a separate genre from yaoi; many Japanese bara artists would be offended if their works were called yaoi. The term was popularized by a Japanese gay magazine called ''Barazoku'' (lit. rose tribe), the same magazine that coined the term ''Yurizoku'' (lit. lily tribe) that later became [[GirlsLove Yuri]]. See the {{Wikipedia}} on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre) Bara]].
Although gay men's general-interest magazines have published occasional manga stories since the 1970s, the first all-manga gay magazines to become commercially successful date only from the early 2000s. The two major commercial publishers at the moment are Furukawa Shobu (a publisher of gay men's magazines) and Oakla Shuppan (a yaoi publisher that also has some bara manga magazines). ''Kinniku Otoko'' (literally "Muscle Man") is one of the manga magazines that focuses on this genre. Gengoroh Tagame is an example of a well-known artist.
Other popular and well-known artists include Takeshi Matsu, Inaki Matsumoto, and Matsuzaki Tsukasa.
Unlike {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s, Bara fans don't worry about {{shipping}} and are not so vocal about it either. Monogamy and chastity are usually total non-issues in bara, where EverybodyHasLotsOfSex as easily as they live and breathe, as if it were a hello or a handshake.
FanYay plays an important role on the bara fandom, since official works were quite rare until recently, so fans have to rely on {{Doujinshi}}, FanArt and FanFiction.
Tropes commonly associated with bara are:
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Always played dead straight along with...
** ImAManICantHelpIt
* TheBear: Optional.
* BigBeautifulMan: Optional, though there is a particular fetish for "muscle gut" -- a muscular but flabby gut.
* BiTheWay: In quite a number of stories, men have revealed they have interest in or have had long-term relationships with women prior to them hooking up with their present male love interest. A similar situation exists in conventional {{Yaoi}}; [[EveryoneIsBi bisexual inclinations of any degree are often portrayed as the 'default' situation]].
* CarpetOfVirility: Although it is optional.
* DownerEnding: [[{{Mangaka}} Gengoroh Tagame]] is famous for this approach. Some stories of his contain a BitterSweetEnding, but YourMileageMayVary on what you consider to be bittersweet.
* {{Kemono}}: A lot of Bara works are also Kemono, or contain Kemono characters. This is by no means universal though.
* {{Leatherman}}: Though by no means required.
* ManlyGay: Bara is no country for [[CampGay effeminate]] [[{{Bishonen}} pretty boys]].
* MoneyShot: Could range anywhere from average to anything but
* PeripheryDemographic: Female fans do exist, to the point where a couple short-lived manga anthologies catered to both male and female Bara fans. In Western countries, sometimes the female fans run to Bara to escape the oft-unrealistic depictions of men in yaoi.
* PlotWithPorn: Done very well in most stories
* RatedMForManly: [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]], yeah.
* ([[WalkingShirtlessScene Walking]]) ShirtlessScene: Sometimes this occurs even before intercourse is engaged
* STDImmunity: As all the stories are fictitious, condoms don't really matter...[[IkeaErotica not that they would hurt either]].
See also the DistaffCounterpart, {{Yuri}}. Contrast and compare with {{Yaoi}}. Example works that aren't Bara but attract a strong Bara fandom are listed under FanYay.
----
!!Examples
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* ''LegendOfTheBlueWolves'' is a rare, perhaps the only, yaoi OVA that has Bara elements. It mixes bara and {{Mecha}} together. It tells the story of [[YaoiGuys Leonard and Jonathan]], mecha pilots that are fighting in a war against the [[AlienInvaders Apocalypse]], while they go through all sorts of tribulations such as rape and betrayal. BetterThanItSounds.
* ''Kuso Miso Technique'', a one-shot, was one of the earlier baras by famous mangaka Junichi Yamakawa, and the source of the yaranaika meme. It's SoBadItsGood. Because of it, the phrase "Yaranai-Ka?" is now synonymous with bara and gay sex (it means "Shall we do it?", but it's used by men only. If a girl uses it, expect laughs), hence its inclusion as the page-quote. A warning that this manga is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ("kuso" = "shit"; "miso" = "a type of soup").
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* Comicbook/{{Cable}} and {{Deadpool}} come damn close. In fact this could be combined with NaughtyTentacles in that one scene.
* {{Tom Of Finland}}'s comics can be seen as an early Western version of bara, as sexually oriented comics by and for gay men with a strong {{Bear}} or {{Leatherman}} aesthetic.
* [[http://bonesmen.blogspot.com/ J. Bone]]'s pin up work definitely counts.
* Ralf König's comics are basically German bara. The film version of his ''KillerCondom'' series delights in the trope.
[[AC:Other]]
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-men_%28magazine%29 G-men]]'' is a Japanese magazine aimed towards men who prefer 'macho' or muscular men, also including manga.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Quaintance George Quaintance]], who is also known for his homoerotic art and was an inspiration to Tom of Finland.
* ''{{Rammstein}}'''s song ''Mann Gegen Mann'' is an ironic ode to this, especially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQTQHMKFRA0 the video thereof]]. Highly {{NSFW}}.
[[AC:Web Comics]]
* BlurTheLines is all about chubby chasing and bears. Completely runs on AuthorAppeal, showing lots and lots of plumber's cracks (he describes it as the gay version of cleavage).
[[AC:Web Original]]
* A new TomOfFinland, Israeli {{Deviant ART}}ist [[http://davidkawena.deviantart.com/ David Kawena]], is infamous around the internet for making extremely well done and detailed drawings of muscular "Disney Princes" in speedos, also giving them [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean extra packages]]. Please keep your inner childhoods in check. [[YourMileageMayVary You will either be inherently aroused or scarred for life]], as {{Rule 34}} is wont to do.
* CaptainGerBear.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* {{Meat Log Mountain}}: A Dating Sim game with phallic & homoerotic imagery and manly men literally everywhere
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* A new TomOfFinland, Israeli {{Deviant ART}}ist [[http://davidkawena.deviantart.com/ David Kawena]], is infamous around the internet for making extremely well done and detailed drawings of muscular "Disney Princes" in speedos, also giving them [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean extra packages]]. Especially in the case of [[http://encyclopediadramatica.com/File:Dr_sweet_atlantis.jpg Dr. Sweet]] from Disney's ''{{Atlantis}}''. Please keep your inner childhoods in check. [[YourMileageMayVary You will either be inherently aroused or scarred for life]], as {{Rule 34}} is wont to do.
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* ''{{Rammstein}}'''s song ''Mann Gegen Mann'' is an ironic ode to this, especially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQTQHMKFRA0 the video thereof]]. Highly {{NSFW}}.
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Bara evolved from illustrations and manga in gay men's general-interest (and/or pornographic) magazines, which partially accounts for the differences in style and tone, as well as the generally short story length. It is generally considered a separate genre from yaoi; many Japanese bara artists would be offended if their works were called yaoi. The term was popularized by a Japanese gay magazine called ''Barazoku'' (lit. rose tribe), the same magazine that coined the term ''Yurizoku'' (lit. lily tribe) that later became {{Yuri}}. [[GirlsLove Yuri]]. See the OtherWiki {{Wikipedia}} on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre) Bara]].
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_of_Finland Tom of Finland]]'s {{Tom Of Finland}}'s comics can be seen as an early Western version of bara, as sexually oriented comics by and for gay men with a strong {{Bear}} or {{Leatherman}} aesthetic.
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