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whereismytea Since: Apr, 2010

Nov 7th 2010 at 3:57:19 PM •••

Okay, bear with me as I am not intimately familiar with all of these examples and may have made an error in judgment. I have put the examples here so that they are easily copy-pastable if deemed relevent. If I am wrong, kindly put it back, alphabetically, where it belongs.

That said, "Works commonly mistaken for Boys Love" is not "Works with Ho Yay and a large slash fanbase". Nor are they "Works with Yaoi Guys that are not Boys Love." Those go on the Yaoi Guys page, not here. This is for the occasions when it is truly a surprise that the work isn't intended as Boys Love.

Special Note: Could someone pare down the Clamp section which seems to be a list of works with either Yaoi Guys or Ho Yay, lists which are already on those pages if I recall properly. Code Geass is coming off for sure, but the works excepting Legal Drug and xxxHolic I don't know well enough to say to what extent the relationship highlighted affects interpretation of the story.

Code Geass (character designs done by Clamp) hints at this frequently with Suzaku/Lelouch and the much more one-sided Rolo/Lelouch pairings.
As with many manga serialized in Zero Sum, Karneval has ample hints of Ho Yay, from Gareki's looking after Nai all the time (Nai's innocence particularly effects him), to Yogi's perceived friendship with Gareki (to the point of groping his chest, overdramatically weeping with Gareki forcibly in his arms when the teen has some mild variation of tentacle rape performed on him, thinking of him as cute because of the deredere side of Gareki's Tsundere characteristics, and then saving him in chapter 19 because of circumstances currently too much of a spoiler for this troper to want to reveal), to Hirato and Akari's Foe Yay, to Yogi practically being Hirato's right-hand man, to Yogi's utter fear of Doctor Akari, and so on...Even so, it's still shounen.
Some would say, Naruto and Sasuke's relationship frequently plays around with this trope, especially in official art, though as of late it's a little more one-sided on Naruto's part.
Neon Genesis Evangelion played with this trope a bit in regards to Shinji and Kaworu's brief but intense friendship at the end of the series. Even canon artwork illustrations tease at it a bit.
Pandora Hearts loves to ship tease Oz and Gil with just about everyone, as well as each other. Even though it's shounen some scenes look straight out of a Boys' Love manga.

If there are any on the original list that shouldn't be there that I missed, please post them here for future reference.

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whereismytea Since: Apr, 2010

Apr 14th 2011 at 9:10:15 PM •••

Now that I've read some more Clamp, I can say these definitely don't belong. The examples are either Yaoi Guys or Ho Yay in series that are not easily mistaken for BL.

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle has Kurogane and Fai D. Fluorite.
Fuuma and Kamui from X1999 brim with Ho Yay, and being a sequel to Tokyo Babylon, Seishirou and Subaru make appearances as well.
xxxHolic features Watanuki and Doumeki. Like the above example, the romantic undertones are subtext and not officially confirmed.

Legal Drug is a legit example. Can anyone speak for Card Captor Sakura or Tokyo Babylon?

Musicalcroc Since: Nov, 2009

Apr 19th 2011 at 11:02:10 PM •••

To me, Card Captor Sakura is Shoujo with Yaoi Guys in it (Yukito and Touya are spelled out explicitly as "most important one" for each other). Tokyo Babylon can be considered BL (the whole series is Will They or Won't They? between the two leads, and they talk about romantic love, not just friendship) except that its genre designation is apparently Shoujo.

whereismytea Since: Apr, 2010

May 1st 2011 at 12:05:33 AM •••

Thanks, I've edited the CCS example out then.

Card Captor Sakura has Touya and Yuki.

SG_man_forever That one dude. Since: Apr, 2010

That one dude.

Mar 1st 2011 at 6:14:41 AM •••

I've never really understood the idea that apparently only women can enjoy yaoi, and that men all prefer bara.

Just seems kind of weird to me.

Without music, life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Nietzsche Hide / Show Replies

emeriin Since: Jan, 2001

Mar 1st 2011 at 6:23:06 AM •••

But sir, everyone knows that there only exists hive minds and not individual tastes.

24.44.68.39 Since: Dec, 1969

Apr 28th 2011 at 2:34:53 PM •••

personally, I think yaoi is much better. Bara always seems to be PWP.

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