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The term (boys love) has been widely used since the mid-1990s to indicate prose and graphic novels and associated genres such as games, animated works, and films that deal with male-male romance, often including sexually explicit material and usually produced by women for female audiences. The theme of male homosexuality in women's literacy texts, however, has a much longer history. The novelist Mori Mari (1903-1987) is regarded as the pioneer of this innovative theme with her novellas published in the early 1960s. Even though at the time Mori was treated as an eccentric writer with unique aestheticism, her work inspired many younger women writers, artists, readers, and critics who were to develop the theme of shōnen'ai (love of boys, love between boys) in the 1970s in the genre of shōjo manga (girls' comics) and in the 1980s in both manga and prose fiction. Associated terms such as tanbi (aestheticism, as in the European fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century Japanese art and literature movements) and yaoi have also been used mainly in relation to amateur writing.'In the 1970s and 1980s, shōnen'ai and yaoi attracted only limited critical and scholarly attention, but only recently has BL been acknowledged more widely, by Japanese and non-Japanese scholars alike, as a significant component of Japanese popular culture. However, might not always be the most appropriate term with which co analyze narratives expressing female fantasies of male homosexuality...
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