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Yaoi is an acronym for the Japanese phrase "yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi," which roughly translates to "no peak, no point, no meaning." It refers to any material that focuses on romantic relationships between males, usually created by women for a female audience. Some Western fans use "yaoi" to refer to titles that contain explicit sex scenes, as well as an umbrella term for the entire genre.
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Yaoi and shōnen-ai are terms that are sometimes used by western fans to describe the contents of one title in the genre. Here yaoi is used to describe titles which contain sex scenes and other sexually explicit themes. The counterpart, shōnen-ai, is used to describe titles that focus more on romance and do not include explicit sexual content. This definition of yaoi sometimes clashes with the usage of the word to describe the genre as a whole and the subject is often a cause for debate.
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The Yaoi term ã‚„ãŠã„ was born between the 70s and 80s "June" magazine, and is diffused both in the East and in the West. This term indicates a story in which the plot is mainly centralized on one homosexual relationship between to male characters, usually defined "bishonen" (that is a character with good-looking aspect, but with female lineaments).
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Published at Yaoi-Con, (73) Burning is one of the few fully realized Western dōjinshi executed in the Japanese tradition, including its distribution at a yaoi-centric event. Set after the war, the ex-enemies Zechs and Duo are drifting through life until Zechs, cruising for a young man to pick up, encounters the former pilot on the street, selling his body.
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