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Yaoi, outside of Japan, is an umbrella term for all male/male comics made for women in Japan; as well as male/male comics made in the west. The actual name of the genre in Japan is called 'BL' or 'Boy's Love'. BL is an extension of shoujo and josei categories, but is considered a separate category. Like 'Yaoi' is used in the United States, 'BL' is used in Japan to include: commercial and amateur works, works with no sex, works with sex, doujinshi about adolescents with little or no sex, works in all types of media - manga, anime, novels, games, and drama CDs with male/male content, and characters of all ages in male/male content. Terms such as yaoi, shounen-ai, tanbi, June, and original June, are all referred to in Japan, as 'BL'. However, it does not include gay publications.[2]
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Yaoi stories range from minimalist sketches, such as Kai Foster's Coloured Salt, and a Story, to detailed scenarios of different worlds, such as Mikkeneko's Spoil of War. Many are like fairy tales, which scholar Jack Zipes says was a genre established in literature by the French aristocracy. They became the basis for today's children's publishing, much of which, produced by corporations such as Disney, are paeans to industriousness and heterosexual monogamy.
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Yaoi animation has been posted to Websites. One such takes the form of an interactive sexually explicit game. Commercial anime produced from yaoi dōjinshi is exported to the West. The continued improvement in personal computer tools such as Flash may make it feasible for fans to create their own anime. Flash automates labor-intensive functions such as tweening (moving an object from one point to another). One of the best Flash anime is Osamu Tezuka Cinema's Where's The Doctor?!
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Yaoi fanon is common; some authors even create separate sub-universes in their stories and doujinshi. In some cases, these sub-universes, called "AUs" or "Alternate Universes," gain their own fan bases in which they may be more popular than the original series.
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