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Too Close For Love
Cinderella Boy


Yaoi is definitely one of the popular genre of manga, especially in Asia. During my trip to Japan, I would find a yaoi section in all the bookstores. Some even have a big inappropriate poster hung up in front of the aisle.
I find yaoi very different from other popular manga genres like Shonen or Shojo. While Shonen and specially shojo has a very slow process of developing feeling between couples, Yaoi manga is much more direct and erotic. This is because Yaoi are girl’s fantasy of gay men love life, while most of it is untrue or unlikely to happen in real life. The stories tend to be quite cheesy and predictable. Oddly, a lot of yaoi like to have couples relate in the same family (usually not by blood), like Too Close For Love.

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