Boys’ love (Japanese: ボーイズ ラブ, Hepburn: bōizu rabu), also called BL (ビーエル, bīeru), is a type of fictional media from Japan that shows romantic relationships between male characters. It is often made by women for a female audience, but it also has some male viewers and can be created by men. BL appears in many forms, such as manga, anime, novels, video games, TV shows, movies, and fan-made works.
This list describes a type of story series where relationships or romantic feelings between groups of female characters and protagonists who are attracted to women are a key part of the story’s themes or plot. Publishers often refer to these as “harem” elements.
This list includes series where relationships between groups of female characters and protagonists who are attracted to women—regardless of their sex, gender, or orientation—play a key role in the story or genre. Publishers refer to these elements as “harem.”
A love triangle is a situation where two people are both in a romantic relationship with the same person. It can also happen when someone in a romantic relationship is also involved with another person. A love triangle is not the same as when one person loves another, who loves a third, and so on.
This is a list of fantasy anime TV shows, movies, and OVAs. The titles are listed in alphabetical order.
Isekai (Japanese: 異世界; transl. “different world,” “another world,” or “other world”) is a type of Japanese fantasy story that follows characters who are moved to a new world and must survive there. In this new world, the characters often gain strong abilities or become important in ways they were not before.
“I Was Reincarnated as the Villainess in an Otome Game, but the Boys Love Me Anyway!” (悪役令嬢ですが攻略対象の様子が異常すぎる, Akuyaku Reijō Desu ga, Kōyaku Taishō no Yōsu ga Ijō Sugiru) is a Japanese light novel series written by Sō Inaida and drawn by Wan Hachipisu. It was first posted online on a website called Shōsetsuka ni Narō in April 2018. Later, the book was published by TO Books, which released it as a light novel starting in July 2020.
Horimiya is an anime television series made by CloverWorks. It is based on a manga series written by Daisuke Hagiwara, which was adapted from a webcomic called Hori-san to Miyamura-kun by HERO. The series had 13 episodes and was shown between January and April 2021.
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun (Japanese: 月刊少女野崎くん, Hepburn: Gekkan Shōjo Nozaki-kun) is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and drawn by Izumi Tsubaki. The chapters are published online in Gangan Online and have been released in book versions by Square Enix. An anime version made by Doga Kobo aired from July to September 2014.
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun (Japanese: 月刊少女野崎くん, Hepburn: Gekkan Shōjo Nozaki-kun) is a Japanese manga series with four panels in each chapter. The author and illustrator is Izumi Tsubaki. The chapters are published online in parts on Gangan Online and have been released in book versions by Square Enix.