Bara (genre)
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Bara is a colloquialism for a genre of Japanese art and media known within Japan as gay manga or gei komi. The genre focuses on male same-sex love, as created primarily by gay men for a gay male audie
The term bara translates literally to "rose" in Japanese, and has historically been used as a pejorative for gay men roughly equivalent to the English language term "pansy".
A musha-e print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (c. 1834)
Gengoroh Tagame, whose manga in G-men is credited with shifting the aesthetics of gay manga towards masculine men
Gay manga often features masculine men with varying degrees of muscle, body fat, and body hair. This is a drawing of a muscular man without defined abdominal muscles, which provides a typical example of a gachimuchi body type.
My Brother's Husband
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My Brother's Husband is a manga series by Gengoroh Tagame. Serialized in Monthly Action from 2014 to 2017, and adapted into a live-action television drama by NHK in 2018, the series follows the relati
The cover of the first volume of My Brother's Husband. From left to right: Mike, Kana, and Yaichi.
Gengoroh Tagame, author of My Brother's Husband.