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Bara - The Best Name for a Company

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Skype Contacts Conversation Call View Tools Help Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Login That's one smug loli Article Talk Read Edit View history Search 維11 a Search WIKIPEDIABara (genre) The Free Encyclopedia Home 뛰 Call + New From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Main page "Gay manga redirects here. For the genre by and for women, see Yaoi. Bara偻薇 rose also known b te wase-ego construction Men's Love MLメン . menzu rabu is a Japanese technical term for a genre of art and tictional media that focuses on male same-sex love usually created by gay men for a gay audience. The bara genre began in the 1950 DONIS was launched in 1952 with fetish magazines featuring gay art and content. Besides bara manga, also called gei kom ナコ=? gay comics' and llustration, a number of bara erotic games exist, as well as novels and memoirs. Bara is mostly a Japanese phenomenon, with limited western exposure through manga scanlations and online homoerotic art communities. While bara faces difficulties finding western publishers, it has been described as "the next big p--- wave coming out of Japan" I Bara can vary in visual style and plot, but typically teatures masculine men with varying degrees of muscle, body fat, and body hair, akin to bear culture kuma) in gay culture. While bara usually teatures hental (adult content, sometimes violent or exploitative) and gay romanticism, it often has more realistic or autobiographical themes, as it acknowedges the varied reactions to homosexuality in modern Japan Western commentators sometimes reter to bara as 'yao", but yaoi is largety created by and for women and teatures idealized bishonen who trequently contorm to the heteronormative formula of the dominant and masculine seme and efteminate uke characters. In contrast, bara is considered a subgenre of sejin (men's erotica) for gay males and resembles comics for men (seinen manga) rather than ones for female readers (shöjo/josei manga). CONTACTS RECENT All Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia Wikipedia store 0 Interaction Help About Wikipedia Community portal Roront rhannae Yesterday 03:37 BARA Stone Design Wednesday TOP DEFINITION bara DUNGANNON 028 8556 7689 "Bara" is short for "Barazoku, an influential Japanese gay magazine which shut down publication in late 2004. 2chan came up with the abbreviated name for their "gay art" imageboard (which has since been discontinued). Show earlier messaqges Western, gay male anime and manga fans then appropriated the word to contrast with yaoi. Both are homoerotic anime-style art; the difference is while yaoi is gay- male art produced by women for the consumption of women, bara is created by men, for men. Consequently, bara-style art tends toward more exaggerated, overtly masculine physiques and stereotypically masculine behavior Facebook Twitter Bara in this context has nothing to do with "rose", which is what the word means in Japanese Break me off a piece of that hawt Asuma bara action. by Rockear January 02,2007 03:40 GET MUG! Quality name choice! via Skype Type a message here

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