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Bishōnen (美少年, literally, "beautiful boy") is a specific Japanese aesthetic concept of the ideally beautiful young man. The prefix bi- (美) specifically refers to feminine beauty (bijin, lit. "beautiful person", refers to a beautiful woman.) The bishōnen is typically quite slender and not very muscular, with a tapered chin, stylish hair, and an overall effeminate or androgynous appearance. The aesthetic of the bishōnen began as an ideal of a young homosexual lover, likely arising from the effeminate male actors who played female characters in Kabuki theater. It is perpetuated today in anime and manga, especially shōjo (girl) anime, shōnen-ai, and yaoi. Most okama and homosexual characters in anime are also often categorized as bishōnen. Androgyny refers to two concepts. ...
Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...
A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, often characterized by stylized colorful images depicting vibrant characters in a variety of different settings and storylines, aimed at a variety of different audiences. ...
Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ...
Shōjo (少女 lit. ...
Shōnen-ai (少年愛 from 少年 shōnen young man + 愛 ai love) refers to anime or manga that deals with love between young men, especially of the bishonen variety. ...
The word Yaoi (pronounced /jaoi/, sound like Yah-Oh-ee rather than Yow-ee or Ya-oy, all three vowels are pronounced) was originally used to refer to fan manga (such as doujinshi) that focused on homosexual relationships between male characters, especially two bishōnen - the manga equivalent of slash. ...
Some western anime and manga fans use the term (incorrectly) to refer to any handsome male character regardless of age, and some fans prefer to use the more all-encompassing bishie (which may be equivalent to bijin, although that term is not popular). It is occasionally used to describe some androgynous female characters (such as Lady Oscar in Rose of Versailles, Karou no Kimi and Hana no Saint Juste in Oniisama E), or any women with traits stereotypical to bishounen. The portmanteau bifauxnen is sometimes used to refer to "female bishounen". Bijin is a Japanese term literally meaning beautiful person. Bijin are generally symmetrical, adorned, or even cute. ...
The Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら Berusaiyu no bara), by Riyoko Ikeda, is one of the best-known titles in shōjo manga. ...
Lady Oscar of the manga The Rose of Versailles is a classic example of a bifauxnen. ...
Alternative spellings are bishonen and bishounen. The term binanshi was popular in the 1980s. Occasionally biseinen (lit. "beautiful young man") is seen as a synonym, but biseinen usually refers to a handsome man older than a bishounen, since the age range of a bishounen tends to be from 14-19, while a biseinen is often 20+. A handsome male below 14 is sometimes referred to as a bishota, although that is usually equated with a slight underage fetish. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
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Bishonen (美少年之恋, Pinyin: Meishaonian Zhi Lian) is a 1998 movie from Hong Kong about an ill-fated gay romance. ...
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