in defence of bl

someone ripped off the manga seven days and westernized it, and when they were called out claimed it was because they were making it “realistic” to “lgbt culture”. (the book is date me, bryson keller and there are more details in this twitter thread.)

i hate this assumption that manga can’t be realistic to the lgbt+ experience; i hate this stereotype that bl manga creators are all cishet women when it’s plainly not true; i hate this idea that stories of japanese lgbt+ experiences cannot be valid because they must conform to western ones. there have been so many creators who have worked to push the boundaries of this genre their stories were sidelined to, to include and focus on lgbt+ stories in japanese mainstream media.

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