In the last decade BL has also become a sobstitute term for 'yaoi'. This term has been in use in Japan since the second half of the '90, and included the previously used terms 'tanbi' and 'JUNE'. It is usually created by female authors for a mostly female audience. Boys' Love (ボーイズラブ, booizu rabu), also known as BL, is a Japanese term that defines a genre of novels and manga that focuses on homosexual relationships between male characters.
