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"beautiful boy" , "highly idealised" boys and young men who blend both and qualities.

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"Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West".

Kazumi Nagaike and Tomoko Aoyama note that while BL and yaoi are the most common generic terms for this kind of media, they specifically avoid attempts at defining subgenres, noting that the differences between them are ill-defined and that even when differentiated, the subgenres "remain thematically intertwined.

Outside of Japan, the 2000 broadcast of in North America on is noted as crucial to the development of Western yaoi fan works, particularly.

The genre originated in the 1970s as a subgenre of , or comics for girls.

Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan.

Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film and Television.

" is also less commonly used.