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Is it really shounen-ai?

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kiironeko-chan	Post #585991
Member 10:58 am, Feb 2 2013 Posts: 1	The fact that Hakkenden is published on a BL magazine doesn't mean it is actually BL.
calstine	Post #586194
Lone Wanderer Member 5:48 am, Feb 4 2013 Posts: 1293	I agree. Admittedly, I haven't read past the point at which Bliss stopped releasing, but there isn't the slightest hint of shounen-ai in the first 3 volumes, save for some of the silly dude-looks-like-a-girl jokes you find in every other manga. And this was originally serialised in a shoujo BL magazine (which means the stories were mostly shoujo with only the slightest traces of pre-slash); it got switched to Ciel Tres Tres because Ichiraci now publishes only shoujo romances and probably think that serialising something written by a shounen-ai mangaka is damaging to their image or something. ________________
kayue	Post #588136
Member 7:40 pm, Feb 20 2013 Posts: 128	No more BL than Kuroshitsuji or Fushigi Yuugi. Just the normal slashiness and jokes. Enough to be interesting, without being offensive to the general public.
yarn	Post #592802
yarny, yarny Member 7:11 pm, Mar 29 2013 Posts: 39	Slashy, yes. BL, no. It's much like Silver Diamond (anyone who thinks SD is a yaoi has been sadly deceived).