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This article is the master list of Bara, Shounen-ai and Yaoi manga, of which the format generally consists of black and white images used to relay story events. Speech bubbles with text that is read right to left is also a feature. Manga has decisively helped establish yaoi as it is. From their release in recent decades, where there may be a few published each year, the total number of yaoi manga is nearing the ten thousand mark. Even with other formats, the vast majority of yaoi series are detailed in manga, where increasing amounts are being released.

The list of yaoi manga is in alphabetical order and begins with A , before descending down to Z. Series with titles that begin with numbers conclude the list. The manga category is also available to view.

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Foundations[]

Yaoi, along with bara and shounen-ai originates from Japan where related stories are depicted in often printed materials. The author and illustrator of a manga is known as a mangaka. Stories featuring males in relationships were depicted in manga before Chinese manhua and South Korean manhwa followed suit. Manga continues to be physically published even with the advent of online releases such as webtoons. Where the lack of color printing was done to save on publishing costs, manga even when released online retains its distinct signature black and white style artwork where other formats have embraced vibrant coloration in their works.

Compared to other works, manga can be characterized by what could be regarded as select numbers of chapters and volumes. A manga with five chapters in one volume could have many pages within each chapter. Where one manga chapter could consist of fifty pages, and a manhwa chapter could be complete at ten pages, accordingly there may be a similar amount of materials in a five chapter manga as a one hundred chapter webtoon depending on the specific series. As with any piece, chapter numbers are not an indication of the length, or story depth of a work. With the chapter numbers and release dates for each one, a manga can be completed within the year as Cupid ni Rakurai was where the thirteen chapters and three extras were released from February to August 2017. Although there are not as many in comparison, some series such as Kusatta Kyoushi no Houteishiki can take place over forty seven chapters, within ten volumes, from 1993 to 2002.

Manga is very often the foundation of other formats, a story can be adapted into a drama CD for the character voices to be heard as story events take place. Even with other formats such as webtoons, the great majority of anime are adaptions of manga specifically. A manga can also be adapted into a solely text release as with a light novel, and likewise novels can be adapted into manga.

Genres[]

Originating from shōjo manga which was aimed towards girls, yaoi became a genre in its own right. As with shounen-ai and bara, this type of classification is marketing based where a specific audience is targeted. Yaoi manga may denote male relationships, but these scenarios take place in genres as they are understood. Stories can be fantasy, historical, to psychological among various other world indicating genres.

Types of Manga[]

Chapters may be serialized one at a time by manga publishing organizations, where Emerald is an example of one. A series could have one chapter released at the start of each month, where each one would be released with individual chapters from other series. Readers would view an anthology featuring the latest chapters from multiple different series. Individual chapters of Kimi ni wa Todokanai. were serialized in Gene pixiv along with chapters from different manga stories. Five different series could have each new chapter collected into such an anthology. After chapters have been released, those from an individual series can be collected into volumes, or tankōbon. In 2013 chapters of Hanger were serialized in the RuTile anthology. Later, multiple chapters of Hanger were collected into a volume and published by Gentosha. Series can be released by multiple publishers, in 1996 Double Call had the first of its eight volumes published by Outou Shobou, where they and volume nine were published by Kaiousha in 2004.

Dōjinshi (also known as doujinshi) is a term for self-published works. There is a distinction between dōjinshi releases namely that between derivative fan made works of a series, and that of official additional materials added to a story by the mangaka. Doujin based releases can be fan made stories concerning males from non-yaoi series and concern unofficial plot lines. Official series can have dōjinshi releases as a part of them where it is in the context of self-created works, self-created by the original author. A mangaka can have a complete six chapters in one volume story officially published, and then at a later date release a bonus chapter concerning the characters as a dōjinshi, where they simply publish it themselves. From the Maiden Rose series, Hyakujitsu no Bara dj - Luckenwalde no Heya de was released as a dōjinshi, which was then printed later as well. Simply, a mangaka may also just self-release an original story of their own without a publishing entity. Kawa ni Sazanami was first released on the author's Twitter account in 2019, and then as a doujinshi in 2020, to be published as a book by Frontier Works in 2022.

One volume by a mangaka can contain different stories. In Ouji no Kikan, chapters one to two concern an own story. A second story concerning different characters occurs across chapters three to six, where seven onwards involves a third distinct set of events. Another example of one manga which has different stories across its chapters is Bokura no Mitsudomoe Sensou though in this case characters are at different schools. The stories in Hate no Kouya de Vacances wo are different in most regards where they apparently do not even take place in the same universe. On a case by case basis some manga with varied stories can have them fully separated, or different scenarios taking place in the same universe just in different locations to name two possibilities.

While a manga story could be any number of chapters gathered into any number of volumes, one-shot manga are those complete at one chapter as Nanashi no Koibito is. A key case of the length of the work has no bearing on its merits, one-shot manga can cover dramatically varied experiences as with any other story-telling medium. One-shots can be released by themselves, or included within the volumes of series with Docchi mo Docchi as an example. There is a different type of anthology series which share that they cover multiple shorter in duration stories. They can be from one series only, such as the Sasaki to Miyano: Koushiki Anthology Comic which concerns events from that universe. One-shots can also be collected into anthologies, Fleur Comics Anthology: Nikutaiha BL contains works by various different mangaka. One story from there would be developed into its own chapters and volumes based series, namely Jelly Pool. Some such as Boys on Ice: Figure Danshi Anthology features stories concerning a specific theme, such as a sport. Omegaverse short stories are gathered in B's-LOVEY Anthology: Omegaverse where the genre is the common tie between them.

The great majority of manga are standalone series with generally under ten chapters collected into one volume. It is not uncommon for there to be side stories, or spin-off series which can concern different characters. When Kimi wa Boku no Ohimesama was completed, a spin-off story named Ouji-sama, Dochirasama? was released which focused on characters seen in parts throughout the first story. In this case, although the spin-off manga was released afterwards, in-universe events take place at the same time which helps to expand the overall story. Rather than characters, themes can be a common link between spin-off series. Fukurou-kun to Kare and its related series share a theme of baseball between them. That a series is a side story does not factor into its length, Boku no Omawari-san has more chapters and volumes than its parent story Mujaki na Wanko to Nekokaburi where both follow their own path. Koisuru Tetsumenpi has twenty four chapters across four volumes from 2016 to 2022 in an uncommon example of a story of that length.

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