Comics With Gay Themes Attracting Young Female Readers
By: News EditorDate: Monday, March 13, 2006
Source: MTV.com
MTV.com reports that manga's focus on relationships and the lives of young people have brought girls to comics in a way that action comics never did.
Today girls are avid readers of Tokyopop's "Fruits Basket," a long-running series about a girl who lives with people who can turn into animals, and Viz's "Naruto," an ongoing adventure about a boy in ninja school.
In particular, comics featuring male-male romances are particularly popular with females.
CEO of Tokyopop Stuart Levy told MTV, "When we started it about six or seven years ago we couldn't get manga anywhere. They said, 'No way. You're never going to get this stuff in the stores in America. Just go back to Japan and don't bother.' "
At a yaoi panel called Brokeback Manga, Masumi O'Donnell, publisher of "Be Beautiful, told guests "Yaoi is perfect for post-shojo readers. It gives very romantic stories and romantic situations and plots, but these are very impossibly beautiful men. Women like looking at beautiful men, and that's why I thought this would be a very popular genre."
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