Why do we seek out sad stories? Why is grief porn appealing? What's so compelling about an uke with a sad backstory? The 8OH1 crew discusses the appeal of angst and the BL the put BL Garden in therapy.

BL Titles Mentioned in This Episode

• Okane ga Nai
• Pearl Boy by Inking
• Ten Count
• Maiden Rose
• A Home Far Away
• Golden Sparkle
• I Didn’t Mean to Fall in Love
• The Dragon’s Betrothed

Also Mentioned in This Episode

• Number The Stars
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Buddy Daddies
• A Little Life
• BANANA FISH
• Charlotte’s Web
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Fuck TERFS, though)
• The Land Before Time
• Bambi

Ask us anything! Hey, Fujoshiman is a short podcast from BL Garden of DFW inspired by the Hey, Answerman column from Anime News Network.

Your hosts return to answer not one, but FIVE of your most burning questions in this Hey, Fujoshiman information extravaganza. Find out if guys can really go that many rounds, if a digital-only title will ever be printed, why BL anime are so confusing, why prostaglandins in semen might not be your friend, and why manga are such different sizes.

Got a burning question? Submit to Hey, Fujoshiman! here.

「Sponsor Information」

 DLsite is one of the largest online stores of digital content in Japan, with everything from niche doujin to popular commercial titles. DLsite garumani is DLsite's brand focused on Otome and Boys' Love, with hundreds of works available in English!

This episode of the 8OH1 podcast is sponsored by Irodori Sakura.

Seasons change, and fujoshi too! We may be seasoned fujoshi, but as BL itself has changed so have our once long-held beliefs. Is childhood friends to lovers still the peak of romance? Is 2D always better than 3D? Are these characters getting younger, or are we just getting older? BL Garden discusses what they used to love but now hate, what they used to hate but now love, and things that will never change.

BL Titles Mentioned in This Episode

• Black or White by Sachimo (Japanese manga)
• Candy Color Paradox by Isaku Natsume (Japanese manga + drama)
• Eternal Yesterday (Japanese novel + drama)
• FANGS by Billy Balibally (Japanese manga)
• Happy of the End by Ogeretsu Tanaka (Japanese manga)
• I'm Kinda Chubby and I'm Your Hero by Nore
• Jinx by mingwa (Korean manhwa)
• Love in the Air (Thai BL)
• Loved Circus  by Nemui Asada (Japanese manga)
• My School President (Thai BL)
• Never Let Me Go (Thai BL)
• The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window by Tomoko Yamashita (Japanese manga + drama )
• The Song of Yoru and Asa by Harada (Japanese manga)
• TharnType (Thai BL)

Also Mentioned in This Episode

• Blue Flag
• Young Royals

「Sponsor Information」

Irodori Sakura is the premiere BL, Yuri, and LGBT imprint of Irodori Comics, a digital publisher of Japanese doujinshi. Irodori works directly with artists to produce localizations that are true to their original vision. Their goal is to expand Japanese doujinshi artists' reach by providing fans an opportunity to support them directly whilst promoting the collaborative spirit of doujinshi culture across the world.

Check out the Irodori Sakura BL catalog & browse the rest of Irodori Sakura’s LGBT+ doujinshi.

This episode of the 8OH1 podcast is sponsored by Media Do International.

Join Lynn, Kit, Izora, and Charls as they take a look back at what they've discovered over the past couple years in the MM Romance world from space operas to new adult to orcs and shifters.

Titles mentioned:

• The Sins of the Orc by Finley Fenn
• Heart to Heart: Fated Paths by Eab, illustrated by Rowein
• The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
• So This Is Ever After by F. T. Lukens
• The Charm Offensive Alison Cochrun
• Winter's Orbit and Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
• The Husky and His White Cat Shizun by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou *Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat"
• White Trash Warlock (The Adam Binder Novels) by David R. Slayton
• Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall
• Husband Material by Alexis Hall (mentioned in passing, but still new so it counts!)
• Wrath by Ella James
• The Trouble with Trying to Date a Murderer by Jennifer Cody
• Code Red by N. R. Walker
• Death's Bloom by Lily Mayne
• Smash & Grab: Relic # 1 by Maz Maddox
• Tentacles & Triathlons by Ashley Bennett
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• Any books by Lily Mayne

「Sponsor Information」

Media Do International brings you all the love with digital BL books from Kobunsha! Don’t miss the comedic “Professor Strangelove,” tender “A Story of Love That I Do Not Know,” high stakes of “Mahjong Parlor of Love,” and the sweet steaminess of “Love Patissier.” Available now at your favorite digital retailers!

Check out their Linktree and follow them on Twitter.

This episode of the 8OH1 podcast is sponsored by Rotten Blossoms.

What makes a work BL? In 2022, this is a difficult question to answer. BL Garden revisits the topic of an early 8OH1 episode to discuss the the shift in label conventions, how BL is defined outside of Japan, and just how serious the "love" part of "boys' love" is.

Titles Mentioned in This Episode

• Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
• I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend into a Girl by Azusa Banjo
• I'm Kinda Chubby and I'm Your Hero by Nore
• Killing Stalking by koogi

Supplemental Reading

• "The Author of "Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata" Tells the Secrets To Making Things Cute - When the love for your characters inspires you."  | Pixivision
• "Thailand brings 'boys' love' back to Japan with homegrown dramas" | Japan Times
• Kwon, J. (2021). The past, present, and future of Boys Love (BL) cultures in East Asia. In Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture (pp. 96-112). Routledge.

「Sponsor Information」

Rotten Blossoms is a LGBTQ+ positive publishing company focused on localizing self-published, Japanese BL/Yaoi/Shonen ai works for the western market.

Check out their amazing catalog and follow them on Twitter!

This episode of the 8OH1 podcast is sponsored by DLste garumani.

After years of inserting #brotherfucking into all BLG content, BLG's resident broconnoisseurs finally get their own episode to discuss  one of BL's longstanding taboos: brotherly lovin'. Why do fans like it? How has fandom response to brocest changed over time? Is anyone else #BloodBrosorBust? Plus, a discussion about the difficulty of connecting amid the hostility of modern fandom.

BL Titles Mentioned in This Episode

• Addicted (Chinese live-action drama)
• Beast of Blood by Seina Anji (Japanese manga)
• Brothers Taking Things Too Far by Tomomi Sakana (Japanese manga)
• Fragrant Beast by Ameshiro (Japanese manga)
• HIStory2: Crossing the Line (Taiwanese live-action drama)
• HIStory4: Close to You (Taiwanese live-action drama)
• I May Be Your Big Brother But I Want You To Be Sweet On Me by Antama & Hagi Fukura (Japanese manga)
• A Lotus Flower in the Mud by Tamekoi (Japanese manga)
• My Brother’s Sweetest Spot by Zakuro Mizuhara (Japanese manga)
• Noche de Primavera by Ritsuno (Japanese manga)
• Nu:Carnival (Taiwanese BL mobile game)
• Super Lovers by Abe Miyuki (Japanese anime + manga)

Also Mentioned in This Episode

• Digimon Frontier  (Japanese anime)
• DLsite garumani's  “Incest” tag (digital BL platform)
• Fullmetal Alchemist (Japanese anime)
• Game of Thrones (American TV show)
• The Moto Hagio Interview by Matt Thorn (archive link)
• Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (Japanese anime)
• Ouran High School Host Club (Japanese anime)
• Supernatural (American TV show)

Extras + Supplemental Reading

• “Engagement with Female-oriented Male–Male Incest Erotica: A Comparison of Sinophone and Anglophone Boys' Love Fandom” by Madill & Zhao (open-access article)
• Looking for a safe space to connect with other BL fans? Already mourning the loss of FujoCon in 2023? Try the Citrus Squad server and CitrusCon

「Sponsor Information」

 DLsite is one of the largest online stores of digital content in Japan, with everything from niche doujin to popular commercial titles. DLsite garumani is DLsite's brand focused on Otome and Boys' Love, with hundreds of works available in English!

BL Gardens talks all things live-action in this episode about BL dramas! What was your first BL drama? Which country has the best series? Why are engineers so gay? What's with the Kamen Rider to BL Actor Pipeline? These questions and more will be answered (kind of) in this episode no live-action BL dramas!

BL Titles Mentioned in this Episode

• About Youth (Taiwanese drama)
• 2gether (Thai drama)
• Big Dragon (upcoming Thai drama)
• Blueming (Korean drama)
• Cherry Magic (Japanese drama)
• Eternal Faith/Heaven Official’s Blessing (danmei novel + donghua + upcoming Chinese drama)
• Gameboys / Gameboys the Movie (Filipino drama)
• HIStory4: Close to You (Taiwanese drama)
• Immortality/The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (danmei novel + upcoming Chinese drama)
• Ingredients (Thai drama)
• Killing Stalking (manhua + upcoming Korean drama)
• KinnPorsche (Thai drama)
• A Man Who Defies the World of BL (Japanese drama)
• Minato’s Laundromat (Japanese drama)
• Pornographer (Japanese drama + manga)
• My Beautiful Man (Japanese drama)
• My Love Mix-Up (Japanese drama)
• Semantic Error (Korean drama)
• Senpai, This Can't Be Love! (Japanese drama)
• Seven Days (Japanese drama)
• To My Star (Korean drama)
• The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi (danmei novel + Chinese drama)
• Winner is King/Sha Po Lang (danmei novel + upcoming Chinese drama)

Non-BL Titles Mentioned in this Episode

• Bros (American upcoming film)
• Kamen Rider Build (Japanese toku drama)
• The King and the Clown (South Korean film)
• Princess Princess (shoujo manga + Japanese drama)
• Red, White, and Royal Blue (novel + American upcoming series)

Also Mentioned in this Episode

• GagaOOLala
• SuBLime's Old Fashioned Cupcake license announcement
• Tunku (MBS’ BL label)
• Viki/Rakuten

This episode is sponsored by futekiya.

futekiya is an online subscription service for officially licensed Boys' Love (BL) manga. futekiya empower readers to support creators and the industry. For as low as $1.99, subscribers will have unlimited access to 400+ titles. To subscribe, go to read.futekiya.com.

20. Tied:

         Blue Sky Complex by Ichikawa Kei @k_ickw - Futekiya

         Momo to Manji (Momo and Manji) by Sakura Sawa @climnon - Futekiya

19. Ore ga Suki nado Warawaseru by Sato Tsubame - unlicensed

18. Mitsuka (Nectar) by akabeko @akabeko_bl – ShuCream BL, Futekiya

17. Minato Shouji Coin Laundry by Kantsume Sawa and Tsubaki Yuzu @tsubaki_yuzu - unlicensed

16. Ushimitsudokidoki Koshotentan by tacocasi @_tacocasi - Futekiya

15. Love Nest 2nd by Minaduki Yuu @toriniku_y - unlicensed 

14. Ri-man Love-ho Danshikai (Office Worker’s Love Hotel Guys’ Night) by Sumeshi @sumeshiwwww – Dlsite Garumani

13. Koi o Egakeba Iro ga Saku (Paint Love and the Colors Will Bloom) by Kon Shouta @kon_shota_kon - Futekiya

12. Kaniteki Pervert Romance (Simplified Pervert Romance) by Sekihara Neg @sekinghara and Semori Nanako - Futekiya

11. Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai (Twittering Birds Never Fly) by Yoneda Kou @yoneco_info

10. Happy Kuso Life (Happy Shitty Life or Happy Crappy Life) by Harada @harada_info - Coolmic, Kuma, Renta

9. Haru wo Daiteita afterward (Embracing Love Afterward) by Nitta Youka @saruboboko - unlicensed

8. 25-ji, Akasaka de (25:00 in Akasaka) by Natsuno Hiroko @natsunohiro - Futekiya

7. Hizamazuite Ai wo Tou by Yamada Nonono @nononoyamada - unlicensed

6. Kami-sama Nanka Shinjinai Bokura no Eden by Ichinose Yuma @yumaichinose - unlicensed

5. Happy of the End by Ogeretsu Tanaka @tanaca_ - Kuma

4. Boku no Omawarisan (My Dearest Cop) by Niyama @niyamabl - Renta

3. Old-fashioned Cupcake with Cappuccino by Sagan Sagan - SuBLime

2. Yoake no Uta (Lullaby of the Dawn) by Yuno Ichika @yuno_popo - ShuCream BL, Futekiya

1. blanc by Nakamura Asumiko @asmk_gengaten - Seven Seas

Gather 'round, ye weaboomers! What do you get when two BL podcasts collab? Mostly pure chaos. With some ghost twinks. Join the fujin of BL Garden and The Yaoi Shelf in this epic joint venture!

(We promise we don't spend the entire episode talking about Gravitation. Just like...part of it.)

Titles Mentioned:

• Close the Last Door (Yamada Yugi)
• Eerie Queerie (Shiozu Shuri)
• Fake Fur/Manic Love (Yamagata Satomi)
• Future Lovers (Kunieda Saika)
• Gravitation (Maki Murakami)
• Ludwig II (Higuri You)
• Little Butterfly (Takanaga Hinako)
• Only the Ring Finger Knows (Kannagi Satoru & Otagiri Hotaru)
• Skyscrapers of Oz (Yoshino Somei & Takakura Row)

The following is a sponsored reviewed.

BL Garden sits down with Majessa from DLsite / EISYS, inc. to chat about DLsite's steamy (and amazingly-titled) works, move to cater to overseas fans, FujoCon debut, and their exciting Translators United initiative which allows passionate fans to contribute to their favorite  artists and communities.

Managed by EISYS, Inc., DLsite is one of the largest indie on-demand online download stores in Japan. DLsite garumani is DLsite's brand focused solely on Otome and Boys' Love creative content. As of March 2019, DLsite has over 600,000 products available for sale and registered users exceed 5,000,000. In addition to this domestically focused service, DLsite and DLsite’s Steam publishing services offer international customers easy and instant access to a wide variety of indie products. Through rigorous translation and localization efforts DLsite intends to branch out and provide access to an even wider audience both geologically and linguistically.

Titles Mentioned in this Episode

All works are 18+. Please mind the tags!

• [ENG Sub] Dick-matized Property (Video Version), by play-room [DLsite Official Translation]
• [ENG] My Childhood Friend Made Me Cross-dress and Femgasm with his Thick Dick, by Market Box [DLsite Official Translation]
• [ENG Sub] BOYxBOY IDOL COLLECTION!! Yurumu x Mitsuya [Voice drama version], by Garumani Original(BL) [DLsite Official Translation]
• [English] BOY×BOY IDOL COLLECTION!!, by circle fuzimuramarinaamarans (Authors: Assa, Okometaro, Kamishima Akira, Takuma, Nakajou Akira, Nobinoniumu, Harekawa Shinta, Fuzimura Marina)

About Translators Unite

• Background of Translators Unite
• Become a Translator!
• Press Release
• BL Titles Eligible for Translation with the Creator’s Permission

Check Out More DLsite Garumani Original BL Works! | DLsite Official Translation BL works  | English BL Manga (doujin and commercial!)

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