


This does nothing to improve the reputation of BL, whose detractors dismiss it all as shallow, pandering garbage, insulting and even offensive to actual homosexuals and its fans and followers as noisy, awkward high-school girls of unrefined taste with no appreciation for the finer points of artistic pornography. The genre, despite its booming popularity and flourishing diversity in manga and doujinshi, suffers greatly somewhere in the transition to animation-for some reason, the anime industry doesn’t like the genre very much, and even hugely popular titles are treated to adaptations with cut corners and But the most tragic part is how horrifyingly embarrassing it is to the BL genre and its fans.

It is an embarrassment to A-1 Pictures, who have proven with titles like Birdy the Mighty DECODE and Ookiku Furikabutte that they can do better. Scanlation and other fan-translating activities were very common, prior to and even after the release of the English manga by TokyoPop in 2009.Īs a BL title, yaoi and slash pairings make up the overwhelming majority of the fanworks produced.It is an embarrassment to Nitro+, the producers of the source material. When Akira is falsely accused of the murder of a fellow contestant and sentenced to death, a mysterious woman offers him his freedom if he participates in a tournament called "Igura" and takes down the "King" who has ran it unchallenged since its start.Īrtwork from the games was shared fairly widely on yaoi imageboards and gallery sites in the mid-2000s, which is how most Western fans likely found the game. The game takes place in post-apocalyptic Japan and follows Akira, a young man who is successful in street-fighting games. In February 2020, Togainu no Chi was released for the first time in English, available on PC through Steam. After the PC release, several Drama CDs were produced, in addition to an anime and manga adaptation. The game was originally released on the PC, and later re-released on the PS2 and PSP featuring new characters and artwork. Togainu no Chi is a BL visual novel created by Nitro+CHiRAL in 2005.
