Boku No Sexual Harrasment

Q: The thing is the NA market is aimed at kids to twenty-something market and hasn't quite worked it's way to doing the niche work. Still it might in the near future, shoujo has broken out in a big way and with it's bringing in yaoi and shounen-ai titles like Boku No Sexual Harassment and Gravitation. As well there's starting to be more translated Japanese novels that aren't about geishas or trendy Tokyoites from writers named after fruit-I hear Ringu and Battle Royale are available as well as that fantasy series that's aiming for over 100 books.

A:Yaoi and shonen-ai titles like Boku no Sexual Harassment and Gravitation are also aimed at the teenage to twenty-something market. According to demographic info from publishers like Biblos, readers range from upper grade school (10 years old) up to grandmas. The most common age group is in the upper teens though this depends on the magazine with some having their largest

audiences in the early twenties. In the junior high school to 20s age group about 15% of (female I presume) manga readers read Boy's Love (BL), though it tends to be a "hidden hobby" and many older Japanese don't even know the category exists. Though of course elements are popular in mainstream shoujo. In fact these elements are so mainstream that I've heard that Japanese readers don't even think of them as weird anymore. So we may blink at the "fanservice" but the Japanese just shrug their shoulders like it's a Japanese character with blue hair... I guess this explains why the old "two schoolboys meet and fall in love" has to be the most cliched over-used setting in BL...