road, is a nickname for this area which caters to female manga fans. manga means comic book. yeah. this is the godfather of manga and anime in japan. but the girls genre branches out from that during the late 60s and 70s. manga is professor kukhee chu s expertise. it s a major part of everyday life here in japan. the main genre which is read by women and girls is called shojo. it features romances where female characters play stereotypical roles. the dominant genre that the female consumers consume in this area is what they call boys love genre. what is it? a genre that features boys in a homo-erotic relationship. and is that what they re looking at here? they are. as you can see, all the characters in this title are all beautiful boys. those are boys? those are all boys. with the long hair? that s what they call pretty boys. it s not gay. it s for heterosexual women. predominantly heterosexual women.