Get your yaoi fix: A visit to Ikebukuro’s Boys’ Love (BL) cafe
RocketNews24 paid a visit to a Boys’ Love (BL) cafe in Ikebukuro.
Ikebukuro Danshi BL Gakuen is basically a maid cafe for girls, though it goes one step further than the conventional dansou butler cafes and goes all out for a BL or yaoi style. The male staff are all dressed as schoolboys and give off an effeminate, gay vibe.
Entering the cafe you become students at the school.
The menu consists of different boy-on-boy scenarios that you can order.
We decided to order the “fantasy coupling Pocky” from the menu where you get to choose two of the guys to enact a sexy scene using a piece of candy. We chose Haru and Hinata, and then were asked to come up with a setting for the special scene to take place. We went with the library, and the sempai stumbling upon his cute little kohai (underclassman) reading a naughty manga. The two of them soon got into character and brought the scene to life. Some bickering/flirting ensued and then, finally, their lips almost came together. It might look like they’re having a serious makeout session, but there was no actual lip-on-lip contact. Still, I have to say that the boys put on a great show.
This is the video from their visit.
Obviously it’s aimed at the curious and fujoshi (“rotten girls”, a nickname for yaoi fans).
It’s not really our cup of tea (no pun intended) but we welcome all forms of sexuality and fetish (BL is of course not fully definable as “gay” — compared to say bara manga — and it’s quite distinct from typical male fantasies about lesbians). Let’s hope it thrives.
