... (McLelland, 200 0a) Amateur manga, a new form of manga circulation, played a crucial role in the dissemination of BL manga Amateur manga is a manga produced, printed and distributed by artists themselves ... have the same level of acceptance with lesbian 28 manga, it may imply that portraits of male homosexuality and female homosexuality in Japanese manga could be treated differently by female readers ... collection of girls’ manga, rorikon manga, animation videos, a variety of soft pornographic manga, and a smaller collection of academic analyses of contemporary youth and girls’ culture”2 (Kinsella,...