Demographics

As with other forms of Japanese pop-culture media, publishers of erotic media target material to specific demographic groups. For manga, the most typical divisions are:

Types which are pornographic by definition

• ero-manga or seijin (成人, literally "adult"), aimed at (presumptively heterosexual) men
• ladies' comics (redīsu komikku or redicomi), originally meaning any manga for adult women (see josei) but now often applied specifically to pornographic manga for women

Types which often (but not necessarily) contain pornographic content

• gei comi or menslove (ML), often called bara in the West, for gay men
• boys' love (boizu rabu or BL), predominately aimed at the shōjo and josei markets (also see below)
• teen's love (TL), a more explicit type of shōjo romances, likewise aimed predominantly at the shōjo and josei markets
• Yuri or girls' love (GL), which has long been a component of both men's ero-manga and shōjo gender-exploration but has more recently arisen as a genre in its own right, in both seijin and josei flavors (also see below)

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