ガールズラブ

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Meanings

1

noun

girls' love; GL; yuri media

colloquial

Colloquial wasei-eigo term for manga, novels, or other media focusing on romantic/sexual relationships between women. Often used in otaku and fandom contexts.

wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from girls love

最さい近きん、ガールズラブの漫まん画がにハマっている。
Lately I've been hooked on girls' love manga.
この

雑ざっ

誌し

は

ガールズラブ

作さく

品ひん

を

多おお

く

掲けい

載さい

し

て

いる

。

This magazine features many girls' love works.

Written forms

ガールズ・ラブ
- ガールズラブ
  Variant with interpunct; less common but still seen.
- ガールズ・ラブ

Similar words

百ゆ合り
More traditional Japanese term for female-female romance in fiction; ガールズラブ is a newer wasei-eigo equivalent often used in similar contexts.
ボーイズラブ
Male-male romance counterpart; both are wasei-eigo genre labels.

Etymology

Wasei-eigo from English 'girls love', used as a genre label for female homosexual romance in Japanese media.