Dru Pagliassotti's 'Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction,' [...] quite persuasively employs Janice Radway's work on readers of romance fiction, alongside an examination of Japanese romance novels and Anglophone 'slash fiction' (explained below), as well as her own extensive survey of Anglophone boys' love readers, to position male-male romance manga and fiction as 'a discrete genre of popular romance' (p. 59), one worthy of serious academic attention.
According to a review by James Welker