[Katie25]

i remember that i was searching for romance on an anime site and it came up with Gravitation (i blushed so hard when i watched it "OMG, THOSE GUYS ARE KISSING!") and i loved it so much, i moved on Junjou Romantica and when i noticed its genre, yaoi, i searched for it online and came to a few online manga readers that have yaoi on them and that was it really. Ive been hooked on Yaoi ever since! ;)

[maichin7]

If I remember correctly, it was the anime Gravitation that started it all! Then I got curious and started looking for yaoi manga; the first for me was Youka Nitta sensei's Haru wo daiteita and I just loved it. From then on, I got hooked on yaoi and I can't live without it anymore :05q:

[Elegy]

I literally ran out of good Shoujo to read. I loooooooove romance and reading/watching cute romances makes me all happy and fuzzy inside. Doesn't matter to me the gender as long as I can enjoy the story, so I decided to try out yaoi since there's so much scanlation for it. Also, yaoi tends to have more varied characters and locations, so it's rather refreshing overall.

[himitsu21]

Well my liking spree for yaoi started first with shounen-ai, Gravitation (anime) was my first series that, took me to the wonders of yaoi world. I was hooked =). After that I started to search every kind of yaoi, from soft to very HARD. At the moment my number 1. yaoi is view finder and crimson spell. I absolutely love Yamane Ayano's work, her art is one of a kind. And her stories are really interesting and funny too, I love them!

[evil-follower]

My love for yaoi started with the novel Only The Ring Finger Knows and then on the old crunchy roll I found an OVA of Ai no Kusabi. I didn't know at the time that there was a specific genre that both belonged to but yea they were what got me addicted :ylaugh: At the time I didn't even know what Ai no Kusabi was about and I watched it and thought it was really hardcore, it serious scared the bejeezus out of me but I still got hooked onto the genre hahaha

[nobody]

oh wow, I can't remember the first BL I read...my friend was super into yaoi, and I discovered Aarinfantasy so I could find stuff for her...I remember watching Junjou Romantica, and absolutely loving the comedy parts (was not prepared for the explicit stuff...!) & then it just started snowballing there...

Oh, and doujinshi. All the doujinshis... :yshiny:

[defenestrate]

I was getting sick of the repetitiveness of shoujo and was surfing through mangafox when I came to Kanjou Spectrum by Yoneda Kou. It was my first exposure to Japanese shounen-ai, and I fell in love with her art style. I read other shounen-ai and then yaoi. It was the mangakas that drew me in more than the subject of the genre. I also liked how it didn't shove the pathetic, weak nature of girls down my throat all the time. I also like how the artistic styles tends to give people realistically sized eyes.
I used to read a lot of webcomics and turns out some of them had gay couples as the protagonists, including one of my favorites, Friendly Hostilities. I just never considered them to be part of their own homosexual genre. When I started reading yaoi, I thought "wow a whole new world," and I had already entered into this world years ago. I got into reading those webcomics because I did not have a TV, and I read as many decent webcomics as I could find no matter the genre.

[kaminoko]

i started to like yaoi after i read katekyo hitman reborn and my sister is a typesetter of some reborn doujin so when i tell her that i like reborn she gave me a lot of 1827 and 6927 doujin XD after that i start to read a BL :ylaugh:

[smallpumpkin]

for me, it wasn't yaoi anime or manga that started the balling rolling. rather, it was the site known as fanfiction, that place has many, and i do mean many, stories created by fans to be enjoyed by others.

my obsession with 07-ghost led me to read m-rated fics.

[Somnambulist]

What started the ball rolling was a friend of mine bringing the "Only the Ring finger Knows" books to school AFTER I read a Gundam Wing fanfic that sparked my curiosity. (Trowa's doing WHAT with Quatre while Trieze is behind the couch? :jawdrop: ) After that bit of "Wow, that's not bad at all. . ." I picked up FAKE at the bookstore and read the entire series as it came out in the bookstore. After that our little group went nuts over it. I started looking it up online and finding other stuff, and enjoying it. We even found movies and things. I guess it went:

Original Anime ---> Fanfics--> Shounen-ai/Yaoi/June Manga --> Yaoi Anime

[ladylenore]

I started to read Yaoi after i read Gravitation. At first i was just looking for more Gravitation
and ended up in a Forums for Yaoi and that is how i started reading Yaoi.

[enchentra]

I was watching an manga music video and so something interesting. Firts I thougt it was shoujo but during my reserch I found out it was a yaoi name gravitation. So I watch the serie and I loved it. So I search for more yaoi and since then I loved it.

[flowerpants]

:ysmile: fanfiction, narutoxsasuke when I caught my older sister reading it when I was around 6th grade? :yhappy: and I was disgusted but I tried it and eventually :ylaugh: I kept reading it until later I got addicted to all couples. :ykyaa:

[Doppelganger]

Mmmm actually, a friend got me into reading yaoi Gundam Wing fiction when I was really young. From there, though, I started finding subtle BL manga to read, like Tokyo Babylon, and eventually FAKE, Legal Drug, etc.

[Millenear]

I was about to jump on board the Gravitation bandwagon when I saw that Tokyo Babylon comment. I absolutely loved that manga! :wub: In fact, I read that before Gravitation, then moved on to FAKE, Yami No Matsuei and Eerie Queerie. I know there have been many, many more, but those were the beginning, I believe.

[Yu-chii]

Loveless. That's where it all first started.

I found the anime when I was trying to figure out what anime I should watch next, after Inuyasha. I didn't know what "shounen-ai" or "yaoi" was at that time. When I watched the first episode and saw the kiss, I was shocked (since I didn't even know people could be gay!), but intrigued. I wanted to find out more.

That sent the ball rolling and, well, here I am now!