They don't really go well together. I wouldn't know though. I've never had ketchup and jam together on anything. It's like a forbidden union between vegetable and fruit (though tomato is also a fruit).
Okay, BL (or boys' love) and Shoujo are like ketchup and a piece of bread when you're trying to make a sandwich. You've got to have some good stuff in between to make that shit work.
And some authors try to sneak a hot dog in between some buns. I'm not talking about men bumping genitalia in shoujo either. That's when you know the manga's clearly mislabeled.
But usually when the author tries to write BL in Shoujo, I find the comic falls into three categories:
- To give a character a fucked up past.
- To write an absurd fucked up plot.
- Lawl, there are no female love interests in here. And if there are, they stand no chance.
In my history of reading manga, I've only read one manga that blends BL and Shoujo well. When an author pulls it off, it's like drinking coffee without worrying about the jitters later. Or that somebody laced it with crack.
