It’s also worth pointing out that one year before the survey showing 30.6 percent of the boys’ love fans were men, Yano performed an identical survey in which only 17.9 percent of boys’ love fans were male, though some may call even that figure surprisingly high.
Japan’s Yano Research Group has done multiple studies on boys’ love fandom, with its most recent publicly available data estimating the number of boys’ love fans in Japan at 740,000 people.
Most people assume that the boys’ love genre of anime and manga gets most of its love from women, and that’s not an inaccurate assumption.
However, one study shows a surprising amount of men in the boys’ love fan demographic.