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Gay anime sites generally follow Japanese styles of animation and cartooning, but there are a few out there than also feature more Western styles. In the West, the term Hentai is used as slang for sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly Japanese anime and manga; but in Japan itself, Hentai has strong negative connotations meaning "sexually perverted." Manga is the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons (comic books). Manga are typically printed in black-and-white^, although some full-color Manga exist. Again, in the West, Manga has come to refer specifically to any comic published originally in Japan. Yaoi is a publishing genre that focuses on male/male relationships. The terms is almost completely a word used by Westerners as Japanese refer to the style as "Boys' Love" or BL.