Teens' love ( ja, ティーンズラブ), also known as TL, is a genre of erotica fiction in Japan created by and marketed towards women. Teens' love is present in a variety of media, including anime,

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, and light novels. Teens' love content has a core demographic of women in their older teens to adults.

Themes

Teens' love is characterized by a romance depicting love and sex as synonymous. The story usually focuses on a female protagonist. It differs from the ladies' comics genre in that ladies' comics tend to be dramatic and include dark story elements such as rape, incest, and (relationships based on transactional sex); while earlier teens' love works consisted of similar elements, modern stories usually avoid those topics. Teens' love content is also marketed towards a younger audience. In 2007, several manga magazines with teens' love content were declared "harmful to youth" by the Osaka Prefectural Government and were restricted from being sold to people under 18 years old.

Chronology

;Manga magazines * 1998 ''L-Teen Comic'' First published. * 1998 ''Ren'ai Hakusho Pastel'' First published. * 2000 ''Zettai Ren'ai Sweet'' First published. * 2001 ''Ren'ai Sengen Pinkish'' First published. * 2004 ''Ren'ai Tengoku''., ''Muteki Ren'ai S*girl''. etc. First published * 2006 ''Ren'ai Cherry Pink'' First published. * 2008 ''mini Sherry'' First published. * 2009 ''mini Sugar'' First published.ndl entry
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Media

Currently publishing Media

Magazines currently publishing

= Discontinued TL Manga

= *''miniSherry'' (2008-10) *''Ren'ai Tengoku PURE'' *''L Teen Comic'' *''Ren'ai Sengen Pinkish''

Labels currently publishing

† Has had some titles licensed in English. ‡ Has also published Yaoi and/or Hentai titles also.

References

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