New York Times にマンガの記事

[url:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/books/review/18glazer.html]
に最近の日本の少女マンガの解説がのっています。

Among the best-selling shojo are stories that involve cross-dressing boys and characters who magically change sex, brother-sister romances and teenage girls falling in love with 10-year-old boys. Then there's a whole subgenre known as shonen ai, or boy's love, which usually features romances between two impossibly pretty young men.

とあります。