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Barazoku (in Kanji: 薔薇族 ; in Katakana: バラゾク) is a genre of gay manga generally targeted at a male audience, also known as Mens' Love. "Bara" is short for "Barazoku", and describes a type of Japanese gay genre for muscular, often hairy men that glorify masculinity. Barazoku translates to "Rose Tribe" in Japanese.

In American culture, the term has been assimilated by chan-style imageboards to refer to erotic images glorifying muscular masculine-identified males ー The term "Barazoku" is now used to contrast the more chubby men seen in the Western-based "gay bear" culture.

On e621.net, because the tag bear is used to reference the animal, the tag Barazoku is now the replacement tag for both Western and Japanese styles of manly, muscular, and erotic imagery of usually gay themes.

When using this tag, it is useful to combine it with more specific terms like muscular, slightly chubby or even overweight whenever possible.

Related tags:

• daddyfication
• male
• manly
• musclegut
• muscular
• overweight
• slightly_chubby