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| Image Alt: | A magazine cover featuring an illustration of two men standing close to each other. |
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| Category: | Manga (boys' love) |
| Publisher: | Shinshokan |
| Country: | Japan |
| Based: | Tokyo |
is a monthly manga magazine published by Shinshokan that specializes in boys' love (BL) manga. It has two sister publications: the quarterly BL light novel magazine, and the bimonthly BL manga magazine .
Dear+ was founded in 1997 as a companion magazine to Shinshokan's manga magazine Wings, which focuses on shōjo manga (manga for girls). As a magazine focused on BL (male-male romance), Dear+ was established to publish material considered too explicit for publication in Wings. Initially established as a quarterly magazine, Dear+ has been published monthly since 2003.[1]
Shōsetsu Dear+ was established in 1998 as a magazine publishing serialized BL light novels.[2] Chéri+ was established in 2011 as a BL magazine published triannually (thrice per year)[3] before becoming a quarterly publication in 2014.[4]
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Dear+ in 2017, an exhibition was held at the Parco Museum in Ikebukuro. The exhibition featured original artwork from 53 artists, as well as smartphone-enabled augmented reality elements.[5] Bar Dear+, a radio program also commemorating the anniversary, was broadcast weekly on (an internet radio subsidiary of Nippon Cultural Broadcasting) from June 6 to August 29, 2017. The program was hosted by Toshiki Masuda and Yoshiki Nakajima.[6]
The following is a partial list of titles serialized in Dear+, Shōsetsu Dear+, and Chéri+.
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