>>3032179O-okay... But just a fair warning, this is isn't gonna be the best story cuz the first time I got into BL is kinda hazy (probably because I suppressed those memories into oblivion)... Also sorry in advance if it sounds weird, I'm not the best at writing these stories about myself.
Anyways I got into BL riiight around the time my friends finally bullied me into my first manga and anime.
Of course it had to be hetalia. From what I knew, everyone was into hetalia back then.
And because I was such a fucking weeb about the show (seriously I was such a weeb about it, you don't want to know... It was a sad and pathetic time in my life) I only watched it alone on the big screen when I had the house to myself. So I could be a weeb about it without scarring my parents for life.
Apparently I didn't notice the gay subtext AT ALL in the show not even when they presented Chibitalia. So when HRE and Chibitalia kissed, I thought it was a heterosexual pairing, albeit a really cute one at that.
Eventually though after a couple of episodes showing Italy growing out of his chibitalia phase, I finally put two and two together and realized that chibitalia was totally a guy. And that Chibitalia x HRE was a gay pairing despite HRE being totally oblivious that chibitalia was a guy. Immedietly, I went online and started searching the hell out of the pairing. Which led me to the GerIta pairing. Which then opened my eyes to the wonderful world of BL. And made me even more weaboo than I was before.
Yet for some reason all the next manga I read Prince of Tennis, Hikaru no Go, and Black Butler completely oblivious of their BL subtext too. I only found out about it 4 years later by accident, looking through various doujinshi to buy.
As for yaoi, well let's leave that story for another time... >-<;
