Characters in these manga have a distinct style and are usually burly, muscular or hairy, and typical uke and seme dynamics. However, unlike Yaoi which is written by women, for women, Bara is written by men, for men. grows a beard and starts hanging out in taverns every evening, perhaps Mary should start worrying. Bara is similar to Yaoi (also known as Boys’ Love or BL in Japan), and depicts homosexual relationships between men. Is it safe to call him a muscle bear?' - 'Well, you'd better check it out with Mary to see if he would get upset at any gay inference. Woof!' (Definition b) - 'Mary's straight-as-an-arrow husband Lochinvar is six foot one, hairy, a little chunky but still in good shape from outdoor work. But to me, the quintessential Muscle Bear is Tim Kelly in the HOM gay-porn vids. If Ray grew a beard and played the sexual top more often, I think he'd qualify. (Definition a) - 'OK, in a day when 'Muscle Bear' has started to nudge out older descriptions like 'virile, red-blooded, hairy-chested American male, who do you think is really a muscle bear? Can you put it in terms I'd understand?' - 'Oh, you mean gay porn! Blake Nolan, Dean Coulter, probably Arpad Miklos who wears his muscles so well, possibly Ross Hurston, the power bottom from England, and maybe the very hairy hunky Ray Harley.
