>>38765205A lot of people grossly underestimate how huge the anime market is for women in Asian countries. This, for example, is a full-sized movie poster for "BL Metamorphosis" in a Taiwan Animate store.
>Urara Sayama (Mana Ashida) is a 17-year-old high school student. She doesn't have any friends or a boyfriend. Her only enjoyment is reading boy's love manga, which she keeps it as a secret. She also works part-time as a cashier at a bookstore. There, she meets 78-year-old Yuki Ichinoi (Nobuko Miyamoto). Yuki Ichinoi has lived alone since her husband passed away. She happens to buy a BL manga due to its eye pleasing cover. Since that purchase, Yuki Ichinoi becomes a fan of the manga genre. Due to their common interest in BL manga, Urara Sayama and Yuki Ichinoi develop a friendship and they decide to take on a challenge.The fact that this movie exists at all should tell you something about how tacitly accepted that way of life is.