Shounen-ai Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Shounen-ai? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Shounen-ai from Anime & Manga Genres and what is the personality traits.
INFP (4w5)
Shounen-ai personality type is INFP, which means that the individual is self-sacrificing, idealistic and sensitive. The INFP has a strong drive for social justice and wants to see the world a better place. The individual is concerned with his or her own personal inner world, and will not tolerate others’ inner worlds.
The INFP journeys through both the material and transpersonal planes of existence and is filled with a consciousness of purpose. The individual can be intense, passionate, mercurial, impulsive and idealistic. The INFP may struggle to communicate his or her inner world to others, and may be more comfortable expressing emotions in writing or in art.
When the INFP is distressed or in pain, he or she is not likely to express it openly. The INFP can suffer deep shame and guilt over both their inner world and the way they express it.
The type has many gifts, including a strong ability to empathize with others and a strong sense of justice. The INFP has a strong capacity for insight, imagination and creativity.
Shounen-ai characters often face setbacks in their developmental journeys, but this does not diminish the value of their contributions.
These anime are categorized as Shounen-ai. Boys' Love or BL in Japan, is a genre mostly written by women, for women, that depicts homosexual relationships between men. Japan typically uses this single category for all forms of these relationships, sexual or not. In the West, the term Shounen-ai categorizes stories that focus on the emotional aspects of the relationships, while Yaoi categorizes more of the sexual aspects, such as Smut or explicit content. As Anime-Planet's audience is mostly based in the West, we use the Western definition for both Yaoi and Shounen-ai. See BL for a list of both titles.
