Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Outside of Japan, the 2000 broadcast of "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing" in North America on Cartoon Network is noted as crucial to the development of Western "yaoi" fan works, particularly fan fiction. As "yaoi" fan fiction is often compared to the Western fan practice of slash, it is important to understand the subtle differences between them. Levi notes that "the youthful teen look that so easily translates into androgyny in boys' love manga, and allows for so many layered interpretations of sex and gender, is much harder for slash writers to achieve."