Thanks to 
mangacast, there’s an audio recording of the San Diego Comicon panel where Tokyopop and Henson Co. reps talk about the Labyrinth and Dark Crystal manga adaptations. Excuse me while I go get Quicktime and listen to it….
EDIT: The audio quality really varies. The voices of the panelists fade out easily, but the cheering audience occasionally overwhelms the track. I can’t listen to this at work; it’s too distracting! I’ll be back later with a transcription. Amusing note: Someone [couldn’t catch who — maybe Michael Polis?] said that the germ of the Labyrinth manga came from looking at Jareth and realizing that he looked like a quintessential bishounen. HAHAHAHAHAHAH…
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from Rosco
FYI – new “Labyrinth” postcard at http://www.hottopic.com.
*chuckle*
Well, I guess I can see why they would think that…sort of. He has long hair and all. 😛
Problem is, there’s more to being a proper bishounen than the look. The word actually carries with it a connotation greater than “pretty boy.” A bishounen in the classical sense will also tend to have a soft gentleness about him and a quiet, sensitive nature. He may be rather feminine in manner as well. In the West especially the common usage has extended to any attractive boy in anime or manga, but it’s not *exactly* correct, at least as I understand the term.
(Examples of the bishounen in his classic form: Yukito from Card Captor Sakura, Yuki from Fruits Basket, Miki in Revolutionary Girl Utena. Yukito especially, but then he has the additional bonus of being in an implicit Relationship with another, more “manly” boy to point up his softer nature.)
Whoops, forgot to say it was me. Not that my ravings about bishounen wouldn’t sort of suggest it. 😉 Hi MW!
Rampant Bicycle
http://www.rampantbicycle.com/blog
Thanks for the clarification, RB.
–MW