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do you have any all boys school BL manga reccs?
oh man. let me think... i don't really care if a school is coed or not most of the time in bl LOL
Fun ask! Have you ever read BL with seme-like uke & uke-like seme? See, I just finished a BL that at first, I'm sure A is the seme and B is the uke, then last chapter (where there's smut) and BOOM! I was surprised that A is the uke and B is the seme, like WHAT? REALLY?! (This is my first time read BL with seme who looked, talked, & acted like uke and vice versa...)
yes... this is the trope i look for a lot in bl but it's SO hard to find and it's even HARDER to find good ones 😭 kimi no sumire is one example of a good one tho the smut is very minimal lol
Hello, as someone who is new in BL (just started in july 2023) your BL recs & reviews, really help me. Thanks a lot!
Can I ask something? My friend who is shoujosei lover told me that shoujo-BL is just as great as regular BLs and have longer stories. But when I read them, somehow I don't feel like reading BL (sorry, I know it's weird thing to say). What do you think? If a manga have canon m/m couples or romance between males, does it mean they're also BL? Some that I read are : Kieta Hatsukoi, Requiem of Rose King, Cruel God Reign, God Child, and Golden Days.
- nah i get it. shoujo has a different vibe to modern bl to me at least. like, it feels way more idealized and honestly i prefer the more "grounded" feel bl has
- hmmmm if we want to talk about it in a marketing (?) perspective then it Depends. if something is marketed as a bl, run in a bl magazine, or is under a bl label, then that's what i define as actual "bl." kieta hatsukoi is a strange one but i feel like that would be considered bl, although i haven't looked too deeply into it. chillchill lists titles that aren't marketed as bl but has gay subtext and there would be an indicator somewhere that it's not bl
I vaguely remember having read some japanese web bl novels where some characters are actually explicitly stated as trans but 1. I can't remember what they're called and 2. they're poorly written and I probably dropped them
well... uhm... 💀
“love me for who i am” is classified as BL on mangadex, though the protagonist is nonbinary! regardless of if it “counts” as BL i think it would still fit the vibe (i know the artstyle starts…like that, i promise it gets better)
technically no, it's not a bl. it's not marketed as a bl nor is it under a bl label, but the mangaka is making bl recently haha. i actually adore the art style too 😭 this mangaka does both bl and yuri which is based
for under the trans umbrella, "boy meets maria" has a nonbinary (iirc) ml! and not sure if "shimanami tasogare" counts as a bl, but there are lgbtq+ supporting characters
i didn't include boy meets maria bc from what i remember, it wasn't explicitly stated but close enough! and shimanami tasogare isn't a bl, but it sure made me cry a river!
wdym there isn't any bl with a trans protagonist..... 😭 do you think there will be more in the future? i just want a bl with a ftm character 💔 (yes, i alr know afterschool mate, villain and the ghost tower)
i heard haru ga kita has a ftm side character, at least. but as a protag? ahaha... i don't think there'd be any marketed as a bl anytime soon. i'm sure there's plenty in western stories but not in east asian media. if anyone knows of one do lmk!! but i haven't found any, personally
Oh my, you're also fan of Young Good Boyfriend? It's one of my all time fav BL, too! It have all my fav trope : Teacher-student, younger top and age gap (because of this, some people see me as weird but now I just don't care what people said).
So Polaris have all 3 tropes above?
I've seen your BL recs of teacher student, can I ask for your fav BL of age gap or younger top? Sorry if I ask too much...
yessssss i love ygb... it's literally everything i could ask for in a sequel. i actually wrote a lot about it in my bl recs notion that i still need to update
and yeah, polaris has all three! also has a blond top/black-haired bottom. it's also my fav bl with an age gap! polaris starts out cliche, but i'd say it ended up being executed pretty well. do give it a read!! i can gush a whooooole lot about it...haha
Are you fan of "old man yaoi"? (Sorry if you're not).
Have you read BL where the mc or ml have to come out to their family?
yeah! and for the second bit, i just answered a question about that!
Don't you think it's funny cause actual canon gay characters in BL manga will say "I love you" but only the shounen bromance can spew out some of the most romantic shit akin to a 19th century poet writing a letter expressing his surpressed love for his lover 😭.....
i'm gonna say this is due to how shounen can develop relationships for longer while bl is often restricted to a single volume
Hello, if you don't mind, can I ask, is there any BL that either the mc or ml is trans or aro or ace? Or is there BL that the mc or ml have coming out moment to their family or friends? Sorry for this random question.
a trans mc or ml? nah. doesn't exist in non-western stories haha... haven't read much aro/ace stuff, but i've seen good bunch of the latter! ranging from lighthearted to more serious!
- black or white
- gelande magic 101-gou
- heaven and demon
- you should be the one to come kiss me
- all about my two dads
- at 25:00 in akasaka
- seaside stranger
- love stories
- susumu x minoru
- perfect propose
- therapy game
- aiou futari
- fake fact lips
- toshishita joushi wa homeraretai
- a lover's contract
- ore to renai shite mimasen ka
there's way more out there but here's a handful of them!
Nagi-kun to Hayasaki-kun mentioned 👀 though I also CANNOT remember a single actual plot point from it and only the spicy scenes LMAO
exactly why i said it for that question LOL like... there really isn't much going on for it other than the smut
Hello! It's part 2 of the BL Challenge... 7.) Your fav BL mangaka? 8.) BL you finished that is just bizarre? 9.) BL that you think is masterpiece (until now)? 10.) BL that you love only (mostly) because of the sexy scenes? 11.) BL that is your guilty pleasure? 12.) Your fav non-canon BL ships from anime/manga?
Thanks if you want to answer these 🍀⭐
- chiaki kashima
- still ongoing but scammed and rammed... bro this gave me so much secondhand embarrassment
- not sure what you mean with the "until now" bit but polaris at dawn will always be a masterpiece for me
- nagi-kun to hayasaki-kun
- hmm. warbler, sing of spring
- tomowata.
Reading some of your tweets like, how you can't enjoy het romance, that's so REAL! I feel the same. As someone who grew up with my family in country where the right way to live is anti-LGBTQ+ , I loved het romance since young, until I fed up with it and found BL & GL media. Now, I can't enjoy m/f romance focused stories at all!
Do you think because of the way I grew up, sometimes there is still a bit guilty feeling in me while enjoying BL and GL (even when I still love BL & GL media and found freedom in them)?
ahaha glad to know i'm not the only one! it's just so over-saturated for me. and don't feel guilty at all!! fuck them!!
Have you know someone who find it harder to enjoy BL manhwa compared to BL manga (like me)? I know most people said manga format is more difficult than manhwa format but somehow, I enjoy BL manga way more than BL manhwa. And I've been considered "weird" because of it?
nah bro i'm also the same LOL. but it's less about the format and more about the storytelling. i'm kinda sick of the storylines you see in manhwa a lot... it's like, the mid is so much longer than manga and the mid is often POPULAR. also the proportions are uhm...
Hi again! This is a BL Challenge for you (if you want to accept them) : 1.) Is there a BL that you finished even when : a. You love the story but not really fond of the art? b. You love the art but not really fond with the story? 2.) Is there a BL that you really want to see the anime or live action adaptation? 3.) Is there a BL that you dislike at the beginning but when you finish them, it became one of your favorite? 4.) What is you favorite BL from the 1990s and 2000s? 5.) Is there a BL that made you cry? 6.) Your favorite BL cover?
Thanks if you want to answer, feel free if you want to ignore this random questions....
- a: cherry magic. i just got used to the art. b: i'm not your hero or anything
- polaris at dawn. yes this is copium
- can't say i really have one but checkmate started out ROUGH
- i haven't read any from the 1990s that i liked but for the 2000s, candy color paradox
- young good boyfriend made me cry TWICE
- oh boy i'll just name one: kikazaru hina wa mada koi wo shiranai
and don't worry about sending these! it's all ok and i like them!
Fav teacher/student series(besides Hitorijime)?
DUDEEEEE ASKING ME THIS IS LIKE PUTTING ME ON THE SPOTLIGHT but uhm. ok
2/3 of these will make you cry!! warning!!
If Trump gets elected, will you convert into dom/sub enjoyer?
what the fuck
Have u read 3 Ban Sen no Campanella it's got such a unique art style and it's very good
i have! it is really good!
if i, as someone still living with my (assumingly but likely) homophobic parents, were to buy a physical BL book…. what would u recommend is safe
you can use a proxy! i personally use neokyo, but a friend used japan rabbit for discreet shipping to their conservative country! at that point your only worry would be if your parents would open your package or not HGKDFJSGDSG which has happened to me aha... good luck!!!
I feel like this is a very vague concept but do you have any BL manga recommendations for stories that youd consider mature/grounded
i actually love stories that are like that! now my defintion for this would be about how the characters' and their relationship develops as well as the overall plot... how "real" it feels
- you should be the one to come kiss me
- my instructor won't yield
- love stories
- can't help myself around you
- is this the kind of love i want?
- ore to joushi no kakushigoto
- about how i'm limp down there
- unironically good, at least for me. also one of the rare bls where the character admits to not being straight rather than "i'm gay only for you"
- ore to renai shite mimasen ka
- a lover's contract
- doujou shita no ga un no tsuki
- like two peas in a pod
- try & i love you
- saishuu densha
- daisy jealousy
- aiou futari
- restart after coming back home
- our dining table
- conflicting flight signs
- renta PLEASEEEEEE get your contract with julian publishing back PLEASE
- kimi no sumire: your spring flower
- can i buy your love from a vending machine?
- polaris at dawn
- absolutely insane of me to put this here but the way their relationship developed is very mature and real imo. tip: this is a technically a coming of age story
- send them a farewell gift for the lost time
- contradict
- i actually LOVE the conflict in the second arc. it's so fucking good...
- the farthest love in the world
- the summer of you
- tbh? just put all of furuya's work here
- old-fashioned cupcake
- seaside stranger
- bokutachi wa mada aoku
- perfect propose
- young good boyfriend
- toshishita joushi wa homeraretai
- love from the core
i may have more but... yeah! stuff like this
opened up mandadex for bl for the first time in months and as a japanese speaker. OOF I see what you mean abt bad scanlations and it feels like slow poisoning
yeah... a lot of groups are so...so bad. mgo has even worse shit btw
MAY I ADD CANTATA ON THE RULED LINE for the person who asked for bl about writing i guess its not necessarily centered on the act of writing itself and is more about how stories connect us but ough. also im pretty sure youre the one who rec'd it to me dkjbkmn
GAHHHH I FORGOT but yes!!! 100%!!!!
can you give some bl recs centered around writing/publishing? like the characters are mangaka, editors and novelists, that kind of stuff. thank you
alrighty let's see...
- can't help myself around you (the first bl i got hyperfixated on)
- himeno-kun wa tokimekitai
- my personal weatherman
- suzumu x minoru
- happy end no kyuuseishu
- the editorial department dreams at midnight
- hoshi wo tsukamaeru
- seaside stranger (when will they return from the horse race...?)
- the dragon's betrothed
- sasori to otome: scorpio & virgo (god, the dialogue here goes so hard)
- zense de koroshita aite no tantou henshuu ni narimashita
- kimi ni furu kotonoha wa
I started to read Polaris (volume 1) ^^ and I will say that even though I don't mind reading Student x Teacher stories (actually I have read similar storylines where the student is super insistent too) I'm very picky with this plot device, and I have read the first volume and it hasn't convinced me yet :c for example I didn't appreciate that Haga keeps jumping on Ayato without much consequence. Even though I felt like that I don't want to give up on Polaris, I was wondering where I can read or learn more about the series to see if I can buy this manga without the fear of not liking it (or you can rant about it too I don't mind spoilers)
oh yeah, vol 1 really is just a BIG facade for everything. like, it's really so much more than what the surfaces has. imo kosei acting like That is really what makes his development so much better than if he wasn't. he's really a good guy!! one of my fav characters now really. i wanna squeeze him sooo much. anyways ahem without spoilers, polaris is a story about grief and how it can affect you and the others around you! which is totally not something you'd expect from the first volume haha. i'll be posting my version of ch. 6 hopefully before the officials but then i'll have the drop it there bc of that so 😔 but!! i can always rant a lot more. it's just really so so so so so much more than what it seems like on the surface so please pull through...!! if you read other kashima works you'll probably know what i'm taking about haha