(My entire essay regarding why I believe we’re only getting these unoriginal, problematic, smut-focused BLs just got deleted so I’m just gonna type a short summary )
I think the main problem with the BL industry atm is that right now plots are focused on the romance or sexual chemistry between two men instead of an actual storyline. Some of the most beloved BLs from the past such as No. 6, Banana Fish, and (arguably) Yuri on Ice had such success because although they were BLs, that wasn’t the overarching narrative. These mangas instead focused on actual trials and tribulations for their characters to go through and happened to include gay main characters, providing a story that was interesting without it having to be problematic to draw an audience. All of the current mainstream BLs lack a plot outside of how interested these men are with each other (or with whats in their pants) so all they have to work with is the chemistry between these men resulting in repetitive works of fiction that depict the same occurrences, just between different men. While I don’t want to criticize the authors or the artists because they’re just making a living, I do believe that it’s a problem they choose to depict stranger and more problematic relations between men instead of going back to their roots of writing actual stories that include gay men.
What I’m really just trying to say is we need BLs to stray from stories ABOUT boys in love to stories WITH boys in love. Or at least another season of Yuri on Ice.
I’m i the only one that thinks Yaoi genre is going downhill ever since the rise of manhwa. Nowadays, the only mangas that get updated on this websites are manhwa and they all have the same sh+ *tty storyline which revolves around rape and Stockholm syndrome. Can people bring back Japanese mangas, WE ARE TIREDDDD of different authors doing the exact same storyline