https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/stigmata_seikon_sousa/
Also it has a sequel:
Stigmata-aikon
sometimes when i scroll down to the questions area i see people looking for recs/asking to help find something they forgot the title of, and I can almost always twist the literal story of that manga into fitting the answer perfectly, and its almost never what they actually were asking for. (this is one of the best manga ive ever read, but i think its so funny to answer with it because of how serious and soul crushing the story and symbolism and such is)
SPOILER - DUDE WHOS GONNA READ THIS DONT READ THIS
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youre so right, and the best part is : the whole of this manga is about the effects on the victim(s) and other abuse that forms around it, and dealing with it before, during, and afterwards (including about revenge/forgiveness/denial/nothing is enough) (this shit is UPSETTINGGG and REALISTIC (not realistic visually, but in dialogue, etc.)) like, the WHOLE THING is about trauma, not romance or action or even the revenge aspect of it, its just trauma. someone in the comments said "this gave me second-hand ptsd" AND THAT SHIT IS TRUE
Necromancer survival
Acid town
Kyou kara maoh - ok so it's bot totally a bl but the main and pretty much only love interest is a guy who is in love with the main character it's just not really clear if the mc likes him back (he acts kinda straight ngl) it's still good and has the most actual plot out of all of these (since it's not focuses on romance)
Can someone please recommend a bl with a plot other than romance? Like, in ‘the grandmaster of demonic cultivation” the main plot is them exploring and investigating this incident, and they just happen to fall in love during that process!
I want something similar! Ofc the main plot need not be them investigating.
Another example would be if in “Haikyuu!!”, kagehina were canon. It’d just be a side plot of how their relationship advanced, the main plot still being the sports aspect of the manga.