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Agreed! Dark heaven is also really nuanced and tackles some serious societal issues tastefully (racism, homophobia, hate crime, corruption etc), might be a little heavy on the sex though... Having read most of the mangas you have mentioned, Momentum is definitely the all encompassing story, but I think it’s fine if you just throw someone off the deep end since Killing Stalking was my first yaoi at the age of thirteen whew
How about a short fluffy story with some sexiness? Akai Ito No Shikkou Yuuyo
I have recently been trying to decide if I had someone who was cautiously willing to give BL a try just once, what series would I recommend them?
Well, Love or Hate is great, but unfinished. BJ Alex is good, but it is a very standard pretty trope-laden BL story (even if it uses its tropes very well). Killing Stalking is definitely an acquired taste, and only for people who are cool with that sort of genre. Window to Window is a great light-plot, heavy-porn series, probably not recommended for a first timer. Playtime with Hakdo, Walk on Water, so many other good ones. But my mind kept coming back to Momentum, and I just couldn't think of a reason not to pick this one as the best all-around excellent-quality option of all there is out there.
The art is great and more realistic looking (less cartoony). The plots are many and heavily interconnected. The characters are different, unique, very well fleshed out, and avoid lame archetypes. The cast is huge, very international, and the story handles all their interconnected lives well without feeling at all unwieldy. It's complete, so that's a bonus. I'm just not sure I cold recommend a better series tbh.
So, yeah. If you read nothing else in the genre, read this one. This author is just an amazing storyteller, which makes allllllll the difference. (Yes, there is a sad part toward the end, but it is more than worth suffering through that to read everything else in the story)
This series comes with the highest of recommendations. 5 stars. A+ marks. 100 cherry-red tomatoes. Read it!!!