….can we please pay at least a little bit of attention to actual demographics when tagging series? this is a harta series meaning it’s a seinen manga. Lumping any and all gay content into bl & ignoring their actual classifications in Japan is how we get lazy and disrespectful shit like putting a shojosei with a trans woman lead in the bl categories on this site
seinen manga can be BL also it's tagged in MAL and Baka update as BL can you chill? why do people hate BL so much that they get triggered that a gay romance tagged BL
also, it's sub-tagged as BL on the official website that serialized the manga
Proper tagging of series’ genres & categories is just a nice thing to have, especially because it helps set realistic expectations. This is especially great to have in an environment where people go overboard when things don’t go how they expect them to. This has nothing to do with being “triggered by” or “hating” BL.
For example, because The Summer Hikaru Died was marked as BL on here & other aggregator sites, a good number of people got extra pissy at being “deceived” and “baited” when the author stated “Hikaru” wasn’t capable of/doesnt understand romantic love (which he wouldn’t, being an eldritch-esque horror that took over a dead boy’s body) none of that nor the seinen rating negate the queerness of the series, but because it was tagged as BL people got expectations that were clearly misled. The Summer Hikaru Died is a hella queer series but it’s not a romance. They were never going to end up together because Hikaru is dead and whatever took his place as “Hikaru” can’t stay.
And here. So far all we have is that Atami is gay. There’s been no indication thus far (and really, at all) that this is a romance, and yet, because of the bl tags and Atami being gay…there’s already a biased expectation that it is one?
if the official website that serialized the manga in English Subgenre it as BL then it's BL and they had LGBTQ tag which means they didn't need to tag it as BL. The Summer Hikaru Died problem was that my anime list made a mistake, I really think people misremembered it, the official website never had the BL tag it was MyAnimeList that had that but ended up removing it. and I don't think this manga will get a lot of hate if the character doesn't end with anyone for example, Zettai BL ni Naru Sekai VS Zettai BL ni Naritakunai Otoko is really popular and it's not BL and it's tagged as shounen-ai but people still love it, also She likes Homos, Not me is another example the main character didn't end with anyone but no one was pissed at that. also, the difference between this manga and The Summer Hikaru Died this character clearly gay on the other hand The Summer Hikaru Died you have to pick up hints that homophobes can dismiss, also yeah I agree making the MC end up with Hikaru is weird but I can see why people were disappointed; so I really don't think this manga will get hate also, having shounen ai tag is good it will make people reading the manga rather it collecting dust.
? A cursory glance at KADOKAWA’s comic walker (linked from the harta.jp website) only brings up Seinen, Seishun (aka spring of youth) & School. Renta brings in human drama, and CMOA is pretty liberal adding in Love Story (interestingly no romance tho). I can’t speak for the English sites (yen press?) that I assume you’re looking at but i will say localizers occasionally add genres to works if they think it’ll help the comics sell or make it more palatable to their audiences.
https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC_000600_S?episodeType=comics
https://renta.papy.co.jp/renta/sc/frm/item/317938/
https://www.cmoa.jp/title/259808
an official website that translates manga and then prints it won't tag stuff that is not there, it's like saying l*zhin English can put something, not BL then tag it BL also it has a romance tag also did you read the manga?
This site uses made up categories like “shounen ai” and you expect them to tag like the Japanese industry? This is just a scraper website, they don’t know any of that
I know next to nothing about Kaiser except he’s an asshole and [redacted] but by god does “your very existence has ruined my fucking life” in this context hit it does things to me it’s soooo fucking good
…I could tell it was gay-lesbian hostility (solidarity) but wow that whole situation has to hurt
Please I’ve seen it too many times already can cn>en translators learn what what white wine in English means before 1:1 translating 白酒 into “white wine” when Actual white wine would be 白葡萄酒 THESE ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ALCOHOL WITH VERY, VERY DIFFERENT PROOFS we’re talking 11-14% (白葡萄酒/what is commonly referred to as white wine) vs a whopping 35-65% (白酒)
You can literally leave 白酒 in pinyin it’s ok to do that it’s /better/ to do that actually
look all I’m getting from this is that she’s boob height
ohhh this is gonna hurt (it already hurts) I’ve been mega interested in this since I first saw it on twitter and I’m no at all disappointed this is incredible so far. Takana’s emotions and her desire especially are so raw…Ema seems to also have not completely able to come to terms with the past, and I’m hoping (though it’s damn slim, poor dude) that her marriage is a lavender one, but that probably won’t be it. he seems like an actually good decent guy so fingers crossed, especially that it won’t be messy for everyone’s sakes
yo he wasn’t supposed figure out black = vx until much later but oh well I guess
Snap is there a novel? If you’ve read it is it worth the read
definitely worth it imo but it’s not translated
I thought broker b and vx are the same or sthg,, no? Sorry, the first chapter got me madsoiskippedmtothe latest lol I suspect it’s a frustrating read
ACK noooo Σ(っ°Д °;)っ
Whaat please spoil
my suggestion is that you actually read it because you missed out on…everything over something that kind of obviously wasn’t right
the way things happened in the novel was that he set up in a cafe, not some warehouse with a closed network. not that something like that could’ve stopped vx anyways but lol. anyways he goes on thinking that black is a separate entity for a while actually, there’s a whole scene where black says goodbye to him so they can go to the side of someone who’s been waiting for them (aka, him) and then after they get together & he sees vx in action he realizes it (and has a little internal breakdown bc he knows he’s the one who pushed vx into doing this while also at the same time feeling his respect & admiration grow bc this means vx really is just that capable)
Gotcha then I’ll read kinda backwards so I get the whole story so far
Wait so how did the interaction with B wrap up in the novel
you know how Jin Kang has a feeling somethings off? That it was too easy? Hold onto that, he was right lol. That’s all I’ll give for now
I’m incredibly conflicted about the fact that my first reaction to seeing the summary was to check the gender of the kid & the relief that came seeing ars is a boy….ive been burned too many times
I thought I was the only one
main couple vibes aside idk if it was the author, translator, or both, but SOMEONE was going off in those monologue boxes which is extra funny bc why are we getting these wistful, melancholically poetic lamentations during a chapter that was literally 95% just oral sex lmaooooooo
100% agreed
whoever the adaptation writer is (too lazy to recheck) they are making…choices…everything not only made much more sense in the novel it was also just more exciting
does the novel have eng trans?
ikr!! the gunfight, the car chasing, the suspense ahhhh