From Viz:Masterless samurai Akitsu Masanosuke is a skilled and loyal swordsman, but his naïve, ...
- Author: ONO Natsume
- Genres: Action / Historical / Seinen / Slice of Life
found family trope + gang of kidnappers + chara development
damn im just reading this for smut and whatever toxic power dynamics and ngl it's entertaining seeing yall lose your minds. i mean, if the uke cheats, while disappointing, it's not all that surprising and kinda in-character. it's already established early on that it's incredibly toxic, and thru out the story there's this developing theme of mind vs body, or love vs lust, and the sexual exploitation of a younger person and its effects. I'm more uncomfortable with the latter, and the excess of graphic violent sex that comprised 50% of the story thus far... but well, it's not like I came here expecting a wholesome relationship. however, that's not to say it's well-written... just, not unexpected and out-of-tune if he lets himself get fucked by the glasses dude
turns out my favorite genre is heartwrenching/gutwrenching/ angsty stories with subtle bl vibes, like banana fish and a cruel god's reign. any more stories like that?
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the...
- Author: yoshida akimi
- Genres: Action / Drama / Mystery / Tragedy / shounen ai
dont read if you cant handle emotional devastation. ngl the ending made sense in terms of themes, about how life can be so fleeting and death so pointless, but still.
he did not choose to die. the meaning was lost in translation, but the wound was fatal. he would've eventually succumbed to it, and went to the library to read the rest of eiji's letter. despite all the near-death experiences, his cause of death is so insignificant, but eiji's words, that his soul will always be with him, grant him salvation and a last dose of happiness, and that's why he was smiling in the end. it's an incredibly bittersweet ending
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the...
- Author: yoshida akimi
- Genres: Action / Drama / Mystery / Tragedy / shounen ai
not explicitly shounen ai, but definitely had romantic undertones with ash and eiji's relationship. the storyline's engaging and thrilling, the characters's complex, the action's fast-paced, and the politics' smart. the core plot is mostly about stopping the antagonists, but the subplot about the other charas is well-written as well.
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the...
- Author: yoshida akimi
- Genres: Action / Drama / Mystery / Tragedy / shounen ai
4.9/5
the mangaka really ripped my heart out in this one. i was utterly sobbing in the last chapter. besides the tragedy, the storyline's engaging and immersive, and the protagonist is truly one of the most admirable and resilient charas I've ever had the pleasure of reading about. a goddamn masterpiece.
this is really confusing. and it doesnt seem to be completed. and why the fuck is there a Bl, yaoi, and shounen ai tag? it's not even BL
inspired by my dream. any recs with this type of dynamic: boy A and girl A are a couple, but they are secretly in love with their respective best friends, boy B and girl B, who are also a couple both unaware of their best friend's pining.
In the eleventh year of the Meiji era carrying swords was forbidden by the government and those know...
- Author: KARAKARA Kemuri
- Genres: Action / Historical / Shoujo
entertaining short completed story with likable charming characters. theme: the strength of bonds, love, and hope.
Satomi, president of his school's choir club, gets embroiled in a bizarre situation when he...
- Author: wayama yama
- Genres: Comedy / Drama / School Life / Seinen / Slice Of Life
short entertaining manga about a middle schooler who helps a yakuza improve his karaoke. it's not pure comedy, and the middle schooler has a separate storyline besides the premise.
The manga based off the best-selling The Decagon House Murders novel by Yukito Ayatsuji! The members...
- Author: Ayatsuji yukito,Kiyohara hiro
- Genres: Japanese / Manga / Seinen / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Psychological / Tragedy Japanese Manga Drama Horror Mystery Psychological Tragedy
decent murder mystery with beautiful art
so i heard it's a harem? is it true? i thought only the purple-haired girl is the sole love interest
since straight women can read GL written by women, would it be possible for straight guys to read BL written by men?
Haejoon Goh, who ran from home, and Eunyung Baek, the problem child who lives in a tent. These two, ...
- Author: Wanan
- Genres: Comedy / Drama / Slice Of Life
4.6/5
the "comedy" tag is misleading. sure, the simple art style makes things light-hearted, but comedy is far from the central plot. the story depicts a lot of parent-child dynamics, emotional baggage, trauma, abuse, etc. It's realistic, the charas are toxic, and it gives me anxiety how much they fail (esp eunyung)
am i the only one who didn't cry? it's pretty sad, but not "Faraway Home" sad
Fresh out of the army, Suchae decides to take some time off and travel around the country by himself...
- Author: Kimon
- Genres: Drama / Romance / Yaoi / Webtoons / Tragedy
4.4/5
their relationship is wholesome, beautiful, and sweet but marked with foreboding doom and tragedy. there is one particular weird scene (ch 7), and an important storyline + buildup about ml's crimes and creepy friend that is forgotten but otherwise, it's a well-written read
so there's no closure about the murder/dismemberment/creepy friend mystery?
A group of 3 yakuza failed their boss for the last time. After messing up an important job, the boss...
- Author: jasmine gyuh
- Genres: Comedy / Ecchi / Gender Bender / Seinen