The protagonist is canonically aroace. A really cute slice of life story about an aroace fujoshi and a gay man in unrequited love with his friend who meet and marry due to social pressure & a sense of kinship, showing their developing relationship as platonic life partners.
This series is finished, the translated last volume can be bought online. Very worth it if u want to support the author!
The protagonist is aromantic asexual (although she canonically only refers to herself as asexual, to my understanding in Japanese culture "asexual" is used to refer to aroace folks), and a side character is as well.
The not-ML of this not-BL is canonically asexual, and the story delves pretty strongly into issues & strong social pressures asexual ppl face in Japan. It's also a dramatic and heartwarming story about a guy who gets hired at a troubled cafe run by a man who hides his face.
The protag of this cute one-shot is canonically aro/ace-spec due to past trauma, and the friend she makes is canonically fully aroace. A basic but short and sweet story introducing the concept of aro & ace identities & ppl's struggles.
The main character is canonically aroace. She's a mangaka trying to learn more about love so she can write a good love story, and along the way she gains 2 male suitors, who she partly gets to know to better understand their feelings for her.
A side character is introduced as canonically aromantic in chapter 4, and her personal story is explored in chapter 5. Chapter 8 also highlights a canonically lithromantic character.
One of the side characters is canonically asexual. A really touching slice of life drama about an odd cafe, its workers and frequent guests, most of whom are different kinds of queer. Protag is a gay highschooler with an unrequited love who starts visiting the cafe and finding community and hope for his future.
One of the most major characters in the story besides the protagonist is revealed to be canonically aromantic. It's a psychological slice of life story about an older widow finding a new sense of enjoyment and purpose in life as she learns more about film directing.
The main character is arospec, and one of the side characters is aroace. Honestly, the main love interest may also count as arospec.
I'm only half way in but the main character is incredibly aroace-coded. Despite being the protag in an action seinen he doesn't ever express attraction to anyone, regardless of gender. He's only ever interested in fighting and treating to fight.
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The two protagonist definitely fall under the aroace umbrella, they have a platonic relationship and live with eo
THANK YOU YOU ARE DOING GOD'S WORK aromantic win!!!! do you think sousuke from skip and loafer would fit in this list? he is very arospec, and only starts to fall for the mc AFTER they break up
I'm just glad my rec list is helpful!! And I haven't read Skip and Loafer yet, but after doing a little research on it & Sousuke specifically I certainly want to read it and don't mind adding it to this list even while I'm working my way through. It sounds like he's pretty solidly an arospec character! (๑•ㅂ•)و✧