Unique & Unconventional

A boy named Mio falls in love with his Japanese History teacher, Fumichika. He confesses and they enter a purely physical relationship. But is that all they'll ever have?

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Yamamoto Kotetsuko's art is eerily charming; beautiful in its uncanny stillness. If you read her other works you'll find that nothing else she's made is quite like Ashita No Kimi Wa Koko Ni Inai. It seems like instead of co-authoring, Sakiya Haruhi might've written this soulful story by herself.

Unbeknownst to himself, Ebihara drops his wallet on campus, and when Tashiro-kun tries to return it, his resting ghoul-face scares Ebihara!

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Tashiro-kun is a hilarious story, and Yamada is an artist who actually loves her craft. This one bends genres and blows everything else I've ever read out of the water.

Kakei, brooding and hot, but cold to those around him, suddenly confesses to his popular co-worker Asano. Of course Asano's shocked... but does he have an answer?

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Just a great story. The dialogue feels real and the writing is so fresh compared to other stories from this bygone era of manga. Super nostalgic.

Hiro's first impression of Korean actor Jiheo Park is by no means kind or tender, but later that night, when Jiheo gets lost on his first day in Japan, the police call the number on the only business card in his wallet, and first impressions quickly change.

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A little different from the other manga on this list. I adore Yuiko; she's incredibly talented, and her art really reminds you that in this business, the mangaka is selling themselves and not their story.

Kunimi, almost thirty, takes his own life. When he wakes, he's not quite in the afterlife; instead, he's reliving his senior year of high school. But, something's not right... how could he have forgotten someone so important? Someone who cared about him this much?

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Yes, I cried. There's going to be more Tsukizuki Yoshi on this list. She takes the most banal BL conventions and totally spins them on their head.

The moment Akira, a black-cat-esque delinquent and a crack baby for love, sees Reiji, he knows what he wants.

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An S&M maelstrom! Another beautiful story by Tsukizuki Yoshi.

"To be loved by someone like me... poor Sagara."

Sagara finds himself managing his uni's travel circle when it was originally the duty of his incredibly lazy senpai, Yukio. The disdain Sagara feels for his senpai is no secret, but his feelings take a turn when he sees the kind of hurt Yukio's been hiding.

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Tsukizuki Yoshi. No words needed. The only letdown is that this manga's incomplete.

Hitoshi, timid and small, leads a pretty bland college life, that is until a man named "Mah" pops out of a trunk and holds him hostage.

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The first few chapters are pretty misleading... but I'll keep the rest a secret. Asada's art is kind of what you would get if you applied all the idioms about brevity, to drawing. Her philosophy is very queer, everything she writes is about ideals and identity, and what love's got to do with it. Wink.

I won't write a summary for this one.

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Also by Asada Nemui. Refer to the previous review.

Main: A priest saves a man. Or was it the other way around?

Side: A man takes home a talking plant.

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The first story is a... subjective... masterpiece.

The second story is unbelievably beautiful. It's a yin and yang, Abel and Cain situation. This is why she's a genius.