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Bosu to Yasu
Seinen, action, shounen ai, comedy
BL subtext
Mangaplanet/futekyia: physical English
Seinen, Shounen Ai; Cross-dressing Male Lead
If someone here is starting to rant that "oh, it's not BL bc it's a much deeper story about queerness and gender identities with a cross-dresser..." There are a gazillion BL about cross-dressers like this + many reflect on queerness and gender identities.
ex-gangsters in love comedy with unusual art and unusual male body types
this creator really loves older ukes: see also Codfish Circumstances
Ai no kusabi + Battle Angel Alita type of sci-fi BL
pretty smooth action sequences + good chara designs
Hensei / 変声 / In the Twilight of Our Adolescence
Seinen, Shounen Ai, Slice of Life
Tokyopop (November 2025)
Kateikyoshi no Kishi Knight Desu. / 家庭教師の岸騎士です。/ I'm Kishi Knight, your tutor.
there's gonna be a live action adaptation in 2026: https://mydramalist.com/802804-kateikyoshi-no-kishi-knight-desu
"it's like a very queer coded shonen anime"
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/follow-the-sheep-into-the-abyss/
the novel is pretty good
Action, Adult, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
the art is very good and there are monsters
no rape
Commenters mention the homoerotic relationship between the MCs: 'the type of manga that's "bl if you squint" for the yearners.'
But this story it's not BL, it's seinen + slice of life and I have a feeling it's really subjective whether the reader interprets their relationship as homoerotic or not.