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Bromance ¦ Fanservice ¦ BL ships

Bromance: close relationship between guys, stereotypically romantic or actual brotherly love

Fanservice: content made to please female audiences, interactions akin to romance to entertain/shock. Declaration of affection, panel construction insinuating romance, physical touch. The romantic, softcore, queer, aimed at girls version of "panty shots" in the usual shounen/seinen.

BL Ships: Male × Male chemistry

#11-37 UNREVIEWED (but strong)
#38-44 dismissed by canon
#45-46 weak ¦ under observation
All(112) / manga(112)

Dolls Code

 8.3(817 voted)
Complete
Author(s): Kinashi Runamu
Genre(s): Horror / Mystery / Psychological / Seinen / Supernatural

Boys, boys, boys.
It's not about who's right, it's about who's your favorite criminal

24 07,2024

Kamisama No Iutoori (fujimura Akeji)

 8.9(967 voted)
Complete
Author(s): kaneshiro muneyuki
Genre(s): Action / Horror / Shounen / Supernatural

It's the first part and we meet insane characters who will be going triple platinum gay in the second half of the sequel, but fanservicey enough (although beware, very fanservicey for ecchi too, like, VERY)

12 08,2024

Kamisama no Iutoori II

 9.4(772 voted)
Complete
Author(s): KANESHIRO Muneyuki
Genre(s): Action / Horror / Shounen / Supernatural

We get a kiss and SOOO much sacrifice for love lol, quite the amount of fanservic

12 08,2024

Shokuryou Jinrui

 9.3(446 voted)
Complete
Author(s): Kuraishi Yuu,Mizutani Kengo
Genre(s): Horror / Seinen

God. So much. Best friends who you can't abandon even if you/they lose their mind, kissing, cannibalism, living in each other skin, the devotion, it's delicious. Very shippy

12 08,2024

The time my friend wanted to try a skirt

 9.4(633 voted)
Ongoing
Author(s): Terai akane
Genre(s): Comedy / Slice Of Life

It's pretty much what it says on the tin. Fanservice, the comic

28 09,2024

Please Be My Daddy

 8.9(523 voted)
Ongoing
Author(s): Ogawa chise
Genre(s): Webtoons

Office worker befriends older office worker and they have this father-son relationship, it's super cute, fuzzy feelings and all. Not brotherly, but paternal should be close enough to qualify in mind bromance definition, right?

05 05,2024

Yuurei Apato Kanrinin

 8.9(207 voted)
Ongoing
Author(s): fujieda toru
Genre(s): Comedy / Romance / Shoujo / Supernatural

I GENUINELY do NOT remember this but they kiss I think???

16 11,2023

Maou to Yuusha no Tatakai no Ura de

 9.5(127 voted)
Ongoing
Author(s): suzuki yuuki,ashio ranteira
Genre(s): Shounen / Action / Martial Arts / Adventure / Fantasy

Our Mc gets isekai'd as a nobody and the hero decides to befrienemies him, it felt pretty bromancey and intentionally so.

16 08,2024

Sennen Meikyuu no Nana Ouji

 9.5(147 voted)
Ongoing
Author(s): HARUUNO Atori,AIKAWA Yu
Genre(s): Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery

Fanservice HEAVY, with solid romance. I been meaning to re-read this, but I used to love it back in 2015

16 11,2023

Apocalypse No Toride

 9.5(315 voted)
Complete
Author(s): Kuraishi Yuu,Inabe Kazu
Genre(s): Action / Horror / Psychological / Shounen / Supernatural / Tragedy

I gotta re-read but I was obsessed with the bond of the MCs when I was younger. Will update this once I re-read.

26 05,2024

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Messages

lian May 1, 2026 2:23 am

i love this list i just added a whole bunch of these to my own list

Mars February 19, 2026 1:46 pm

Aint they brothers tho

Myllie1 February 19, 2026 8:27 pm

Not sure to which pair you are referring to, but this list focuses on male affection that goes against normative expectations and/or pleases the fujo in me (you will see some of my review have me explicitly saying I personally don't view a certain bond as romantic, or that I believe them to be so despite it not being canon).

On this list description I explain the 3 basic content classifications I add here:
• Fanon BL ships - anything that seems to have a shippy potential;
• Fanservice - intentionally made to give the feeling of a BL ship;
• Bromance: which is listed on the description as "close relationship between guys, stereotypically romantic, or actual brotherly love"

On these three classifications, something might be labeled as bromance on this list if it promimently has:
1- any close relationship between men
2- any relationship between men that have beats which western/westernized amatonormative society consider exclusive to those who have/had/could have romantic bonds and
3- actual BROmance, brotherly love between men. A familial relationship that is affectionate, going against the societal expectation that men should not show affection, care or love for each other, even if they are family.

Now, there will be familial bromance here that also fit in the BL ship and the fanservice classification simultaneously (there's one with winged cousins, there's one with maybe-half-brothers, etc), so do read the reviews to see what it classifies as.

Reader Chan January 8, 2026 11:08 pm

Would you add Kito the night Bell into this after Author said they're not gay

Myllie1 January 18, 2026 10:20 pm

Added! Thanks for the rec!

Reader Chan January 28, 2026 12:27 am
Added! Thanks for the rec! Myllie1

No worries! I think it fit the bill especially the AUTHOR comes out says they're not gay,

Yeah bro is just CASUALLY locked in kissing, grabbing bros BARE ass and thinks about him in dying, but you see they're not gay the author says...

Why is this author acting like they know so much smh