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Any BL with good "gay awakening" tension?

Nightwave August 17, 2026 9:35 am

I recently finished the manhwa "Check you out". I thought the first season was perfect: two guys who disliked each other for similar reasons were drawn to one another because of their similar personalities, and you could clearly see the progression in their feelings and sexual desire, the art style was good, they managed to make a slow burn in just 25 chapters (super impressive), MC accepted he was bisexual (not the whole "I turned gay" bullshit), a friend of theirs was supportive and open, bottom (MC) was vocal in bed, they were both super hot...

And then S2 was a dumpster fire.

ML became super possessive, MC became a pushover, they lost their communication skills, they were jealous for petty reasons, had fights, the sex was sometimes borderline forced, their character development stopped and we barely got to know about them anymore, their friends almost never showed up anymore, and many VERY important plot points were never addressed again. Literally the only good thing of that season was when they were having normal, healthy sex and you could see their sexual progression, like, they started doing more things and they were turned on more than in S1, the chapter where MC thought about how ML's dick was "driving him crazy", so he almost ripped his pants off, sucked him off and rode him was super hot.

But yeah, the author completely ripped their own story to shreds, and I yearn for these simple storylines in university or workplace where two men, who had no idea they could be sexually attracted to other men, very slowly start feeling romantic and sexual tension, and even after the first kiss they wait for sex.

Sorry for the rambling, but does anyone know of anything similar?

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