It’s become a lot more popular and I especially love how people can just joke about it now. Like I saw this tik tok of this guy trolling his coworker that doesn’t read bl and that he forgot to take his heat suppresents and how he was attracting the “alphas” lmao it was so funny. I think it’s become really mainstream in a good way since there’s more lgbtq representation
I personally think that theres so much smut and grape in the new bl stories. Unlike a few years back, it has good plot with smut as a bonus. Im not saying there arent any good manhwas/manga, it was just different back then. I recs these stories tho!
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/follow_the_sheep_in_the_abyss/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/turning/
Yea it’s become a bigger problem but I always feel like was heavily present even before it blew up but now it's become even more prevalent
i wouldn’t say that it’s better now, but there have been great ones that i’d say prevents me from saying that the past era was its peak. manhwas like one room ta, a first of summers, our sunny days, punch drunk love, honey bear, melting point are SOOOO good and i’ve definitely enjoyed them much better than my past faves in that era (from the titles you’ve mentioned)
here are some other recs
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/reunion/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/fever_1/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/a_well_known_love_affair/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/the_golden_goose_dressed_as_alpha_boss/
It has been very hard out here. I have been reading and watching stuff since I was like 11. I started back again during the pandemic after I wasted all my money on sims expansion packs and there were a lot of good stories out. Now there’s surprise gang rapes that you never see coming like “ Are we just seeing each other for your looks? (Yaoi)” which absolutely ruined me this year. I have been reading isekai princess stories ever since just trying to get my mind right. I have a ton of lists because I’m here most of the hours of the day because this is my only hobby and I have a desk job and I’m not allowed to watch my own TV because it’s got baby shark on it all the time. My list called Classics is very good. I recommend “ Why Are You So Kind To Everyone Except Me? (Yaoi)”
Girllll, back then incest, rape, pedophilia, and everything was accepted and normalized lol even cheating. You'd be reading a yaoi manga, and bam. Suddenly ml just goes and fks someone else. And the mc? Phew, just some little idiot doormats, and they would forgive the ml right away within a few panels. Even the popular bl animes back then we're pedophilia LOLL
right? i felt like i got traumatized left and right back then that the problematic ones now doesn’t even make me flinch
YUPPPPP!! And let's not forget Harada sensei.. Tbh, it's a lot more tame nowadays.
I agree a lot wanna be friends
Kinda agree there wanna be bl friends
Yeah mate it was terrible
I was such a huge fan of BL/Yaoi during the pademic and a few years after it. And I genuinely loved stories like Sign, 10 years I loved you the most, Love or Hate, Dangerous Convenience Store, On or Off, POTN, and a lot more around that era.
And I haven't touched it since.
I also just stopped reading Manga/Manhwa in general and recently got back to it a few months ago.
It does feel a little bit overwhelming especially because there are tons and tons of new titles.
And I am even learning about new verses now?
I only knew about Omegaverse back then
To all BL/Yaoi readers,
Do you feel like BL/Yaoi are a lot better now?
And would love to get recs on your favorite titles that are on the newer side. Thank you!