The type that haven't been updated in 4+ months and aren't on hiatus. My two examples are https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/boku_to_koi_no_hanashi_wa_shinaika/ and https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/do_you_wanna_touch_my_tail/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ghost_stories_game/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/bones/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/friendly_competition/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/so_that_s_how_the_saintess_became_the_devil_of_revenge/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/high_end_player_of_mystery/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/humanistic_sensibility/
I remember that it was full color, no more than 50 chapters, pretty sure it shounen ai, and generally a non stressful one. I remember specifically that there was some rich high school rival who came in around the last 10 chapters who kidnapped the bottom only for it to turn out that he was incompetent and the bottom just sort of walked out on his own because the light security. And then everyone around was saying how pathetic and petty he was. I remember it was surprisingly refreshing because it felt that it was going down the route of an overdramatic finale just for it to fizzle out.
Why does this remind me of saiki k lol but yeah that does sound super familiar.
Ei can you tell me when you find this please
Im sleeping in your walls.
I’m in your skin.
I am you
I found it no thanks to you wieners https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/i_want_to_be_your_first_love/
You’re welcome, NutMan!
Congrats on finding it
I followed the question just to remember it too lol
Whenever I see two extremely hot characters I get concerned that the author is going to write extremely unlikable characters and use their hotness to distract from how awful they are. I'm not even gonna list some where this is the case because there are just too many.
I feel you.. even worst when the community backs it up because they fell in love
LOL even in the pixel world, pretty privilege still exists…
A wanna say it was part of an anthology of 2-3 stories, about two chapters long. Think I found it on one of those "Adorable BL" user made lists. I read it around September of last year.
The MC was the top and he was a former nerd who got bullied in high school. I remember specifically he was in a gardening club and got his plants destroyed by bullies. In college he meets one of the bullies who fell in love with the now hot MC at first sight. The bottom is a airhead who had a weird fashion sense, had a weird vocabulary and had big blonde spiky hair. The MC wants revenge and is a douchebag. Eventually it is revealed that the bottom was in love with the MC in high school but was unaware that he was the same person he was now dating. This causes the MC to snap and reveal his plan to the bottom. I specifically remember the bottom saying something like "I'm kinda of dumb so *insert rest of sentence here*". I forget how but they wind up together.
I want to read it again because the bottom was cute in a dorky way and I love dorks. The plot genuinely wasn't the best but I just want to see that dork again.
imma comment here bc i wanna know too and read it
I think it might be this? Renai-rubi no Tadashii Furikata
First page and I knew. Thank you so much that was fast
ty i will proceed to read it now too
Name more than two bl/yaoi where rape is depicted well. I can name one, I can barely name two, but I can't name a third.
Zankoku Na Kami Ga Shihai Sure (the best depiction of rape I've seen in media in general)
Boy meets Maria
(Honorable mention goes to J no Subete, it's listed as yaoi but the character identifies as a woman, so not really)
There was this one I read about a dude with a sheep mask that kidnapped his old terrorizer from his military days and left longstanding trauma on the kidnappee, and killing stalking ig but thats less BL and more boys-experiencingfuckedupshit
Not sure if I sent this link yet already cause mangago is kind of wack but
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/sheep_s_mask/
I read that one and I really dislike it because its essentially rape porn interspersed with a backstory. It feels gross to read without having any real appeal except revenge. And for killing stalking, I feel like the rape is sort of just another way of showing the guys being tortured by a psychopath
It's not that the rape itself is well depicted in terms of the emotional and psychological effects it has on the uke, but it does explore the toll it has on the seme later in the series. It was a refreshing point to see rape being addressed "properly" even if much later. In this case the seme is struck with huge feelings of guilt and self loathing for what he did to the uke, and spirals out mentally due to it. It's in hidoku shinaide (rape in volume 1, chapter 1 and the reflection in volume 6). The character development game there is great and one of the reasons why it's one of my favorite mangas and couples of all time.
I read it because of what you said and yeah the character development is well done, but he feels bad for the last few pages of one chapter and then half of another. He literally showed no remorse until a side character almost got raped as a plot device. Him refusing to have sex one time and acting moody isn't really the act of a penitent. And right afterwards they had sex and moved right on to the dad storyline. That's pretty much the author going "well we're going to have to address this at some point" and then moving on as soon as possible. I honestly feel like the story didn't need rape in it, if they wanted a redemption arc they could've just had the top be an asshole not a rapist bastard. He also just shifts from rapist bastard to a persistent sex fiend to emotionally abusive and cold to a doting possessive top. He goes from incredibly unlikable to a stand up guy within like 3 chapters. Honestly the handling of the rape really drags this from like an 8 to a 5 for me.
I just think that for a semi old school manga to even address it at all is great. Its actually not the only scene where they address it it's just the main one. An although I do agree the the seme was more than an asswipe at the first volume the more you read in the more grounded he gets. But at the end of the day this is just my two cents. If you agree with me of not is beyond my control ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Yah smut in BL has become something else entirely over the years it’s why I try to stick to fluffier bl
Understandable ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
Yeah most of the time I skip the yaoi tag and go with the shonen ai. Like, a lot of them have actually interesting plots and characters, but if you want to get to that, it's interrupted every other chapter with a sex scene.
What has signaled to you that a bl or yaoi just won't be enjoyable to read?
when the plot is dumb asf
When there is rape involved
Especially that "he raped me but looked so hurt doing it uwu" shit
Too much sex scenes (lol) + when red flag shit starts to happen (which I can actually handle at times)
RIGHT!! Or where the author will show that he had a bad/sad past to show he’s got his reasons for being a shitty guy— as if that ever makes it better!!! (╬￣皿￣)凸
*cough* jinx *cough*
When the two MCs don't have any communication involved in ther relationship, and a lot of misunderstandings happen because if it. That, and blackmail for sex because that's basically rape
when there's sex in the first chapter or just too much sex overall, idk it just tells me everything I need to know about it
SA and doormat ukes
SA, blackmail, anything immoral, any age gap that's making me uncomfy, any dumb ass MC (like the innocent kinda type that knows nothing), any second hand embarrassment, any dumb ass plot (like when there's a misunderstanding they could've easily avoided).. the list is long
I don’t like this manhwa but could you tell me where SA was involved? The seme is a jerk but he has gained consent from the uke from the first time? And everything they have done afterwards was agreed by uke in the contract
Would you be able to refuse if you just saw his previous lover get his face fucking smashed? He didn't say no but its coercive as hell
I did admit he was a jerk but where was the SA that you mentioned? Seems like he was only engaging in consensual sex. And when Dan and him were about to engage the first time, when Dan refused he instantly dropped the idea and was calling someone else. Dan was the one who stopped him and agreed for money. He never coerced him
Any recommendations for bls with average looking mcs with hot mls? Kinda like the side couple in The Man Who Can't Taste. Preferably completed, manga or manhwas are fine.
The magic soup
I don't know if you already read this but i recc
Never understand
Mr 100% perfect
Payback
Boku No Mama Chan (43) Kaihatsu Nikki (Yaoi) funny af