The freeter, Yui, found a stranger in a tattered state along the road. His name is Toshiki, a man wi...
- Author: ymz
- Genres: Drama / Slice Of Life / Shounen Ai
A lighter read among the works listed here, it's pretty refreshing! Unusual people with an unusual relationship, it's one of those that kind of blur the lines between platonic and romantic. Experiences of the characters and how it explored human nature and its different attitudes was pretty nice—there's always something interesting found within the mundane everyday and this work tackles that idea well.
"Would you let me take control of your nutrition?" College student Sudo is unable to eat other peopl...
- Author: Yamada supocon
- Genres: Yaoi / Smut
A bit gross by the end so brace yourself for anything lol, but I like how this story can be summarized with the "reach a man's heart through his stomach" saying. There's something I find unique about controlling someone through their food consumption, it's pushing them to be reliant on you but in a somewhat subtle way, if that makes sense? A quick read, but it was alright.
"Sin's Paradise"A mistake between childhood friends that began on a wedding day.A BL ...
- Author: Bread
- Genres: Drama / Mature / Romance / Yaoi
Immoral from the get-go. I've been wanting to read this work just from seeing the cover of it online, and wow was it pretty good. It's frankly a simple story, though execution-wise I liked it a lot—adultery and the "true love" here is framed as some kind of addiction you give into by the very end, it changes you too. There could've been more depth added, though this is really fine for a debut work regardless. Really excited to see other works from Bread!
A quick read that centers around the cycle of abuse and longing—really capturing too, in spite of it being a oneshot work. It's a pretty simple and straightforward narrative about predatory relationships.
Maki who is gay and been told by his former bestfriend Katsumi, “disgusting”, coincident...
- Author: hitomi
- Genres: Yaoi / Drama / Psychological / Smut
Moreso on the 1st story (the 2nd one isn't really psychological), how it manages to fit such a moving story under so little chapters is beyond me. It tackles queer guilt and how it might surface in a pretty realistic way, both characters feel like actual people to me. The art is also incredibly beautiful. I think that for a heavy read like this, the 2nd story straight after is also a nice breather.
Shuji Yashiro went to take pictures on the school rooftop rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of twi...
- Author: kyuugou
- Genres: Drama / Psychological / School Life / Yaoi
Just extremely twisted—everything about this work from its mysterious atmosphere and bleak truth is captivating. There's discussion about emotional incest, one-sided enmeshment, and grief here as well that was visualized and written about in a really unfiltered manner. I think this would be a work that would haunt me at random, it's just that warped.
Amou Takahito is just a name to everybody. The name represents a mysterious illustrator that may be ...
- Author: ARAI Niboshiko
- Genres: Yaoi
The theme of faith was definitely present throughout, and I did enjoy the push-and-pull between the main characters when it came to their feelings though I did find it hard to articulate how I felt about everything. I still found it to be a pretty good read though, there are emotions involved that felt human especially when it came to the tomantic aspect, there's also its focus on what it means to properly love someone within the perspective of an artist that I really enjoyed here.
No matter how much I want to monopolize you, my wish will never be fulfilled… Famous illustra...
- Author: ARAI Niboshiko
- Genres: Yaoi
An interesting story about codependency. I really liked how it depicts this kind of superiority and saviour complex within one of the characters over the other—it's a mutually codependent bond where both feel good about taking things from each other in a pretty twisted way (to feel above, to be cared about). It's definitely warped, but for romantic love to have sprung out from this is such a direction. Arai Niboshiko does really well with this genre! No wonder she also does seinen.
Asako Minami has a "unique constitution." He senses the lingering thoughts of the deceased...
- Author: TAKAHASHI Hidebu
- Genres: Action / Drama / Mature / Mystery / Psychological / Supernatural / Yaoi
The sequel work to the original seinen manga, and an overall well done extension of it too! There's a very unconventional conflict that ties itself to the plot that's really interesting here. The characterizations in the original work were pretty strong, though how the author builds these characters even more and consequently their blooming romantic relationship here was terribly solid. The feelings of affection and complicated muddled feelings here really got to me.
Asato Minami has a "unique constitution." He senses the lingering thoughts of murder victi...
- Author: TAKAHASHI Hidebu
- Genres: Drama / Mystery / Psychological / Seinen / Supernatural / Yaoi
Rereading this work is always such a treat. It has such a unique plot and tackles death and lingering thoughts of those about to die in such an intriguing way—the visuals are also just so beautiful. The art in this is deeply grotesque but also erotic at certain points with one of the characters, I'm very captured by it alongside all the mysteries per chapter. Such a good read! Takahashi Hidebu's niche of crime BL has always been great, but this work had always stood out to me the most.
He was a teacher who knew his student was gay and still desired his body.After running away from eve...
- Author: nagai saburou
- Genres: Ecchi / Psychological / Yaoi / Drama / School Life
Read this after reading its main story and was blown away with the writing. There's consideration that's placed when exploring darker subject matter seriously—the author did insanely well in exploring a certain character here that confronts him of his exploitation while also handling topics such as victimhood and abuse in a very nuanced and moving way. It's heavy, unpalatable, and uncomfortable, but this is the kind of depiction that resonates with those who have experienced similar things.
Mishima, a student at a school in the countryside, is bullied by his classmates. The reason is becau...
- Author: Nagai Saburou
- Genres: School Life / Yaoi / Psychological / Drama
Read this just recently and oh my god I really should've read this sooner. There's a brutality the queer experience holds and that was shown a lot in this story—there's a lot of nuance and realism shown here that's tackled with taste, not everyone gets to be happy and unfortunately that's also apparent in real life. It's an incredibly well-written work about queer people and how lonely it feels being that, especially within a small rural area.
Thank you to the uploader for translating Hidari and Migi! I was a bit sad that those two weren't finished for the longest time after reading the original work ages ago TT
In his second year of high school, Goo Do-hoon, who suddenly transfers to a new school, is bullied f...
- Author: Jakpil
- Genres: Webtoons / Yaoi / Adult / Mature / Drama / Psychological
I usually take a break from reading this since I like stocking up the chapters (and with good reason), the story is just that good. It might be a little hard to read given the subject matter that takes place, but I think it helps emphasize its horror pretty well and never downplays the severity—so many aspects of this story center around tragedy and unfairness that I find really well done. Jakpil's way of visuals set the tone so nicely too.
— Content Warning: Contains depictions of incest —Following the death of his parents, Mo...
- Author: Tamekou
- Genres: Adult / Drama / Mature / Psychological / Romance / Yaoi
This work haunts me on the most random of days. I feel like it' would've been more solid disregarding one of the extras that reveals a pretty big twist, but anywho I'm still kind of floored how Tamekou pulls no punches when it comes to a pretty horrifiying depiction of enmeshment between siblings. Not something I would recommend exactly, but it's an interesting story that explores warped sibling dynamics.
Short but good nonetheless... Mokumokuren's visuals has always provided such good atmosphere and tone towards their darker narratives, most especially seen in their most popular work (which I'm also deeply fond of). If they make any more future stories, I'd love for it be another hopelessly tragic like this one, it's good.
Earnest and well put together, Sada is a teacher that's popular among both his colleagues and s...
- Author: asada nemui
- Genres: Yaoi / Horror
It's also not a proper list without Asada Nemui... This was my first exposure to her works and wow was I aghast, her manner of humanizing pretty terrible people and creating meaningful relationships even with how unconventional the dynamic the main characters have will always be amazing to me. Everytime I reread this work it hurts me in such a good way—for two people who are polar opposites, the author manages to make them work nicely together that I feel very attached up until now.
Ido Gihou is such an underrated gem of an author and anytime I come back to this work on a whim it's this one that gets me the most. I think it tackled the messiness of human relationships and the people within them interestingly with how unnatural the nature of their connection is at the start. Tender feelings born out of consented cruelty is such a concept... I do love you...
Cocobees:Shoukichi is a stylist who struggles with being unpopular due to him being unfriendly and o...
- Author: Harada
- Genres: Adult / Romance / Smut / Yaoi / Drama / Psychological
It's actually not a proper psychological list without Harada. I've reread this work a few times by now, mostly on a whim, and still it's never failed to capture me with its dread. It's never really been a proper love story from the start and that becomes even more blat
Han Garam enrolls in a prestigious arts university at the heart of Korea's classical music scene, an...
- Author: Baek daekal
- Genres: Yaoi / Adult / Drama
Anything I have to say is completely useless—this work will break you no matter what and has been one of the most interesting psychological dramas I've read in my life. The narrative is terribly mature, while the characters, albeit difficult and horrible at a lot of points in story, remain very human at the end of the day. Any more words are just pure glaze it's genuinely that well-written, Baek Daekal is built different this is the Shakespeare of our generation bro