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Alder posted:I know some reviewers disliked ParaKiss's ending but for me it was refreshing. I got tired of the whole WE'RE TOGETHER FOREVER trope after reading 30 vol of shoujo. Still looking for a good josei which takes place in college and/or working life. Kimi wa Pet - I read this a long time ago so I don't remember much, but it's about a journalist who takes in a college age guy as a pet. I avoided it for years because of that premise, but remember liking it. Cheese in the Trap - Ongoing web manhwa. It's been mentioned here a few times and is great. Takes place in college, main character gains the attention of a rich probable sociopath. Seems to be approaching a conclusion, but the scans are behind: http://www.oddsquad.org/p/cheese-in-trap.html Futago - About two fraternal twin sisters in their 20s. One is a writer and one a housewife. Still ongoing, and looks like chapters are coming out about once every 6 months, so you may want to wait on that. Mizutama puzzle is only 2 chapters long (what's scanned so far is just the first chapter). If you like Hidaka Shoko and are ok with BL, I recommend Hana wa Saku ka. Volume 1 is coming out in English next month as Does the Flower Blossom? It's a 30-something salaryman and a 20-something art student and is very slow burn.
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Sakurazuka posted:Nope, which is a shame because it's still CLAMP's best series and close to the first manga I ever read. Apparently there's a sort of ending if you read Tsubasa Chronicle but eh. Other than that pick your poison from the movie or TV series endings. Maybe Banana Fish? It doesn't have the anime-y character design, though. The first manga I read, besides random issues of Sailor Moon, was Ranma 1/2 scanlations from a burned CD given to me by a friend. On the physical front, the first series I bought was Kodocha, which I like to think holds up pretty well for the most part, and X. First josei was also Kimi wa Pet, followed by one of those ones where two people just have to get married for whatever reason.
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Gnossiennes posted:This one? I read the first couple chapters of this Dear Green and I thought Yajima & Otoumi's relationship was cool. I would've never known the other existed, so thank you! I think plain old Dear Green was published first, then Hitomi no Ounowa explained how they got together (I'd still say read Hitomi no Ounowa first). I just reread both, it's a really satisfying series. Unrelated, but it just recently finished being scanlated - Blue Sky Complex is a good shounen ai series, it's one volume and the perspective swaps halfway.
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Gnossiennes posted:http://feministfujoshi.tumblr.com/post/55461822151/the-ever-growing-list-of-100-consensual-bl-manga !! I see an unfortunate lack of Yamashita Tomoko, so: Yes It's Me - BL short stories, a big fan of the title story about a guy in love with himself. Kuimonodokoro Akira - Two guys work at a restaurant together, the younger one (26) confesses to the older one (32) at the beginning. Illumination - BL one shots, a little uneven but I really like a couple. Koi no Kanashi ga Shitai - a 29-year-old guy falls in love for the first time. Also - you can basically never go wrong with Natsume Isaku.
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Smoking Crow posted:Hi i went to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and it had a shoujo exhibit here are pictures of everything Thanks for posting this. I'll be in Columbus next weekend & will have to check this out.
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Everything Burrito posted:I've been reading Border by Kazuma Kodaka and according to DMP's site volumes 4 and 5 have already been released but the only places I can find them listed for sale are Amazon and Barnes & Noble and only as pre-orders. Vol. 4 came out in March and Vol. 5 in May so I'm a little confused as to why they aren't available...delay on getting stock out by the publisher maybe? DMP is bad and releases print stuff on their own (affiliate?) site Akadot.com before the places you actually want to buy from in the hopes you won't be frustrated by their confusing business practices and buy direct. They also don't indicate if it's been sold out, etc. There's also a pretty good chance they just pushed back the date, which they do all the time, sometimes for a year+. Sometimes you can get the ebook versions on emanga.com before the print comes out (volume 4 is there).
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Everything Burrito posted:uggghhh that's lame. I couldn't find anything on the junemanga.com site about buying it direct from them and it's not even on that akadot site so just gotta wait I guess. I don't really want to get the digital version because I already have the other 3 in print but thanks for pointing out that it's at least available that way, I'm not above buying it twice so I can read it now then eventually get a print copy when they're available. They posted some news (and excuses) on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mangajune/photos/a.216591618533299.1073741828.216364355222692/374188629440263/?type=1&theater posted:Border Vol. 4 will either be released in Dec. 2015 or April 2016. It depends on when we get the official renewal for Does The Flower Blossom. Border Vol. 5 + Does The Flower Blossom? Vol. 3 will be added to the release schedule for 2016 once we confirm the licenses.
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DMP is a badly run company. Their stuff goes out of print almost as soon as it's published, and of course the release dates get pushed all over the place so if you don't pre-order, you may miss it all together. They do plan on doing more Kickstarters to reprint popular series, and I bet one of those will be Koisuru Boukun. Solution: get into more SuBLime series! None of their stuff has gone out of print yet, as far as I know.
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kaworu posted:I just wish we'd see more dark/adult stuff getting licensed. One of the best yaoi series I've read was a recent SuBLime release called Blue Morning by Shoko Hidaka, which is this great (and quite lengthy and dense) piece of historical romance taking place during Taisho period (1912-1926) about a young viscount and his ambitious butler living amongst the Japanese nobility at the time. It's just great to read something that's truly intelligent, engaging, well-drawn, and respectful to both the reader and the characters - and is actually within the yaoi genre; that doesn't happen enough. And I have to say, it's so nice to read intelligent queer historical romance, especially about a time period and place I'm not too familiar with. Reminds me of the great Mary Renault books about Alexander the Great in a very indirect way. If you're ok with digital (and haven't read it already, considering your sizable collection), Kusama Sakae's The Match Seller/Yagi-san Yuubin is a historical (post-WWII) romance available through SuBLime. The second couple is iffier than the first, but the first is one of my favorites in anything ever. It's ongoing, though. To quote someone on Goodreads: quote:After reading the rave reviews over at the sublime homepage I figured this might be one of those rare examples of adult BL, where adult doesn't mean smutty but grown-up. It reminded me a lot of Shoko Hidaka's manga, which is high praise. Great mood, conflicted characters and an interesting art style. Also - since you were saying you're one of the few guys who read BL - http://mangacomicsmanga.com/tcaf-2015-gengoroh-tagame-talks-gay-manga-bara-bl-and-scanlation/ posted:Here, I think those boundaries are a lot more fluid. One of the interesting things that came out of this whole SuBLime imprint is that because we are publishing this stuff ourselves, directly, digitally– we have access to a lot of consumer data. You know, it’s all confidential, we can’t see anybody’s personal information but just in the buyer behaviour, one of the things that really, really startled me was that I always just assumed that 95% of the audience for BL manga was women, and it wasn’t.
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I bought a 10" tablet (Asus MeMo) mainly for reading manga in bed; I don't think the particular model matters as long as the resolution is decent. It works well for me and fits a full page at reading size. With Sublime I buy direct for their DRM-free pdf's and read them in a random pdf viewer. Lately, I've been keeping my digital manga in Dropbox and use the in-app reader. I don't own any Kindle manga and haven't used the app, though I once read a manga preview using a 1st gen Kindle and it was awful. DMP's pdf's are of variable quality (surprise!), Sublime's are all good. I also use a dimming app called Twilight so I don't stay up all night.
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Yeah, it actually is kinda unwieldy, but I have kind of weak wrists (like, pre-carpal tunnel) and do not have large hands. I do like it for reading manga, though. I think going to the store is a good idea, or borrow one from someone for an hour and position yourself however you read for comfort purposes. I think 8.4" sounds just fine; I kind of made a snap judgement because I wanted it to arrive in time for a trip I was going on and erred on the side of too large.
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SuBLime is doing $.99 on some volume 1's today only, and one of those is The Match Seller, the post-WWII romance I mentioned back when we were talking about yaoi - https://www.sublimemanga.com/reader/621.
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kaworu posted:I really want to find anything Asou Kai has written that's been scanlated, because as far as I can tell this is her only licensed work, which is really a shame because it's that good. Sono Mama de is very good. Long-term unrequited crush becomes requited, I think they're in their mid-20s. I think the rest of her stuff is at the very least decent, but this one I particularly remember.
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Everything Burrito posted:editx2: whoops that ended up being a pretty long list, also uh it sort of ended up turning into "stuff I like" so it's a bit random. And a few more: Signal/Arashi no Ato/Hatsukoi no Atosaki by Hidaka Shoko, and just about anything else of theirs. IMO Signal's the weakest, but they're all loosely related. Chikatetsu no Inu by Kusama Sakae. Yes It's Me and Kuimonodokoro Akira by Yamashita Tomoko. Zantei, Koibito by Akiba Touko Lies Are a Gentleman's Manners by Matsuo Marta Future Lovers by Kunieda Saika Ultras by est em
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Strange Quark posted:Any recommendations for manga with a decent chunk of (mutual) pining? I love reading stuff with some emotional turmoil that makes my throat go all tight. I don't necessarily care if the pair end up together, though it would be nice. I am partial to BL but I'm open to anything. How about False Memories by Natsume Isaku? Also, if you're cool with pining couples who don't necessarily end up together, you'd probably like Miyamoto Kano's stuff.
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Everything Burrito posted:oh hey Aioi Musubi has a second volume, neat! The color artwork is really pretty too. I keep hearing people say this is good and check the description before realizing I've read it. Still can't recall anything about it, but will probably give it another go when it's complete.
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Natsume Isaku is a good mangaka for BL beginners. I can't think of anything of hers I wouldn't recommend. And I always recommend Yamashita Tomoko, she writes other genres as well.
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Alder posted:I'd love to read a josei done by Harada Not so much pretty boys, but Yoneda Kou just started up a seinen manga called Op. Now that I think about it, there are quite a few that have dabbled in other genres. Hidaka Shoko did a two-shot josei called Mizutama Puzzle that's been translated, and some of Yamashita Tomoko & Nakamura Asumiko's stuff have been translated. Mizushiro Setona is a generally shojo mangaka that has done some BL. And there's Junko with Kiss Him Not Me, of course. Yukimura did a yuri oneshot. I can think of some other mangaka that genre swap but those haven't been translated. Plus, some non-BL by Amagakure Gido and Yamanaka Hiko has been licenced by Kodansha: http://kodanshacomics.com/2016/03/21/kodansha-license-announcement.
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This may have been posted before, but this is a pretty good interview with gay mangaka Gengoroh Tagame (known in this thread for Otouto no Otto and elsewhere for hardcore porn): http://mangacomicsmanga.com/tcaf-2015-gengoroh-tagame-talks-gay-manga-bara-bl-and-scanlation/ It touches on some of the stuff brought up here. I also just read gay manga overview Massive, which I got as part of a Humble Bundle. A lot of the mangaka interviewed said they wished they could draw stuff besides porn, but that's what the market expected of them. A few have drawn BL. Some don't like the term bara (rose), because it's archaic and derogatory, similar to pansy in English.
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Food Guy posted:I was hoping that this thread could give me some recommendations for good licensed BL manga, because while I do enjoy the stuff that is scanlated I would like to officially support some authors. I'm looking for stuff that isn't rapey and while I would prefer stuff that isn't cliche, I'm not against cliches if the manga is done well. I also don't care too much about the genre, so it doesn't matter to me if its also a fantasy story, sci fi story or just a story set in a modern setting. I recommend: The Match Seller/Lost Letters series by Kusama Sakae. The last volume should probably be out late this year? https://www.sublimemanga.com/reader/621 The Night Beyond the Tri-Cornered Window by Yamashita Tomoko. It's more mystery or semi-horror at the moment than romance, I'm loving it. https://www.sublimemanga.com/reader/686 Apple and Honey by Hideyoshico Does the Flower Blossom? by Hidaka Shoko is print-only, and being released at a glacial pace. Also the other Sublime series by Natsume Isaku hasn't been scanlated either, but I'd go False Memories first.
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kaworu posted:Actually, about the DokiDoki label, the reason why it was so good was because it was created specifically for works licensed from the Japanese publishing Company Shinshokan, which does the magazines Wings'/Dear/Dear+ - which is sort of a range from shojo and very light shounen ai to more romantic and less explicit shounen ai/light yaoi. Thus, all the stuff released by DMG under 'DokiDoki' instead of 'June' just naturally tends to be better, less smutty, more interesting, more realistic, more character-based, etcetera. For example, several great to very good one-shots by one of my FAVE mangakas Taishi Zaou(AKA Mikiyo Tsuda) such as Mysterious Love, Electric Hands, Color (which was the first collaboration she did with Eiki Eiki, before Love Stage). This Doki Doki stuff was really interesting. I didn't read BL until relatively recently, so I had no idea. Dear+ tends to have pretty quality series. For anyone else who loves Yamashita Tomoko, The Night Beyond the Tricorner Window v.3 comes out in November!
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thechosenone posted:Say, are there any manga or anime where a Same sex couple is prominent in the show, but the show is not actually about same sex romance? I really like that stuff, but I don't necessarily want a show that only focuses on that exclusively. What Did You Eat Yesterday by Fumi Yoshinaga is a cooking manga focused on a gay couple. Maybe a little more on the romance side, though? It's licensed by Vertical. Speaking of Yoshinaga, in Antique Bakery two of the guys get together, but that might just be in doujinshi, not the main story.
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darkgray posted:I've been going through some of the Manga Taishou 2017 titles, and just read the first two volumes of Watashi no Shounen. Not entirely sure what thread it should go in, since BookLive stuffed it in the josei genre, while it's somehow ranked #2 on the guy side of Kono Manga ga Sugoi 2017 making seinen more fitting? But then it seems to be going toward some kind of strange romance, because the author was muttering something about Ashton and Demi's marriage in the afterword, so maybe this is the place after all. I really liked Takano HItomi's BL title “Su” no Tsuku Kotoba de Itte Kure, but I'm wary of Watashi no Shounen's possible-romance so I haven't given it a shot. She has a Tumblr, if you're interested: http://htminfo.tumblr.com. It's mostly just release notices.
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Hypha posted:I have basically nothing which has a guy/guy pairing. What would you recommend for maximum diabeetus with minimized creep factor? I have absolutely no hang-ups on whatever the bent of the couples are but I was under the impression that a lot of the gay material was full of problematic stuff for some reason. Some yuri stuff like Kase-san got recommended, so what is the good stuff for the other side of the coin? Itoshi no Nekkoke is kind of peak sweetness I think. I usually go for more serious or laid back BL, but I recently liked Joou to Shitateya by Scarlet Beriko (careful of some of her other stuff, though). For more laid back stuff, I'd recommend Ichikawa Kei, especially Blue Sky Complex. I'm also gonna recommend Yamashita Tomoko, like I always do. Start with Dining Bar Akira, but be aware that some of her oneshots have unhappy endings if that bothers you.
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I think she did that illustration for her appearance at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (at least, they sold prints of it there). The manga released with it was the one-shot Carmen, which doesn't have guys in skirts, and I can't think of any of hers that do offhand.
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Everything Burrito posted:I read some of this and it is super cute, can't swing $11 for a kindle edition right now though. I'm used to paying more like half that for digital but mostly it's because I spent my tiny book budget this month on the new Ten Count My library carries Ten Count. Back to boys in skirts, I assume most BL-reading-types have read Wait for me at Udagawachou by Hideyoshico? There's also a newer one by Muno that has some great faces, can't remember the title or NSFW levels.
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Alder posted:Lol, what kind of librarian orders 10 Count for the collection? I need to check out the local B&N for new release too v I just checked, 85+ libraries in the US have volume 1 of 10 Count (Illinois alone has 14 libraries with it). If you're actually curious, it mostly comes down to patron requests, reviews, and bestseller lists. 10 Count vol 1 had a starred Publisher's Weekly review, so that's probably how that happened.
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Alder posted:I read vol 1 of Toukyou Tarareba Musume since I got a coupon from the Play store and mostly underwhelmed by the premise. I don't like the main LI but the MC and her friends are good. It's shame since I liked Jellyfish Princess and her autobiography manga series. Try "Everyone's Getting Married" by Izumi Miyazono. I thought I wouldn't like it because it's about a successful 20-something woman who really wants to get married and become a homemaker falling for a guy who is against marriage, but they're a really cute, supportive, understanding couple so far. I'm only 2 volumes in, though, that could change.
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Ytlaya posted:So I guess I'm talking about stuff that pretty much anyone would admit was a real mistake that can't really be easily excused. Not necessarily anything super terrible, but maybe someone being genuinely lovely in a way that can't be written off as a personality quirk (for example being an rear end in a top hat and having that be treated as a genuine flaw that needs to be worked past, or being overly needy towards a partner). Cheating is a kind of obvious example, but I can definitely understand why most people wouldn't want to read stories where a relationship just fizzles out and ends (unless it's replaced by another relationship). The first thing that comes to mind is Lies are a Gentleman's Manners by Matsuo Marta (it's BL, not josel, though). Married closeted professor and a college student play mind games with each other. There's no real "working through it," though, they're both kinda jerks (the professor is clearly worse) but they have a good dynamic. I don't think translations are caught up through the most recent plotline (which is finished), but I remember the college student starting a fake relationship with an actor friend of his. Someone mentioned Strobe Edge. The main relationship was pretty mediocre, but there were a lot of flashbacks/side stories of past relationships for various characters that I thought were really well done. I think they were more fizzling than any real personality flaws, but it's been a while.
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If anyone's looking for a short, licensed shojo story, I just finished Yamanaka Hico's The Prince in His Dark Days and really enjoyed it. It's complete at four volumes and is a prince-and-pauper story, where the pauper is a high school girl and the prince is a corporate heir who likes to crossdress (not played for laughs). If I had a complaint, I would have liked it to spend more time on the boy (I'd estimate over 3/4 of the story is the girl's pov) and extend the ~big reveal~ and ending a bit.
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There's a BL about repairmen/junk collectors called "Kitaru Harekake no Ashita yo" but there's only one chapter out so far. The same author has a story about a guy who makes convenience store bentos, which is sadly untranslated.
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Everything Burrito posted:It's been over a year but The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window volume 4 is finally about to come out!! It'll be released on Dec 26; I went ahead and preordered mine so I wouldn't forget. Might re-read the whole thing since it's been so long, I'm really interested to see where the story goes. Yaaay I'd been thinking it should be coming soon but hadn't checked on the actual date. I love that I'm not sure where the plot's going and the main character's nonchalance at his soul being compromised (or whatever is going on).
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I'm gonna recommend some good completed older BL titles featuring working adults I know have been recommended in here before, possibly by me. Dear Green/Dear Green Hitomi no Ounowa (prequel, but I'd probably start with this one) by Fujiyama Hyouta. A guy is confessed to by a male coworker and starts to realize his feelings for an old high school aren't strictly platonic. Future Lovers/Where the Wind Goes by Kunieda Saika. Straight-laced teacher who dreams of a big family falls for a flashy substitute art teacher. False Memories by Natsume Isaku (licensed only, no scans I think). Everything by Natsume Isaku is good, but I think this one's a step up. Two guys who almost started a relationship in high school meet again through work after 10 years apart. Swaps PoV between them each chapter. Darenimo Aisarenai by Yamada Yugi. Old college classmates reunite when a publisher needs a Czech translator.
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Everything Burrito posted:it's really good at jerking the reader around On the topic of BL, I thought Knife by Chiba Ryoko was a pretty good suspense/mystery story. One of the characters has actual named-and-treated PTSD rather than the usual vague "manga mental health issues" (not that I can vouch for realism), although his coping mechanism is, uh, very BL. Also, I've been re-reading Fujiyama Hyouta's older stuff and Dear Green and the sequel are still real good.
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a kitten posted:Orange I really liked Orange. A new volume just came out, apparently it's a partial retelling from the perspective of the husband-in-the-future guy that also goes on past graduation.
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DisDisDis posted:LoL that the very first cover is The Vibrator Meme. I haven't read that one, but I usually like Matsumoto Miecohouse's stuff. They're usually pretty angsty, though. Also lol at that url. Of the stuff on sale, I really really liked A New Season of Young Leaves, but I don't think they ever licensed the second volume (I ended up buying the Japanese version). Most of the other good stuff is still ongoing, and June is unreliable with releases.
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DoubleDonut posted:I'm a big fan of these two goobers in kuzumi This is good, but now I'm sad that scans are caught up with Japan.
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DisDisDis posted:This owns extremely so I think I'll read Banana Fish after this This may be why you're checking Yoshida Akimi's stuff out in the first place, but there's a Banana Fish anime coming out later this year. I read they're moving it from the 80s to the present, though, which I'm pretty meh about.
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Someone finally finished an Ueda Aki series: http://fujoshibitches.shounen-ai.net/reader/read/shitasaki_ni_yoake_no_aji/en/1/1/page/1. This one's about two guys running a ramen shop.
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