Gay comic manga
Boys Love Manga and Graphic Novels - Comics Featuring Gay Couples (2020+)
These manga and manga-style comics feature love-related or sexual relationships between men or teenage boys. Often called "Yaoi" or "Shounen-ai" (since the genre was initially popularized in Japan before spreading to other countries), although many fans simply refer to it as "BL" or "Boys Love". Titles on this list first debuted in their country of origin in 2020 and beyond.
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January
So far this year we’ve given you our list of awesome queer fiction and non-fiction for 2023, but maybe your value language is pictures, colours, and stories told through images. If so, hold scrolling for this year’s Spring/Summer LGBTQIA+ releases in the worlds of comics, manga, and even photography — we’ve got plenty to catch your eye, and your heart! And if prose is more your thing, check out our 2023 Queer Lit Preview!
As usual, you can find the entire list on Bookshop.org and if you yearn to stock your bookshop shelves with anything on this list then please reach out to your local Turnaround sales rep! 💖
Please note that some of these titles may not yet be available to pre-order for the general public.
Be Kind, My Neighbor
By Yugo Limbo
9781945509926 / Silver Sprocket / p/b / £37.99 / Out now
A psychedelic folk horror graphic novel featuring a whirlwind queer romance.
Murder. Love. Cults. Puppets! It’s 1973, the town of Baths, cosy middle-of-nowhere American heartland. Travelling musician Wegg rolls in, content to busk for a beat and be on his merry way once more. That is, until he meets Mr. Neighbor
What's your favourite yaoi manga/comic?
Since someone mentioned Harada already, I will put in someone else. I quite like the retro-feel of Syundei's works. Her stories can be either pure light hearted like "Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!" or full on "the reincarnated victims of a murderer are all out to kill the reincarnation of the murderer as part of a curse because the murderer's soul cannot truly pass on until he's been killed by all nine of his past victims" in "Gesshoku Kitan" pictured below
Ogeretsu Tanaka has really amazing art and is good at developing characters and their relationships so that's it's not too flat or unrealistic. I recommend her series illustrating escaping from an abusive relationship, the abuser's own trauma and atonement, and their relationships with new people as they move on: "Sabita Yoru Demo Koi wa Sasayaku", then "Renai Rubi no Tadashii Furikata", and finally "Hadakeru Kaibutsu"
Scarlet Beriko has written a mix of historical, slice of working-life, high school passion, and yakuza stories. Her art is also quite sensual, and she's particular good at making older men look good. Her characters tend to stare similar because of
The Top 10 Gay Manga
Alan Scott and Northstar weren’t the first. Gay relationships have been part of manga for a prolonged while, and I’ve we’ve put together the Superior 10 Gay Manga.
Gravitation by Maki Murakami
Gravitation is certainly a staple of yaoi (male/male love) manga. It began in the mid 90s and continued until the early 2000s. It’s spawned a pretty grand anime and even people who don’t habitually homosexual manga seem to really adore this series. It’s about an aspiring singer named Shuichi Shindou and his band Bad Luck, which he is trying to vault into fame. One day, Shuichi is working hard on some lyrics for a tune and they blow into the path of a brooding, tall stranger – who immediately dismisses the lyrics that Shuichi has worked so hard on as utter garbage. Our protaganist is deeply bruise , but he is intrigued by the stranger… and that eventually leads to love.
This is a attractive ADD manga. It is VERY classically anime: Explosive nosebleeds, unexplainable random appearances of monsters, lots of hyper yelling, strange tangents, etc. But it has enough of a storyline to keep you riveted even through all of the silliness
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