Bishounen Tanteidan

Boy version of the CGDCT genre. Mainly silly comedies and slice of life.

If you won't judge me I won't judge you...

edit. I realize there are like 50k idol and sports anime that would fit this stack, so for variety sake I'm willfully ignoring most of them

What I look for the most in an anime above everything else is high-quality writing. That's not to say that manga, visual novel, and light novel adaptations are written poorly; in fact, there are some that have incredible, masterfully-crafted storylines. I have simply personally found that some of the most unforgettable series for me have been novel adaptations.

Given that there currently exists no anime search option for this, the basis of this interest stack is to provide a list of full-length novels that have been adapted into series or movie format.

*Disclaimer: not enough space to add children's classics to this, go check out Nippon Animation's studio page if you want more!

Turn your brain off fun.

you won't find a masterpiece here, but everything is damn fun, even more so when you don't think about it.

note: For "My First Girlfriend is a Gal" watch the dub. Trust me.

Also, this stack is sponsored by APolygons2 on YouTube. what does that mean? Nothing! the sucker just paid me to say the name, what a looser am I right or am I right?

This stack will balance between fairly conventional but beautiful art style -for example 3-gatsu no Lion- and unique artstyle -like Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei-, with some maybe not-so-worthy mentions in the middle.

So far I'm gonna add the ones I watched, so let's say that it's always in construction.

Oh, btw, for series with multiple entries, I'm gonna add the first one only. Enjoy!

The anime stack of mostly all-male casts which is original or adapted from mangas/novels. No romance anime here (yes there are some who fell in love but romance isn't the main plot). I won't include the sequels because the stack is limited to 50 so you gotta find them out by yourself.

Part 1 (idols, games, multimedia projects): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/2078
Also check out pretty boys doing sports: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/2079

Shows where some characters are written and portrayed outside what is considered the standard "man" or "woman". This is my first interest stack so I just wanted to have fun with it and recommend some animes I liked under this particular idea ;^)

And happy pride month~!

Anime that are especially eye catching visually, often in it's background art and/or general aesthetic. aka anime I find myself taking lots of screenshots of. Only one entry per series. Will be updated as I watch more stuff.

TV Asahi and ABC (Asahi Broadcasting Corporation)'s late night anime programming block which broadcasts on Sundays from 2:00 - 2:30, launched in October 2020.

Not to be confused with Anisata (アニサタ) which aired on Saturdays from April 2016 to September 2020, rebranded into ANiMAZiNG²!!!.

The included anime contain multiple mysterious cases that are only loosely connected, or not connected at all.

The cases may take more than one episode to get resolved.

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Open to suggestions.

All these anime's include very shippable characters who mostly have no other person in the anime you could possibly ship them with. This is a marketing ploy because this makes anime/ships very popular as well as being apart of the lgbtqia+ community is not openly embraced by any Asian media. A lot of these anime's has novels, manga chps, side manga, official art, and drama cds that are very suggestive or downright very gay. They have all have very suggestive scenes in the animes as well including op, ed, end credits that are very fruity.

disclaimer: Includes anime with non-canon couples, non canon lgbt but all animes are gay coded in a way that queer people recognize. Also most have anime with canon lgbtqia+ characters

(Keyword : shonen-ai, shounen-ai, BL, boys love, gay, gay-bait fujoshi, queer-bait, fudanshi, josei)

Shows that I personally feel are underwatched/underated, and should get more attention! They are not obscure, hidden gems that nobody has watched before, but even so, it'd be nice if more people discovered them :)

An assorted stack of anime series with some talented detectives and mind-boggling mysteries to uncover. Highly recommended for fans who love to put on a thinking cap and wrap their head around, trying to unravel secrets alongside the protagonists.

Link to Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15991

You've heard of CGDCT before
now get ready for CBDCT!

Not really parallel to cgdcts, there's far less in this category and the line with BL is blur so just a collection of soft BL shows I guess. Halfway through it isn't even 'cute'
boys anymore lol.

Please pm any recommendations you have to add to this, I'll add it :)

Some lesser known anime that I really like and think more people should watch! Includes both shows and movies.

"Lesser known" to me is going to be defined as any show with under 400,000 viewers listed on MAL from now on, to prevent me from filling this list with just shows that I like but aren't really "lesser known".

The title speaks for itself.

CBDCT, an equivalent of CGDCT (cute girls doing cute things).

The cast of characters consists either predominantly of boys, or only of boys.

Some animes could be BL or have BL hints/fan services.

Work in progress, there are many more I want to watch first before adding :)

Absolutely love cutesy BL-esque anime, none of these are tagged as Boy's Love (but maybe they should be ;p).

In some of these, the relationship between the boys is one of the main foci of the show. In others, it's merely there for the fe/male gaze or to fill time. Either way, it's real cute and I live for it.

Lanky men [❌]
Buff bros [❌]
Haughty pointed chins [❌]

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐈:

https://myanimelist.net/stacks/41273


𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 "𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐮" 𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐱𝐝:

https://letterboxd.com/magrosleau/list/psychosexual-dramas-nihilistic-fever-dreams/