Sasaki to Miyano

Yoshikazu Miyano is a meek high school student who enjoys reading boys-love manga. One day, he finds himself in a predicament of stopping a fierce school fight, unsure of what actions to take. Before everything gets worse, he is interrupted by upperclassman Shuumei Sasaki, who boldly takes his place and saves Miyano from his grief. From that day on, Miyano has quietly looked up to him.

However, three months later, Miyano realizes that Sasaki is more bothersome than admirable. At school, Miyano is greeted by him with playful teases, not to mention the frequent friendly skinship he receives. When Sasaki asks for manga recommendations, Miyano lets him borrow a boys-love comic he owns. Surprisingly, Sasaki ended up enjoying its content and got hooked on boys-love as well, marking the start of a shared passion. Could it develop into something more?

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Sasaki to Miyano has been published in English as Sasaki and Miyano by Yen Press since February 2, 2021. It has also been released in Polish by Studio JG since May 6, 2022.

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Sasaki, Shuumei

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Miyano, Yoshikazu

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Hirano, Taiga

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Kagiura, Akira

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Hanzawa, Masato

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Tashiro, Gonzaburou

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Kuresawa, Tasuku

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Ogasawara, Jirou

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Sasaki, Satoko

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Shirahama, Kyouji

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Jan 7, 2025

MinaMinoru

Recommended

Preliminary (31/? eps)

Sasaki to Miyano is a breath of fresh air in the BL genre. Most BL stories fall into one of two categories, shounen ais which focus on the innocent feelings of love where often the characters never fully seem aware that they have romantic feelings for each other therefore a proper relationhip doesn't come to fruit or yaoi/erotica which focuses has a lot more on focus on R18 scenes and romance often becomes a secondary aspect. Sasaki to Miyano is different in the sense that while it falls more in the first category yet there is clear progression in the relationship, we can see the ... characters fall in love and how it changes their relationship from friends with ambigously romantic feelings towards each to actual boyfriends. Another big thing the story gracefully avoids is the toxic tropes that often plague BL titles. There are no nonconsensual kisses or forced contact of any kind.

Miyano and Sasaki meet at school where one day a student it bullied. Miyano wants to help him but as he is quite a short, frail looking boy he isn't really in a position to do so. That is when Sasaki strides in and puts a stop to the fight. This is what results in a chain of events, while Miyano makes friends with the boy who was bullied, Sasaki becomes interested in Miyano. First, their friendship is a rather one sided thing as Miyano thinks Sasaki is just a bothersome upperclassman who keeps calling him cute nicknames and won't stop teasing him. However, as Sasaki starts to show genuine interest in Miyano's manga addiction - and Miyano jumps on the occasion to have at least one acquintance he can talk to about his fave books - things slowly start to change. Oh, and the specific genre he reads? It's boys love!

While Miyano insists he just likes the writing style and the stories and he has no interest in men whatsoever, with the power of BL mangas Sasaki starts to realize that he actually has a crush on Miyano and that is why he wants to be around him so much. And as they get to spend more time together, Miyano also starts to question if he actually would be okay with dating a guy if it was Sasaki..

While the progress can be a bit slow, I like that plotpoints are not dragged out forever and eventually resolve. I like the relaxed athosmphere of the story, the focus on feelings, the introspective bits from the characters as they mull over certain conversations they just shared. The only reason I am not rating this a 10 is because while the dialogues concerning the relationship are great, the story has a weak spot in bringing in actual plot lines that aren't just your usual slice of lines scenes.

For example, I remember in one of the earlier chapter that the character mentioned several times an event (was it going to the movies or a cultural festival, I can't recall) and I got excited to see them there! Only for the next chapter start with a two sentence summary of: "oh yeah, we went there! it was great!" So happy for you..? And since the discussion of BL topics is always a bonding moment for Sasaki and Miyano I would have expected there to be a bit more details given, the way real people discuss their favorite movies. (Een if they made up fictional stories). But the discussions are often very vague and can feel like filler, with only some tropes getting mentioned. One thing that might put people off of the story is discussion of the seme/uke pairs (which has been a standard way to differentiate characters since the birth of BL) but eventually as the characters' relationship progresses they realize that it is silly to put people into such boxes as one word cannot exactly determine everything from your personality to your preferred position. It was a nice detail to add and made me appreciate how newer BL titles slowly but surely start to move away from the "fantasy BL tropes" towards real queer representation.

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Jan 19, 2024

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Mixed Feelings

Funny

Preliminary (23/? eps)

A BL manga that uses BL manga as a way to connect the characters. Interesting idea I guess.

Sasaki to Miyano is among the more slow paced shounen-ai. In this case, that’s not bad, as it gives the characters more time to feel real and less like a walking fanservice. Unlike the usual procedure, the pairing doesn’t get together and to business immediately. It even takes a while to show that this is, in fact, a BL title.

As usual with such manga, the main demographic is pretty much the only demographic, as if you don’t enjoy boy’s love, there isn’t much for you to enjoy here. ...

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Dec 31, 2022

TimeFliesAway

Not Recommended

Preliminary (7/? eps)

I know that this is very popular and for some reason most people are into this bs, but I'm still putting it to "not recommended". I love BL but it's merely one reason why I hate this:

The "top" and "bottom" (or Uke and Seme in Japanese) talk. I don't know why it's so popular, but it's actually extremely disrespectful to gay people. Most gays are switches, and so are girls. Feminine guys aren't the equivalent of a woman and won't therefore be the "bottom" of the relationship.
So damn annoying. When will y'all get this.

Even worse is when people label others whether they're a top or ...

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