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The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition.

(Source: Wikipedia)

(not just manga but I don't want to bog down the title)

some of them are BL or yuri. some of them just have random gay side characters. sometimes. the random side character is trans. if you are insane like me, you will read the whole thing just for that one queer character.

manga with queer relationships and minimal to no sexual content that i found likeable + felt not as fetishizing as most others
(not that there's anything wrong w sexual content but it's hard to find stuff in these genres that aren't mostly written for the smut)

stack created by a sex-repulsed biro ace :)

+ manhwa, webtoon, novels, etc. but it's easier to keep the title simple lol

honourable mentions not on MAL:
Fugue Across Worlds (GL)
My Mom’s a Superstar (GL)
The Best Smell/ The Scent of You (BL)
The Story About You x Me (BL)
Robber x Lover (BL)
Adding You to My Cart (webtoon with MLM charas)

part 2: myanimelist.net/stacks/47394

The joke here is communication about these is kinda weird unless specified that the response itself is the title.
"What's your fav manga?"
> Undecided.

Or if someone tuning in to a conversation between weebs would be extremely confused about it either by controversy or u sounding illiterate af:
> "My favourite manga is In Hand"
> "I love Children" ☠️☠️


I will also include series that are difficult to search and result in the complete opposite. eg;
Searching "Goth manga"
> The manga itself doesn't show, only images full of Misa Amane lmfao

bl as in: published in a bl magazine or otherwise implied by the author (ergo; just because the mc is a queer guy does not mean the manga is bl)

listed with at least one bl the author wrote (either my favorite that they wrote or their most popular)

I was going to add oofuri to this list but can't find what bl the author wrote (tho I am sure that people used to say she had written bl before).

feel free to recommend any authors, just make sure you have an actual example instead of a rumor.

This is for your friends who only know manga through anime or only relate it to shonen and ecchi, it’s not necessarily directed at a “manga beginner” but at those who want to see the different perspectives the medium can offer. 3 volumes and up, well drawn, easy to follow, interesting visual and narratively.

Some other aspects I considered:
- Cinematic vibes
- Human drama
- Down to earth, realistic characters
- Cross-cultural appeal (e.g pop culture references, foreign settings)
- No out of place fanservice
- No tropes that might break the immersion (e.g. author insertion)

BL Manga that tell a rich, memorable story. Carefully curated to be easy to recommend to non-BL fans.

BL, like all manga categories, has a specific brand of tropes and genre-specific bullshit that most fans learn to tolerate. That makes it hard to introduce new people to the genre.

These are manga that aren't just 'two men are hot and in love' (not that there's anything wrong with that). All these titles are incredible stories in their own right, with compelling plots that are worth discussing. They're the kinds of BL I would show someone to express why I love the genre, and maybe persuade them to dip their toes into it.

Every series has listed the closest adjacent genre(s) to help personalize recommendations according to taste. Some have erotica in them (but it's usually relevant to the story or fairly light/earned after a fair amount of narrative buildup).


Criteria for appearing on this list:
-An interesting story that you could actually talk about (Bonus points for cool world-building, fantastic art, or other factors that would rocket it's popularity if the story was in a more popular genre).
-The main lead's relationship with his male love interest is Significant, as well as Explicitly Canon.
-A fairly low level of common BL tropes (to make it more palatable to non-BL fans).
-It doesn't suck.

manga serialized in seinen magazines by female mangaka, as well as non-binary mangaka.

very much based on my personal tastes, everything here has a larger story and plot, as well as depth of character. some may have romance and smut. most are rather dark.

work in progress, feel free to send me recs!

I only included the ones with confirmed relationships. Ship bait and other such implications(Devils and Realist) or when it's only played for comedy(Kaguyahime) don't count.

Note: arranged in the order of release.

Work in progress!

Not found on MAL: Wedding Bells Are Ringing(1998), Watashi ga Motete Dousunda SPIN-OFF(2018), Mirai to Kare to Papa Jijou(2021).

All the shojo and josei manga that got printed in english in 2022, this is for my own reference but if it can help someone else find something new then i'll be glad <3

Manga that share their that have the same title as other, unrelated manga.

We asked passionate readers which manga you need to read now—and here are the results!

Finalists are listed in the following order: Main List, Unique Art/Story, Should Be Anime, Best for Beginners. Every title is officially available outside Japan in at least one language, with one or more volumes published in 2023.


Official Challenge Stack
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1. Click the Restack button
2. Choose a manga you haven't started reading yet
3. Read at least 2 volumes of that manga by April 30th

*　Manga you started reading before the challenge began (Feb 25) will not count. Pick something new!

*　Please make sure to write the number of volumes you read in your manga list. If you have 0 volumes read in your list, you won't get the badge.

Josei means a comic published in a magazine targeted towards the mature female demographic in Japan.

Shoujo manga with a Male Protagonist: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/41090

A selection of BL themed manga with interesting vision, art styles and dynamics, from high school romances to horror and science fiction. Now clearly half of these aren't from BL magazines, I picked them based on the following criteria:
- The main character is in love with a man (not necessarily requited or fulfilled)
- The emotional beats are deeply tied to an homoerotic relationship
- The author is already known for writing BL

To put it bluntly, I'm being generous with what I call BL #imsorry. I have my own list to go through so I'll keep adding after careful consideration ^_−☆

The order is from shortest to longest more or less. Enjoy!

a "response" to a a interest stack called "Seinen is art."

manga, regardless of it's demographic is a work of art. this stack is a personal selection of works that come to mind when i see the words "manga" and "art" in the same sentence, from works that discuss the nature of literature, hyper-complex dystopian worlds, gorgeously drawn artwork
and incredibly well-researched historical manga to battle manga, stupid comedies made by furuya minoru, yonkoma manga and silly romances, a list that barely has anything concrete that is holding it together and will probably be unlisted by myanimelist mods, but it's not like that matters, enjoy the stack!

just some manga I think that bros are a little bit to close or has a lot ship tease for the eyes can see