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Manga, manhwa or manhua with bromance or BL subtext.

Manhwa that are not on MAL:
SKT+ / SKT Plus / Swallow Knights Tales. Plus (2008, print manhwa, not translated into English)
SKT Official Comics / Swallow Knights Tales. Official Comics (2011, print manhwa, not translated into English)
Black Haze (2012, webtoon)
The Dragon Master (2014, webtoon)
The Editor Is the Novel’s Extra (webtoon, announcement)
Ex Rank Supporting Role’s Replay in a Prestigious School (webtoon, announcement)
The Bizarre Story of Banwoldang (webtoon, announcement)
All Your Skills Are Mine (webtoon, announcement)
Black Haze (2025, webtoon, announcement)

Keyword: bromance, BL subtext, non-BL, male-friendship, fujobait, fujo-bait, gay-bait, queer-bait, queerbaiting, queercoded, queer coding, ship, ambiguous ambiance, yaoi, shonen-ai, shounen-ai, danmei, BL, boys love, gay, fujoshi, fudanshi, ikemen, bishounen, pretty boys, borderline BL, subtle BL, BL vibes, light shounen ai, it's not BL, shounen-ai undertones, shounen-ai subtext, shounen-ai elements, shounen-ai hints, yaoi undertones, yaoi subtext, yaoi elements, yaoi hints, yaoi subtext in shounen, homoerotic undertones.

Korean web novels that have been animated, either as Japanese anime, Korean aeni, or Chinese donghua.

Since MyAnimeList does not have some web novels, but has their manhwa/webtoon adaptations, this collection contains the manhwa/webtoon adaptations instead of their original novels.

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Additional information

In 2015, there were talks in Japan about creating a video game adaptation and an animated adaptation of the Korean web novel "The Dragon Master", written by Taesun (the author of the web novels "Dusk Howler", "Chitra" and "Doctor, Live Again"), but the matter did not progress beyond the talks.