/bl/ - General BL

>>3902
I use this for Doujin raws.

https://b-para.co/

>>3905
Thanks!

Will she ever finish this?

>>3915
Every new art she supplies each year is just further rubbing in that we'll never see the end of even that arc, let alone Enma getting his shit kicked in once and for all.

How do you go from this to this?

I found this image but I can't find where it comes from, help

>>4006
Fukushuu ga Tokenai by Tokiha Kanenari

>>4006
>>4008
Last page of chapter 8.

>>4008
thank you so much

Has anyone read Sanctify? I've finished Volume 1, and so far, and I'm really enjoying it. It's horror and mystery themed, and I can tell there's something ominous lurking in the characters' future. I hope the remaining two volumes get translated.

>>4098
No, sell it to me.

>>4099
So, it's a story focused on an exorcist named Lance who's just an absolutely miserable, exhausted man. Lance is charged with getting rid of bad spirits and demons, typical exorcist stuff, and is pretty much a lone wolf until William, a cop, joins in on his latest investigation. William seems like a pretty normal and decent guy, but it's also kind of obvious (to the reader, at least), that he knows more about Lance than he initially lets on, and their meeting might've been more than chance. The first volume is largely setup, with some neat visuals and the promise of a more extensive plot. What little about the backstory was revealed was very interesting, and since finishing it, I've liked it enough to continue speculating about what will happen next. There's also a bonus chapter that provides a bit more information about William that makes his intentions toward Lance a bit more clear and definitely more concerning. I think the relationship's almost guaranteed to evolve into something manipulative, as it's already heading down that path. I like that the leads are older (late 20s and mid 30s), and I'm personally a fan of the art style. If you have any interest in horror or mystery, particularly with religious themes and the promise of a darker romance, you'll probably enjoy it. From my understanding, the manga is complete (just untranslated), and reception of the final volume seems pretty positive, so I'm under the assumption Volumes 2 and 3 end satisfactorily.

>>4102
Thanks!
The artist draws Hannigram art on the side kek.
https://godsstation.wordpress.com/tag/hannigram/

>>4135
That actually makes so much sense given how she draws the leads of Sanctify and how they're written so far. I should finish Hannibal kek.

>>4102
>>4135
Ended up looking at her stuff (and finding her twitter) for like an hour kek, definitely some of the most beautiful BL artwork I've seen period.

I liked Yuki to Matsu, so helped myself to another manga by the author - Stigmata. A big mistake. I dropped the manga. I can't stand the protagonist who miraculously got employed by the police despite being an anxious wilting flower unable to handle the nasty sides of the work. The other guy is also a cop and divorced, but worry not - it was another case of a divorce over a triviality rather than because he beat up his wife or jacked off to child porn. Despite his now-deceased wife being a successful professional, she's been living in a crappy, debilitated apartment - I can't make any sense of it. Forced drama? I can't with this shoujo crap.

I've been enjoying Millenium Darling a lot, I wish it would get licensed for an English release. The 80's retro style is very charming.

>>4245
>actual delinquent type
>human frieza twink
>yaoi
>sci-fi fantasy
>that 80s' art style
>Publication: 2020, Ongoing
What the fuck picked the fuck up

>>4246
>>4245
I so wish the author got more exposure.

>>4247
I'm very charmed by her old school fujoshiness, I like the interview where she goes "I like when men that look like trees and men that look like rocks fall in love" lol

>>4249
She should do more author comments.

>Michiru Sonoo's one-shot [Onsen de Himitsu no Otomari, 241 Kaime] just got serialized due to popular demand! It’s about two men who’ve been "friends" for 20 years who take monthly hot spring trips to unwind and reconnect (in more ways than one). But even after 241 trips there are still things left unsaid between them…
This could be good I hope it will eventually get translated. They usually release everything that is gay in my country ASAP but I am not sure about old men yaoi.

>>4270
The author is currently asking their editor if they can get it licensed in English after people tweeted that it was "old man yaoi" and told them it was a popular genre in the west.

>>4271
It probably would do well, there is definitely a market for businessmen and works like "What did you Eat Yesterday?" did well over here iirc.

>>4272
It sounds a bit like a Taniguchi series but in gay kek. I will get it should they release it in my country.

>>4271
This whole situation is amusing and wholesome but the autistic part of me is screaming because for years I've been told that yaoi is an outdated term but now an actual japanese author is just rolling with it.

>>4277
I just came here to post the exact same screenshot lol
The saga continues. This is one of the funniest recent things on twitter.
>because for years I've been told that yaoi is an outdated term
I am really, really happy because I hate the term BL for the same reason I hate the word "boyfriend". It implies the guy in question is a boy I and I am not into the underaged so I always kept using yaoi kek
I hope the term makes a comeback, it's so much better than "boyslove". Not only does it imply a very young age it also sounds too safe. Yaoi I associate with everything m/m related including the porn, BL sounds like those coffee shop school boy manga they're trying to sell these days.

It's probably just me.

>>4277
I think they probably learned the term old man yaoi from English speakers and liked it enough to pick it up, but if they were typing in Japanese, they might use a different term. This person is kind of an outlier.

>>4277
It's funny how she casually saw that one post and discovered a whole new world and now they're already consider translating her series.
The learning-with-yaoi idea is also cute. I am glad she's having fun. Hope that the old men and the term "yaoi" will filter the idiots I don't want her to make some bad experiences with shitty westerners.

>>4277
She's using "old man yaoi" as a loanword, it just so happens that "yaoi" was originally japanese. Think of it in this way "yaoi" on it's own is outdated, "Old man yaoi" is a new term with a more recent usage.

It continues. This her own post on pixiv on that matter.

>>4283
Nice! I'm happy she found her audience.

>mfw my fav BL manga is on an unofficial hiatus in the middle of an arc

I say unofficial because we did get a couple of chapters last year but there's no word on when the next chapter will be out. Well I guess it's that thing of "a delayed game will eventually be good, a rushed game is bad forever" if the mangaka is burnt out. Which may be the case because she'll tweet about anything but her series.

I wasn't sure if Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu is a BL manga or not because of how it was starting as one on Pixiv and then stopped being labeled as such when it started being published thanks to a publishing company. Now that the mangaka herself just posted pic related today I'll stop assuming it's BL. I'm not all caught up with the manga, I read 4 volumes and I'm waiting for the official translation in my country so the 5th volume isn't released yet, I can't say I'm totally sure who she's referring to when she says there are "aroace" elements in the manga. Seeing her using SJW speak to describe her manga is so jarring though, I can't help but be disappointed.

>>4297
Japanese mangaka becoming gigawoke the moment they learn English is wild.

>>4297
I am basically what these people call "aroace" and I hate seeing the term to be honest. I don't even know what irks me. Maybe I just hate that traits of mine are turned into identity bullshit because I just consider them traits. I don't even consider my gender relevant (not a tranny, trannies care about that) why do they want to turn everything into labels and IDpol stuff?

There are some characters that I consider borderline asexual but I dislike the exclusivity that term is implying. E.g. I was never attracted to a real person in my life and my sex drive is so low that I never masturbated or felt the urge to fuck somebody. So the term "aroace" could apply to me. But I can still (rarely) be attracted to some certain fictional characters and I like to use them to explore the concept of sex, if that makes sense. So even I would consider myself having a low sex drive and being fucked in the head for disliking the look of real people, but not 100% asexual so I feel it's unnecessary to use it on characters.

That aside, real aroaceness DOES contradict homosexuality, so she is wrong. Attraction is sexual.

Further I guess I just don't like how the trait is implied to be some oppressed minority shit. Yeah it causes issues, but only indirectly (lack of a drive, doomed to stay single and living life the hard mode because you can barely pay the rent if you live alone etc.), I never experienced any sort of oppression because of it. It's so weird having it being part of the lgbt+ and I don't identify with this. Maybe I just hate having someone imply that I am a victim lol

>>4297
>>4299
Isn't it just that the supernatural creature has no true sense of romance or sexuality, but the gay human is gay? People have been fighting for months over whether it's still a gay story because the gay kid isn't actively having gay kisses, and then accusing the series of being "queerbait" because non-sexual non-humans is often an excuse to no homo stories.

>>4297
This really makes me mad. The series starts as very clear BL and they even have a scene where they explore each other bodies, what do you mean it's aroace? I gave up in this series when they dropped the BL angle which is a shame cuz cosmic horror yaoi is something I really wanna see more of. The mangaka being really into woke stuff (that has a Bluesky account, no offense to anyone who has one but I find the site to be a redflag) to the point of calling her formerly BL manga "aroace" has sealed the deal for me and I'm not picking up this manga again. What a shame cuz the art is fantastic. Her being accused of queer baiting is funny tho lol, kinda deserved.

>>4297
Dumb bitch abandoned her fujo audience the second her manga got popular with normies, I can’t stand her.

I’m really pissed at this recent trope in general, it’s so obviously just there to bait fujos and then shit on us by going ‘NOOOO HE’S ASEXUAL HE WAS JUST HORNY FOR ANOTHER GUY BECAUSE THEY’RE PLATONIC BESTIES!!!’

>>4297
>aroace
>romantic interpretation
>interpretation
Into the trash her manga goes

>>4301
>that has a Bluesky account, no offense to anyone who has one but I find the site to be a redflag
To be fair a lot of BL manga artists, either pros or artists who just draw fanart, moved to Bluesky because of Elon Musk changing a few things on Twitter in November. Some wanted to be able to block whoever they want and others just want to advertise their manga or doujinshi on as many social media profiles as possible. This one is weird though.

>>4297
what….the main guy is literally very clearly horny and romantically attracted to the mc and is clearly implied to be full on gay… genuinely wtf is the author smoking, if he showed no interest in men and women id understand that but hes clearly interested in men

>>4300
Sorry that makes more sense. I guess I should have formulated my post differently, since I was talking about the usage of aroace in general save for the latter part of my post.
I am retarded and never read that series so I didn't know. I guess in that case her post does make sense, assuming that the aroace part refers to the alien alone and the homo part to the two others. I am not reading it so I don't know if that's what she says or if she implies that the other character was ace as well.

Besides the reasons I already mentioned an issue I have with aceness in fiction is that it always happens to gay characters, see >>4302. I haven't heard of a het series with this yet. A series where the character remained ace I mean.

>>4304
I wrote that when I was going to bed so I kinda forgot people use it for more than dumb discourse oops. But yeah, if you use it to post art and/or to expand your brand then there's no issue with that. This mangaka however using it to call her work "aroace" and to say her work is not "queer baiting" is wild, I dunno if she was always like this but the Twitter vermin got to her very quickly.

>>4306
>assuming that the aroace part refers to the alien alone and the homo part to the two others
I'm pretty sure this is what it's about because she said the eldritch guy can't feel love or something.
Aroace is a weird term to use here, but she probably picked it up from twitter discoursers.