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The Shogakukan Manga Award (小学館漫画賞, Shōgakukan Mangashō) is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers. Each winning work will be honored with a bronze statuette and a prize of 1 million yen (about US$9,000). Special awards are also occasionally given out for outstanding work, lifetime achievement, and so forth.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Shounen Ai/Yaoi/Boys Love manga in which either the couple(s) do not have sex or it is not shown in the manga.

Please feel free to message me if you have more manga that fit this category! :)

(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, Historical)
I Love Amy (GL, Psychological)
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)

NSFW series mentions (i’ve been branching out):
Oh! My Assistant (BL romcom, this one is filled with a ton of smut but it has one of the healthiest and sweetest relationships i’ve seen if u can get past the few misunderstanding arcs! and refreshingly realistic lgbt representation)
Exit’s that way! (GL, also filled with smut but still very engaging story-wise, unfortunately discontinued)

A collection of romantic comedies set in high school.

These stories contain a lot of adorable and dramatic troupes expected of teen romances!

Updates still to come!

Hope you enjoy :3

Basically Popular Manga that may or may not recieve an anime adaptation in the future.

Criteria for predictions:

- MAL users predict that it will recieve an adaptation
- the mangaka previously worked on a manga that received an anime adaptation
- Received an award, nominated for an award, or received a high ranking in a poll

-- For example:
*'Manga We Want to See Animated' Poll
*Tsugi ni Kuru / Next Manga Awards
*Kono Manga ga Sugoi ("This Manga is Amazing")
*Honya Club's Nationwide Bookstore Employees' / Publishers' Recommended Comics
*Kodansha Manga Award
*Manga Taisho Award
*Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards
*Tsutaya Comic Awards
*Shogakukan Manga Award
*You Should Read This Manga 2023

- Published in a popular magazine / website
(*Major publishers include Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan, Ichijinsha, Kadokawa, Square Enix, etc)
- received a live action adaptation or has spin-off Manga
- Recieved an official English translation or was recently licensed for an English translation
- has a wikipedia page (especially ones in multiple languages)
- Rumors of an anime adaptation or an empty domain name
- High sales numbers

If any of these entries end up receiving an anime adaptation, it will be noted and deleted once the anime is announced.

Correct Predictions:
- Solo Leveling
- Shangri-La Frontier
- Isekai Shikkaku (No Longer Human in Another World)
- Kaiko sareta Ankoku Heishi (30-dai) no Slow na Second Life (The Slow Second Life of a Dismissed Dark Soldier (Age 30))
- Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu (Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement)
- Dark Gathering
- Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu (The Dangers in My Heart)
- Kaijuu 8-gou (Kaijuu No. 8)
- Onna no Sono no Hoshi (Hoshi of Girls' Garden)
- Majo to Yaijuu
- Undead Unluck
- Sousou no Frieren
- Yamada-kun to Lv999 no Koi wo Suru
- Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi
- Busu ni Hanataba wo
- Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou.
- Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen
- Tengoku Daimakyou
- Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo
- Senpai wa Otokonoko
- Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
- Wind Breaker
- Who Made Me a Princess
- Atarashii Joushi wa Do Tennen
- Medalist
- Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai
- Yubisaki to Renren
- 30-sai made Doutei dato Mahoutsukai ni Nareru Rashii
- Re:Monster
- Ao no Hako
- Dandadan
- Kabushikigaisha Magi-Lumière
- Youkai Gakkou no Sensei Hajimemashita!
- Tasuuketsu

Manga involving different sexualities and gender identities, aside from heterosexual, lesbian, gay & cisgender.

Important mention: I am only including manga that focus on the sexuality/gender of the queer characters (at least quite a bit) or their journey to discovering themselves. So just having a queer character in a manga is not enough.

If you're looking for short reviews for each one, I do have a post on my blog discussing them. Unfortunately, I can't provide a link here, but you can find one on my profile.

just trust me bro

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.

Live-action adaptations often leave a bad impression on anyone who has read or watched the source material. Many are even quick to say that they just should never exist. But I beg to differ—these kind of shows helps us look at things in another perspective. WILL your interpretation of [manga] be different if it is acted by people? I don't want to say live-actions are good, in fact I'm still cringing most of the time, but they give fresh air at least.

BL Manga with Live-action Adaptations! is exactly what it says. It specifically includes:
‣ Direct adaptations (said show has been adapted)
‣ Indirect adaptations (manga or novels that were created after the live-action).
‣ If both a manga and a novel are on MAL, the direct adaptation will be the only one added due to the interest stack limit.
‣ Upcoming adaptations

With the rise of BL manga/webtoon adaptations, the interest stack will be outdated at some point. Thus, I'll periodically be updating this during my free time. If I missed something, feel free to contact me here on MAL!

Sweet Boys' love stories that hit me in the feels.

-Manga that deals with real life problems of gay people.
-Some of the manga in the stack are just fluffy that are portrayed in a more realistic way.

PS: Ao No Flag and Shimanami Tasogare are queer/lgbt themed manga not BL but I still added it here so it could get more recognition.

Romance manga that I feel do something new, or have a different feeling to most romance manga!
Disclaimer that there is nothing wrong with more ‘typical’ romance manga whatsoever! This stack is just for people who want to see something new!

BL mangas that I consider good, that scored between 7 and 10 in my criteria.

This is the "light" version of the list, I also have another list with good BLs where sex is the focus. https://myanimelist.net/stacks/30064

Finished manga with less than 50 chapters.
To be specific, these manga have less thank fifty but more than ten chapters. For manga with 50–100 check out my under one-hundred stack! I also have one for under 10 chapters!
The only other criteria is that I didn’t include any manga I didn’t enjoy!

Lesser known manga that I think more people should read.