Questions
like, i know plenty of people have already pointed out that 'shounen ai' as a category doesn't really exist in japan and is just code for p*dos to talk about their love for little boys
but here in The West a lot of people insist on using it as a distinct category from regular yaoi, and i Thought the premise for that was that so called shounen ai wouldn't have sex in it
so
how come there's stuff tagged as shonen ai And smut? like genuinely i want to know, is there a secret second made-up meaning of shounen ai i'm not aware of?
if something is tagged with shounen ai and smut, then it's a love story between two men with sex scenes. if something is just tagged yaoi, then there's sex scenes, but not necessarily any romance
don't think theres too much diff but the one who are tagged with both yaoi and shounen ai tend to be bc there may be less sex scenes, and those with just yaoi tend to be heavier on the sex scenes. The ones that are then tagged with like yaoi and smut/mature are very heavy on the sex lol. Apart from that I don't think it's due to anth like the plot or the trope or sth.
well originally the label didn’t separate, the origin is really ill, however westerns have taken it and rebranded it ( or smth i guess kmfoaaa ) and made it to where it is meant to represent things that aren’t included with nsfw, however, it CAN include nsfw. labels r so sillay bc technically yaoi is outdated but people still use it, its just like how yaoi can be a sfw romance too. it genuinely doesn’t matter in the end
Sometimes on the first season of the stories there were no sex scenes and only in the second season or the side story that they were hence it was tags as both. Especially for KR manhwa where the smut scene are only make after the characters turns into adult and if it start in a highschool settings. From my observation at least
The word litterally comes from Japan... You think Westerners go ahead messing around with words they bearly understand? The West calls everything "BL".
god i feel like a complete nerd rn this was my topic in like 2021 on yaoi fujo’s shounen ai etc LMFAAOO i kept getting into arguments w ppl for misusing the term and i had every link to back me up on it but now. no one knows IM SICK
well yes and yes……….there is a heavy tendency to separate by what has sex and what doesn’t, hence different labels constantly being used to market what’s sfw and what’s nsfw. it’s all BL but there’s absolutely no doubt that the labels are used to categorize things even if it isn’t correct
Respectfully, does anybody know any nice GL manga with boobs. Anything but “show me your bust” please (already read)! Doesn’t matter if it’s nakey or two girls slaying in bikinis. Thanks!
i remember reading a bunch of BLs translated by a scan group and they always had this hentai girl with a dick in front of her panel with the hentai's name and now i want to read that hentai but i can't remember the name NOR the scan group's name please can anyone remember it? if anyone read it it goes like this: girl is supposed to kill this monster but he falls in love with her then they fuck and all that. the monster was lowkey hot and the girl had space buns iirc
The MC Own a villa, he is too generous. He is too tall and muscular And sometime the author represent him as a Walrus.
The other MC was a military on US and also have a little baby. He go to the villa where the muscular MC live and take care of them..
Our Sunny Days
Yesss thank you
pls give me straight romance mangas with pretty boy :( not a long story though just a short (preferably black and white) cute story
Kimi to Koi shite Affogato
Hi !! Can anyone recommend me stories about mother son/daughter relationship (Not in a romantic way!!)(such as “I became the villain’s mother/ I took my warmonger husband’s child/ I raised a black dragon…)
....what
Sorry as english is not my first language : I meant relationship not in a romantic way. As the reccs I put in my question !
Errrrrrrr I'm going to assume that you're just talking about normal parenting and that the "mother x son" is just a poor syntaxical choice on your part
Yes sorry I didn’t mean relationship in a romantic way but so stories with the theme “family” !
no it was really obvious what u meant lmfoaaaa here u go :3 https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/i_m_a_stepmother_but_my_daughter_is_just_too_cute/
Loool you good, hope you'll get some good recs :D
A few I can think of are “I raised Cinderella previously,” “I will change the genre,” “how to hide the emperoer’s child.” If you want, I know more stories told from the perspective of the child that i can share too.
Guys Im desperately looking for this story I think its a manwha but it may be a manhua. I read it a really long time ago but Im reading svss rn so it reminded me of this story
Anyways the story is about this dude who transmigrated into this northern king villains body. And in the og story the villain king dies after the mc that he captured, escapes and got his army back, so the new villain king (transmigrator) released the mc to save himself and they got closer and stuff, but events from the og novel still happened and the new villain king had to flee. He disguised himself as a girl and got into a carriage yada yada but the mc chased him and blocked their path, and they had this whole confrontation but in the end the villain king still chose to leave and the mc got mad and threw the jade hairpiece that the mc’s mom gave the mc, on the ground and broke it.
Bruh idek if that makes sense but if yall have any idea what story I’m talking about lemme know
GIRL THANK YOU SM
Any recs similar to The kind goblin's bird or Sultan's Love, specifically historical romance smut
Is there any groups open for recommendations of stories to translate? I have Japanese manga site for some that I would love to see get translated!
Give me a story with A LOT of angst. What is your favorite angsty read?
My favourite is https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/efforts_never_betray/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/zankoku_na_kami_ga_shihai_suru/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/deen_my_love/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/stigmata_aikon/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/midnight_rain_ctk/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/kimi_no_yoru_ni_fureru/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/form_of_sympathy/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/sabita_yoru_demo_koi_wa_sasayaku/
i need fem guy and fem woman romance story pls pls pls
So it is only one chapters. And I think it have another one shot by another authors. (Not sure). It is BL manga, where Uke saved a child during a raining days, and he died. That raining days is Seme birthday. The seme decided to suicide after one or two years. The spirit uke keep talking to seme, but the seme never see him.
Sorry for the notification
I want that too
I need the THICKIEST MANLIEST MEATIEST BOTTOMS recs cuz I already read ALL OF THEM. I am literally craving plz SAVE ME i’ll offer you my first born child idc
Edit :
This is my list for these who love beefcakes (just ignore the first one)
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/1085142/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/plaything/
Did u read that?
Already read but thank you sm !
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/warrior_s_afterlife/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ang_ang/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/high_clear/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/comfort_rewinder/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/smyrna_capri/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/gwanggong_industrial_complex_please_candy/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/absolutely_ruined_love/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/beware_of_the_full_moon_in_march/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ghost_window/
Omg thank you I am deeply grateful, like genuinely I wish you all a very blessed day !
This one is slightly more new than most so maybe you haven't read it
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/the_demon_leader_s_lover/
One shot
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/a_song_of_blood_and_fire/
Regular guy uke
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ii_ko_ni_dekitara_hometekure/
Omegaverse
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/haga_kun_wa_kamaretai/
Buff uke, girly seme
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/moon_of_the_devil_world/
Power bottom
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/shishi_ni_hire/
My list is way smaller than yours, but maybe you'll find one or two you haven't read
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/2643651/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/childhood_friend_complex_eunhi/
straight romance manhwas clearly catered towards a women audience recommendations please…
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/bespoke_engage/
I don't know if this counts tho
fluffy bl manga or manhwa that’s criminally underrated
Hi, does anyone have the link for the booktoki? I have 327 last and it doesn't work anymore
337
Thank you
Is it just me or has everyone's "want to read" list become the main source of their anxiety?
It's so messy and I'm terrified to open it and idk what to do because it's snowballing into a giant mess
I just keep adding to it and I never open it
I scroll to the bottom, close my eyes, click a random page and then pick the first one on that page to read
Pfffttt hahaha
I love your coping mechanism
That is to funny omg
I just have like 150 tabs open with all the mangas i currently read or i'm interested in lmao
HOLY SHIT 150 TABS???? HOW IS YOUR PHONE/LAPTOP ALIVE i've never had more than 20 open at once and even then my laptop turns into a helicopter just bc of that
but yeah my want to read pisses me off so much bc every time i open it there's more stories to read that i kept adding throughout the week. so it's like bruhhhh i get so overwhelmed and then i get mad and i just close it and go reread some other story lmaooo
It actually works pretty good lmao
I should really close some up though, and write them in my manga list O.o
Y'all I have OCD
Any more than one open tab at a time is gonna make me burst with anxiety
I have 600 tabs open in just one group on chrome. You can basically have a bunch of different tab groups, and my main group has 600, but I have some that have less than 200 and less than 50 tabs. Before I got this phone, my old phone had 10000 open tabs. I'm not even joking.
Oh big same, I probably have 3 different tabs of the same manga open. Lmao. But instead of scrolling through my tabs I just go directly to my want to read list lol. I have 600 main tabs open rn, but tbf most of them are ao3 tabs
real i get so overwhelmed
BRUHHHHH WHAT KINDA TECHNOLOGY YALL GOT THAT RUNS 1000 TABS ON A PHONE???? A THOUSAND DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER WHAT THEY ALL ARE
It's just a rando samsung lmao, not even flagship. I've been abusing tabs on samsung all my life honestly, they're mostly manga, fanfic and some anime that I want to watch. There's probably doubles and triples of a lot of things
I want to get more into novels but I have no idea where to read or find em :') please help
zlibrary
zlib + novelupdates for all asian translated novels
+1 for novelupdates
Is it possible to read on any of these sites without an account?
Novel updates is a great one, you don’t read on the site it just provides the links to the site with the novel. I’ve been there for years already. You don’t really need an account but it’s better because you can save your reading list.
https://wuxiaworld.eu/novel/the-scum-villains-self-saving-system ignore the thing i’m on rn LMFOA but i use that one
mtlnovel for machine translated novels. Some are fine to read and there are a few that are barely readable. Plus this sometimes have more chapters than officially translated novels or completed even.
If you're impatient like me, I would love you to experience the joy and suffering of reading mtl as well Bless you
Reincarnation, child prodigy, izekais, hidden skill, all are fine!! also the gender of the mc doesnt matter please give reccs (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/omniscient_reader_s_viewpoint/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/lv999_no_murabito/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/hero_i_quit_a_long_time_ago/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ranker_who_lives_a_second_time/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/other_world_warrior/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/asura_handol/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ygret/
I remember of of em it was like this rlly popular guy in clg(uke)and this quiet one(seme) and like the quiet one is rlly weird and the popular guy in reality is poor but hides it and stuff as far as i remember it was black and white there were other cute stories too most of them were related to clg.
Sounds kind of like Pass, Nonpass
Feeds
BUT..
WHERE IS THE baby???? BABY NOW PLEASE I WANT TO SEE DA BABY
Until this site resolves the Chapter-296-duplication-issue, I suggest you search for (and read!) Chapter 297 elsewhere.
but banger ending - Guestella (or however u say her name) is crazy - as crazy as everyone else in here... well Kayden (≧∀≦) so new addition to the (ever growing) family?!? ㄟ(≧◇≦)ㄏ
& so fitting Kayden would show-up, ready to defend his pup ╮(￣▽￣)╭ as a good caring father would (●'◡'●) just wondering where the rest of the group is (⊙_⊙)？
Only if it had a novel. I would've translated it and lived my desire to read more about them w better translations.
this blondie thoooooo WHEEWWW SHES REALLY TESTING MEEEE
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'(?・・)━☞ '....jest give him turtle blood, those things last forever'
If it wasn't for the chapters being short and too fast paced, this would be my fav manhwa