I sadly have fallen out of the yaoi manga genre - it's not even the tropes and stuff, really, but the art styles on them tend to all be so similar (gigantic yaoi hands!) that I tend to just skip it and start looking for other stuff.
That said, while they might not be yaoi, I do read some shoujo... I highly recommend both Emma and Otoyomegatari (A Bride's Story) - same mangaka, Emma was her earlier work and is Victorian England historical with an upstairs/downstairs romance, while Otoyomegatari is set in historical east europe/mongolia sort of area and the mangaka's attention to costume detail (and the fact that she hand draws it all) is AMAZING.
It's neither yaoi nor shoujo, but Dungeon Meshi (Delicious Dungeon) has had me LOLing ever since I found it. Old school RPG dungeon crawler with a side of meta humor about game mechanics.
Loveless was popular awhile back, but I enjoyed the first half of it (the plot in the later half got convoluted and I stopped following). Not yaoi, but definitely shounen-ai.
Tegami Batchi (Letter Bee - fantasy action), Dogs: Carnage (action), Natsume Yuujinchou (Book of Friends - supernatural slice of life), and Afterschool Charisma (supernatural highschool where they've cloned famous historical figures and you have everyone from joan of arc to hitler as teens) are some of the other ones I've picked up in recent years.
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Date: 2017-07-25 04:31 pm (UTC)That said, while they might not be yaoi, I do read some shoujo... I highly recommend both Emma and Otoyomegatari (A Bride's Story) - same mangaka, Emma was her earlier work and is Victorian England historical with an upstairs/downstairs romance, while Otoyomegatari is set in historical east europe/mongolia sort of area and the mangaka's attention to costume detail (and the fact that she hand draws it all) is AMAZING.
It's neither yaoi nor shoujo, but Dungeon Meshi (Delicious Dungeon) has had me LOLing ever since I found it. Old school RPG dungeon crawler with a side of meta humor about game mechanics.
Loveless was popular awhile back, but I enjoyed the first half of it (the plot in the later half got convoluted and I stopped following). Not yaoi, but definitely shounen-ai.
Tegami Batchi (Letter Bee - fantasy action), Dogs: Carnage (action), Natsume Yuujinchou (Book of Friends - supernatural slice of life), and Afterschool Charisma (supernatural highschool where they've cloned famous historical figures and you have everyone from joan of arc to hitler as teens) are some of the other ones I've picked up in recent years.