Manga and Manga Recs?

[nanslice]

So I read a lot of manga. Like...a lot. I prefer manga to anime tbh. I also, of course, prefer yaoi to anything else (except...maybe...your general shoujo!) but I've outgrown a lot of yaoi tropes but I keep reading it because I'm hoping I'll find a good yaoi manga. (Okay, I will admit, I quite like the big strong seme and the more smaller emotional uke amd the rape = love trope doesn't bother me as much as it does a lot of people but I just want the seme to respect the uke okay, I just want there to be love and respect sometimes). But I'm also looking for new manga in general to read but I just like manga a lot. ;3;

ANYWAY. I finally, finally got my act together and actually made accounts at MangaHere and Batoto. ;3; I also downloaded A Certain Manga Reader but tbh I'm kind of dumb and don't understand how to use it. But it's there for when I want to!

So anyway, manga recs, give me your manga recs! Like I said, I still quite like yaoi and shoujo but I'll try anything. :3

Also, I made an original fiction writers discord channel if anyone would be interested in joining! It is here: https://discord.gg/fsKAenq Invite your friends!

Comments

[darthneko]

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.

[nanslice]

Yeah, gigantic yaoi hands have been a thing since forever but since the success of Junjou Romantica and other things by that author, the various art styles seem to have narrowed even more.

Thank you so much for the recs! Just from a summary glance the art looks really beautiful and I really love class differences in romance. *__*

I'll give the rest of those a look too! I liked what I saw of the Natsume Yuujinchou anime.