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

[thenicochan]

Yaoi is... tough for me. I realize it's not targeted toward my demographic (actual gay dudes), like how a lot of lesbian porn isn't targeted toward a female demographic, but I still find a lot of yaoi... problematic. Or maybe just distasteful? There's a few too many tropes that, as a dude who has done the do with other dudes, just make me headdesk. It's not only the sexual stuff (but there is... so much about... the sexual stuff...), but the way a lot of yaoi treats the characters involved in general.


B-but I did totally get into FAKE when I was younger!


I don't have much to offer other than this... off-topic comment. I don't read much manga, and when I do it tends to be stuff everyone else has already read (Sailor Moon) or adaptations of video games (Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War)

[nanslice]

That's totally fair. I'm a gay girl (which is surprising probably, considering my most evident interests, but legit have no interest in men and lots of interest in women irl, haha) and a lot of lesbian porn is just eyeroll worthy. Like, okay straight dudes, I'm glad you're liking this but no thanks. Unfortunately a lot of yuri tends to be overly infantilized and just kinda sweet and boring? Yaoi, (as well as a lot of straight shoujo) for all of its flaws, has lot of tropes I really like. They're definitely not true to life and are totally problematic though. I completely divorce them from reality though, haha.

...and actually, it's kind of funny because a lot of stuff that I find acceptable in yaoi is completely unacceptable in like, slash or original fiction. So I'm wondering if it's just this idea of porn versus romance/not!porn. Huh.

BUT ANYWAY yeah, yaoi is certainly filled with a lot of problematic stuff, and the fandom around it can be pretty dang cringy.


EDIT: Also hey, I was also super into FAKE when I was younger.