My Personal Recommendations for Japanese Manga, (Including Yaoi & BL).

2022/12/14

One of the Founders of Digital Juicy - a "Google Books"-like platform for BL fans in English - told me today that I should write down my list of recommendations of Yaoi & BL comics at their platform. So, I tried to write there, but for some reasons, I couldn't find a way to type in a long text. Therefore, I've decided to write down here, in my blog article on this website.

I started reading Yaoi & BL since I was around 5 years old. So, over four decades now. But, I have hardly read any BL for the last ten years or so, except Saezuru - Twittering Birds Never Fly, and a few more exceptions, such as Shanglira no Tori. Anyway, here's the ranking of my own all-time favourite Japanese Manga, including some Yaoi and BL stuff:

No 1

Kou YONEDA

Saezuru Tori Wa Habatakanai - Twittering Birds Never Fly

(BL)

No 2

Natsume ONO

Saraiya Goyou - The House of Five Leaves

No 3

Jun MIHARA

X Day

No 4

Jun MIHARA

Sons

No 5

Jun MIHARA

Moon Lighting

No 6

Basso (aka Natsume ONO)

Al to Neri to Sono Shuhen

(BL)

No 7

Basso

Kuma to Interi - A Bear and an Intellect

(BL)

No 8

Setona MIZUSHIRO

Kyuso wa Cheese no Yume o Miru & Sojo no Koi wa Nido Haneru

(BL)

No 9

Higashi NISHIDA

Life / Love

(BL)

No 10

Reiko OKANO

Fancy Dance

No 11

Modoru MOTONI

Tantei Aoneko - Private Detective Blue Cat

(BLish)

No 12

Satosumi TAKAGUCHI

Hakushaku to Yobareta Otoko - A Man Called Earl

...And many other works by creators such as:

Ichiko IMA (BL and non-BL)

Fusako KURAMOCHI

Moto HAGIO

Natsumi ITSUKI

Yugi YAMADA (BL)

Satoru ISHIHARA (BL)

Yuuka NITTA (BL)

Yasuko AOIKE (BLish)

Waki YAMATO...etc., etc.

That's it for now!

Try some!