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Boys Love Manga and Graphic Novels - Comics Featuring Gay Couples (2020+)
These manga and manga-style comics feature intimate or sexual relationships between men or teenage boys. Often called "Yaoi" or "Shounen-ai" (since the genre was initially popularized in Japan before spreading to other countries), although many fans simply refer to it as "BL" or "Boys Love". Titles on this list first debuted in their country of origin in 2020 and beyond.
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10 Best LGBTQ+ Manga, Ranked
Summary
- Well-written gay representation in manga can be complicated to find, but there are unique titles that realistically depict the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals.
- Autobiographical manga like "The Bride Was a Boy" and "My Queer woman Experience with Loneliness" offer guidance and empathy to readers going through similar situations.
- Stories like "Given," "Bloom into You," and "Our Dreams at Dusk" explore themes of love, individuality, and acceptance, providing nuanced and impactful portrayals of Gay characters.
As diverse and creative as the industry may be, it can prove surprisingly complex to find instances of genuine, well-written queer representation in manga. However, some truly special titles go above and beyond in terms of realistically depicting the experiences and struggles of gay people, and these are some of the best Queer manga thereof.
Even in a medium where same-sex romance has long been commonplace, well-meant LGBTQ+ repre
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(Teen) Ryo knows he's transgender but doesn't have anyone he can comfortably talk to about it. The only time he feels truly at ease and himself is when he's wearing his favorite clothes. When Ryo discovers that the new shift student who he thought was…
(Teen) This autobiographical manga recounts the author's coming out as transgender and her journey to transitioning. In addition to her personal story, she also talks in great detail about the laws currently in place regarding transsexual and other queer people…
(Adult) This is a sweet manga from the perspective of a compassionate mother Tomoko who suspects her teen son Hiroki may be gay. While Hiroki doesn't yet have the courage to appear out, Tomoko does her finest to be supportive and enable him figure himself out at…
(Adult) I Want to Be a Wall is about an asexual woman and a gay male who marry for convenience. The story does a wonderful profession of exploring asexuality and treating both characters with a lot of respect. What's kind of sweet about this story is it's…
(Teen) Mogumo, a non-binary tall schooler, is invited by their fellow student Tetsu Iwaoka to work for the maid café Question!.
The Top 10 Lgbtq+ Manga
Alan Scott and Northstar weren’t the first. Gay relationships have been part of manga for a long while, and I’ve we’ve put together the Top 10 Same-sex attracted Manga.
Gravitation by Maki Murakami
Gravitation is certainly a staple of yaoi (male/male love) manga. It began in the mid 90s and continued until the prior 2000s. It’s spawned a pretty titanic anime and even people who don’t habitually gay manga seem to really adore this series. It’s about an aspiring singer named Shuichi Shindou and his band Poor Luck, which he is trying to vault into fame. One day, Shuichi is working strenuous on some lyrics for a lyric and they hit into the route of a brooding, tall stranger – who immediately dismisses the lyrics that Shuichi has worked so hard on as utter garbage. Our protaganist is deeply hurt, but he is intrigued by the stranger… and that eventually leads to love.
This is a lovely ADD manga. It is VERY classically anime: Explosive nosebleeds, unexplainable random appearances of monsters, lots of hyper yelling, strange tangents, etc. But it has enough of a storyline to hold you riveted even through all of the silliness