/bl/ - General BL

>>7019
Hannibal

>>7019
A First of Summers is cute and fluffy with a uni-age top and a middle-aged bottom.

>>7019
HankCon has a lot of good art if you don't mind /wes/. The ship from Thousand Autumns (YanShen) if you like Danmei.

>>7004
It's a webtoon, so there's going to be a higher concentration of drama by default, webtoon comments are always a cesspit. There have been a lot of het webtoons with 'I saved/raised a sexy male slave and now he's my loyal/yandere husbando' plot and there's probably been similar BL ones, I have seen criticism of these tropes before but no one did a non-fantasy US setting before, so it figures that would trigger mass backlash. There have been fanfic authors in the past who wrote more egregious stuff and got the same reception.
Pretty sure the protagonist being female would not save it though. Could have fallen into obscurity more easily with the amount of het webtoons out there, maybe.

>>6981
I read the chapter right after news it was being cancelled and even as a European that gimmick line was cringeworthy as fuck. All the black slaves were treated respectfully with the MC set up as mr good guy who frees them and lost his family to the confederates in the war. It's just the opening gimmick for why the couple are going to be stuck together for the rest of the comic that is just incredibly dumb and forced.

>>7000
They'd also make the slave nonhuman in some way so there's a degree of fantasy to it like >>7003 says. If the "native American" white guy in this comic was actually a coyote spirit or something they would have probably gotten away with some really outdated Indian-American tropes because it'd be more removed.

>>7005
Yeah the Duke of the North forced marriage stories are in the millions at this point and they even do "my brown toyboy from exotic imaginary nation who I personally own" now and then. I've seen one or two modern day Korea slave storylines but there's always some excuse like blackmail, loan debts, omegaverse/guideverse, whatever. The author's biggest mistake was trying to respectfully exposition US history at length for the first chapter instead of just being goofy from the start. It made it too jarring.

Anyone reading "The Hounds of Sisyphus?"
I'm really intrigued what the fuck Guwon is. And for once a monster body and monster cock makes sense given the Frakenstein parallels and imagery Guwon has. I read the previous work from the same author and the seme's body and dick were not grotesque compared to this guy's, so I feel it's more intention on the artists' behalf.

I also think Jinwoo/Teach has something insidious going on with his past too. Sure Guwon murdered his father but I still think Jinwoo might have some something else prior to that incident. I think he's dead too like Guwon

>>7016
HULK SMASH

Not an audio drama, but an audio book, but still related to the thread? Is there really so much demand for audiobooks of BL light novels to warrant making a new production in English?

A handy database of works:
https://wikiwiki.jp/blcd

Bought クズ人間 during the sale. It's a fun story about a yakuza assassin subcontracting his jobs to a sex-starved, pachinko-addicted underling and paying him with his body.

>>6980
Maybe to gauge interest for future localizations/translations/etc?
Tbh I can't think of any actual reason. I imagine the foreign fujos that can read and buy BL in japanese are more likely to also write their thoughts, at least on ChilChil, in japanese.

>>6985
Wouldn't reading reviews and checking scores on MangaUpdates be more reliable? And seeing what's getting fan-translated and how it's received on Mangadex?

I finished reading the second volume of Hakumei ni Michiru just now, after reading the first volume again for the first time in forever. It ends with a crazy cliffhanger and it pisses me off that the next volume will be officially translated and released where I am next year at best. By the way, is it just me or is the beginning of the story kind of rushed? Reading the first volume last year already gave me that impression, but starting the manga from the beginning made me feel like I still somehow missed either an entire volume before the first one, or like I accidentally skipped chapters. It's not as bad in the second volume though but still.

https://x.com/Bugorskaya32765/status/2043597037279809839
I just remembered I had this bookmarked so here's some historical context I found interesting. According to this twitter user, 'otoko no ko" as a term can be traced back to a shoujo magazine. It seems to be a comment about a submitted manga and I do wish the person clarified which manga the comment was about cause Happiness!, Hibari-kun and Barcode fighter aren't shoujo.

>>7001
Interesting. I really want to know which manga, but I doubt there are still copies of Ribon from 1975 around, unless it got archived in libraries by some governmental scheme?

Anybody reached the last tier?

>>6993
>Anybody reached the last tier?
Working on it!

>>6986
I'm interested in pic related. Much like how I'm interested in Tokyo 24 ku for the premise I'm also interested in STEAL! for the premise because it's something I haven't seen before.

I want to go back to a prior conversation because I received a comment like post >>6859 today and I feel I can better articulate my feelings while it's fresh.

The comment was basically "Thank you for writing x/x I loved it! Can you write more x/x?" It was on a fic I was proud of and am happy to hear someone liked it since I often write into the void. However, when I write a pairing I tend not to return to them, there will not be another story for this ship from me. As such it's hard to reply, I try not to leave impersonal one-word replies like "Thanks" but I don't want to tell the person "Thank you, but I don't have any more planned," since that sounds dismissive and rude.

In the past when receiving requests to continue oneshots I've replied with "Thanks, maybe in the future." but that's just a lie. I don't know, there's definitely some self-consciousness over disappointing strangers on the internet.

>>6979
You can ignore the latter part and write: "haha thanks! I love them too!"

>>6979
Why not lie and say that it was a gift to your friend and you're not into that pairing personally?

>>6976
>if it wasn't such a hassle to ship overseas
Is it because of international shipping issues? Are perfumes generally accepted by forwarders?

>>6977
Yup, majority of forwarders and proxies won't ship perfumes overseas, it requires them to fill out a bunch of paperwork and package them a particular way as they are considered "dangerous goods". You can beg (I've tried kek) but they won't budge. The ones that are willing to do it are far and few in-between. Like I've heard Foward2Me does, but I haven't tried them yet.

>>6983
Ouch… I wonder if you can 'sneak them in' undeclared with a package that is mostly other merch/clothes/books? But they would need to be available at regular anime merch/clothes shops to avoid re-packaging by the forwarder (when you have several boxes coming in from different shops), which is hardly possible.