/bl/ - General BL

>>7478
the indie space is hard, i understand why creators rely on gimmicks.

>>7464
I see the developer has an Itch.io page:
https://popelephant.itch.io/dissolution

It's a shame they don't sell the game on Itch.io as well. I try to avoid Steam whenever possible.

Itch.io's Yaoi Game Jam ended a few days ago, is there anything that seems interesting? Most of them seem like slop, there's even one with AI art… a few of them have potential though, like A Midsummer Ghost Story, OBSESSION♡SYNDROME and A Cherub's Lament.

>>7482
Deter shipping? I wanted him to get railed by guy left but lost interest when he became fat

>>7483
Why tho? He already fucked everyone else, why not him. Why did this guy in particular get the orbital laser strike? He was a cute megane too…

When Takatora's uncle sniffed him did he lie?

>>7471
it didn't really happen like this. ao3 was created because of ff.net shitting the bed moderation wise. wattpad is both older than ao3 and was largely it's own island catering to a slightly different audience up until recent years where there has been more toe-stepping between the sites.

>>7471
Not. >>7473

My Tumblr is exploding with these.

>>6115
I dunno, I forgot a lot of what happened in season 1.

KyoAni just did that.

>>6115
>7 months later
He's not really a villian, but he also doesn't really do much. In s1 he pretty much just leaves the moment he can get away with it. He comes back in s2 because he has to.
>>7466
The show has been having a lot of fun with the schizo homo

>>7390
I don't know shit about Boruto but to be fair some parents would rather not talk about any of that with their children because they think kissing and holding hands with your own wife or husband is embarrassing. Don't ask how I know. And Naruto is mostly a manga for Japanese teenage boys, I can already imagine the editor or Kishimoto himself trying to not put them off by making sasusaku not too romantic.

>>7412
At least for this couple a confirmation of strong feelings was needed seeing how they were portrayed in Naruto (Sasuke not giving a shit, both trying to kill each other for dumb reasons and for Naruto to preach some more, Sasuke and Naruto orbiting each other like a classic enemies to lovers homo pairing). Unless Kishi wanted to confirm Sasuke to be gay/asexual?

Naruto not being a homo romance manga: challenge impossible

>>7455
NTA but Harada made a comment in the past about how she at first felt BL as a genre was limiting but then learned to do it in a free-for-all style where she could practically tell any story she wanted. And I get it, in BL you still have to have some kind of a boys love romance thread running through the story. She's also fiercely protective of her artistic vision and literally quit Libre publishing due to them using her work without permission (they published one of her doujins without her permission and edited the content) and switched over to QPA which was a massive gamble but paid off in the end. So she comes off as someone who has a clear artistic vision and doesn't like being boxed in one genre, so I can understand her desire to try telling other kinds of stories than those about relationships. I would imagine her seinen series being an experiment to her, and I think it's admirable that she's not doing it under a different name but the same handle that she has kept since her smutty Gintama doujins kek.

>>7454
>I feel like a lot of authors really self-limit what BL can be.

In her case, it seems more like a reflection on what publishers expected the genre to be based on their readership. Like >>7456 said, she's happy to have control over her work currently, but I can see why she'd try a story that isn't restricted by the label of being 'BL' even if it has all the elements.

>>7446
You're not wrong nona, but it is funny that most of your examples are rather old series, Banban aside. The others I can think of are typically marketed as shoujo or josei (Silver Diamond, Count Cain, CLAMP works) rather than explicitly BL, which kind of points out the problems the genre has from an industry standpoint. I've seen webtoon authors complain similarly that most publishers want you to have something explicit early to grab attention.

>>7457
>The others I can think of are typically marketed as shoujo or josei
That was a thing in the past, but I think seinen is much more receptive to BL elements these days. I'm thinking specifically of Golden Kamuy. Even Tagame started publishing BL in seinen magazines.

>>4885
i love little mushroom, it raised the bar for what i expected in plot-driven bl

What's the slowest burn you're read?

Don't make this take root in English-speaking danmeisphere too…

I watched this after completing the game forcshits and giggled. Truly awful and made me laugh out loud but enjoyed myself while watching lmao. The scene with the castle getting bombed is hilarious.

>>7384
The manga will forever be the superior adaptation.

>Toworu Miyata's Aoharu Once More BL Manga Gets Light Anime
Light anime so…slop?
>DNP spearheaded the concept of "light anime" to create animation at a lower cost on a more "timely" schedule compared to the traditional animation production workflow. The BALLOON label aims to produce four new titles in the 2026 fiscal year, with a goal of establishing a workflow capable of producing 10 or more projects a year by 2028.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-03/toworu-miyata-aoharu-once-more-bl-manga-gets-light-anime/.241290

I finally watched 10Dance and I have NEVER felt more blueballed by an ending. Everything else about the movie was immaculate, down to the lighting, cinematography, and actors. Why couldn't they make an original end for it instead? I wanted to see them retire in Havanna full of passion and life. If not that, I would have settled for some kind of flash forward to the competition at least.

Props to Ryoma and Keita for selling the mutual longing and pining so well. I could watch them for another 5 hours easily.

Just learnt about Four Hands Two Sonatas, a new non-BL fujobait k-drama
>childhood friends who grew apart
>rekindles friendship over classical piano
>not piano rivals a la Piano no Mori, but four hands duet (aka 2guys1piano)
>prominently features a female classmate in the trailer so it's No Homo
>since the rest of the trailer has the two guys gazing longingly at each other
>one of the MCs compares his playing style to that of the homosexual icon Frederic Chopin
I might give it a try later this week

>Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (46億年の恋)
Takashi Miike's filmography is dominated by unresolved homoeroticism and this is without doubt the quintessence of it