Must-Reads

Honestly this is one of the best newer soft-bl manga that I've read in a while. It's sweet, adorable, and most importantly, it has a very realistic portrayal of what it's like to be a gay high school student in Japan without being too heavy.

We get three different perspectives, really, about this, two from the actually gay characters in the manga, Yamato and Sakura, and one from Yuiji, who at this point is showing signs of being gray-aromantic, possibly bi- or pansexual.

This one is another one of those newer soft-bl that deserves to be read over and over again...the art is amazing and the story is even more so.

It's a heartwrenchingly beautiful, extremely painful narrative about coming to terms with the loss of your first love to suicide, as well as moving on and allowing yourself to fall in love again. And, of course, it's also a story of how music can help give shape to feelings too complicated for words, and how music heals wounds time can't

This one is just. So beautiful. Kouhei and Taichi's relationship is so sweet and adorable and supportive (it's so good...so so good to see actual supportive relationships, esp. with Kouhei's disability...), and of course, it's /realistic/, almost painfully so.

Also the fifth chapter of Koufuku Hen is going to kill me. I am dead.

THIS. THIS IS not actually my first one (my first was a different one by Takarai-sensei.....) but oh my god I love Seven Days. It's super cute and sweet and the relationship between Yuzuru and Touji is just so beautiful. This manga is beautiful.