Boys Love (670)

When Ryuu transfers to Hitomi's school, he leaves an immediate impression on him. Curious about rumours of a full-scale tattoo on Ryuu's back, Hitomi starts getting closer to him. Before long, the friendship and fascination Hitomi feels for Ryuu start developing into more, but before he has a chance to come to terms with his feelings, Hikaru appears on the scene.... and he has his eyes set on Hitomi.

Contents:
1) Lovers and Souls
Tooru Shinomiya is a young college student who models for photography students. After sleeping with one of his clients for money, he becomes a gay prostitute because he doesn't care enough about his body. However, he's starting to fall for his sempai, the man with whom he first slept. Can this student, Satoshi Matsouka, save him? This tragic story also involves Hikaru Taira. Also, Tooru and Atori meet. Prequel to Rules 01. (Part of Rules series (loosely connected): see Rules for series timeline).

2) Vanity
After the events of Lovers and Souls, Tooru is still deeply heartbroken. Trying to find solace in Hikaru, Tooru challenges the terms of their friendship. But can he handle the consequences? (Source: M-U)
Originally a doujinshi, part of Rules series.

3) Sleeping Beauty - Matsuoka sees Tooru for the first time.

4) Eternal Moon - In their last year of high school, Akihiko Nozaki admits to his best friend Kai that he's gay. Kai is stunned but it doesn't change their friendship, but Kai's curiosity is aroused and he begins to see Noza (Nozaki) differently.

5) Tomorrow's Sky - Sequel to Eternal Moon, told more from Nozaki's point of view. Nozaki isn't sure whether to trust that his relationship with Kai will last, since he's even been dumped by gay men before. What's to keep a guy who wasn't even gay from breaking up with him?

(This synopsis refers to the Oozora Publishing Edition, 2007.)

When his seventeen year old son turns up on his doorstep, 33 year old voice actor Hisae Shino has to take work from boy's love radio dramas to make ends meet. However, father and son have a lot to learn about each other, and things get complicated when Shino's co-stars want to continue the romance out of the recording studio... Shino must find out what it means to be father, and most importantly, must never forget his policy: that when you need to shout, you shout out loud. (Source: ANN)

"The shrewd lawyer and the skillful lock picker. The meeting of the two changes the 'law of the night'!"

When the lock picker Izawa agrees to steal documents kept away in the safe of a law firm, he does not take the presence of the lawyer Sakaki in account. After being caught Izawa has no choice but to accept the bet Sakaki proposes - if he is able to open the safe in less than five minutes, he gets to leave, if not he has to do what the lawyer requests from him. Confident in his abilities Izawa sets to work, but Sakaki has no intent on playing fair...

The business of Death is never done. Asato Tsuzuki works as a Shinigami, or "Guardian of Death," in the Ministry of Hades. It's his duty to make sure that the souls of the dead reach the afterlife, but contrary ghosts and humanity's evils keep getting in the way of a job well done. With all these problem assignments, will he ever get a bonus...or will he be stuck paying back damages for all eternity?

(Source: VIZ Media)

Katsutaka and Kazuomi are seniors with a secret hobby: they love watching a pair of younger boys making love. Katsutaka and Kazuomi have fallen completely in love with Yuki and Kaede, and vow to capture them once they enter high school. That awaited day has finally arrived, but will the two seniors be able to reach their goal? And are Kaede and Yuki really who the seniors imagined them to be?

(Source: Storm in Heaven)

Even though they were separated as children, Haru recognizes his long lost brother Tatsuya in a heartbeat. So, when Tatsuya invites Haru out for a drink, Haru assumes that Tatsuya recognizes him as well, but it seems the amorous Tatsuya has a poor memory.

Can love overcome all? Will their love be broken by the emerging history between them? This thrilling drama tests the limits of true love and societies mores. (Source: DramaQueen)

Jun's unspoken love for Ryuuta is a secret to everyone... except Ryuuta's little brother, Takumi, who would love to have Jun to himself. Now in high school, Takumi is student, Jun is teacher, and Ryuuta is moving on with his life. Takumi offers himself to Jun as a substitute for his brother, but will it be enough to fill their empty hearts?

(Source: DramaQueen LLC)

Asuka Momoki, an employee at a major advertising company, has a secret. He's 22 years old, impotent, and still a virgin. The existence of Asuka's younger step-brother Yui has a lot to do with it.

Asuka and Yui were the best of friends until an unfortunate incident one summer's day. Ever since then, Yui has avoided Asuka at all costs, even going so far as to leave Japan and study in America.

A successful tennis player, Yui no longer needs a big brother, so where does that leave poor Asuka? What happens when brotherly love transforms into something more?

Just before the start of the French Revolution, a commoner named Gerard pays a visit to a high-class brothel, where he sleeps with, and then buys the freedom of Jacques, a young noble sold into prostitution. Jacques looks down on commoners and Gerard has his reasons for hating the nobility, but they're thrown together once again when Jacques ends up being hired as Gerard's new houseboy. Jacques' determination to make his own way in the world, and Gerard's surprising, quirky shows of kindness slowly bring the two together into a romance for the ages!

(Source: Blu Manga)

1-3. Bokura no Unsei (Just My Luck, Our Luck)
4. Koi Suru Kikai (The Mechanism of Love)
5. Seifuku to Anata (The Uniform and You)
6. Uwasa no Futari (The Rumor of Two):

1. Bónd(z)
2. Situation
3. Fairy Garden
4. Sakura

At Japan's most popular Host Club comes naturally for Junsuke Aki. In fact, he is the club's top performer (and earner!) and is easily the most popular Host with the female clientele. However, his lover, a former Host named Shinobu Hishiya, has forsaken the wild club lifestyle in favor of his new job as a construction worker. Together, they share wild days and passionate nights, making love whenever, wherever, and however they want. But when jealousy and male pride rear their ugly heads, their blissful, sexy relationship may not be able to handle the strain.

(Source: Be Beautiful)

A high school dropout and a pocket picking delinquent find themselves bound together by an undeniable attraction.

Han Sae-Lee is every girl's dream: tall, dark, and handsome, with a whole lot of attitude. He knows he's a catch, but right now he's more interested in catching a brazen, blond brat and teaching him a lesson or two. Looks like every girl's dream man has some growing pains to go through.

Bold and edgy—the first boys' love story from Korea that is sure to entice the senses.

(Source: DramaQueen)
This series is on hiatus.

What happens when a gay art thief and a conservative NATO officer cross paths? Disaster, of course. Dorian is an aristocrat, a thief, and a hedonist; Klaus is a duty-driven espionage agent with no patience for fools. Follow them as they chase each other across the globe—from Britain to Baghdad, from Alaska to Alexandria, from Moscow to Madrid. Spectacular locations and non-stop adventures await!

(Source: MU)

Is this desire for freedom the very thing that entrapped us.

Let Dai is a tragic tale of forbidden love and unforgivable betrayal. Set in a soulless neo-Seoul ruled by young punks and pleasure seekers, an amoral teenager named Dai is the living embodiment of the city's beauty and cruelty. As the leader of the vicious Furies gang, Dai seduces everyone who lays eyes on him, only to blind them to his own barbaric nature. When an honest schoolboy named Jaehee rescues a beautiful girl from being mugged by the Furies, he can't possibly realize how this brief encounter will plunge him into a downward spiral of unbridled passion and unfathomable pain. From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act committed against his girlfriend, Jaehee wavers uncomfortably between revulsion and fascination. And in Dai he finds a tender, caring friend one moment and a heartless sociopath the next, awakening strange and unhealthy desires in Jaehee that he could never before have imagined.

(Source: Netcomics)

Katsura, a second year in his high school's archery club, has a hard time controlling his nerves. His "secret weapon" is his brother's best friend and childhood buddy, Sou! One hug from Sou and Katsura's nerves are soothed to a peaceful calm. But he can't keep Sou around him forever. As he wonders how he'll survive without Sou's hugs, his friend Kouichi suddenly asks if he can be the one to save him, and kisses him! What now?!

(Source: MU)

Haruka Fujinami is a struggling college student looking for work when one day he lands a dream job working for design firm Yebisu Graphics. Nicknamed “Yebrities” for its pool of highly talented and very handsome designers, it doesn't take long for Haruka to figure out his new boss may have spotted more in him than just talent. What’s a part-timer to do?

(Source: SuBLime)

The second series in the Animal X timeline.

Taking refuge in the newly rebuilt Asato-Jima commune, Yuuji and Minato try to carve a place for themselves in a Dinosauroid society foreign to both of them. Split up for long periods of time by their work assignments, Minato and Yuuji slowly grow farther apart. When it seems as if nothing can possibly get any worse: Yuuji gives birth to his first child.

The third series in the "Animal X" timeline.

Having burned enough bridges in Japan, Yuuji and Minato have moved their new family to a small dinosaur-crazy town in Canada. If there's any place in the world left for Dinosauroids, surely it must be here: a town revived by the discovery of dinosaur bones, with one of the largest paleontology research centers in the world, and a network of "Conservation Centers" set up to cater to the newly-discovered Dinosauroid community. The rest of the world, None-the-wiser for the incident at the Biodome (which was covered up completely) has pretty much forgotten all about Dinosauroids.

Yuuri Shibuya is an average high school student whose passion in life is baseball. That is until he intervenes in the bullying of a classmate, Ken Murata, and gets his head dunked in a toilet. Surprisingly he is sucked into the toilet, and ends up in another world. When he reaches dry land, he sees some people dressed in medieval costume and speaking in some weird vernacular. He assumes that it is a theme park of some sort. However, the people are afraid to see him and begin to pelt him with stones. There he meets Adalbert von Grantz who uses some form of magic so Yuuri understands the local language. Conrad Weller and Günter von Christ then rescue Yuuri and take him to Blood Pledge Castle, the residence of the Maou, where he soon finds out he is the new Maou or Demon King will rule over 'Shin Makoku' (True Demonic Kingdom).

He also meets up with Wolfram, to whom he accidentally becomes engaged through a mishap.

Throughout the series, Yuuri is constantly confronted with the results of even the smallest choices he makes. With a strange power dwelling inside of him, Yuuri becomes a deliverer of justice in the world of Shin Makoku.

(Source: Wikipedia)

The first series in the "Animal X" timeline.

27-year-old Ayukawa Yuuji has never been much of a man; he's more comfortable sewing than fighting, he faints at the sight of blood, and his fiancee is tougher than he is. He's also a terrible pushover. So when his boss at the medical lab volunteers him for some experimental drug therapy, how can he possibly refuse? All's mediocre for Yuuji: master of the pathetic.

Mediocre, that is, until a juvenile mass murder suspect jumps out from under Yuuji's bed, declaring him his "mate." Before Yuuji has time to argue, the stranger transforms into a 16 foot-tall dinosaur and beheads his roommate...

Yuuji suddenly finds himself the sole target of a lost race that turns into dinosaurs, an extremely scary woman with a Goddess-Complex, the yakuza, a mad scientist and one 17 year-old boy who really really really wants to sleep with him.

(Source: Doki-Doki)

The story is set in Paris of the early 20th century.
Florian Rochefort is the only son of an impoverished aristorcratic family and becomes Ray Balzac Courland's collateral in exchange for the loan the pawnbroker pays to Florian's mother so she can amortize some of the family's depts. But in fact Ray is the infamous thief Noir who, having a special liking for extraordinary jewels, couldn't but claim Florian's outstanding amethyst eyes for his collection.
As the story unfolds the reader follows the protagonists on their adventures in France, Morocco and Tunisia while their relationship deepens.

In college, Kuze secretly harbored feelings for his adjunct law lecturer, Kitahara. However, knowing that Kitahara was married, Kuze sealed away those emotions.

Seven years later, by bizarre coincidence Kuze finds himself working as Kitahara's assistant. What's more, Kitahara is no longer wearing his wedding ring.

Unrequited love might be romantic, but the real deal is always better. (Source: DramaQueen)