For today's #DecRecs, I'm gonna do BL #manga recs based on my personal enjoyment and how much I still think about them now.
Honto Yajuu Description: Police officer x Yakuza, but more of a slice-of-life. It's cute. It's funny. They get together really quickly so there's none of that drawn out misunderstanding. Police officer is a neighborhood policeman who patrols and stuff, yakuza is a softie, cute, and forward with his emotions. This is a comfort read because nothing terrible happens and... it really is just them shoving dog food[1] at everyone. There are many volumes of dog food. Futekiya link: https://mangaplanet.com/comic/5facb14faa491
Sannin Gurashi Description: It's told from the pov of the younger brother of a couple. The brothers were from a pretty abusive family. The story is about how they found love and make a new life after leaving their abusive family. It's short, sweet, sad, hopeful, unfortunately not licensed. MangaUpdates link: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/tdqztnv/sannin-gurashi
Extra rec: Chinko no Tsubuyaki
Description: An accident near a fertility shrine has caused a bit of a dick-switcheroo between four students. And suddenly their dicks can talk?!! (Okay, I wanted to rec this just so I can type "dick-switcheroo" but it was genuinely hilarious and you know what, there's also an AUDIO DRAMA CD for this).
MangaUpdates link: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/phd7ooc/chintsubu
Others: I actually also wanted to rec Jealousy by Scarlet Beriko because Scarberi's art is delicious but the main character is Rogi, who was pretty awful in Yondaime Ooyamoto Tatsuyuki and doesn't get redeemed at all (but Rogi's such a fascinating character so hey, if you're okay reading something with cheating, terrible main character + not good people overall, sex work, rape, ... read Jealousy. I have to caveat a lot, ahaha).
IIRC, there's an author's note at the end of the volume for Chintsubu about the author's experience in the recording studio during the audio drama recording and feeling extremely apologetic towards the voice actors 😆
And if you were on BL manga LJ comms at that time, there was a period when Chintsubu AU fics were a thing, so hey, if you wanna do magical dick-switcheroo AU for your fandoms, go wild.
Scarberi art is very good ok. So a lil anecdote here. The release dates for many of these volumes in Japan coincided with my trips there back then so, imagine a whole wall of this staring back at you in animate:
*Marked as sensitive coz first pic is shibari, second pic is topless
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