Dear god I enjoyed this so much! I think I freaked out quite a few unfortunate souls at university and in the subway today, because I sat there and grinned maniacally the whole way through.
After I so aptly demonstrated my impeccable taste, have recomendations!
I'm going to rec works of two authors who very uncharacteristically write graphic stuff AND it's really long AND has actually quite amusing plots, in general nearly consensual sex (or at least has not a lot of dub-con stuff in it).Also because of the lenghts it is nearly all established relationship stuff (which I have such a weakness for)
Because this got really, really long, if you don't care about the actual plot I included a tl;dr of why you should pick their stuff up after the mangaka name
Kazuma Kodaka
tl;dr of why you should pick up her stuff: She is one of the grand ladys of the genres, quite profilic and her two main series exceed 10 volumes. Her artwork is really beautiful and she tends to write really likeable characters, engaging plots and really kick-ass ukes, that are not horribly feminized. Her earlier stuff (and earlier volumes of kizuna) are not as smooth art, story and consent wise, but I would still say to get through that for the awesome later.
Kizuna is about a gay couple living together and while the first three volumes are very episodic slice of life stuff, the later stuff has volume-long arcs with Yakuza, intrigue, personal growth (and gay sex^^).Also a few side-couples, including an uke who spends the whole time trying to get his love-interest into bed with him^^
There is one scene of dub-con (origin story of the main couple) and very early clear instance of rape-a-drugged-person (of the category rape as drama), that ends up being not relevant to the character interactions later on, so fair warning, even though I would still recommend picking it up, because you can very easily skip it and she really stops using all the cliched yaoi stuff pretty soon
Kusatta Kyōshi no Hōteishiki (translated "Kiss me teacher" I think) is about a boy, who had a horrible childhood crush on his tutor, gets into a high school to meet him again(because he is employed there as the school nurse/teacher), is horrible disillusioned that he apparently turned into an acerbic womanizer, soon realizes that he is actually awesome, professes his love and finds out that the guy is actually the brother of his childhood crush.
That happens in like the first two chapter and the rest 10 volumes is hilarious high school drama in which he tries to get his new crush to go out with him.
It's really funny and ridicilously cute, but sexy timez actually only happen in the epilogue, when he is out of school so that there isn't a power imbalance (you do not know how rare this is in yaoi)
(Also A Sex Therapist for really hot, sex one-shots and Border for recent Oceans Eleven type shenanigans)
Nakamura Shungiku
Tl;dr of why you should pick her up: One of the writers I really love to read, because her stuff is just really funny and though her characters seem really stereotypical at first glance they are all quirky and different in a wonderful way. Kind of realisitc depiction of relationship and a rather big cast, which gets developed quite well, round it up and it is my go-to happy place in yaoi-fandom
Side-note: What I know turns a lot of people off her stuff is the style, which is, especially at the beginning, kind of crude, with huge hands and her proportions in general are a bit off, but it does get better and I think everything else makes up for it.
Junjou Romantica which is the actually about three main couples, which stories are kind of intertwined, but seperate:
Romantica: Kind of the "main couple" as far as screen time goes, is about a young boy who needs a tutor to get into university(because he is kind of a spaz, but very good at housework) and because he is horrible in love with the boys older brother the award-winning author and all around genius Usami Akihiko gets the job. And then they fall in love. And move in with each other. And the rest 14 volumes and counting are about their relationship (and drama and Usami's families reaction and fun!)
This one is the only relationship that can be kind of triggery, because their first interaction is basically Usami forcibly giving Misaki a hand-job. And all in all he is the kind of crying, saying-no, can't-spit-it-out-uke that I normally can't stand, but because he is adorkable and we actually get the story narrated by him and know that he kind of fell in love first (and he does participate more and more later on)
Egoist: Is about Usamis best friend, who is a literature grad student(later professor) with a horrible temper and grouchy disposition who gets snatched by a really honest, clueless younger guy
Terrorist: Is about another literature professor, who a boy nearly 20 years younger and also the brother of his ex-wife tries desperately to seduce
Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi her more recent work, about a guy changing publishing companies to make it on his own in editing, getting shelved into the shojo department and his epic, tragic love story with his boss, who was also his tragic childhood sweetheart
Last but not least for the straight up porn needs is Ayane Amano, who does beautiful, beautiful art (one of the best in the business if you ask me) and really hot sex, but SHOULD NOT BE READ BY THE FAINT OF HEART! I mean it, if she ever heard of any problems with consent issues, you can not see it in her stuff.
Her most known work (You're my love prize Viewfinder) has basically only rape scenes (of the rape-is-love type) between the main couple in the first chapters (including bondage and sex-toy games) that then turn into the uke being kidnapped and raped by another guy and then later being I think trained as a sex-slave for a while? and her most recent one (Crimson Spell) has a prince who got cursed by a demon sword, transforms in a kind of beast in the night and has to be soothed by magically taking it up the arse by his magician companion (really, that happens).
This has all inspired me to give you my horrible yaoi-origin story even though I'm a total stranger to you all oh my god, but its not like anyone read till here anyway^^
So basically its a miracle that I continued to read yaoi/slash because thinking back I must have picked up the most horrible fucked-up stuff this genre has ever produced.
The first was Zetsuai, which is the most depressing thing ever and basically about a rock star (or something) who obsessively falls in love with this one high school boy, stalks him, rapes him and then spends the rest of the time trying to make up for that, while the uke is basically going through all kinds of trauma, because he was raped, but still enters a relationship with that other guy, which is horrible and full of drama and hatred and obsessive love/stalking and basically I couldn't read the last volume because I thought I might have to kill myself after this.
I continued to read one which name thankfully got lost in time, but was about a society that had weird (sex) dolls which were made addicted to some kind of drug, that they needed to live and a guy picking up that one kid, because he was thrown away and I think trading sex for the drug he needed to not liquify and really terrible shota, were the cock of the seme of roughly the size of the uke.
So, I think all the slash I read after that seemed really tame for me XD (I grinned so hard at your mention of GW, cause so true god I read all the terrible stuff this fandom used to churn out )
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After I so aptly demonstrated my impeccable taste, have recomendations!
I'm going to rec works of two authors who very uncharacteristically write graphic stuff AND it's really long AND has actually quite amusing plots, in general nearly consensual sex (or at least has not a lot of dub-con stuff in it).Also because of the lenghts it is nearly all established relationship stuff (which I have such a weakness for)
Because this got really, really long, if you don't care about the actual plot I included a tl;dr of why you should pick their stuff up after the mangaka name
Kazuma Kodaka
tl;dr of why you should pick up her stuff: She is one of the grand ladys of the genres, quite profilic and her two main series exceed 10 volumes. Her artwork is really beautiful and she tends to write really likeable characters, engaging plots and really kick-ass ukes, that are not horribly feminized. Her earlier stuff (and earlier volumes of kizuna) are not as smooth art, story and consent wise, but I would still say to get through that for the awesome later.
Kizuna is about a gay couple living together and while the first three volumes are very episodic slice of life stuff, the later stuff has volume-long arcs with Yakuza, intrigue, personal growth (and gay sex^^).Also a few side-couples, including an uke who spends the whole time trying to get his love-interest into bed with him^^
There is one scene of dub-con (origin story of the main couple) and very early clear instance of rape-a-drugged-person (of the category rape as drama), that ends up being not relevant to the character interactions later on, so fair warning, even though I would still recommend picking it up, because you can very easily skip it and she really stops using all the cliched yaoi stuff pretty soon
Kusatta Kyōshi no Hōteishiki (translated "Kiss me teacher" I think) is about a boy, who had a horrible childhood crush on his tutor, gets into a high school to meet him again(because he is employed there as the school nurse/teacher), is horrible disillusioned that he apparently turned into an acerbic womanizer, soon realizes that he is actually awesome, professes his love and finds out that the guy is actually the brother of his childhood crush.
That happens in like the first two chapter and the rest 10 volumes is hilarious high school drama in which he tries to get his new crush to go out with him.
It's really funny and ridicilously cute, but sexy timez actually only happen in the epilogue, when he is out of school so that there isn't a power imbalance (you do not know how rare this is in yaoi)
(Also A Sex Therapist for really hot, sex one-shots and Border for recent Oceans Eleven type shenanigans)
Nakamura Shungiku
Tl;dr of why you should pick her up: One of the writers I really love to read, because her stuff is just really funny and though her characters seem really stereotypical at first glance they are all quirky and different in a wonderful way. Kind of realisitc depiction of relationship and a rather big cast, which gets developed quite well, round it up and it is my go-to happy place in yaoi-fandom
Side-note: What I know turns a lot of people off her stuff is the style, which is, especially at the beginning, kind of crude, with huge hands and her proportions in general are a bit off, but it does get better and I think everything else makes up for it.
Junjou Romantica which is the actually about three main couples, which stories are kind of intertwined, but seperate:
Romantica: Kind of the "main couple" as far as screen time goes, is about a young boy who needs a tutor to get into university(because he is kind of a spaz, but very good at housework) and because he is horrible in love with the boys older brother the award-winning author and all around genius Usami Akihiko gets the job. And then they fall in love. And move in with each other. And the rest 14 volumes and counting are about their relationship (and drama and Usami's families reaction and fun!)
This one is the only relationship that can be kind of triggery, because their first interaction is basically Usami forcibly giving Misaki a hand-job. And all in all he is the kind of crying, saying-no, can't-spit-it-out-uke that I normally can't stand, but because he is adorkable and we actually get the story narrated by him and know that he kind of fell in love first (and he does participate more and more later on)
Egoist: Is about Usamis best friend, who is a literature grad student(later professor) with a horrible temper and grouchy disposition who gets snatched by a really honest, clueless younger guy
Terrorist: Is about another literature professor, who a boy nearly 20 years younger and also the brother of his ex-wife tries desperately to seduce
Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi her more recent work, about a guy changing publishing companies to make it on his own in editing, getting shelved into the shojo department and his epic, tragic love story with his boss, who was also his tragic childhood sweetheart
Last but not least for the straight up porn needs is Ayane Amano, who does beautiful, beautiful art (one of the best in the business if you ask me) and really hot sex, but SHOULD NOT BE READ BY THE FAINT OF HEART! I mean it, if she ever heard of any problems with consent issues, you can not see it in her stuff.
Her most known work (You're my love prize Viewfinder) has basically only rape scenes (of the rape-is-love type) between the main couple in the first chapters (including bondage and sex-toy games) that then turn into the uke being kidnapped and raped by another guy and then later being I think trained as a sex-slave for a while? and her most recent one (Crimson Spell) has a prince who got cursed by a demon sword, transforms in a kind of beast in the night and has to be soothed by magically taking it up the arse by his magician companion (really, that happens).
This has all inspired me to give you my horrible yaoi-origin story even though I'm a total stranger to you all oh my god, but its not like anyone read till here anyway^^
So basically its a miracle that I continued to read yaoi/slash because thinking back I must have picked up the most horrible fucked-up stuff this genre has ever produced.
The first was Zetsuai, which is the most depressing thing ever and basically about a rock star (or something) who obsessively falls in love with this one high school boy, stalks him, rapes him and then spends the rest of the time trying to make up for that, while the uke is basically going through all kinds of trauma, because he was raped, but still enters a relationship with that other guy, which is horrible and full of drama and hatred and obsessive love/stalking and basically I couldn't read the last volume because I thought I might have to kill myself after this.
I continued to read one which name thankfully got lost in time, but was about a society that had weird (sex) dolls which were made addicted to some kind of drug, that they needed to live and a guy picking up that one kid, because he was thrown away and I think trading sex for the drug he needed to not liquify and really terrible shota, were the cock of the seme of roughly the size of the uke.
So, I think all the slash I read after that seemed really tame for me XD (I grinned so hard at your mention of GW, cause so true god I read all the terrible stuff this fandom used to churn out )