Having been admitted to Cosmo Academy, Frol and Tada are now having a rough time adjusting to a couple's life, with Tada regularly outperforming Frol in academics - and, to their chagrin, popularity. While the two try (and often fail) to navigate this change in relationship dynamic, they then receive a warm invitation from their old friend, King Mayan Baceska, to visit him at his palace on planet Aritosca Le during a month of holiday festivities. However, Tada's intuition begins to give him ominous and mysterious visions regarding King and the two set off to meet him, and potentially save him from an ill-omened future.
Inside the village of Poe a mysterious noble family takes residence with their son Edgar and ill daughter MaryBelle. Edgar is quickly intrigued by Allan an heir of a transportation company, who catches his eye by almost running him over with a horse. As the story unfolds a few residents of Poe slowly begin to wonder about the new family...
Other short stories involving the main characters are included.
This is supposedly the first published BL manga.
A man returns from a trip after hearing news about his former love's passing.
The title takes place in 16th-century France and tells the story of the historical Queen Margaret. The Japanese title of the series is identical to the title of the 1845 novel by Alexandre Dumas.
This award-winning classic story focuses on Marlee, an agent of the space empire sent on a mission to track down the opera singer Eroccus. There are three intertwining narratives which span planets and hurl the readers back 30,000 years in time. The narrative takes place in a non-linear fashion, unfolding across space and time, before folding back upon itself at its culmination.
Note: Winner of the Seiun Award (1983).
Description from Viz:
The story A, A' raises a troubling question: How would you feel if your lover died - and was replaced by a clone? Could you recreate your relationship with someone who was physically exactly the same but didn't share any memories of your life together?
In 4/4, teenaged Mori flunks out of an ESP training program. But when he meets Trill, a beautiful Unicorn, his latent abilities begin to blossom...
In X+Y, Hagio uses science fiction to explore questions of gender and sexual identity. Time has passed, and once again, Mori finds himself inexorably attracted to a member of the unicorn race - but this unicorn is male... and so is Mori.
X+Y won Seiun Award in manga category in 1985
Jeremy is a sensitive teenager who is happy for his mother when she remarries. However, the sweet-talking man who is his new stepfather turns out to be a serpent in disguise -- he's a sadist and a pedophile, and it isn't long before he makes Jeremy his target. After months of horrific, systematic abuse, Jeremy's mind becomes unstable and his thoughts turn vicious. He decides to murder his stepfather in order to get rid of him -- but the plan goes awry, and when he sabotages his stepfather's car, his mother also dies in the crash.
Shocked and wracked by guilt, Jeremy's reactions seem strange to the average onlooker. His brittle and bizarre behavior isn't just that of a grieving son's. This is when Ian, the free-spirited son of Jeremy's stepfather, begins to suspect Jeremy of murder. He finds several clues that tie Jeremy to the crime, but in unearthing them, Ian also discovers the fact that Jeremy was abused.
What should Ian do with his evidence? Caught in a moral dilemma -- between punishing a criminal and atoning for his father's sins -- Ian begins to be haunted by lust for Jeremy. Is it lust, or is it love? Ian wonders whether he shares his father's proclivities, and despite his best efforts, he is drawn into a passionate and painful relationship with Jeremy.
A Cruel God Reigns is a true BL classic written by Hagio Moto, one of the founders of the BL genre. In seventeen intense volumes, A Cruel God Reigns traces both Jeremy's and Ian's journeys towards redemption. The story-telling is rich and unique, and the art is breathtaking. To this day, A Cruel God Reigns remains one of the most powerful BL epics ever written.
- by The Pink Panzers
Winner of the first Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize's Award for Excellence.
Mira attends a private school in England and finds out that the boy who appears in her dream since her childhood really exists. He's Radley Macchiavelli, a beautiful model. When the two finally meet, the boy is transported to a parallel world connected from one spiral ("Rasen"). Mira follows him to try to save him and is swallowed into the parallel world dominated by the mysterious Black King...
From The Pink Panzer:
In the year 2999, only eleven cities still survive on Earth. The climate has changed drastically, and a biochemical apocalypse has made women extinct. For centuries, the male population of Earth has survived by depending on only one woman, called the Holy Mother, whose ova are harvested to create genetically engineered children. By now, any concept of a world in which women exist as ordinary people is long gone. Society has re-structured itself around all-male families, and gay relationships have become the norm.
At the beginning of Marginal, the Holy Mother is assassinated by a terrorist known as Grinja. The government in power doesn't want to start a mass panic, so it pretends that the Holy Mother has only shed her vessel, and that she will be miraculously "reborn" in the near future. The public, which is superstitious and devout, believes this easily. Only government officials know that behind the scenes, there is a frantic effort to create a new being with an XXY chromosome -- a male capable of giving birth. (This is a BL misrepresentation of an actual phenomenon known as Klinefelter's Syndrome.)
The manga's story revolves around one such boy -- Kira, the product of a genetic experiment, who becomes involved in a three-way relationship with Grinja, the aforementioned terrorist, and Ashijin, a young man who calls himself Kira's owner. A complex plot and flawless world-building make the story irresistible, and Kira's search for freedom is as symbolic as it is gripping.
It is a 4 page illustrated essay about The Beatles (the band) and is illustrated and written by Hagio Moto and talks about them rising and how her life was impacted.
The second shounen-ai manga ever published, The November Gymnasium focuses on chaste, yearning love between boys at a prestigious German boys' school.
Beautiful story. Very serene.
It's about a woman, a tree and a man and a life passing by.
This story shows that you don't always need a lot of words and that manga art can be as strong as any other style!
A young man is being used as a guinea pig in a mysterious experiment…
Taken from Baka-updates:
An anthology of oneshots.
Story 1: Promise by NISHI Keiko
Story 2: They were Eleven by HAGIO Moto
Story 3: The Changeling by SATO Shio
Story 4: Since You've Been Gone by NISHI Keiko
The two stories by NISHI Keiko were also published as a separate book in English called "Promise." Those stories were originally taken from "Mizu ga Kooru ni Naru Toki."
Short story collection.
1. Iguana no Musume: A girl develops a complex about herself after her mother thinks of her as a hideous iguana.
Conjoined twins Yudy and Yucy are as different as possible. Older Yudy is intelligent but ugly, as her nutrients are used up by her beautiful but simpleminded sister Yucy. Loving and hating so deeply, where does one girl begin and the other end?